Show NEVADA STATE DOINGS Railroad ChangeThe Mine of Mystery Eastern Mining Magnates The Reno Carnival Tonopah Notes CORRESPONDENCE TRIBUNE Carson City Nov June 115 A new railroad movement presumably J presum-ably In tho interest of the Central la clfic is about being made and In fact Is already commenced toward bringing the Mound House terminus of the Carson Car-son < Colorado railroad Into Carxm This Is to be done by changing the Carson l Colorado track which is f t < narrow gauge to follow up the line of Carson river from Dayton lo Brunswick Bruns-wick four miles from arson and by mean of a third rail come In over the Virginia z Truckee track to the Carson Car-son depot Mound House Is ten miles from Carpon on the Virginia Truckee and the present grade of the Carson Colorado between thin and Dayton Is very steep whereas by the river to rirunbwfck thc glade Ir l llcrht mid even and mon direct Ihe freight house will be removed to Canton the depot done away with and the once nourishing nourish-ing I Mound House slat Ion disposed of completely the Canon depot 1 being suf uncut for all purposes and the railroad = rail-road shops near at hand The Ccnlril Pull owns the Carson Colorado road and will change It to a wide jame like the Virginia Truckee eventually perhaps owning both roads At any rate this change of terminus will inure to the prosperity of Carson TIIIG HIDDEN BARKLFY JMINB The rich and remarkable Hidden Harkley gold and copper mine on the Hobart tract of Unltd Slates patented land In the Sierra Ncvadas half a do7 cn miles or so northwest of this city Is still a source of much quiet study and deep research Barkley and his partners claim that the Hobart estate detectives have not yet found the mine and arc not on the right track for it but the detectives claim to have squarely square-ly tumbled upon It or something just ns good or much better They Hay they have the bcstmlneral belt In the world and have made about thirty locations on the ledge extending over a distance of about eight miles In length the cropplnpy assaying as high as no per ton But It la I sliver and gold ore not copper yet Carson mining sharps pronounce pro-nounce It good enough Tho ledge Is tikcn up In the Interest of the Hobart estate the managers of which are expected to start in on Its development shortly having plenty of water power timber and all natural requirements Meanwhile the long hidden Barkley mine has in remain amomr he I great mlnlni mysteries even IJarkley himself not daring to go anywhere any-where near his rich find for fear of discovery dis-covery by the dclecllvoji MINING MEN FIIOM THIS EAST Superintendent and Promoter James A Yorington returned 1 from a three months trip last Monday morning accompanied ac-companied by some heavy eastern capita lints who are engaged with him In the development of thc rich group of mines belonging to the company near Hawthorne Ksmcralda county They propose extensive I operations and the aollvu prosecution of work already commenced In the opening of the mine election of mills etc being well sat Isflod with their mining prospects and the assurance of munificent returns from their Investment In the near future fu-ture Mr Yerlngton and partneis are also Inlcrcsitcd In I the project of bringing bring-ing In both water and electric power to Tonopah from Twin river sixty miles south R1NO CARNIVAL NOTES The notes of preparation for the grand carnival and street show at Reno Re-no sound louder and more voluminous at thc near approach of Fourth of July week when the I festivity will bo turned loose In all ha glory The railroads In all directions have dropped their fares to bed rock prices for the occasion and people will crowd In from nil adjacent setHorns this side of Salt Lake from TCurckn Austin and from Tonopah Tho Reno papers arc llllcd T wllli glowing accounts of preparations made and making and thin carnival la to he the greatest event In Renos history dating everything hereafter lhcl rom ABOUT TONOPAH Not much very exciting news comes from Tonopah The rich mining developments de-velopments hold good and new strike are being reported Digging for the pipe line to supply the town with water wa-ter from four mllcu distant Is vigorously vigor-ously progropslng 1 and plenty of good water will be flowing In before long Limited shipments of ore continue to he made to outside smelters at a transportation cout of about 350 per Ion which expense will be obviated I when the Introduction of water will allow of reduction works being erected right at home The firsil discovery of ore wui made by James L Butler In May 1500 but I little effort teas made to explore the camp until along about November when a few miners were 1 operating on leases and In January iJOl about fifty men were employed Considerable l excitement ex-citement followed the developments of rich ore in the various lenses and by December 700 men were working actively active-ly tumbling out I the ore most of which 1 they piled J on the flumps as their leases all expired with the I close of > hat month Up to date ore has tieon shipped icallKlnir over 41000000 and i It is estimated that over 20OOlf tons still lie on the dumps = worth from 3000 000 to Sr000000 The average value of the ore in the ledges Is I from S100 to 3OO per ton onethird or less being gold and tho real silver THE WEDEKIND MINE George S Wcdcklnd has deeded to John dparks his full title to the Sparks or Wcdcklnd mine near Reno Tutu deed war made several months ago and placed In abeyance awaiting the settlement set-tlement of certain titles Tho consideration consid-eration for the property Is placed In the deed at 150000 sMr Sparks giving his chock for that amount last Friday Thlf puts Mr Sparks in peaceful and kistlng control of this very rich and extensive property Meanwhile Sparks has completed It splendid new mill run by electric power as Is also the mining min-ing hoist and tho extraction of sliver Is aulivdy commenced This famous mine will show a rich bullion record shortly The decision of the Supremo court In the case of Wodeklnd vs Boll Involving tho right to follow the vein or lead Into or beneath patented ground adjoining In I expected very shortly STEAMBOAT MINING Sinking the shaft at Steamboat Springs about eight miles north of Virginia Vir-ginia City has been resumed and at the depth of about sixty feet some peculiar pe-culiar looking oro has boon found said to carry values In excess of Y5O per ton The ore bears resemblance to having been subjected to vnlcanlci heat and partakes of the nature of cast Iron different from all other gold or sllvec ores but assaying all right ALF DOTEN |