| Show OSCEOLA AGAIN UN fIN This Once Onoe Famous Nevada Camp Shows Signs of Revival and Ma May Repeat Former Record SOME BRIEF BITS OF HISTORY Suit ri lbs Hns Ins lIW e lc l Mining lull S I ful There lucre Theren n one mute of IC the t oldest minim ramps camps in Nevada is taking on new lIfe coil ond n a return of oC Its Ill old Urn tIme tle prosperIty Is II promised Salt Lake capital mum hUI become extensively Inter c In the camp the pas past year r ami plans tire are lre laid for Cor i 1 mm of oC vIgorous and ly O Osceola Ocola was WOI platted on nit the tho map o or oC While Pine county as 18 a n cam cutup early In the tho seventies and rind soon be became II cattle came cale a thriving hustling town of mit per lumps GOO COO souls Tile THc little hamlet I Is situated In iii II a ii I rocky rock gulch or canyon high up In iii II the tIme Snake creek creck range ol ot mountains 45 miles from Ely and imd c I a trifle southeast of that city cl It stands lit nt an un elevation of ot feet teet above tidewater The dates eale back to 10 tho the tile dis discovery covery of oC the time Cumberland group grou ul uC mines after work had been b on lone tione oOl to justify justy the laying out of ot a town The rime Cumberland company built hult u U i mill mi and uni the town lown at It once wco Ileo became n a busy bus place market for tor the of oC the time farms I IL i product arm armIn In n Spring anti and nuch Duch uch valleys vule s and Uld mutt gh ghIn In big n employment to tu many mIL hands and alt In mineral wealth or r to 10 the tl worlds commerce In n IS 7 a large acreage lying on 01 a gentle slop leading Jeu from tom fur Car out In Ino into to 10 o Spring valley ley was wait located ns us 15 placer round ground ami Is exceedingly rich curly carry ca I Ilg ng sold gold with every el of oC dirt washed and uld In ISSI 1881 another Olamp mill mit was WI put up over oer the time Osceola Osccola sum which In 1898 was a removed to 10 the astern casten slope of the range rl c just below helow sceola Osceola Time The he two mum mills Ifs built bui were wera over ocr a it pronounced success not being attic uhl lilo to save le the time gold anti III the owners ot of f time the Cumberland group 1011 depended depend cd on time thc iio lie stock market for tor their wore more thal than han on the merits meris of ot the time mine mIl As s sul ul tilt II timings things not built bulIon on n u solid foun tUI must crumble so RO It was with time the ic stock manipulations or of the Cum erland group and amid h h as US u a business center celer began hegal tn to t decline as us the did tIkI not ot company seem tl tr longer to develop that which Is rich In gold mm and In time will wi be bevan again van recovered and pass into history ls mi t one ono of oC the greatest wealth erR a In the tho state Osceola Oscela at the pres present emit ent it time Is almost dead dear but hul if sit alt ll plans Inns now In Ia course of oC Incubation ure out OUI the tho place will wi Ebon on be awakened and pass PISS on to greatness zon uninterrupted d There TherO but are arc four tour J In the little place at ate atthe atthe the e present time but 1 t almost 00 60 men mene menar ar are e prospecting in the time nearby hilts hills hll About bout one ole year nl ago aSo new I W capital put fresh esh blood In sluggIsh veins und and id the promise is 1 given out that the canyon nyon and Ild all 01 the surrounding coun coln try will soon soomi become the time tl wi scene of great ent activity anti and n development |
