Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 11

1 STATltt JOURNAL SUNDAY MARCH 25 1006 KLTtV LOST MINES THEMES ROMANCE IA 2" BLUE LIGHT Mining Co Of Indianapolis Indiana 1 so many may be met with Another of the lost mines that is the and au to specimens BROKERS into his confidence country where the golden lake ought of that was INVESTORS' AGENT would Thorne' mine over in have a perfect system of drainage pro for handling swamp lands and huge swamp areas Ai izona have their to be borne by the take UE LIGHT MINI the out the lias been full of water for about three years within the memory of man She Any one who out again alive hind great The gold pros good transform land and Will 'pay relatively The Steenerson bill places the en tire management of the work in the the early fif cross the des He got out nuggets but the a nd and that they art would be xvc the farmers This from tons of ore now being ollice and the plan of operation follows Closely the irrigation work now being done by that branch of the Interior Depart ment lands "ceded In dian lands and private lands may be included in any drainage project but years at a Nixon BlocK Main Street In the Klam res or more some say in whole Lack to it Those who did were always killed one way or another withoutre vealing their secret and the Pegleg still remains lost to the world at large any one wants to look for it he is welcome to the following directions: declined to say anything more the find Then he was called the vigilance committee with a and told in effect that if he Harvey Yeaman Croxall Degman Nevada Mining Invest ment Company placer located on three neighboring mt far from the gation project since there is as much danger from too much irrigation as too little and to do this the Service has its own farm and soil experts Some of the irrigation projects have distinctively drainage features in fact equal in extent to the great agricul tural States of Indiana Illinois and Iowa with three or four smaller'east ern States thrown in If the Steenerson demonstrates that the government can swamps into fertile farm that the settler "or owner back to the goevrnment the small cost of the improvement there seems to be no reason why this work of creation of value out of worthless waste not go on indefinitely and provide homes for millions more of rural population the woods Io fabulous rich a stream He mendous' swamp be drained and made habitable ami in Large bunk short in directly with the ISPATCHES from Gold field saying I za gold mine has been discovered in the Death valley ree'ill a lot of stories Of lost and hidden mines in the Said an old mining engineer to a re porter the other' day found it The belief of the old miners in that region is that the lake was one that did not reveal its golden treas to launch out into immediate activity in drainage projects The fund provided by the bill would be small as compared with the irri gation fund it would approximate half a million dollars ayear and would start off with about 1000 000 the re ceipts from the sales for the fiscal year 1905 being included but on the other hand lie cost of drainage would come fit of fever did not have much to operate on according to those who knew him but it killed Smith any how and of about fifty men who fol lowed his trail into the desert trying to locate the famous placer nearly all died of thirst or went crazy or broke years later a who had drifted into the same desert country came out with about $7 "off in nuggets Of the same gold He had struck the same mysterious placer but he died and his Apaches under old them to that it the cabin The Steenerson bill provides for the beginning of the work of reclamation of these huge areas The measure is framed after the irrigation law it provides that the receipts from the sales of public lands in the non irri ga ion States shall constitute a fund to be Expended by the gov ernment in great drainage works and further that the cost of such drain age shall be pro rated among the land benefited and paid back by the settlers into the to be used over again for additional reclamation work This plan of developing the internal resources of the country and making homes of waste places is splendid in its scope and appears to be entirely practicable and profitable Take for the single example of the installed blacksmith Mormon said case he knew whole cliff of of the original party and returned to try to locate it But they never could find the trail and the Gunsight lode remained a mystery fOr years though there On Diamonds Watches Jewelry etc Unredeemed watches dia monds and jewelry for sale at less than half their regular prices Watch Repairing Guaranteed 219 Virginia Street Reno Nevada of a night by lie strike a hundred President Vice President lot mines or five times years and well known than a hundred miles But it is in the midst of the most 'Godforsaken desert on the face of the globe