Show THE GOLD FIELDS OF NEVADA tho tha best region now left to the miner and the prospector AN AH ABUNDANCE N CE OF GOLD QUARTZ AND MANY RICH PLACERS A COLD WAVE thanksgiving IN THE GOLD BELTS MUCH unexplored COUNTRY OPENING FOR THOUSANDS or OF MEN MANY BIG PLACERS RICH AND PERMANENT GOLD COLD LODES correspondence tribune tribunal I 1 Vl vriginia iginia city nov dec 1 IVIS alter after a lune long spell ot of fine wann weather a cold wave suddenly rushed down upon us on thanksgiving day from somewhere in the direction 0 of the arctic circle it la is the first bitt bitterly eily co cold id weather we have had this winter in ili this pait laft of novada nevada and it Is severely verely felt fell there bring being much moisture in tho air to sl days rain acikas the mountains in ili california with tile tho cold wave camo came it a series ot of snow now s squalls Kli alli but it has been too cold for any ally great fall of 0 snow coming after weather so BO warin that tant house allea veto still abroad abiol kl the cold final hits has licen been severely felt ai it goes tight light through ulu tha clot cloth I 1 and japer iper lined houses which ate ae here the div dwellings ellIngs or oc the majority those who feared cared thanksgiving day would not be cold to 0 o seem lin natural have got fiut a little ninie mole than they ba bai gained galiled tr for though heie in ili nut not much snow in the city tile lie peaks of the hanses nio ate robed lit in white and the landscape la Is decidedly wintry in III aal I an ae yet tacio Is no great depth of 0 snow in tit tin sielda nehida no I 1 it but work lit in tho flit lumber rumps will probably soon tie be stopped slopped for the whiter the hotel keel is tit at lake taline ate aie shut up for the winter and the Til dt hymen thymen or the valleys of tile the high liao hae gathered their beldi ik adf ind golle e drej sn into the valleys their wainona wat nell loach huiard d butter butler anil and beese ln ie the th ti trappers appers ot of foxes und and othor anino 14 will won noon have tile I 1 lie high of the jenife it t thein ilves nut dill the ad hots trapper ot oc the high abe blile li 14 now flow no lie more lie he Is id now I setting ills trails beyond ilia gidden mb kliore I 1 re Nf OBSERVED thanksgiving day was waa observed cd 0 tin tile the Co Coni lit in regulation atile it both 11 in tho flit charlies chur lies and jai in the homes or of the lie people ciple turkeys chickens chicken 4 geese and duck attacks wild mild find and tame taine were in bilak belsk demand cle inand the ball on oil the occasion cc anion was give alven at Nali Nat ionti auard hall by the young ladles an ani and I attl attracted acted 1 a I bat ei at clowd A rood good wild way ghen n at illers ill Il pers ers opera capera house and abere were mere vatious vailous alde callows anti and vate pail lea while tile the bevel at places of public anit anil ii hate tc our people did not forget tile the demands or of charity charily there was inas for tilt thu alit of oc the of if the le bell ocil of the sisters of chelty the handsome sum or of velch it aich is not bail bad tor for these dull times THE GOLD COLD fit FIELDS the cold li weather cather will prevent parties of kold gold seekers from 0 out into distant tant wilds but where cut ing nc ate li ili progress upon loiles lodes already discovered can be prosecuted in most inot places throughout the winter particularly where tunnels tunnel 5 are being run though our people have been botn doing more or less lesa prospecting for ur oer 01 er thirty years there are arc still immense ili 1 len areas e in till this state stale that lie untouched aag in I 1 time some places have not even eden been e ell eldden tilde over one of anex aloud lot d legions lies to the coith of pyramid lake and extends all tile the way up ill to tile the south bouth line life ot of biegon bon some rich I 1 lodes of copper find irold gold were found lat summer bummer by pailles from I 1 idaho dallo just juat over the line lit in nen kaada add but nothing has been done between ill thai A L point and til the old inloes at pyramid lake at one tie time there was a great excitement cit 1 ement about sold gold mines lit in the black I 1 idock ock country some alit stance coith noi til of pyramid lake lakeland and a mill was haq built there but by mill process tile hie got gold it cubic could tint nt be made to lo materialize material lae it 11 may be that the pecullar peculiar ole oie found tit at and about blacet rock would pay well uell it if woi ked by the cyan cyanide itle process I 1 hae is e not licad 4 of any one I lulling that legion lit in tile the last at a t fifteen or of twenty years in ill the like eludy jays days soini of the honey lake lancheros lan chers scouted tho th I 1 mountains to the northward toward idalio idaho for silver but no careful p prospecting r a I 1 tor for gold lies has mer eer bern been don done li in the southern part of tile hie state fronti from sliver silver star down along the california Californi