The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-01-08
The .s,s.g E,re1isen,ent IN ..spada

Our Nevada and California exchanges
have lately contained frequent illusions
to the White Pine district. telling marve.
Ious stories Of its richness and extent. At
first they did not attract much attention,
but they appear to be developing some
thing wonderful. We clip the following
from the Enterprise: -.
We have for some weeks as much as pos
sible RETAINED from giving anything out
passing notice of the White Pine excite
ment, but it has all the time been growing
and increasing in height, until at last it
has gained such strength and assumed such
Importance that we cannot well ignore 1t.
The smeldering volca, o. must soon burst
If not this winter, surely next spring.
There is no getting around it, the White
Pine mines are rich, wonderfully rich. All
the letters received from there, and all the
men who come from there tell the same
story. Parties who have examined the
mines say that they are doubtless the rich
est ever discovered in any part of the
world. Mr.. William Woodburn, of this
city, who spent some days in the mines,
says that he believes there is enough silver
in the one small range of mountains in
which the White Pine mines are situated
to pay off the national debt-large as it is.
His account Of the nature of the silver de-
post agrees with all Others who have visit
ed the mines, namely: That it appears to
be a vast stratum of limestone, as wher-
ever shafts have been sunk through this
limestone cap the rich ore has been found.
In some places the rich ore has been forced
up to the surface through erevices, while
in Others shafts must be sunk to the depth
of from 10 to 80 feet before the ore is found
The depth of the deposit is not known, no
shaft having yet cut through it. The Eb.
erhart Company, the oldest in the district
have drifted in one direction distance of
1870 feet, with cross drifts 60 to 10 feet in
length, and have sunk shaft some 35 feet
in depth, all in solid mass of ore worth
from 5000 to $20,000per ton! On Chloride
Flat-somewhere on the same mountain
the same kind of ore has been found by
every shaft that has passed through the
limestone. All the miners who have ''struck
lie" have piled about their shafts large
heaps of ore, ranging in value from 5000
per ton up TO the frightful figures we have
ventured to mention above. We might
make out long list of the lucky ones but
as it might create an inconvenient excite
ihelI aiming eucli pun lSioeAoho, VIC iOhoih
1t is enough to say that men who were
about our streets four months since with
out cent, are now worth SO much silver
that neither they nor any of their friends
can calculate its value-because, you see,
they don't know the length, breadth nor
thickness of their pile. All from this va
entity say that White Pine is the poor
mans paradise. Mr. Woodburn is of the
opinion that there will be in the mines
bS>4he first of next AI1r.,4 PEP .i.tion
OF J,uD0 persons. All the stories of the
severity Of the winters, there do not pre-
vent pe01ss from rushing thither; they
are going every day. No one now asks,
care you going 10 White PineT The
question is, when de you go2" AS an
offset to all the above it is but fair for us
to add that there are many persons who
believe the mines are too good 10 last, and
who believe that the ore deposit is>of no
great thickness.-Idaho Statesman.