and few people who have and climbing a peak to try to get their bearings they had run onto the The Apaches know what gold is well enough and the squaw had about two pounds of it in a handkerchief She had seen the smoke of the construction train so she said from the place where they had found the gold but she refused to lead any of the workmen to it one knew from which direc tion she had come into the camp Her man was dead in the desert and the whole of the construction crew deserted and started off to find the Pegleg and a good many of them died in the attempt none of them did findit They did not find the body of buck either The squaw promptly vanished after site recovered WOODARD AKERS iscal Agents RENO NEVADA drew and dis different was questionable ever existed outside ago and is being worked considerable profit of the most remarkable the lost mines however is the them the famous Dis Jllinois which is gen as a well settled ag there are '4000000 land in Michigan nearly 60000(10 acres er has about 2000000 tic res of swamp land In Minnesota there are ing that section of the desert between ort Yuma and Los Angeles when he tried to take a cut off in the neighbor hood of pass Quite natur ally he lost his way and came near dying of thirst before he got back to Yuma It is a dry the highest one of peaks presumably turn off to gold? ison the surface and is of peculiar ap I pearance darker titan most placer I nuggets and known among the mining men of the west as are specimens of it a number of mining museums can find it and can get has his fortune made Smith a gentleman xvith one wooden prop was its original dis the eather fag end of gotten off the track of water but fin ally found a lake where he 'st opped to drink When he stooped for a mouth ful of water hd' was amazed to find the bottom he drinking covered with nuggets? It was a beau tiful country and a fall of I about ten feet into the upper end of Hie lake the was even richer and Lingard loaded up with all I of ait he couldncarryj and started to make his way out to civilization: Tie was weak and found before he had gone far that he had overtaxed his stomach and he cached the most of his gold at the foot of a big pine tree that would serve as a landmark and inally made his way back to Nelson Point lie had time to outfit and return it came on to rain one of those drenching downpours common enough in northern': California He waited until the rain was over and started back to look for the gold lined I lake He did not find it that season tnd searched persistently for it for three years He found lakes but none I xvith a ten foot wall at the upper end and finally when his nuggets haiT'i jave Desert mine known to have been worked' by worked iby Chief Arataba basin in Indiana and Illinois Here are some 400000 acres of rhe' very richest of bottom lands but subject to oxerflow They are worthless except where they have been reclaimed through expensive private' drainage works when they have become worth $100 and $150 per acre Yet it is es timated by the government surveyors ami engineers that the entire system could be effectively drained at a cost in the neighborhood of $10 per acre The same can be said of the lands of tlie lied River Valley in Minnesota These include the finest grain and farm lands in' the northwest except a branch has already run its lines over pinny of the great swamp areas of the eastern States and as soon as the Steenerson bill becomes a law the Ge improvement owner of the land and no settlers can have drainage provided for more than Itiil acres thus insuring division of tho tracts into small which must be actually settled upon and tilled Drainage Work Already In Progress gaining their security by magnificent feats of engineering and persistence They now contemplate the' drainage of the Zuyde Zee reclaiming some 1350000 additional acres of meadow land American drainage would in most cases be far more simple and less expensive it is simply a question as to whether the nation will see the wis dom of setting its hand to this work lorida the everglades alone almost solidmuck beds would afford an empire of some 7000000 acres in New Jersey 'at swamps among mal Swamp erally ref ricultu ral acres of there arc per ton Over 130000 power gasoline hoist is and cook houses assay course of erection and a large force of miners engineers svand carpenters at work Shipping on a large scale will bo resumed March 20th This mine promises to be the largest copper producer in the west' The C'nnpany is organized under the laws of the Ter Tritory of Arizona with a capital of $2000000 fully paid and lion assessable and legally admitted to this State A i small block of the treasury stock of this company is offered until April 1 1906 at 40 cents per share This is positive ly the best stock in the State of Nevada at this price andwill steadily advance Best of bank and other references given Send all orders