Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-11-21
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From the Boston Advertiser.
MINING IN NEVADA,

ha'ihg visited most OF the best known
and more promising mines IN the vicinity
VI Aus'lh' ! deter mined to inform myself
as W the com eailtlve merit OF the last DIS
oo'eties in The southern portion OF ,he
o'a'e' iu relation to Which | had head
many malveilous ACCOUNT, poth as ,ey.,os
'''s '->e1s y me deposits anu the rlcnneSs
u sno "ie. .neielvre, accompanied Dy
'.e hey. A. \. Mnlte ol Calsou Clll,
SUPERINTENDENT ot fuUilc lnslrLc ION Ivr
Tue o1aIe ot Nevaua, anu one OF The party
"no Win Uvveiuor Blasuel explol.u tie,
uhtll shtu, uhk country III The VIC
luiIy vi Deatn >aliey, III The spring OF
I've pieseut Jear,-an eXpivl atiou auleu-
ocu Win uapSels anu pilyaLlons OF every
d>s-rlpdon. ana whicn resulted III the
l'os VI most OF The aul1Asts aud Tue death
OF une VI the patty Ill The oeseit,-le1t
Aus.ln on the in.rnluS OF tne Zutn ou the
way iur the lnlulng uis.llct, known as
"ollver Bend Or "Phllauelphia. Our
D route lay down the "omoky Valley" ana
through natural read Way OF pass over
grandeur cau hardly be uescriDsd. lhe
!. fwaole Stale OF Nevada is uayelsed by
parallel ranges of mountains of singular
y iy uniform height aud width. Ihus IN
!. crossing the State from east to west, the
g traveller finds the mountains and valleys
~ alternate with the greatest regulasity and
4. at the same distances. The maps of the
= country give hardly the faintest idea OF
! its real surface The valleys are almos
ID without exception perfectly level and frou
n. twelve to fifteen miles in width. Tit
~ mountains, as have said are of abou
the same width as the valleys. and gcner
Of ally about the same width as the valliy
). nd generally about eight thousand fee
ID. in hight, or from four to FIVE tbousan,
fee. above the level Of the su""oundin
t. country. Vegetation is restricted at leas
OF as regards the variety. The valleys al
y, covered with the ubiquitous sage brus
=, and grease wood. with occasional spec
or- mems of cactus The mountains, for IL
he most part, produce only stunted pino
~. W. trees upon which grows the pine nu
he witch the Indians here gather and US
so as food Nothing more desolate and 70
ice bidding can easily be imagined than the
desert solitudcs, where the silence. III
at broken by song Of bird, becomes absolut
ce, ly oppressive. The mountains ruunir
north and south. the valleys can be 70
- lowed to the Colorado, and how much ia
rs ther is not known: for notwithstandir
sp the exploring expeditions which ha
on been sent out, as have before stated, Il
general features Of the country are scare
,de Iy known as yet, while as to detail, it
y. su prisiDg how uniformed the people he
mas are as to the location of places who
esi. gr ,Hr,u
m names are familiar to US of the Eas
90, ~ aud it was this ignorance which cat
tu- near being the destruction of Govern
n Bl .sdel aud party, who, in attempting
Viii III reach Pahranagat, had nearly perish
du for want of water and food. In almC
all OF the different ranges of monntai
) at mineral deposits are known or believed
see %ea exist, aud every days explorations
sett still farther to confirm the opinion D
nms generally entertained by those' Test
.ov formed upon the subject, viz, that q
tur- part OF the United States contains
ams p much or more wealth in the precious m
In al as the entire amount extracted ir
sur the earth up to the time Of the discov'
nse, mso of California. 9he principal mine
- districts at present exciting attentl
and are tho .Hot Creek" and "fhiladelph
. districts. OF these the "Hot Creek .
,ails are the richest, but are mole ioaccesi
.on at present, and have not the same adv ".
,uri- tages in their vicinity to wood aud wa
'0r which the .Silver Bend or "Philat
,.. - phia' district possesses, where also
the addition to the greater facilities which
s0A' ; list for extracting and reducing the Q
- the veins arc Of greater width. Some
Is Of the assays of ore from Hot Creek, y
i,nre s'ns claimed, yield as high as twenty thous
Cyl dollars To the ton. At Belmont, the !
-~- u,
y Of alieady worked, am assured has g.
con. con. upwards Of two huudrcd dollars to
he alr