Show tillie the carson hallcy miner the correspondent oi of the sacra men manto to union underdale under date of oct 23 22 wrote thus in in regard to the recently discovered mines in carson valley in legai d to tile the richness and extent of the mines hereabouts heie outs yon oil doub doubtless iless hear maj mai y e exaggerated x agar e r a t E d stories th that a t a t tory e r rich lich we lode of silver has be been e a four found 11 at this point admits of no question how holy extensive sive or lasting it vill prove remains to be determined As yel yei it has actually been traced but a few handled feet not more than five or six six altogether for this distance however it probably surpasses stir passes in rich lich ness anything recorded aitho iq the history of in mining ining already nian many thousands of dollar have been taken from three or four ex excavations cavatio n neither of them hardly the iho size of bf an ordinary amarti dent to convey to you somei some idea ded holever ho lion ever vever of this locality and the suro su rounding districts wherein hundreds of mn n are now I 1 piecing poe prospecting many of bell ahcin with success I 1 will ft ill give giro totua brief description of its mining topography with ith additional anity beem pertinent perti nejat to iq tho the subject object by looking at God dards man map t of cal california you bill see seea a place the thereon re designated gold canon I 1 11 is is asdall a small ravine rai ice heading ill in chatis is termed the eastern castern summit of the sierra Nevi idas arid and extends nine nine miles la in a southeast sou theat direction to carson river aich stream it touches at Cluna Chinai tona oNva a in amio irling hamlet miles no north r th of genga at the mouth of this canon caneti lahui extensive flot flat Q on N whish Y more or alss mining has boen doret every spreg r ince rince 63 god old having hav ing boegi disc descos discos ve till 1 ere as e early arl asad as 49 fyr a year ear or two this flatland flat and the ravine fc for several overal miles above paid good tt ages and they would have leen extensively worked being the first point on the I 1 immigrant tra trail il where gold in paying pacing ing quantities has bi been n found only that there was insufficient water except in in the spring for H ashing even nith a it rockers roc i keri ke some borit 9 seasons there is is only for a shori timo time enough for this tha total of w wet et weather in this region fegion often amounting ao to lest less than a beak balc lah anti entire fd 5 ear lately a small ditc ihas hhas been beed completed bringing water from carson riv nver berj whereby some fifty or sixty men ahre are secured steady et employment of this about forty are Chin ameri who having been here secial al years and I 1 being the only people of this graceon race on this side tho the mountains are suffered ered notwithstanding they occupy many of the best bes t clai claims ms to remain without molestation they mostly p nork or kNitli and mae two or three dollare doll arfe a day to the inan parties having sluices do better last springs spring some miners prospecting about th the head of this canon dis cowered an around aund the base of a small rocky knoll a go good od deal africh of quartz into this eminence since colled called gold ili hill 6 a large number of tunnels and cuts have aye been made yielding great quantities of rich rok roi k and pay dirt the latter is is ached in rockers sufficient water ater being obtained from the excava excavations eions for this chis purpose I 1 it t hi has afforded good and j ill n many instances initz c large wages part liar t of the quartz is is crushed on the spot in in ar astras lid pa part cart earned to chinatown eight miles mile below where two mills have beai erected on the river nier one of tase ahee owned by log logan a n and a nd hol holmen mes consists of four stampers driven by horbe power porter the other oilier a very lery sub stani ial work owned by ila hastings i woodworth co is propelled by water cater it operates arli siras arid and crushes from live five to six six tons per er day the quartz baitz reduced at those these mills has yielded ta 13 the ton thit that crus hed at the mines his has gene generally proved richer it is is easily obtained much of it being near the surface and i a good road having been constructed ted two lo 10 yolie yok e of 0 oen en avill haul hau fifty hundred pounds to the nulla ill I 1 per day this road 0 on a xv chich ilicIn it a small sill toll loll is la charged has been built a at a cost of aud and la is a great public at ai the tana inc that 1 t it to prove remunerative to the enterprising inter owners A few feir months after the finding of this quartz at gold cold hill a party while working up a small mall gulch at the held head offic of SIK mile canon th the vein of sik aher er ni aich las since since prociso pr aed so rich abild ao I 1 much p uc h atte attention antion this rius ravine labine chidi heads lut acou a couple of miles north afi of and runs nearly parallel with rh gold canon aanon is s so called mccau e it read es c the s sage age plains si six miles iilah the hat atter ter h has as been d dona one along it for sei deml years ears pat past ame the gol gold d 0 ob b minad boncer hon hoi vever hn has teen of low ion Lian dard adlue bein being lair e iv admixed edwith aith silver The point where vile rethe the er ras r as struck and where here the rich ore is i now being taken out is is situate one mile atilt anil it i half north of gold irilli about half vay ay up lip the side of tle the cast summit bf sierra siena 1 itrich hare he has a gentle slope and nd at au all elevation eleia tion of about 2000 beef above carson carbon river nyer from fabich it is is diat ailt duo due west eight milea mile since S nice the dincov discovery ery of silz er at this point the locality loca liy has ha undergone i ari ous changes of haino indich aich has led to some confusion cin fusion in in the mind i as to its Us exact position ion after the happening happ euing of that important event uie the plade being deemed orthy northy a ria pame me more significant of its ita promised edlah wealth edl lh vas avas baptized ophir by b which term tenn it is is generally desi designated designate goate hereabouts to this daye day at a meeting held OR on the spot some month or two to since since A it was determined to call it irginia town in in honor of the original discoverer di coverer not that thit this was asi th tha veritable ent ablo patronymic of that personage perso 1 age or indicative ok of his inn it n macu maculate 1 ate virtue but simply because he happening to ie be a native of the old dominion had bad come to ie be gner a as old virginia ills real name is is james filmy and I 1 11 regret egret to say that about the ilie only benefit he be is likely to realize from ins ilia famous discovery is is the tha equivocal honor of havin having the spot po named after his native state shaie finny not aware of bf the value of the lead aben lie he came upon lipon it sold out his interest for SIS 45 I 1 taking his bis pay in superannuated horseflesh and lightning ding iv bily tho the purchasers eon con aih sibling ting of six or echt e persons t took up feet of ground and briar one of their nu number being named comstock the mine afterwards came to J be kno b n as lead it has also been beeh called the washoe mine from jhb belief abroad that it was situated in the valley boarin bo bearing arii that name this thib however is il not ot the case the east summit of the clerfa sierra with a space of ten tea miles being in interposed ter posed between them lately I 1 have heard the elevation upon which this mine is situated called silver hill a very beautiful and ampro ap ate name not only because of i its t z iary but bu I 1 also as ai puishing gui shing it from froia gald hill rim near i by and hence I 1 have enve do in iii this present writing t M having lavin alluded to i of this di covery aad t rid giver 1 spot a local habit name 1 I must reserve a fi crillion crip lion tion of it as well as aa 0 cent mineral districts fo occasion observing in f thai thae parties coming t to 0 th alus is cali california fornia will vil I 1 find the fo fe best routes for reaching f starting starling fum stockton sh el ly by way of the big entire distance about IS 16 those starter starling tg from fact vicinity should come coine by and lake valley distance thus starting mr from marr 1 take balce the truckee truck ee rouff sonic thing further than fr mento silver hill is 30 of genoa 18 north of d C 25 northeast of lake bi big of washoe valley 25 ly road 10 north of chin chill the same distance sourhea boat valley of nil all which will have bave something to subsequent letters j |