to last year cent copper latest" discovery of the ogleg jon record was in 1896 when a Mexi can vaquero a ranch near San Bernardino came in with about $10 000 worth of nuggets He had better luck than his predecessors for he went back to the place time after time He gambled and he drank he made love to all the girls in the region and he spent money as though he had the treasury of the States behind him When he went shy on gold he would disappear for a few days and come back loaded with it "Tell where he got it? Not much BiJt it was Pegleg gold all the same and just from the region where the mine was known to be located Of course he was and followed but he had bettef sense than to ever ihe same trail twice or allow himself to be tracked to bis cache An Easterner may think that this shows lack of enterprise on the part of the people who wanted the secret but a cowboy skilled" in desert craft can frorq privation and exposure secret died with him many years ago an Indian three quarters dead from thirst drifted into a construction camp on the Southern not far from the edge of the Salton Sea that nus looking nuggets on the way but was ignorant of their value until a or two later whon he showed them' to a man in Los Angeles The got excited over the find and Smith realized how near he had to making his fortune he had a brain fever ed from him story of the same sort is told of a mine located at Horse Head gulcli in Colorado It is said that there was a miner named Whitewho made that his headquarters and was out prospecting most of the year He had one Indian cook and general as sistant One day he came in for sup plies and displayed some of cement ore It was the camp promptly Avent crazy ax ith excitement "White xvas importuned to tell xvhere his xvas located He MONEY LOANED By Uncle Ben Barbash of all great cement mine that has never been lo cated by more than three men There are varying stories told of this One is that a Gorman drifted into Aurora Nev about 1 885 with a lot of specie mens of hard rod cement full of gold was wonderfully rich ore and different from anything that had ever been seen in that country The rumor of the discovery caused such a eomo tion that the German got frightened and 'disappeared betxveen two days The importance of wholesale drainage in xide homes for increased population is scarcely second in importance to means of the xv hi ch the xvest is alive with such he continued livery mining region has its lost mines some of the stories being true some having a foundation in fact and others prob ably most of them being simply the result of natural loxe of the mysterious and of old stories retold Countless times and gaining in the telling "There is every probability that the story about mine is true desert down there is alive xvith and it is such a hard country to poet in that once a man finds a load it is not ry hard to keep the secret of tho spot Also the ignorant prospector lias a strange turn of keep ing such discoveries to himself when he could make a good deal more by exploiting the claim and selling the stock 1 "It is said that there ia a big stam pede to tliojpw gold location' It would he strange if there xvere not Such an announcement is always fol lowed by a gold rush in that country for the mining fever is the most pcr sistent form of fever that a man can have A xvhole camp may be depopu lated in the course report of a miles away in the come near losing a whole settlement once he gets a start them in a desert country inally the Mexican got cut to pieces in a knife fight and since then the Pegleg has been un disturbed though there are people hunting for it every year The va quero had $7000 in gold on deposit at the home ranch when "he killed "It is thought that the fajnous Breyfogle mine has been rediscovered and is now being worked though it cannot be said so with certainty Breyfogle as might be suspected from his name xvas a German He was not a prospector but he ran across a lode of fabulous richness ties while attempting to ert near Death Valley with a pocket full of died soon after His discovery caused a stampede in the direction of the find but though sixty men died in one sea son in the search the mine remained hidden until 1 892 Then a prospector named Montgomery relocated what is supposed to be the Breyfogle lode near the Ash meadows in Death Val ley dose to the California and Neva da line It is very rich and not likely HE man who can provide homes for industrious and strong armed citizens is a benefactor to the race If Representative Steenerson of Minnesota can push his sxranip reclamation measure to enact ment into a law he will be deserving of the praise of not only this but fu ture generations His bill is a practi cal extension of the old homestead idea or rather perhaps an applica tion to the vast areas of our swamp lands of the idea embodied in the national irrigation laxv There are in the neighborhood