Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-03-26
From the Cleaveland Leader Of March sth.
The White Pine Silver furore.

Within the past rev weeks therc mas
reached Chicago and st. Louis the first
wave of a new sensation, which has al
ready stirred to its depths the whole bust
ness community of the Pacific slope. A
new silver lode has been discovered in
the mountains of Nevada. lode which
beyond all question is the richest argen-
tine deposit ever unearthed in the histo-
ry of man. We say all this in perfect
freedom from any of the excitement
which usually pertains to new mineral
discoveries, and with a full allowance for
all that can possibly be sscribed to exag-
geration. Some time last summer Ger
man named Eberhardt, together with al
Indian of Nevada, discovered, about one
hundred and twenty-five miles southeast
of Elko, a district about twelve miles
square in which the discoveries of silver
up to this time read like fairy tale
Eberhardt and his men worked quietly
along for couple of months, the dis
trict being so remote that it was oaly by
accident that the fortunate party was at
last discovered. observation-disclosures
the Pacific slope almost in night, and
the rush for the new mines has outreach-
ed even the Washoe and Frazer river
sensations of some years ago. The sea-
son was so far advanced, however, that
only few thousand could establish them
selves before the setting in of winter, and
among these there has been great deal
of suffering from cold and want of sup
plies. With the opening Of spring, how
ever, the rush will begin again, and a
hundred thousand miners will spend next
year upon the slopes Of Treasure Hill.
Elko is tent village at the mouth of
the Humboldt river, four hundred and
sixty miles east of Sacramento, and on
the Central Pacific railroad. Being the
nearest station to the White Pine silver
region it is destined to an importance as
Sudden as that of the mining district it.
self. The silver deposits cover, as we
have said, nearly hundred and fifty
square miles of very broken country,
the hills attaining an altitude of from
six to eleven thousand feet. The rich
est beds are in large, elongated noun
tain known as Treasure HILL" which,
like Pilot Knob and Iron mountains in
Missouri seems to be a vast aggregation
of ores. The Eberhardt lode has been
opened near its summit two hundred feet
in length one hundred and sixty in width
and seventy in depth. The amount Of
ore in sight is said to be worth millions
1t is chloride, easily purified, and yield
ing all the way from 500 to $4,000 per
ton, though the average is between $500
and $4,000. The deposits are in i'm
mense pockets" or detached aggrega-
tions, although in one place called" Chic
ride Flat" hollow basin seems to have
received flow of molten silver which
has cooled into mass of treasure which
nAaues the p.alee boat quick 10 vvntvrn-
plate. 1t is rarely in the economy of
silver mines that deposits in lime stone
prove important in extent. Ordinarily
they yield rapidly but are soon exhaust
ed. Gases have been known, however,
in which lime stone deposits have been
among the richest mines of the world.
OF these are the mines of Catorce in
Mexico and of Chanaichillo in Chilli
To this same class of deposit belongs the
White Pine district, which, while ON the
very threshold of their Development
have yielded enough of the precious met.
al to make them the wonder of western
North America. As may be supposed
San Francisco is in white heat of ex
element, and ffty-four companies, with
an aggregate capital of sixty million
dollars are already organized for the
mines. Enormous fortunes have already
been made from the actual produce O.
the lode and in stock operations, one O
the fortanates being son of Admira
Dahlgreen, who has refused million
dollars for claim which he has secured
in the richest part of the district. The
scarcity of timber and the difficulty O
procuring supplies will retard the worl
somewhat for time, but with railroad
station within hundred and twent,
miles and unlimited energy and capita
we may look to see this wondrous Eelc
of wealth rapidly and thoroughly devel
oped.
We have received the March number
of the Manufacturer and Builder, a new
magazine of industrial progress, which
aims to present faithful mirror of all
the inventions and improvements of the
day. 1t is ably edited, its illustrations