aI line to tile the CO colorado loratto river Is it a region which it has been little prospected fori for kuld gold there are arc several everal i rugged lancea about which little littie Is known to propel elly ly explore thebe ranges prospectors prospector go co into them on foot fool not lot on horseback at present pre flent much better weak Is helm done lit in tile the eg eastern tern pait all of the state stale along near the utah line than anywhere on this elde abele li Is room in nevada fora for many years of oc work 1 MINING opportunities TN IN front from what I 1 hour hear of the situation at cripple cleek and some of 0 the tha other colorado mining camps I 1 think that miners land and prospectors out there who nho have found nothing they care to tie t too to would do well to shift their to nevada more men seem scorn to lie crowded in bt at cripple creek and other camps in colorado than can find good 1 properties or openings tor for leasing paying ground bround nowhere tin on tho the pacific cc coast blat lit Is the there re to be found a better belter field for fair prospectors at tile the stage or of the gold hunting garne game than la Is afforded liero here in nevada not much bo be done in the northern parts part 0 of the state in ill winter by pron lice pec torn tors but lit in tile the tint liall L in lincoln and southern NIC counties Is nn tn immense sell ti epical region walh can be better belter prospected at llila heason than in the hun bummer allner it 13 till all a gold country from biloche pi acho southward to tn the colorado ilver oven even light down abang the bolth 1101 th aicia of the river are no ito end rf of lodes of f wild rold ht aring quartz alun iradi or nt Jui allons eie made in ili that section ti tanty to thirty 30 a I 1 a ag aan it liy by men th the country in ill beardi it r but ishii mork ym wax mer autio ave llvy or nix mix rf of alif olra lu liver are arc homo home of nf rold hr bejia ai ing ine ta but bill ellov v I 1 ire are of r low frid armijill ig from 14 t to alu IV or 1 2 at the he face in lh me edily cily dj da v nothing could ile done with buci ores ore tit alir country rock la Is granite and porphyry dikes find and a good deal of tal talcott cofie state ate in ill places chiprly ClIEL NERS IN LUCK A couple of 0 mancra caron hero here airlie ago from creek anti and after looking about tor for a few days dayi leaned the central mine lit at they have not been long lone at work w 0 r IT and have just juat madil it a ble big sold old e the mines about aro like those of cripple creek creck there la Is a peculiar lava uva like formation anti and a regular network of eold bearint veins which pay front from the crass roots nu no d deep C anil I 1 has yet been duno dune A deep cep 11 huiatt irl bunk k about tile tho middle of tile belt would probably show up ui ore OIB iw good ax the e average at cripple creek while leasing Is 1 unknown on tle tile comstock C mines I 1 it t appears to be mining into f eishmon tn in some of ahn th nw new campo campfi at sliver silver star beyond Itan hawthorne thorne on the carson camon colorado road many leases have been let on the rich gold eold mines anines of the he camp callip BIG COLD aul ra tho thi riv de JIM mar ilar april fol I 1 aul and a doxen dokei rathor at in ill pinston I 1 nevada the ln nt at i oia tit tl belt pat ill filver awl beitat jit in various blouw jillain state to lie be as rich in the yellow metal as any between the sierras and tile the li then the gold belts ot of silver city and ami pine giove which have been worked for or nearly rally 01 ty years show that the goldi gold bearing lobeto of chii th great liale legion ledon tire permanent and thoroughly ic 1 pliable liable cli able there will undoubtedly bo be IL a MS hig lush to this late next summer bummer camps to tile the eastward in tile the that have it a good reputation are ara being so Ho overcrowded that tile the chances are becoming pretty well wall exhausted while here are still to be found wide ade and virgin holds fields locations may still bill bo made in all of oc the state even in n th the e immediate Nici allty or 0 our best beat abid ln 1 richest mining c camps MANY RICH PLACERS Ile sides what nhat mill lie he done in our quartz eins some bis big hy hydraulic biln s will lie be stained stai ted up lit in various in nevada next spring A viat vast deal dea I 1 or of money Js Is now bring expended in work late to the opening eliciting up LID of 0 rich and extensive placer deposits in several places in ili boiking these placers rich veins of gold bearing quarta ate aie likely to be discovered all jal the placers aloof alof P f local colgin and owe their existence tra tn I 1 idilea lea in their immediate vicinity in california Cal fornia the placers have been so ofton often if cut through and by an ail cleal tnt and modem illera decks and canyons that ihal it 11 1 almost impossibly I 1 to but whence the lie sold gold came but here jt II 1 Is dir relent as we have hav no 1 old I 1 dead ilvess ard and