of 1 0000000 acres of lands in the United States some 70000000 of which have been surveyed and the great bulk would make splendid farms at project 136000 than half of the area of the total pro ject is rich title land covered by eight or ten feet of water and is to be drained and converted into over a thousand farms The Topographic branch' of the Geological Survey of Goldfield Nev Manhattan Nev the irrigation work It tens of millions of acres fertile land imaginable lain idle for ages may be converted from dismal and pestilential swamps and useless bogs into highly prosper ous homes to become the garden spots of the nation The Dutch have reclaimed vast areas in Holland from the encroach ments of the ocean Thousands of fam it it was an Indian placer ofwealth and a young army sur names Thorne having seen it once resigned from the service and tried to locate it but xvent broke and lost all of' his friends without ever olly Tin Lee told had The the xvhere there was a it and told the story find They made up a liars in the xvest He of the lost cabin on known as Cabin creek looked for it himself many different plans of it tributed people xv het her a bottle "The same story Colorado California Oregon Utah and Idaho It is a fact in Idaho however that the Coeur deposits xvere known to the? Hudson Bay traders in the early part of the last century and were lost and forgotten for fifty years before they xx ere rediscovered and worked on a modern scale "Oregon's prize lost mine is the Tin Bucket that has defied relocation for two generations The miner getting Jost in eated a placer bed of ness in the bottom of had a bucket along that he xvas carry ing for water and xvhen he made the find he loaded himselEs up xvith as many nuggets as he could carry hung the bucket on a limb of a near the spot He got back to settlements and refitting started find the place but either bucket had been picked up by some Indian or there was something xvrong i with the landmarks and he xvas never I able to get back to the spot of the most picturesque stories of the same stretch of country is that I of the famous lake ini northern California It is known throughout all that region and is told with great detail and implicitly be lieved There is a settlement known as Point on the eather river The storekeeper xvas well acquainted xvith a miner by the name of Lingard who i in the fall of 1 858 came to the store i with' a lot of nuggets paid for an out I fit with them and then disappeared i He came back again the next season paid for a fresh outfit with more nug i gets and again vanished This kept up for three years xvhen he turned up again broke and taking the store his confidence? told him his troubles had been prospecting ini river country during' the a dty season? He had a a which 1 only laughed and said that there was plenty of it and that was all The leading lights of the camp society prayed and wrestled xvith him but he coolly about on by rope wanted to be hanged he would be ac commodated right there On the oth er hand if he would lead the camp to the spot where he had made the find he would be given the pick of the claims and the camp woud work it for him if he chose But he simply would not be allowed to hold out the information altogether White succumbed to this form of persuasion i and said that the mine xvas one hundred and fifty miles to the southwest and was through a hard country But If the boys wanted to him to come along The general store was dis mantled the outfits were divided up fairly and about two hundred men with White and the Indian in the lead set out across the mountains They traveled for two days during which time the band got pretty well strung out The second night: when they camped there xvere fewer than one hundred of the original party They slept that night and in the morning when they awoke and the In dian had disappeared It was many years later xvhen he was heard of This time he turned up in Utah xvith a lot of cement ore He and the Indian bought what supplies they needed paid for them with cement ore and disappeared They have not been seen since of the better authenticated of the lost mines ranking almost with the Pegleg in notoriety is the sight This was original discovery of a Mormon who was cros sing Death Valley xvith a wagon train in 1 850 He had broken off some metal specimens from a cliff along the way and xvhen he got into California he went to a gunsmith to have his rille fixed It had lost the front sight and the Mormon pulled out a piece of blackened metal from his pocket and said that if it would do the gun smith might as xvell work it up fer tile missing front sight "When the smith began to file it he found it xvas pure silver and: his customer xvho up to that time of its true value that if that xvas iscal Agents for Mining Corporations Com panics Incorporated and Stock Sold on Commission United States Smelting Company Are now in the