The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-09-29
WHITE PIHE-ITS PRODUCTS AMI
PROSPECTS.

the White Pine District by such plair
statements of facts and figures as ap-
pear in the White Pine News Mining
Review for the week ending Sept. "a,
which repor, lies before us. We have
steadily believed that it wes neither an
uuheaIthful nor discourageiug Sign
for the wild excitement regarding those
mines, which existed last Winter and
Spring, to abate as 1t has; and We
look beyond the statements of the dis
appointed many for the reliable account
OF what has been done there and what
IL promised for the future. II is I'M
douotedIy a misfortune to the mining
Interests of our State that the discovery
aud Development Of new districts
should Invariably be attended with so
much of the feverishness of rash ad-
venture, SO much OF wild exagsera.ion
and so comparatively little of that
steady, sober and honest procedure
which is necessary to command the .e-
spect and participation of home and
foreign Capital; but, afflicted as
White Pine has been BY these deplora
bic incidents, its intrinsic wealth is still
apparent-as much so to the cool, can
did and Impartial observer as If Nevada
and California we're not Astounding in
disappointed Adventures whose rush to
the "Poor Mans Paradise " was as
sudden and unwarranted as their efforts
while there were unsteady and profit
less. 1t Is simply a proverb that mining
for the precious metals is lottery. l,
is in the nature of things that but few
are blessed with great success in the
search for wealth. Because these
truisms have been reiterated in the his
tory of White Pine is no argument
against the value of the mines Of that
District-as a particular IocaIity-as
the following statement from the Re-
view above mentioned most concIusiyely
shows:
The statistics published in our col
umus on Tuesday last, showing the
total bullion shipments from White
Pine for one year ending The 18th OF
OF September, to exceed SO, 900 900.
tell n story that has never before been
told of any other silver mines in Amer.
lea. We have not the data before US
to ascertain the average number OF
stamps employed in the prodlc,,on OF
toat amount of bullion, but We think IL
safe to say tina; il would not exceed |
ffy. Over $4,000 to the stamp per
annum Is without parallel. Colorado
has in the neighoorhood of 1000
stamps employed and nov, after up
wards Of ten years growth, does not
produce AS mucn silver bullion per an
mum as White Pine has done during the
frst year Of It's ex'steuce. No one CON-
petenI 10 judge, who has spent the pres
ent season here, will dispute the asser-
ton thar had there been twice the nuu-
Der OF stamps ia operation the produc,
would have been doubled, for with he
present number of stamps (neing about
llO) there are tens of thousands oftuus
OF ore upon the dumps awaiting redac-
tion, and more constantly accommodating.
Doubtless the average number of
stamps running in this District in 1870
will be fully 300, since the present year
will close wIth 200 in operation. At
the same rate of production with that
of the past year. the yield next year
should be $4,000, 900 Should it
amount to bot two thirds of that sum
however, it will still lead all other
mining districts in the product of al
lion. No account has been made OF
the prodact, present or prospective, of
our smelling furnaces, which arr rap.
idly growing in favor and increasing in
number. With such a fu,ure before us
Iairkins men in all paris OF the Coun-
try must soon realize the importance of
Whire Pine as a field for the profitable
investment of a large amount of active
capital. I
These deductions of our contemorsry
seem reasonable and just; and while I
one cannot withhold something Of sym
PATTY to those who have failed to rea
lie their anticipated good fortune out ;
of this District, We feel thar the State
ms well as "the Great East" is to be ,
upon the promising signs
of prosperjty deyelOped in the mineral ,