The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-20
THE WHITE PINE COUNTRY.
Great Discoveries OF silver.

AL at once region OF country in the heart
Of the new State Of Nevada has risen into
great Importance. This region is known as
the White Pine District, and in territorial ex-
tent is about one-fifth larger than the District
OF Columbia. 1t is remote from civilization /;
it is rugged agglomeration or mountains ris-
ing from six Thousand to eleven thousand feet
above the level Of the sea it is very cold in
the winter season, and but few Of the comforts
OF life are to be found there bat it is at this
moment the point OF supreme attraction on
the American continent. The magnet is one
Of the precious metals. The lodestone is an
inexhaustibIe lode of silver.
The rush Of adventurers to this region is
said to be altogether unexampled. The '.duvi
sands Of people to California, was RS nothing
to the ''argenti sdcrG flames" that carries min
ers, laborers, mer chants, SPECTATORS, men of
all kinds to White Pine.
In point of fact, all the accounts we receive
iof the district we'll warrant the BELIEF that no.
thing 80 rlch as the White Pine Silver Mines
has ever been found on the globe. For hun
dreds Of years the flow of silver coin has been
nations to China, with no retiring ebb, until
the Celestial Empire has become one vast
storehouse OF silver guilders, forins, thalers,
caroluses and pistareens. 1t would seem as If,
worlds treasure at the worlds end, nature had
selected the mountal MS Of Nevada fer her ae-
ppsitory Of pure metal, and there certainly it
hes IN one great precious t mass to STIMULATE IN
The report of r. w. Raymond on the Min
eral Resources Of the States and Territories, {"
made to the Secretary Of the Treasury and just
printed, gives us some most interesting facts
and figures concerning the White Pine silver
region.
more than fifty mining companies having been
organized i'll San Francisco alone for working
them, and of every one the story reads like
fairy tale. Discovered only eighteen months
ago. the light has as yet hardly broken in upon
the richest VEINS. Yet $4,000 ton Is not an ex-
travagant yield. and We arc prepared to be-
lieve anything that may be said Of the results
hereafter.
Here is the Keystone Nine, for instance.
originally explored it, struck his pick into what
seemed to be q bed Of putty, but what proved
to be pure chloride Of silver, worth from $15,-
coo to $25, 600 q toni Even the correct and
and prosaically to the Secretary of the Treas
ury, breaks out iuto certain luminous poetry
as he enters the cave OF Aladdin. otherwise
known as the Eberhardt Mine. "Descending
selves among men engaged in breaking down
silver by the ton. The light Of our candles
disclosed great black sparkling masses of silver
ole on every side The walls were silver, the
roof over our heads silver, the very dust which
filed our lungs and covered our boots and
clothing was great coating of fine silver"
These are but few Of the wonders that are
told Of the White Pine District. Cities are
rising there like exhalations. All around Trea-
sure Hill. which is the site of the most extra
ordinary Of these silver deposits, shops. ware
houses, lager beer saloons are going up, and
IN another winter there will possibly be opera
bouffe. f.~
Treasure Hill is at this moment difficult Of
access from tho Atlantic border, but with the
completion Of the railway to San Francisco. it
may be reached in six or seven days from New
York; lying, as it does, only one hundred and
twenty-five miles from Elko, which is station
on the Central Pacific Railroad. Coaches now
run from 4 lko to the mines; but branch rail-
load will ere long transport travellers to the
spot and bring back the valuable ingots to be
conveyed to the centres of 90 oimerce.