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[Silver King District, 1881] Silver King District is in the Lake Valley range, sixteen |
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miles northwest of Bristol, the latter being the nearest post office and stage station. |
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Ore was discovered in 1874, by John Heuss and Philip Barton, and a district was |
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organized the same year. Seven locations have been made; four miners reside on their |
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claims, and the records are kept by Julius Hoffman, at Pioche. The veins are found |
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between slate and granite, running north and south with the formation, and dipping to |
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the west at an angle of forty-five degrees. The ores are both free and bare, the bullion |
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containing about ten percent of gold. The principal mines are the Caesar, Ida, |
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Highbridge, Morning Star, and Schiller . . . The ores are very rich . . . The base ores |
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yield from $75 to $100 per ton; the free-milling ores, from $700 to $1,000 per ton. |
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The Caesar mine has a shaft sixty feet deep, and the Highbridge mine a tunnel eighty |
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feet long. Freight is hauled from Eureka, 165 miles distant, at forty dollars per ton, |
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and at the same rate from Milford, Utah, 135 miles distant. Plenty of cedar and nut |
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pines are close by the mines. The ores are hauled to Bristol, and worked both by |
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milling and smelting. No town has been built.” |
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History of Nevada with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent |
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Men and Pioneers, pub. Thompson and West, Oakland, California, 1881; pg. 485-486 |
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John S. Wheatley to Stewart McAnish [sic] |
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This indenture made the twenty-seventh (27th) day of April in the year of our Lord |
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one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two between John S. Wheatley, of the County |
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of Lincoln, State of Nevada, the party of the first part, and Stewart McAnish [sic] of |
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the same county and state, the party of the second part . . . Eight Hundred ($800) |
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Dollars . . . All those certain Mines, Mining claims, Mining rights, and locations |
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situate in the Silver King Mining District in said County of Lincoln and State of |
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Nevada, and described as follows, to wit: an undivided one-fourth (1/4) interest of, |
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in and to those certain Mines, Mining claims, and locations, located known and called |
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the "Iron" mine and mining claims, the "Schiller" mine and mining claims, the "Saser" |
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mine and mining claims, the "Ida" mine and mining claims, and the "Highbridge" mine |
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and mining claims, all of which were located on the 2nd day of January A.D. 1885 |
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by William Wheatley Senior and duly recorded in the office of the County Recorder |
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of Lincoln County, aforesaid. Together with all the dips, spurs and angles, and also |
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all the metals ores gold and silver bearing quartz, rock and earth therein; and all the |
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rights, privileges and franchises thereto incident . . . /s/ John S. Wheatley |
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Recorded April 29, AD 1892, H. W. Turner, County Recorder |
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Lincoln County, Nevada, Mining Deeds, Book P, pages 216-218. |
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Stuart McAnish [sic] to William Wheatley |
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This indenture made the Fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one |
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thousand eight hundred & ninety-six between Stewart McAnish [sic] of the County |
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of Lincoln, State of Nevada, the party of the first part, & Wm. Wheatley the party of |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XV n.2 / April 2009 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2009-13 |