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Slowly it was borne in upon both miners and people that
the Meadow Lake ores were "rebellious" to an extraordinary
degree and that the gold content could not be extracted by
aay process at the time known,
During the ensuing decades Meadow Lake was to have
recurring révivals based upon partially successful attempts
to reduce the ores by new processes and devices. But adequacy and permanency ever were illusive. At the time of this
writing renewed efforts to exploit those obstinate quartz ledges
are once more in the promotional stage. Qualified mining men
predict that a combination of special processes and ample
will one day unlock the immense wealth of the Meadow
Lake ores and, perhaps, again help to populate that glacierpianed townsite.
While the population of Meadow Lake dwindled and its
mines declined, Henry Hartley, the discoverer, clung steadfastly to his vision of ultimate success. and great wealth for
himself. Out of the many abandoned dwellings, he picked one
for his own residence. For three decades he was known as
the "Hermit of Meadow Lake." From Mrs. Claudia Wheat,
a niece living in Southern it is established that
Hartley, a former book store proprietor in Philadelphia, always
~ camp linked the two newcomers as lovers.
Bat Alice Hartley, acting as agent for her husband, made
numerous trips to distant cities in efforts to consummate a
2 sale of the Excelsior mine. In 1892 she was in London, her
native city, to close a deal with an English syndicate for
transfer of the mine property for the consideration of 100,000
pounds. Henry Hartley died on October 22 of that year. Poisoning
was suspected.
CHIVALROUS HENRY Meredith. His abode of repose in Pioneer Cemetery since 1860.
Chapter XX
A MODERN DON QUIXOTE
Life returned to the primitive in Nevada City on May 13,
1860, Henry Meredith, gentle Virginian, who only a few weeks
of a desperate Piute Indian uprising at Pyramid Lake, Nevada
Territory. Moreover, it was considered possible that a band of
the hostiles, known to be massed in Long Valley, just east of
the Serra, might cross the summit at any hour to menace settlers on the western slope.
A quiet Sunday morning was followed by a day of perfervid
action, Gunsmith Z, P. Davis, with volunteer helpers, toiled
late into the night casting bullets and manufacturing cartridges,
1200 of them. O. T. Ganong brought 18,000 percussion caps from
Sacramento, traveling the distance in five hours by the expedient
} Men with subscription papers hurried through