Identifier: historyofnevada00ange (find matches)
Title: History of Nevada;
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Angel, Myron, ed
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Publisher: Oakland, Cal., Thompson and West
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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-, the knowledge being finallyobtained in the following manner:— A rancher named W. P. Morrison, living on theTruckee Meadows, visited the new discovery andcarried away through curiosity some of the suljihur-ets that having bothered the miners in washing forgold they had thrown away as worthless material.Morrisons former residence had been Nevada City,California, and in ros))on.i?e to a business call he wentdiicctly to that i>lace, where in company with J. F.Stone, ho visited the Journal office on the twenty-fourth of June, giving an account of where it had
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I/) i 2oo zz z z< a: UJ I u.o < h- Zo EFFORTS AT GOVERNMENT. 61 been obtained. It all resulted in turning llie gnmplcover to an assajcr, named J. J. Ott. for a test, whodemonstrated that it contained SI,505 in gold andS3,19G in silver, making a total value of 84,701 perton. Another test was made with similar results byan assayer named Melville Atwood, in Grass Valley,California, and there could bo no longer a doubt asto the value of the material that was being cursed asan obstruction and east away as worthless by theUtah miners. As to the immediate result upon theimagination and consequent influence upon theactions of tho.se making the discovery. Ban i)e Quillewrites:— The excitement by no means abated when theywere informed bj^ Jlr. Morrison that there were tonsand tons of the same stutt in sight in the 0))eningthat the Ophir Company had already made in thelead. It was agreed among the few who knew theresult of the assay that the matter should for thetime being be kept a prof

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