By Ronald M. James
The 1st complete therapy of Comstock society to include mining heritage with the tales of the folks who lived it.
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On November 2, 1859, one foot of snow fell in Virginia City. The storm cut off the Sierra passes, ending both the rush to the Comstock Lode and the transportation of ore to San Francisco. Virginia City settled in for the winter. By then the community consisted of several hundred people, living in crude accommodations. Everything from tents and brush hovels to the mining tunnels themselves served as abodes. 31 Winter progressed, and the ground froze, putting a stop to most work. Many, finding the cold of their meager shelters unbearable, descended to Page 13 communities in the valleys.
Although such assertion of ownership can be weak, there is always the hope that the first claimant can secure concessions from any subsequent miners who profitably work the property. Lithograph from William Wright's The Big Bonanza. (Courtesy of the Nevada Historical Society) stock had actually claimed the McLaughlin-O'Riley site. Indeed, he may not have been certain himself. Still, it was a reasonable possibility. Miners confronted with such prior claims frequently conceded a portion of an ore body to avoid dispute.
They soon found what Mormons had apparently discovered a year or two before: the sands, deposited over the millennia by occasional flooding from Sun Mountain above, contained specks of gold, or "color," as they called it. These early prospectors were part of the backwash from the California Forty-Niner days. That rush had drawn more people than could profit for long there. Like a large colony of bees in search of pollen, the California mining community sent scouts all along the Sierra. Each time word returned of mineral wealth, the resulting feverish excitement rivaled any dance honeybees could muster, and off swarmed the miners to investigate the possibilities of new riches.