The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-07-13
Empire Nine, Humboldt Co.., New.
June 28ih, 1869.

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MIR. EDITOR -
Dear Sir Our relation
to the above named mine brought us TO
this portion of the state, few days since.
During the brief period OF three or four
days we have passed here, many facts
have come to notice, relative 10 mining
and the general interests of Eastern Nevas
da.
Up to the time of the completion of
the Pacific railroad, this portion OF the
state received but little attention from
prospectors, and little was known of its
miueral, grazing and agricultural resour.
ces. AT present, however, owing to the
facilities afforded by railroad communica-
ton and the impetus gwen to the mining
interests, by the rich discoveries in White
Pine County, this portion of the state is
receiving much attention, and prospecting
is carried on, to great extent, in The ran.
ges bordering on the Humboldt valleys,
through Humboldt, Lander and Elko
counties, In almost every instance, as
far as we can ascertain, the labors of the
prospectors have been rewarded, and en-
couraging reports come in from every d.
rection.
In every range OF mountains, from the
Humboldt TO the Owyhee, in which pros
pecting has been carried on to any extent,
mineral bearing quartz, or other vein mat.
ter in which gold and silver exists, is
found. Il, FIRE the advent f the railroad,
the richest mines in tbs immediate vicin-
i;y were comparatively worthless, for the
reason that there is no timber here, which
is absolutely necessary in the reduction of
silver ore, and being as it was, 200 miles
from anywhere,it could not be transported
to where timber and water was rlenty, at
profit. Now ores can be taken at the
station of the Empire mine, and laid down
in San Francisco, for twelve dollars per
ton, a distance of 500 miles. All the
ores that can be reduced by smelling have
a market value in San Francisco, hence all
the mines within forty miles OF the rail-
road are commencing to ship their ore be-
low, while some are shipping their better
class of ores to Swanse B, England, for re-
duction The mineral deposits in this
section are incalculable The shipments
from White Pine alone, last week,
amounted to $4,000 Independent of
its mineral wealth, Eastern Nevada, par
ticularly that portion of it lying between
the Humboldt and Owyhce rivers, dis
lance from this point OF eighty miles, is
slid by reliable and obseryant parties
who have recently explored that portion
of the country, to he unsurpassed as a
grazing region equahng if not excelling
in the quantity and quality of its grasses
the praries Of Iowa and Illinois The
exten! of arabic lands susceptible of high
state of cultivation, is much greater than
supposed and to those unacquainted with
its geography and who have heard of the
Humboldt country only in connection
with dreary sage brush wastes and barren
alkaline deserts, incredible. Experience
has demonstrated that the cereals and
vegetables peculiar to the Northern
States, can be raised advantageously, and
it may be stated as being within the range
of the probable, that thousands of acres Of
the rich land in the valley of the Hum
boldt will be proftably cultivated within
the next two years, The train is APP
preaching in which we are to return to
Virginia city, and we must close.
Very truly yours,
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