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Only one small spring is foiuul hero, insutlicioat for siqiplv of ii mill. The present locators of 

 claims in this district were at work on the Potosi mine, which was visited and found to be a regu- 

 lar, well-defined ledge, situated high upon the western slope of the mountains. The ledge crops 

 out from an almost i)erpendicnlar clilV, and shows a width of ten or twelve feet, and has been 

 stripped for about live hundred feet. The ore, which consists of galena, antimony, arsenic, and 

 silver, occurs in large, irregular masses, in some cases beautifully crystallized, and assays, by actual 

 working, about six hundred dollars in silver to the ton. Some of the ore had. I believe, been sent 

 to the lead-works in Han Francisco, and there reduced. 



Other claims had been located in the district, but none of them had been opened sntliciently 

 to enable one to define their character, so far as forniRtion was concerned. The few miners engaged 

 here were taking out the galena ore in quantities sutlicient to supply a furnace all the time, and, 

 although their receipts in money amounted to practically nothing, they seemed confident of suc- 

 cess, which, under the most favorable circumstances that may occur, must be regarded as a ques- 

 tion admitting of a great deal of doubt. Supplies have to be hauled a long distance, over the 

 worst kind of roads, and the want of water necessary for carrying on operations on an extensive 

 scale will always be a great drawback here. 



Wood in great abundance is found on the mountain slopes in the vicinity, principally nut pine. 



Bunch grass grows near at hand. 



The next morning we started back for Las Vegas, taking the same road as before, arriving at 

 the Cottonwoods in the afternoon, and receiviug infonnation that two .soldiers had deserted from 

 Las Vegas. I went on that night, ami reached camp about midnight, when I discovered that Pri- 

 vates Murran and Leach had deserted on the morning of the 14th, and taken with them five ani- 

 mals, the best ones left at that time. Pursuit was ordered, but the worn-out condition of the horses 

 and mules would not allow of our overtaking them. 



Ivespectfully submitted. 



I). W. LOCKWOOD, 



Lieutenant of Engineers. 

 Lieut. George M. Wheeler, United States Em/ineers, 



Heaihiuartcrs Department of California, San Francisco, California. 



Sir: 1 have the honor to submit the following report of a trip from Quinu Cauou to Monte 

 Christo Mill, via Keveille, Hot Creek, and Morey ]\Iiniug District, made by me in compliance with 

 verbal instructions received from you November 12, ISGO. 



As directed, 1 left camp at Quinn Canon in tiie afternoon of the above-mentioned day, and en- 

 camped that night at Red Blutf S[>rings, the uortheastern corner of Lincoln County, Nev. The 

 next morning the odometer-cart, driven by Private John Smith, was .sent on to Twin Springs by 

 the regular road, while Jlr. Piuhskoptf and my.self started for Itcveille, taking the trail leading 

 across the valley. But one wagon had ever been over it, and that was to take a loail of ore to 

 Hyko to be reduced ; the track was found to be very sandy. 



REVEILLE. 



situated on the Iveveille range of mountains, was reached (piite late in the afternoon, so that it was 

 found imi)racticable to visit the mines; such information as I was able to obtain with regard to the 

 district was due to the kindness of the recorder of the district. There had been at the time about 

 four hundred and sixty locations made, principally contained in a space about six miles in length 

 and two in w idth. The principal locations are near each other, and are all, so far as had then been 

 determined, deposits. No indication of a fissure-vein or regular ledges had been discovered, and 

 generally, the same showing existed here as at White Pine, some of the specimens being almost 

 exactly similar to those shown at the latter place, coutaining horn-silver in very considerable 

 quantities. The principal claims are the Park, assaying from .*S800 to 81,400 per ton; De.sert 



