The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-07-30
LETTER FROM A. F. WHITE.
TREASURE HILL, WHITE PINE DIST, !
Lander Co., New, July Is, 1868.

to break off anything like a regular
! CORES pondence-writing letters on one &
knee amid the hurry and confusion OF
camp life, often being interrupted by
rain and storm is not very satisfactory.
l arrived here on the afternoon OF
the lith inst. White Pine Mining Dis
trict is about eight miles square. With
in this area there are three mineral
belts. The one first discovered occu-
pies the whole western slope of White
Pine Mountain and is about FIVE miles
in length and one a half. in width. The
mines in this belt are represented as
being good. The ore has produced
from fifty to one hundred and twenty
dollars per ton and is abundant The
lodges are from two to six and eight
feet in width and are we'll defined
They have not been opened to any great
extent and it is thought will prove to
be regular assure veins. The second
mineral belt lies along the eastern
slope of White Pine Mountain and is
about four miles in length by one and
half in width. The mines are in
every respect similar 10 those found in
the first belt with the exception of the
amount of base metals. Assays of ore
from different lodges show from twenty
to six hundred dollars per ton in silver,
from forty to fifty per cent. Head, and
from twenty TO thirty per cent. copper.
These mines have scarcely been opened
aud the ores have not been generally
worked. The third mineral belt
is the one now attracting so much pub |
lie attention. 1t is crescent shaped
about seven miles in length and one in
width and lies on the summit and west
ern slope of Treasure Hill and adjoins
the second named on the east. 1t is a |
sin gular fact that about the center of
the canon between White Pine Noun
tain and Treasure Hill the base metals
almost entirely disappear and. the
whole structure of the mineral deposits
changes. This is true in great meas
ure of the country rock. am told that +
in the first mineral belt the prevailing
geological form alton are slate quartzite
and granite wi'hya Gaping of limestone.
In the second belt christaline limestone
covers the surface and slate crops out
only occasionionally. In the canon
he limestone becomes highly stratifed
and as it extends through the Treasure
Hill belt is, not so chrystaline. 1t is
o many places very much broken and
arge masses are apparently detached.
7ossils, corals and shells abound
oward the summit of the north part oft
Treasure Hill argillacious states pre-
.ail and the hill is crowned with a dis
urbed mass of silicious conglomerats
nd quartzite rocks all highly colored {
With IRON. The mines crop through
limestone and along the line of con- I
act between the limestone and the |
lates. Their general course is north
nd south with slight INCLINATION to !
be north west and north east although 7
here are many exceptions some run t
ing directly east and west, as the Key
tone, the Ebarhart, &c. The surface a
the limestone has coating of earth l.
ON one to eight or ten feet. When I,
lis is removed from the mines, the ore
formed in large masses from three to s.
N or twelve feet in width and gener-
ly shows in the croppings-often for v
lndreds of feet ir extent. These h
'oppipgs are dark iron colored 4
lartz, hard, rusty and not often show a.
g even a copper stain. Frequently
orn silver grey and yellow chlorides re
pear, and many very rich specimens s,
i've been found before the mines to Ia
bich they belonged were opened.
pom removing the soil extensive de- re
'sits Of the very richest ores are found. -"
lie quartz is very much broken, &C. 20
rring in fragments weighing from an th
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