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Show just ovEirniE line. Th Tiraoi' S social OorroiDonaent Visits Ths Kiueral and Ajrlcultnrnl Ter-liter Ter-liter of Nevada, 0S3ANIZI1)3 A MINING DISTRICT. Aott'opa and Plaanant Valley from an Airi'.aUural P.int of View A Comiortable Ore Palac. pc ial orrwjioiid'.nce to The Tlmnn. Accompanied ,y Messrs. Fritz Wolf, ot California, ami Col. J. 1). Shell, of fcU Lake. Tut Timfs reporter took his part 11 re from Deep creek valley 011 lliu iv'Ttli for the purpose, of iuvvsti-Katirig iuvvsti-Katirig the hduunil ami agricultural territory ter-ritory over Him lino iii tht) state of Nevada, Ne-vada, especially that portion of it adjacent ad-jacent tnsnd dutiendsnt upon Sait Lake for supplies. Crossing to the wi'?l of lleep creek our course lor the first day Was nl.itiK Antelope valley, located lit the northeast corner of White Pine county, Nevada. lrp the gradual slope Of this valley, dolled horc anil there with extensive nock ranches, anil line springs of excellent water, our treneral course was continued in a southwest-Hy southwest-Hy direction until reaching tho sum- point where search for the same hat been made. At the northeast comer of the house named is where the first discovery dis-covery of ore was mndu many years ago by a well known miner who at the time was seeking shelter from a rain storm under Die protection of, as ho supposed, a ledge of rock, and while there shielded he happened to chip otl a fragment from his stone covering which he instantly discovered to be rich carbonate ore. A location was at once made aud the mine named Hi Chief. A force of men was soon pat to work aud in time several shafts and inclines were sunk into the vein to depths ranging rang-ing from Uii) to "J00 foot, from which huudreds of tons of both hard and soft carbonate ore was taken and yet remain re-main iipiui the dumps awaiting uu opportunity op-portunity for shipment. The ore lu this mine is supposed to bn between porphyry and hum, but-with ail the ex-u ex-u ui VH w irk done no wall rock hat ss yet b-en found, the shads n;nl inclines seem to have been' placed in immense; deposits of mineral I'oi k wi.liout relerence to location of i, mit.g or loot walls The general average in value 1 of u I ore Ui.t'ii out. and now heaped in immense piles upon the dump, is 43 ounces in silver, from Hi) to 10 por cent lead anil $!U In gold. From this mine alone from two to three hundred torts of ore could lie shipped daily. T.iu body is so immense and the labor so light that about all that is necessary to be done is to commence loading freight teams from tho burUctt of tho ground. The nut oi the mountain range w hen we passed over to our left add changed the course of travel almost due south. Kighti'all overtaking us a forced camp was made about two miles south, on thu bank of a rapid slroam at the head of l'leasant valley. Tho supply wagon being too far ia the rear to hope lor its arrival that night, our Utile party made a bed of sage-blush sage-blush and gracefully retired for the bight without supper. At daybreak on the following morning Messrs. W. W. Fill and Usury llayues, having charge of the supply wagon. came to our ramp, as well as to our hungry relief; the latter being soon supplied, a continuance continu-ance of our journey was made down tho valley uutil tho Parker ranch was reached, where our teams were abandoned aban-doned and tho balance of the day was devoted to investigating the mountain deposits. A visit was mado to the "Mammoth" mine, which was found properly named. It is an immense iron lode, carrying but little of the precious metals; the vein is not less than six feet in width aud dips into tho western side of thu hill in which it is located, at an angle of about 40 degrees. de-grees. Thu croppings of tho vein pro-trnde pro-trnde several feet above the surface aud are heavily capped with gray quartz.carrying with t a bright copper alnin until the almost pure iron ore is leached. Many years ago a great deal of work was done at intervals along tho lino of this vein, hut by reason of the ore being of too low a grade, it was almost abandoned. Other finds and claims in the same neighborhood show higher grades, but with little development develop-ment work done; not suQlcient to permit per-mit your reporter to eveu rnako a atatemout of probable value. In our travels, at two different points, a peculiar pecul-iar heavy float waa found, which, after being thoroughly examined, the conclusion con-clusion was reached that it is tin. A autlicient quantity of it will be taken to Salt Lake for scientific examination. Finding the inhabitants of this valley principally absent from homo, our stay was made somewhat shorter than was intended. Aside from the above, and for the reason just K.d Cloud. as shown upon the hill on the south si. In of thu plateau is a twiu to tiie liig Chief, the description of one being tho exact history of the other. In addition to thesi) two chief mines llieru are not less than seventy-live others, many ol which are likely as great in capacity bul having, as a rule, nothing more than ass'.i;eiit work done upon them. As a mining proposition tins dixtritt seems to be favored with less dilliculty in tho production of immense tonagu