Frank Williams memoir, page 30

On March 3, I went to Washington, D.C., remaining there about four days, then westward to Reno for another Regents' meeting. This was my first trip to the Atlantic Coast. In fact, it was my first journey east of the Mississippi river except for a few days in Southern Illinois in 1889. I spent part of that year in Crescent, but did not have much success finding ore. Except for some assessment work in 1910, we quit Crescent altogether and abandoned our claims there.