no nery vry extent i 1 wali of if any kind wo have deiy extensive placers at osccola Oh ccola while pine county f from oil which a great deal of 0 gold has han been eaury pat ear for about twenty yeara fit at my kly in Robin bon district Is a big from live five to fret feel ot of pay kiy gravel but Is a 0 lick lark of witter water to work it show alili 4 gifuni to lio lie ich A tt tet of boup 14 of if dirt from one 15 1 there lire are rich placere at ai suld mountain also in elko daear lr tuscarora I 1 kit at island fountain in lauril boldt county at indian creek land and sprint spring valley at buckeye Huc keyo pine nut a and I 1 red canyon Doil lio uelas glas county gold fanyon canyon lyon county tule canyon Esme rabla county and jai in several other places in the state at inland alouis mountain an immense alit annl costly hydraulic hydra tille plant Is 14 being put in ili by eastern par pair lies which i will ill go en into 1110 lit in the 1 should ehli prove to bo be it a success other placer lit in the state will lie be jj lively ely to be pur purchased chused andi and improved NOT A DREDGING proposition POSITION after twelve tielve years of 0 failure with nith all kinds of machines the capsota cm son river dredging com company pamy at dayton hao concluded that ittis to recover tile the amalgam azaleam final and quicksilver i aich to tile alue balue of Is supposed suppo sied to be lodged edged in the river channel with a ith aty any apparatus iara yel invented thero there are many big biff boulders lit in the channel and tile the bedrock Is uneven and full of holes and crevices which no kind of scoop can bottom had they in tile the beginning started atar letl a bedi ock tourne in the iho river be brow the mouth ot of gom gold canyon and worked upward they would years ago have been taking lahip out rood good pay that would have been the plan of any set of old california ird ners anti and it Is the only one by means of which N the quicksilver atilt and rom cold and silver can be recovered nothing could be done don at bolting molting in eat early ly spring but every summer the liver Is so near lay that not more than a good sluice lead head of 0 water Is left in the channel and this low stage continues till 1111 in the winter minter by this plan a doen men with P picks IC kil and shovels would take out moie I 1 apty pty AY in EL a week than wag brained by the use of areges in ane twelve yeats quicksilver and precious matali carried into the river bioni the malli there must be lit in the channel 9 a preat great deal of virgin placer rold gold gold canyon was nas condei fully ilch and for ages untold it must havo have poured its gold into the liver all tills this gold would be obtained by working the river bed agi aa I 1 liver iver beds are worked in ili california twenty China merv would g go into that river and in one summer would take out EL a big lot of money TIM till COMSTOCK MINES tile the amount of ore now being ex traded fron the comstock mines Is smaller than u usual sal though the quality 1 li Is pretta arc ltv fair the yield of tile con coll I 1 ual cal virginia the past week was 10 tons lona averaging VO HO go 6 d L ton ion this conics comes front from 1750 level some ore Is baingi belna obtained from the upper works of t the I 1 at i old ophir mine near where here the arst s sll ll 11 11 1 ver discovery of t the e country was made that averages lil alto 9 a ton since shive balki I 1 was wait first done in that spot the conk com has yielded over 3 anti and the state about the alta alia la Is some ore the of which 14 1 23 U belcher hog belcher 2550 confidence overman aa 11 and one or two other mines ore of lower glade some of these mines get but 20 to 60 tons or ore each week I 1 hut but most of thern ari are prospecting ati at the brunswick they have developed a anctil considerable amount of good ore and at present are finding feeders ail and bunches that lun full from 3 5 to ha 40 a ton which Is very encouraging handies AND 9 there la in very little snow on the stock ranges in coic case co ic of EL a heavy fall of snow cattle and sheep will be driven drive in anil fed on the he ranches in the valleys la a g t tacked mi an abundance of hey hay T hicls the will be glad to sell adl find and feed out most of the hay Is alfalfa 1 tt f the finest quality the ran ranchers c he can sell this lay hay to tho the trien men of the I 1 anges their pi phoua offis for the season will be next to not nothing bing when hay bay 11 ship buil to Cali folli a MOO money li 14 L for the owner after paying freight arl hl there if 18 a great leal deal of hay lay tit in truckee meadows and alho in ili some soline of tho the valleys tit in ill central ci nevada of f late years the men of the bier bit ranges havo have dinatle more money than ling has been eincle by tho tha in ranchers I 1 tie here they now handle their cattle well built both winter anti anil soi Filmer llin ilia a 1 l it of lit till HIP whiter of 31 91 v ft as not lott alit apon tilt m DAN DE 1111 QUILLE I 1 |