Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-05-31
STOREY COUNTY.

We recently met and had q converse.
ton with a gentleman who has within the
pas. two years made q pretty thorough
examination of the mining districts Of this
State. and who has stopped for over a
month in the Boise City region and who
travelled with Richardson in Montana.
Before he started on hi, round Of observa-
ton, he had resided in this county for two
years. His grand conclusion-as be
himself terms it-from all that he has
seen on his journeys for twenty-five
months past, is that "old Storey" is the
place for lucrative mining industry. He
says that he has been at great trouble and
expense 20 visit and fairly examine re-
ported rich groupings ETC., in border
counties, and repeatedly has he found it
to be true that the Wanted discovery was
a thin, Insignificant ledge-nos over
three feet in width and not showing or
promising anywhere near the pay OF the
lodges that are struck BY shafts, on the
border of Leet's Virginia and Dayton
Turnpike. He has been assured, times
beyond his memory to recall in numbers,
that it only needed q railroad connection
for a certain locality to prove a better
paying region than the Comstoek Lode.
And often on such declarations he has
made a tedious trip to spy out the new
and reported Incompatible "bullion de-
posi,s." Not once, but q dozen times at
least, he has discovered, at the spot where
the Comstoek was said to be superceded,
not a ledge developed, not Groupings even,
bu, a ten or twenty feet hole, sunk BY
parties who had found rich float rock in
the ~neighborhood. The upshot Of all his
Investigations, personal and skillful as
they were. is reiterated BY him constantly:
that "Old Storey is Nevada's Old Glory;
and in his Judgment there are not the
slightest indications that her supremacy
as O bullion yielding section will be sur
passed or ever equalled. Here, he re.
marks, you may well say, IF we only
had a railroad" It's importance and
value here is almost incalculable. But
while q railroad would be Of great benefit
to other parts Of the State, its advantage
elsewhere sinks into insigniacance COM
pared with so much Of enhanced prosper.
i,y as i. would bring to the Metropolitan
County. Certain practical and immediate
conclusions are hence drawn BY our
friend, which we think it well to lay be-
fore our readers.
No more foolish act could be committed
than for a laboring man who has employ
ment here to leave on a "new district"
speculation. There are only two really
new sections Of mining country that rea-
sonably promise speedy and rich dsvel-
opments, beyond ascer,ained and notori-
Gus yield, and those are Excelsior and
Kearsarge. And to the former there will
be an immense rush this season, and the
valuable mining portions Of the latter are
already in the hands Of thoroughly organ
lied companies. In the cheap mines ad-
iacent to the Comstock lode center, it
would now be preferable policy for the
man of moderate means, the miner espe-
cially, to make present investments. In
the section Of country enclosed by our
county lines are a large number Of par
TALLY developed mines, which already
disclose the fact, indisputable, that q
slight reduction on the cost of wood or
ore transportation will result in their
attaining a high price in the market for
their rock which is touched and can be
extracted to-day, is already traced to such
a width that the deposits seem inexhaus-
tible. There is certain to be a suficien,
emigration from Storey this year to supply
outside districts with all the prospecting
zeal that is required for their true testing
i, is equally certain that the vacant places
will be filed by new corners, or old resi-
dents returned with the convictions and
sentiments respecting the future that oul
friend expresses. 1t is well that Storey
should give Of her pioneer population
careful, exact examiners and developers Of
other districts on the Coast; but wises,
among our working men will they be who
remain steady at their places in Gold Hill,
Virginia, and adjoining places, and who
seek judicious investments in the now
cheap mines in close proximity to the
Coms.ock, or those believed to be, from
sensible calculations, located on the NAM
moth silver lode Of the Pacific.
We shall probably hear, within three
months time, that Mr.. Sutro has been
successful in his negotiations, in Europe,
for capital sufficient to run his great tun.
mel, which will strike the Comssock $500
fee, or more below the surface at Virginia;
and from the date Of such tidings, aushori.
ta,ively communicated. there will be an
advance in all classes Of real estate in this
neishborhood ; and that will DO confessed
q, a sure prophecy Of the rapidly and vastly
improved financial condition Of our COM
muni,ies ; and every industrious and saga.
cious man residing in either Of them will
bless his stars that he did not rush to
New Grenada or some more propidous
climate than has that place, on q shout for
success.
SUPERINTENDENT CHARLRs CRocKER
writes to a friend in Idaho that the Cen.