Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-12-18
FROM WHITE n
HAMILTON, December 18th, 1868.

part Of the State, and therefore | pro-
pose occasionally to furnish you with a
few facts, for as l have no ak TO grind
or feet for sale, I will write facts only.
This is not Como or Meadow Lake, that
exist in greatness only in newspaper
articles, but has actual merit of which
to boast. will in all my correspond
ence endeavor to place before the read
ers of the News things as they exist.
Hamilton is the largest town in the
district, is situated at the base of Treas
ure Hill, and is not Of SO great an alti-
tuds as Treasure City by about 1000
feet. It is virtually the port OF entry
for the district, all teams for Treasure
City having to 20 through Hamilton to
get on the hill. The town site is in a
valley, and is we'll supplied with water
from springs. The town 10 growing as
rapidly as it can, but not more than
half as fast as it would If lumber was
obtainable eyen at $3.50 per thousand.
The first birth of the district occurred
ON the night Of November 2lst, 1868, to
the wife Of Mr.. G. Ferguson, a carpen-
ter, and an old Gold Hitler, having for
a number of years been n carpenter ut
the Bullion works, and well known in
Gold Hill. Ferg. says he has struck
chlorides, and he says he thinks White
Pine prospects better than tho Comstock.
Jeremiah Miller, formerly of San
Jose, has an excellent mill in the lower
edge of town. 1t is q ten.stamp mill,
and a dry crusher, as all the mills In
the district are necessarily for tho rea-
son that the chlorides will float away
by the wet crushing process. 1t is a
custom mill, and has on hand at all
times a large amount of ore to work
from tho different mines. Mr.. Miller has
an assay office in connection with the
mill, where all the bullion is melted,
assayed and stamped. Mr.. Greeley is
the assayer in charge Of this department.
In an experience Of nearly sixteen years
on this coast, I have never seen II more
lively, bustling town than Hamilton.
The streets are crowded day and night
with teams and people.
Shermantown is located on the south
side OF Treasure Hill, and contains two
quartz mills, n saw mill, and some fifty
buildings. 1t is situated in II deep cam
you in q pleasant little valley. AS
water is abundant at this place, it will
be the principal milling place in the
district, and should have been called
Charcoal and Mill City. The mountains
around it are covered, with a heavy
growth of nut pine, and the bed of the
canyon is filled with coal pits.
Treasure City is by far the poorest
location for o town, being on top Of the
mines, on top of a bleak, cold noun
tain, and not q drop Of water nearer
than o mile and q half Of it, unless it is
hauled there. One side Of u house is
set in the ground, and the other is ten
feet from it. The streets are about 80
feet wide, and 80 crowded that there are
not six buildings in range in the whole
place. There is no system about the
town, nor a there be any, as it is folly
to try to make a town in q place Of the
kind, yet some are so silly as to contend
it will be the principal place Of the dis
trict. have no interest in any town,
and state these as facts. / give this
minute description for the benefit Of
those coming in here, as | should like
to have been posted myself when came.
Ishould like to give q minute descrip-
ton of the mines, but as | have not had
timo to make q map Of the country /
will content myself with an outline
sketch.
The Eberhardt, Keystone and Blue
Bell are situated on the east side Of
Treasure Hill, and are consolidated.
These are the most developed and Of
course the best known, although the
Last Chance, Aurora, Hidden Treasure,
Virginia, and many others, will be
equally good when developed.
Through the kindness Of a friend !
have been furnished with u true copy
of the first notice ever placed upon the
Eberhardt mine:
WHITE PINE DISTRICT, August S, 1867.
Know all men Tor one woman, for then all
will know that the undersigned, who is an
individual Of limited means, but Of unlimited
expectations, locates, claims and intends to
hold and work two claims Of two hundred
feet each on this ledge, containing, as he be-
lieyes and hopes It does, gold, silver, calcspar,
feldspar and spar the bar-keep, besides other
precious metals too numerous to mention,
with all dips, spurs and angles and
triangles ranging from vertical to horizontal,
and will work the same according to Hoyle
and the very liberal laws Of White Pine Dis
triet.
The undersigned is induced to make this
a company OF one, as he is anxious that the
next poor devil that comes along may have q
fair show at the extensions, II no can find
them.
To be known as the Elephant Ledge and
Company. u
feet.
This Pitcher is none other than " old
vol known in Virginia, but he
did not develop the mine, and it slipped
away from him.
Chloride Flat is situated on the
south side Of the hill and
west Of the E%berhardt, and is
located for about 1000 feet square, and
has q claim, and a hole sunk on every
ten feet square. 1t is all right as long
rs you throw out your dirt and it don't
fall in another mans shaft If it does,
he goes TO shooting at once. They
work on the fat like bees on q comb
every company has its cell, and all seem
to have honey. There Is scarcely q day
passes but that we hear Of some one
o rich strike in some part of the
A ledge here that does not
kat,.r ora than S950 Ia considered