Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-11-09
White Pine Items.

This morning we were favored WITH 4
personal inspection of II box Of rich
specimens of White Pine ore, brought
in from that famous district last Friday
by ]. d. Gowen Of Gold Hill. They
were principally from the Eberhardt,
Keystone, Blue Bell, aud other noted
claims, and of course assay high mp
among the hundreds and thousands Of
dollars. Some Of the ore is so rich
in silver that it can be whitfield with a
knife almost like lead. II is very easily
reduced, the ore being soft and contain
ing but very little base metal OF
any kind. Among the lot were
also anumber Of specimens from Chic
ride Flat, near by, but not quite so rich
as the ore first mentioned. Chloride
Flat contains about 80 acres, and upon
it are sunk nearly a thousand prospect
ing shafts, many Of which are product
i've of rich ore. Mr.. Gowen says there
are thousands Of tons Of ore piled up on
Chloride Flat which will pay from 500
to $3.50 per ton, but owing to the lack
Of mills to work it, and the cost Of
transporting to where there are mills to
work it, but little Of it can be made to
pay at the present time. Compar-
stiyely few Of all these hundreds
Of shafts on the fiat have
developed pay ore, or encountered any
thing but hard limestone. Even those
who have s'struck it do not all getout
more than four or FIVE hundred pounds
n day, the deposit being narrow and ir-
regular. He speaks of one or two shafts
which have developed good sized bodies
OF the ore, but the shafts generally on
Chloride Flat are not paying institu-
tons, or the best Of the ore ut all to be
compared to that found above in the
side of the mountain and included in
the Eberhardt and the other ~halt-dozen
claims 6rst mentioned. These claims
are all adjoining each other, and contain
large bodies Of the rich ore, but how
extensive the deposit is, and how soon
it may be entirely WORKED out, is a mat
ter for the future to decide. or the eS-
lent of the new mines beyond what we
have mentioned, "no man knowe'h' at
present, but the hundreds of prospect
ors in that section may very possibly
develop something more before long.
A few weeks & a similar deposit was
found by prospectors some 70 miles
south of White Pine, assays Of which
run over $1,000 per ton. Next season
viii! doubtless tell n rich story OF
valuable mineral develo pments made IN
the White Pine region. There had
been no snow about there At the time
Mr.. Gowen left, but the late storm has
doubtless given a deposit Of that cold
fleecy article, as the country is some
thosands of feet more elevated than
bereabouts. There is plenty OF hre-
wood and material for cabins there,
however, and the people can make them
selves comfortable in that respect with
much facility. Owing to the immense
number of people rushing there pro-
visions of all kinds are at present scarce
and dear. Flour is worth SIS per hun
dred, potatoes 10 cents II pound, bacon
40 cents, and all other things in the
grocery line in the same proportion.
The supply of provisions at White Pine
is not half adequate to the support OF
the population for any length OF tirpe,
and many will doubtless have to leave
on that account before next spring, or
else stay there and suffer. Those who
are we'll cabined and provisioned are OF
course all right. By the foregoing IL
will be seen that the rich ore deposit OF
White Pine is not exactly n universal
thing, and hat there are very eligible
chances Of not striking n fortune by 60
ing there. At any rate it is evidently
good policy for emigrants to wait I'LL
next spring when the snow melts OIL ana
gives a fair chance for prospecting.