of splendid ores than any other district vet visited, except that of Clilton. With railroad facilities 10;0 tons of ore per day con. d be produced from this district alone, and even double that amount if necessary, the only question bci'ig a force of men adit piato to do tho work. Willi a road built along the course of Deep creek the mines relerred to would have a haul of but four miles from its center ami all with a gradual ami uutural down bill grade. A heavy wind, hail and rain storm prevailing throughout tho day prevented preven-ted our party from making a more extended ex-tended examination. At a late hour in tho afteruoou the Nevada lino was crossed and traveling via J. C. Uevino's ranch and postoflico your reporter had the satisfaction of transmitting his last communication, which iu consideration of his par,t few weeks isolation from mail routes and means of reaching reach-ing the reading world was a treat worth mentioning. Arriving at Clifton at S.iiO p. in. after a journey of over lifty miles during the day iu a cold aud shivering condition, a hot fire, warm supper and a good bod, on the floor, mado up a list of three items of appreciated appre-ciated comforts worthy of the dignity hore given. At Clifton the welcome faces of L. K. liamberger and J. W. Martin of .Salt Lake were met. Those gentlemen have boon out on a prospecting pros-pecting tour for the past six weeks. For a week past they have been visiting visit-ing other districts and after looking them over return to Clifton satisfied that its promising future is good enough for them. Yesterday these gentlemen had their first choice recorded. 'Mat-tie," 'Mat-tie," is the name of their mine. They will leave Jor Salt Lake about the 2nd or 3d of JCno. After their return home it is their intention to lit out a crew of men for the purpose of developing their Clifton property at once. Their location is a continuation of the Confederate Con-federate veiu, well known to bo high grade ore. ' stated it was decided by tho party to next visit FerbtT district, in Elko county, and adjacent to Clifton district, ltolnre taking our departure from Tarker's ranch, your reporter discovered discov-ered the following notice for a now mining district posted upon the door of the house, dated May "5th: "To the Public Notice is hereby Riven that a meeting will be held at SpriugCreok camp (Dooley's) on Thursday, Thurs-day, June 4, at 13 o'clock noon, for the purpose of organizing a new mining district, said district embracing the following ground: Hounded on the west by tho dividing line of Utah and Kevada, on tho south by a parallel lino with the summit of Johnson's peak, on the east by Willow Springs district, and on tho north by Clifton milling district. This district shall be called aud known as tho Spring Creek Mining district. Signed by J. R. Ellerbeck, V. L. Dooley, L. "c. Karrick, J. 11. Springer, D. McXamara, T. C. Kook-ledgo, Kook-ledgo, J. II. Raleigh, M. Merrill, J. M. 1'iailey, A. A. Johnson, J. llunimon and II. Clement, miuers." In an agricultural point of view both Antelope and Pleasant valleys aro well adapted aud amplv able to sustain a large farmiug population. Those two " "valleys, like that of Deep creek, have large bodies of land subject to homestead home-stead on try, and will within a very few years bloom with fields of grain, orchards or-chards of fruit and farm products, all of w hich will find a ready homo market mar-ket from their inevitable mining population. popu-lation. Tho mountains skirting on cither sitlo, many of which have not yet been prospected, and are ail tilled with mineral wealth. Leaving Pleasant valley on the 2oth. wo passed over tho range via tho South Mortmain pass into Deep crock again, and from thence followed the western side of 'this valley down its northern decline until reaching the natural passage pas-sage way of Deep creek, which courses its way through the mountain ranges to the great American desert. In descending descend-ing this natural passageway for several miles our r.lteution wus frequently calied to tho grade stakes along the road, with the additional information that in surveying the lino a one per cent grado was found from the desert level clear through the eighteen miles passagu way into the valley, and your reporter, so" far as be traveled along tho tfr.tdo. does not think the statement at all d'-'liciont. Diverging to Ihe left-oblique from the Deep creek road our party made a praduul asccut of fourmiles to the summit sum-mit where a halt was mado in front of stone house, from which commenced our examination. The first item of interest in-terest to which our alteutioti was directed di-rected was the house. It is built of "ore rocks." many of which are fully a foot thick by two feet or more in length, any part of which will assay 115 ounces in silver. As a mineral palace it is uuprelontious in design, bul it is thoroughly comfortable in a storm, as our party "cau attest from personal experience! ex-perience! A level plateau of land within the mountain boundaries, which several sev-eral thousand acres of land lies Is termed bv the miuers as mineral Hat, thus named' for the reason that underlying under-lying its soil covered surface rich ore has been discovered at almost every |
