The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-12-31
To the People M the Atlantic
states.

The Chicago Tribune, in alluding TO
this place, calls il u "ciiy in the Rocl v
Mountains" and u Lexington (Mo.) pa.
per, in acknowledging the receipt OF n
copy Of the VIRGINIA DAILY UNoN, says
the typographical execution of it is SUI
pcrb," that 1t presents quite u cityfed
appearance" and is altogether, d won
der, coming, as il does from the land OF
"goid and Blackiect." Acknowledging
the receipt of those compliments, always
grateful TO newspaper mon, we yet think
that the pr,ss Of tho Territory cannot
have entirely fulfilled their duly, when
the Chicago Tribune is SO ignorant of our
geography, and the editur of leading pa
per, in one OF the most thriving towns of
Missouri, speaks Of Nevada as " the land
of gold and Blacklcet;" so, Tor the en-
lghtcnment of distant regions, and East
crn editors, we command the following
facts to their attention. You may run
your scissors around this article, breth-
rem of the quill, and your readers will
gain much good by pcrusing it, for the
UNION will state in il nothing but facts.
lncidentally--nnd to our Illinois aud Mis-.
souri, brcthrcn--thero arc no Rocky
Mountains. nor Blacklcct here, and but
little gold. We are loeuted ON n spar of
the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevudas
more thun seven hundred miles from the
Rocky Mountains; Pi.Utcs," Wash.
oes," and silver are our specialities in
the way of Indians aud mineral, the say
ages are few in number, generally harm
less, and gradually dying out the silver
exists in enormous quantities, and its de-
velopment has scarcely commcnccd.--
The Gould d Curry, our principal name
in this district, possesses-nut an est :
matcd-but an actual cash value of be-
tween six and seven millions of dollars,
aud share in it change hands daily, boil,
and in San francisco, at from four to five
thousand dollars per foot, there being
fourteen hundred feet in the mine.
A mine of silver bearing quartz rock
is unlike any gold mine in the world, be-.
causc il is inexhaustable. The Gould g.
Curry export nearly three hundred thuu-
sand dollars worth of silver bars every
month, aud pay their stockholders u div.
dend Of between three aud four per cent.
month. More than u million Of dollars
has been expended in opening and I'M
proving this mine, aud in the erection of
costly mills ana machinery. They have
one mill which has alone cost nearly one
million of dollars. We ullude at length
to this mine because it is the most valu,
able. Then we have in this slme dis
trict, and all within mile of this city,
the Ophir, Savage, Chollar, Potosl, Hale
g. Norcrosa, Best g. Belcher, California,
Mexican, Yellow jacket, Belcher, Grow n
Point, Imperial, aud a number of small.
er mines, containing from fifty to twelve
hundred feet each, and selling daily at
from one thousand to fifteen thousand
dollars foot. Thirty millions of dollars
would scarcely cover the actual cash val.
ue of the mines mentioned above, and
more than million ofdollars is sent from
here every month, although many Of the
mines have not yet commenced their
regular yield. There u hundred other
mines, changing hands now at from & (ty
to five hundred dollars a loot into which
long and expensive tunnels, through gram
ite rock, are being rum and which need
costly mills and machinery before they
can export eilyer hars. II would be safe
To estimate the yield Of the mines in this
district at three millions of dollars a
me nth within three years, a1d their val
ue at over one hundred millions of dol
lars. The city of Virginia, where this
paper is published, has been built up by
these mines il contains blocks Of cost.
ly brick buildings has gas and water
supports three daily papers, a theatre, a
number of churches, library, etc, 1t
contains now about 10000 Inhabitants,
and is rapidly growing. This our East
ern friends will please bear in mind, is
only one, although, as yet, the principal
one, Of the mining district Of Nevada
Territory. Eighty miles south aod east
Of here is the Esmeralda Mining District,
of which Aurora, cityof five thousand
inhabitants, Is the chief town. II con-
tains a number Of valuable mines, some
of which are yielding great quantities Of
silver, and many are In process Of deyel-