The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1869-05-01
White Pine.

One Of the AHA staff. who has returned from n
second visit 10 White Pine. gives IN that journal
an interesting review OF the present condition Oh
thiurs in the new mining region. The distance
from This city To hamilton is eco miles ny the
shortest route. and the cost of a trip there Is
about $40. including meals by the way. nam
ilton Is Ut the foot of Treasure Hill, l,9uU iee'
above the sea. contains $50 houses and I,oOO IN
habitantS. and Is growing fast IN spite oil hiSh
prices and cold weather. Treasure City, tWo
miles southwark. is on the top of Treasure I'M,
POO feet 2bove the sea, among the clouds an"
storms of winter. vet contains a. many people as
Hamilton and l. also growing last SILVER springs
i the next town Of importance. and is situated IN
n deep canon. There are from 1000 TO 5,ouO
people in the White Pine district, within an area
of four or FIVE square miles, crowded, treezlnS'
mostly idle, and waiting for prospecting weather.
Up to the LIST of February. over 2.2uO mining
claims had been located, mostly within a circle
two miles in diameter. the centre OF which would
re on Chloride Flat, adjoining Treasure City.
With a few exceptions these claims were located
ON the assumption that each Is on Il distinct ledge
or vein. As they are only Strauhed deposits,
there must arise Il great many conflicts and law
suits. Many of the claims are improperly record
ed. which will be another source of trouble.
Actual. not merely constructive possession, is es-
sential to the maintenance of title.
Recent ohserva tions lead TO the conclusion that
there are well defined, genuine metal-bearing,
perpendicular assure lodges in the White Pine
district. Probably nine-tenths of all the claims
located are on horizontal deposits, but several ifs
sure lodges have been found, nevertheless. The
Alta writer describes several, including the Cali
fOrnia, ON the southern slope of Treasure Hill the
Hidden Treasure, on the southern edge of Treas
ure Peak, Excelsior, Crown Point, ETC., with
their extensions. Lodges have been found at the
extremes of Treasure Hill, north and south. \
thousand shafts and cuts have been sunk or run
in the Intervening distance of three miles, along Il
belt two miles wide, within which limits at least
tbp Hill is pVCryWlerP mpt1lIicrDus nj some Uepth-
The richest deposit of silver thus far is the Eber-
hardt, lately consolidated with the keystone. The
boundary walls of these claims include a space
1873 feet wide, within which the deposit of silver
is said to be unbroken, and to yield from 500 to
SCI, 900 per ton. To what depth this continues
is unknown The ore from the Eberhardt and
keystone already reduced 10 bullion, or extracted
ready for reduction, is said to approximate
81 900. 900.
New discoveries of rich silver chlorides have
been made on the southern slope of Treasure Hill,
where many locations have been made in u con-
fused manner, which is very promising to lawyers.
Fighting over boundaries, and jumping of mining
claims and town lots, are already among the chief
e~mplovments of the winter-blockaded White
Piners. Only a few females mitigate the asperi-
ties of the heterogeneous community. The prices
of everything are high-living costing from 500
10 800 per month for Il single person. Snow is
twelve inches TO three feet deep, with a sharp
wind blowing, and the thermometer below zero.
Snow may fall as late as June. In one day last
June there was Il snow fall of fifteen inches. On
Treasure Hill there is no water but what is OBJ
tanned by melting snow and peddled around at
two TO three bits n small bucketful. Exposure,
cold, and bad food have made pneumonia, pleurisy
and mountain fever very prevalent, while even
the small poX has made its appearance.
This is not a fattering picture, nor one calcu-
lated to draw well-to-do Californians from COM
Portable homes and steady incomes. Of course.
things will improve much at White Pine by and
by an immense crowd-probably so 900 to So
600 people-will rush in there, and create the
means of more comfortable existence but there
will be for the great majority only hardship, loss
and heartsickness, as in all previous 'rushes'' Of
the kind ON either side of the mountains.