Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-18
IRON ORE BIG THING.


ment from New York to the Bay of San
Francisco. From what we have quite re-
Gently learned Of the discoveries made in
our near iron ore regions, and the inten-
tons and capital Of parties who have had
assays and locations made, we can say
that less than a year will witness the be-
ginning Of smelling and forging business
in Storey and Ormsby and Washoe coun-
ties of unequalled magnitude. The sound
Of the ip-hammer will soon compete for
audience with the stamp Of the quartz
mill. Rolling mills will, within eighteen
months, line the railroad junction section
OF the Truckee river. The introduction
in Nevada Of this new and highly impor-
tant branch of manufacture will mark one
of the eras in our State life. Immediately
upon the heels of this will come coal and
copper developments and workings, which
will incidentally enhance our prosperity.
Who says that Nevada, or "Washoe,"" is
on the material declined Let all such
babblers hush. Pennsylvania experts,
who have within the past ten days given
a very careful examination to our iron ore
beds, assert, without exception, that no
equal deposits, in per centaSe and extent
Of area, have ever been discovered in the
keystone State. And they have no hest
tation in announcing their confidence in
| the establishment of furnaces and shaping
foundries within a space Of time shorter
than the periods we have respectively
named. The officers of the Central Pacific
and the San Francisco and Washoe Rail-
road companies have been written to on
tine subject by the keystone experts in
iron manufacturing, and their earnest CO.
operation in inaugurating the business
named is an evident matter Of course.
This will have the result to hasten the
completion Of the Pacific Railroad at least
q year,-not unlikely to facilitate the
completion Of the great road by several
years. And once an original iron manu-
featuring State, our own roads-such as
| will be disconnected from the trans-mon-
tame companies, so far as incorporated
connections are concerned-csn be pro-
iected and built forthwith. The roads
hence to Austin, hence to Aurora and at
all other available radiating points may
be laid cheaper than the roads are now
constructed and laid in New York OF
even Pennsylvania itself. Once assur-
ed Of an abundant home supply oil
iron and the simple and comparatively
~cos,less work of turnpiking beds across
our fats will proceed as by magic. Once
establish our pudding and rolling FORCES
and mills, and Congress can be readily in
duced to double or treble on the land
grant aid heretofore extended to railroad
enterprises in the Western States. In
short. the ascertainment Of iron ore beds
by iron manufacturers, with their promise
of immediate development of our re-
sources in this particular, form a most
cheering assurance for the future and the
near coming days of tkis alka-lied section
| Of the Union.
We have been told of another new
branch Of factory industry about to be
established in this commonwealth, certain
to prove of vast general interest and ad.
vantage to u people. 1t may be though,
that we are visionary in hope for our
young State; but we do believe that in
less than ten years every known manufac-
,ure for mechanical aid and improvement,
and every class of labra,ory for the pro-
duction of the finer comforts and the
luxuries Of life. will be among the fixed
and fourishing institutions" of Ne
vada. Our earth is ~plethoric OF wealth
and not troubled with the San Francisco
fever and ague fits. Our geographical
position is most fortunate on the central
railroad routes Of the Nation, with a yari-
ETY. Of resources in mineral as marvellous
as the unwon,ed purity Of the upturned
ore. Some folks may ncrvously talk Of
or purpose returning to California, or
going from here to the East. in despair oil
our prospects; but we commiserate their
Judgment, and ~contentedly look forward
to our own domestic fortunes within o
decades fruition. "IRoN" is the word,
And the world will speedily repeat it
DER and ore. "Iron!" Blast it!