The Portland daily press., 1865-08-30
Wednesday Morning, August 80, 1855
THE SILVER MINES OF NEVADA.

Mr.. Samuel Bowles, writing to the RepubK-
Gun from Virginia, Nevada, under date oi
June 9th, gives some interesting particulars
He says: aem
California, mature at IL, plants colony in
1S59-6O which ripens into new state in 1884.
Nevadais the first child of California. Bach
elor uncles and fond friends sometimes think
Children are born In order to Wheedle them out
OF silver cups so Nevada sprang into being
under like metallic influence And ifshe prom
ised to give rather than to get, she fails vet to
keep full faith for though in her six years OF
life, she has yielded sixty millions of ofniaterial
for pure coin of the realm, she has absorbed
much more than that amount of California
capital and labor. Coming west out OF the
great interior basin even in their midst, we
strike the first wave of the Pacific coast life al
Austin, 500 miles from San Francisco, 20G
miles from the Sierra Nevada, in middle Neva-
da, huddled and incoherent along the steep
hnisices of close canon, running sharply up
from the Reese River valley, lies the eastern
most and freshest mining town of the state
and the section. Two years old, Austin has
already had a population of six or eight thous-
and, casting 1900 votes at the presidential
election, and, now, experiencing her first reac-
ton, falls back to 1000 inhabitants. 1t bears
family likeness to- Central CITY and Black
Hawk in Colorado; houses are built anywhere
and everywhere and streets are then made to
reach them; one side of a house will be four
stories and the other but two-such is the Law
OF the land mot tree nor flower nor a grass
plant does the whole town boast-not one; but
it has the best French restaurant have met
since New York, daily newspaper, and the
Doot-backS and BARRIERS and baths are luxuri-
GUS and aIfstocratic to the continental degree
while one of the finest specimens of feminine
physical beauty and grace presides over large
beer saloon; gambling riots openly in the large
area Of every drinking shop-miners risking
in this chance at night the proceeds of the
scarcely less doubtful chance ofthe day; and
weak-minded and curious strangers are TEMPT
ed by such advertisements as this =
"Mammoth Lager Beer Saloon, in the base
ment, corner OF Main and Virginia streets,
Anstin, Nevada. Choice liquors, Wines lager
beer and cigars, served by pretty girls, who 1n-
derstand their business and attend to it. Vo-
taries of Bacchus, Gambrinms, Venus or Gu
pfd can spend an evening pleasantly at the
Manmouth Saloon. s9a 3a
Both inquisitive and classical, we went in
search of this bower of the senses: and we
found cellar, whtewashed and sawdusted
two tiddes and clarionet in one corner; q
bar OF liquors glared IN another; and fat,
coarse Jew girl proved the sole embodiment
aud representative of all these proclaimed gods
and goddesses. We blushingiy apologized and
retired with our faces to Mistress Venus, Cu
pids &c. as guests retire from mortal monarchs
lest our pockets should be picked; and shall
takeonr mythology out OF the dictionaries
hereafter. aFt ~
- uP 'iie Aue.in iiiiisiues, Among INC
4a4 dato anH DUSUnu ;i 'lelli are Sns pls ant nus
N SsO es 1-niies VI .Ie nopes Vi
and separating the ore. Back and around
the corners, and over the mountains for many
NJ ,,a; A.;' ,l1t S,.sS ~ o's.s @
l .oooS f Sois, E nae DSoli suc
r;1I H. ~, ~, Dos oS r ~, aiu one i
rntten nran;ts of the b;lls lie t s,,aoa ID a., s,e
GERS Of some mineral Giant Aiso t6au a., oro
Su ,,a1;,,,as ~ s.s'',. Iiso slcy arc
moro than than frae ~ f,,s ES,s wv muels 70 70
comnensate for tbis disaIvantaao tho,, ~ ~
neadingv rich and eranoraIls ;-Sy "ie p
then aosin the metal ia eo s;.1'
sunhnTefts of other metals VIII a,,ti,,,o,', ,'n
u a. so.A-e, @ l@. u = naiu ~ 70 extract, ana re-
li tbe cold ores o Ca1e,olo l., process
Intermediate 10 those Of cT1ashns onJ
camatinr IN successful onaras;o,,s ''i1 '''i''-
About 30 veins are now heinz worked sucoess-
fully. and as MANY more have been satisfactn-
rily prospected. and are being mt in copfi-
tion ior oneratinu or aro o,po;t;e1rr a. - ,;
Of canital and its macbnery Wstar 49, =,
to ali the veins freely and nouch Iahor ;s - -
ouired 10 numn II o,t Tho t+ I; :.
every mine indeed ;s steam ana;na s,,,l VI
hoisting apparatus. to draw m water and orc
faI 81 fba Do;,,as = Sne sa1s % OF tunnei; But
+ban, eo1,a+ol ~ tl,a ,a- a SoilnoSVou snu "ien
nies onlv combine hotb ara $50 oiis Soihps7
the two profits of''' "'0ns' anu make
The mills are located with rooord - -,
and water rather than to tha ore a,, ~ mooa es
ter is carried sometimes for miles 10 he 'nu ia.
ed. Half dozen mills worI,ino DS so,''a moias 5s
stamps in all. are already mt IN in The A,,st;,
and neighboring canons: but onIv about I;al 5a
stamps are now at work. The number viii IN
speedily be doubled by mills going nm or in ra.
pair The ore Yields from sf0O to 500 in sill
yer and gold per ton; but at present nrices r.
costs nearly or quite 500 to mine and work K
it, SO that that which Yields only 500 cannot
De prohtably worked. Consequently miners,
wno nave no mills, separate their ores, and
hire worked out only the most valuable, saw
ing the rest up until competition brings down
the price OF milling, or they erect mills Of their
The charge for working the ores at the mills
IS $50 ton, about half of which is profit
The same work can be hired done here If Vir-
ginia for $40 and $50 The ore of one no;na
near Austin has averaged $3.50 ton for MANY
months, and Yields net nrofit Of 81 laast eoy
ton to its owners. Anntbar ~ .uaSs 90
ing both mill and mines. finds its oras .,;a,
Sl5Oa ton without asserting and the cost y
getting out and working is bnt s5n. 60 O,I tS,ot =
working SIX tons day their steady nrots s,a., a
$500 daily. an exnan di+,,n< P>o-e0 EAC