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

All at once region of country in the heart
of tue new State of Nevada has risen into
great Importance. This region is known as
the White Pine District, and in territorial e1'
tent is about one-ffth larger than the District
of Columbia. 1t is remote from civilization
it is a rugged agglomeration OF mountains rls-
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; but it is at this
moment the point Of supreme attraction on
the American continent. The magnet is one
Of the precious metals. The lodestone ls an
inexhaustible lode of silver.
The rush of adventurous to this region is
said to be altogether uneXampled. Inc .duTe
sdcrG flames" which took hundreds OF inou-
sands of people to California, WAS as nothing
to the ''orgenti Sacra fanees" that carries min,
ers, laborers, mer chants, spectators, men OF
all kinds to White Pine.
In point of fact, all the accounts We receive
OF the district we'll warrant the belief that no
thing 80 rich as the White Pine slVsr eI mines h,,r
has ever been found on the globe. For nun
dreds of years the flow of silver coin has been
setting in one steady current from the western!
nations to China, with no retiring epo, until
the Celestial Empire has become one vast
storehouse of silver guiders, horlns, tnalers,
caroluses and pistareens. 1t would seem as II,
ages before commerce had begun pillng mp the
world, treasure at the worlds end, nature had
selected the mounta ns of Nevada Tor her de-
pository of pure metal, and there certainly 1t
lies in one great precious mass to stimulate
The enterprise and tempt the cupidity OF mar.
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 tacts
and figures concerning the White Pine silver
region.
There are, many mines in operation there,
more than fifty mining companies having peen
organized in San Francisco alone for working
them, and of every one the story reads like
fairy tale. Discovered only ighteen months
ago. the light has as yet hardly broken IN upon
the richest veins. Yet $1,000 ton IS not an ex-
travagant weld, and we are prepared to be-
heve anything that may be said OF the results
hereafter.
Here is the Keystone Mine, for instance. 4
mere lad, John Turner, one OF the party that
originally explored it, struck his pick into what
seemed to be bed OF putty, but what proved
900 to $25000 q toni Even the correct and
sober style of MIR. Raymond, writing officially
and prosaically to the Secretary OF the Treas
ury. breaks out into certain luminous poetry
as he enters the cave of Aladdin. otherSise
known as the Eberhardt Mine. descending
the sha on rope" says he, "we found our
selves among men engaged in breaking down own
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 ofthe wonders that are
told Of tho White Pine District. Cities are
rising there like e1halations. All around Trea-
sure Hill, which is the site Of tho 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
bouffo.
Treasure Hill is at this moment difficult of
access from the Atlantic border, but with the
completion of the railway to San Francisco. 1t
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 ls station
on the Central Pacific Railroad. Coaches now
run from tlko to the mines; but branch rail-
road will ere long transport travellers to the
spot and bring back the valuable ingots to be
conveyed to the centres of commerce.