market for all kinds of lead and copper ore3 at Prices avorable to Shippers ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS To Salt Lake City Utah Consign all Shipments as folloxvs United States Smelting Co Bingham Junction Utah When shipment is made please notify us promptly and if public sam pler Is preferred designate which one also designate one assayer larllcld Mining District 'lines in 'active operation al for shipment of $260000 till of xvhlch takei Antelope Hills mine in the Black Burro mine of the Deep Creek mine in lost prospects and all stories is nothing more fascinating I and fexv things less profitable than a search for one of these will the i wisp lodes Yet there are hundreds' of parties out after them all the year! round A few of them are located I from time to 'time and sometimes searching parties stumble on thing as they politics But take it on the the records of the geological will show that every worth of taken out of the earth costs about two dollars if you count the! money sunk in unsuccessful prospect 1 1 United States Smelting Co SALT LAKE CITY UTAH if I i Lead and Copper Ores Lingard was never: ab(e' afterward to recognize it of the lost mines of the xvest could be added to at considerable length' and many of them have roman tic and interesting There is one being worked now on the southern side of the Rio Grande near ort Haancock Texas that originally worked by the Spaniards The finders of the old dump worked the upper level but the mining en gineers believed from the dip of the strata there was better ore that would pay for drifting in a tunnel further down the hill They cleared a section and much to: their surprise found a walled up tunnel They blew in the wall and found behind it tin old drift closed by a heavy timber door with an antique Spanish lock This xvas forced and opened into the tunnel at tho very spot where they had intended to dig The ore at the far end fully realized their expectations and is being worked now on the very line of the old part uf the desert Like as not the story may be a from the start to finish but that has no effect in stopping the stampede find may be one of several mysterious mines thathaxe been lost and found and lost again in thevdesert One thing seems certain from the description and that is that it is not the famous which has caused the death of more desert prospectors than any other of the lost mines of he xvest "The egleg is onethenticated of all the has been located four the last seventy five whereabouts is pretty Within a radius of less ERTILE JRM LjINDS ROM USELESS BOGS is qualified to do at this very moment While primarily an engineering bur eau it has in all its great irrigation projects to deal farmer It must outline a compre hensive drainage system for each irri were hundreds who went to look for it There is a possibility that both it and the Breyfogle are being worked now among the rich mines struck in the Randsburg and Kern county dis coveries more than twelve years ago But there is no certainty about it "One of the more apocryphal of the lost mines is that of the Lost Cabin Of course it may be that there have been a great many lost claims but nearly every state has one 'of them The earliestrecord of the name was in a story told by Kit Carson in South Dakota in 1845 Now Kit while a most famous scout xvas considered by some as one of the most notorious told the story vvhat is now But and Blue Light Mining Co Mina Nevada The 1 4 4 1 1 I 1 I SHAT OC'TIN) iithc famous ncralda county high'' grade ofs now being sacke mne ti a record i lie 65 foot 1 a test gave sm Bank of Nevada RENO NEVADA Turrittin President Scheeline 1st Vice President lanigan 2d Vice President Turrittin Secretary Cashier Lewers Assistant Cashier Directors Daniel Meyers Turrittin A letcher lanigan Moritz Scheeline Douglass and Henry Anderson PAID UP CAPITAL $600000 Accounes of Banks Corporations and individuals received on the most favorable terms 34 Per Cent Per Annum Paid on Timo Deposits Buy and sell exchange on all principle cities of the United States Canada Asia Europe and Africa Messrs Scheeline and Osburn are resident agents for 28 ire Insur ance Companies the total assets of which are $217640081 Safe Deposit Boxes for rent prices according to size varying from $3 to $12 per annum WE SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS Savings Department Our Savings Department accepts deposits of $100 and upwards pay ing 34 per cent per annum thereon Washoe County Bank RENO NEVADA Capital ully Paid Up $50000000 Surplus und 10000000 A General Banking Business Exchange Department Issues Travelers and Commercial letters ofCrrdit Drafts and Money Orders avail able in all parts of the world 8avinge Department Pays Interest at rate of 3H per sent per annum on deposits Insurance Department Insures verty against loss by Are rep resent! 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