The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-02
NE ETADA.
The Latest Mining Excitement.

All Nevada is excited Just now by the stories
of the richness Of the silver mines in the
White Pine district, and the Nevada Enterprise
gives the following account of those dlggings:-
We have for some weeks as much as possible
refrained from giving anything but passing
notice of the White Pine excitement. But it has
all the time been growing and increasing IN
might, until ut last 1t has gained such strength
and assumed such importance that we cannot
well ignore It,. The smouldering volcano must
soon burst, II not this winter, surely next
spring. There Is no getting around it, the Whlte
Pine mnes are rich-wondertully rich. All
the letters received from there and all the men
who come in from there tell the same story
Parties who have examined the mines say that
they are doubtless the richest ever discovered
in any part OF the world. MIR. William Wood
burn, of this city, who spent some Gays IN the
mines, says that he believes there is enough
silver in the one small range OF mountains in
which the White Ptue mines are situated TO pay
off the national debt, large as it is. His account
OF the ature of the silver deposit agrees with
that OF all others who have visited the mines,
namely THAT it appears 10 be vast stratum
of limestone, as, wherever shafts have been
sunk through the Limestone cap, the ,rica
ore has been found. In some places
surface through crevices, while in others
the shaft must be sunk to the depth of ten to
thirty feet before the ore is found. The depth
of the deposit is not known, no shaft having yet
cut through it. The Eberhart Company, the
Oldest in the district, have drilted In one dlrec-
ton distance of one hundred and eighty feet,
with CrOSs-orltS sixty TO seventy leet III lenBCu,
and have sunk shaft some thirty-hve feet 10
depth, and all in a solid mass OF ore, worth from
$500 to don't phoo phoo !-S20,000 per ton
On Chloride Flat, somewhere on the same noun
tain tue same kind of ore has been found by
every shaft that has passed through the lime
stone. All the miners who have "struck ile"
have piled about their shafts large heaps of
ore, ranging in value from 5000 per ton up to
the Iightful figures we have yentnred to
mention above. We might make out long
list of the lucky ones, but as it might create
an lnconvenient excitement among their poor
relations we refrain. 1t is enough to say
that men who were about our streets four
months since without cent are now worth so
much silver that neither they nor any OF their
friends can calculate its value because, you see,
they don't know rhe length, breadth, nor thick
ness of their pile. All from this vicinity say
that White Pine is the poor mans paradise. MI.
Woodburn is OF the opinion that there will be in
the MINES by the lst of next April population
of 20, GOO persons. Ali the stories of the severity
of the winters there do not prevent pI opIe from
running thither; they are going every DAY. No
one now asks. "Are you going to White PineH
The question is "When do you go?" AS an Offset
to all the above it is but far Tor to add that
there are many persons who believe the mines
are too good 10 last, and who believe that the ore
deposit Is Of no great thickness.