The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-04-17
WHITE PINE THE WONDER OF
THE WORLD.

Although only about three months
have elapsed since the first noteworthy
shipment Of bullion from White Pine
reached this city, that district has become
the most populous of any in the great in.
land basin Of the continent. The mum
Der of men now in this vicinity is 5000.
or more, aud of these one thousand IS en-.
gagged in taking out orc, the quantity TAX
en- out daily being about three hundred
tons, and average value IL estimated by
one Of excellent authority at $500 per
ton, and by another 5000. A man who
worked in the custom mill, informed US
that he had worked ore from thirty. .fige
different mines, and only two lots out OF
the thirty-fye yielded less than 3160 per
ton. At 5000 the yield Of a year, count
ing three hundred working days, would
be SIS 900, ,000-that is if the supply Of
ore should not be exhausted. A much
greater quantity could be taken out now,
but there arc not mills to work what il
being extracted, aud many of the claim
holders make great sacrifices to raise the
necessary expenses, and il would be Sc.
rious loss to them to pay miners for work
from which no income could be derived
before next summer II the deposits are
as extensive as they now appear to be.
the amount produced in 1869 will aston.
ish tne world.
The Eberhardt company, who own the
typical mine Of tho District, have work
cd 700 tons which assayed 81 900 per
ton, and yielded $3.50 in the miIl--a IS.
tai production Of 1856, 900 from that one
mine alone. They have on the dump at
the mill six hundred tons Of ore, and
they have five hundred tons more sin
sighf'-as rich as that heretofore re.
duced. Counting the ore reduced, that
extracted aud that in sight, tho Eber-
hardt is certain 10 produce at least
81 100000. They have, however, not
gone down moro than 40 feet, aud they
have not reached either bottom or the
eastern or western limit Of the deposit.
A drift of Isl feet cut with the meridi-
an, has struck the wall on each side.
The Keystone mine, which ranks next
10 the Eberhardt, has worked three hun
dred and ffly tons, averaging 800, and
has extracted 1000 more, which aver
ages s400, making the gross value Of the
ore produced so far, s645 600 The
Robert Emmct has taken out 100 tons,
and worked 81, Of which 20, first-class,
assayed sI,2l5 per ton; and al. Of sec.
ond, assayed s4S5 aud yielded s34l net.
The Stoncwall has taken ont 200 tons,
aud reduced go which yielded $500 per
ton. The South Aurora has out 500 tons
that will average at least $50 dollars per
ton; tho North Aurora is taking out 20
tons per day, worth $3.50. The Eclipse,
a claim that has attracted little attention,
comparatively, has becn sold to j. B.
Winters, the Superintendent of the Yel-
low jacket mine, for $4,000. These
arc only few out of many. An area of
two miles wide and six miles long appears
10 be uuderlaid with an igentiferous de-
posit similar to that in the Eberhardt.-
More than hundred shafts have been
sunk, and nearly oil have found the ore
within fifty feet, most of them within
thirty feet Of the surface.
Mineral deposits in limestone, which
is the bed rock at White Pine, are ordi-
narily of small extent aud soon exhausted,
but the newly discovered deposit is GER
tainly an exception in regard to its ex-
tent. The silver mines Of Canarello, in
Chill, are in limestone, and they have
been worked steadily for thirty six years,
aud have produced 800, 900, 900. There,
as at White Pine, the lodes near the sur
face contain large quantities of chloride
of silver, which could be mined and re-
duccd at very little expense Gold Hill
Mems