Show 1144 I 1 STO kry 0 F 10 C arit E by miner M ike 3 he in the early days scarred bills and shocks mlton editors hotel this ihla is the second 0 I 1 series of fight eight articles giving of if the history of Ilo biloche chet ln n n actor immunity which has been been on jin factor in utah industry and which has ken een rebuilt by utah men the story of begins on a pleasant lea sant midsummer mid d summer morning of 1859 1859 after a torrential rain which had ached lathed tho the sage brush covered hills the night before when a wagon iraln irain across tho the plains stopped ed at a spring i about 10 miles we west 0 f wh what t is a now pioche to camp for i few days rest the rains had washed brighter i well defined outcrop of ore and he indians told the weary travel irs of the metal panaca indian for over which stuck out of tho the ground md ind from which they had fashioned prude irude implements in I 1 1859 the west w was as alive with prospectors thoss who followed the in their quest for gold along he mother lode of california and hose who came west to find another virginia city the novada nevada mining amp which had electrified the world its sliver silver discoveries ors and scouts from the mother lode and virginia city bad fanned out to all sections of theowest tho th ewest west running down reports of this or that find pioche which drew its name from an early french explorer wa was soon the center of activity two prospectors raymond and ely located claims along the outcrop and called their property yAho tho raymond and ely the ore was waa rich and growth of the tha ditri district ct was rapid prom 1870 to 1873 tha raymond and ely produced gold and silver valued edat at virtually all 01 of which camo came from the raymond raymod and ely fissure and its branches in two and a half years this property paid fo four and one half anil million gogerty ion dollars in dividends with such production pioche sprang into the national spotlight and it drew tha backwash of bad characters from virginia city the comstock and california old timers say that pioche was the shoot inest cm camp p of all the early western boom towns town the third article in this series will appear appedu in these columns soon |