The Placer herald., 1869-10-09
WHITE PINE.


We publish The following interesting extrac:
from private letter, which we received from an
old Placer county friend who sheen in that Sec
tion of country for the past months The writer
is an experienced, reliable and truthful man, and
the letter speaks for itself, and gives what is n
promising future for that section Of Nevada.
TREASURE CITY, Oct. 5lh 1869.
Hamilton city is steadily growing: many fine
dwellings and some costly business houses are IN
course Of erection. Mills are moving into III" dis
trct. and in few days seventy-ive more stamps
will be pounding upon the ore of White Pine.
Smelling iui naccs are springing up wherever fur
mace ores exist. The minelng ores for smelling
requires much experience. bnt This knowledge will
he rapidly attained. and it is thought these little
air furnaces together with blast furnaces DOW be-
ing Introduced will in a few months double up
the great stream OF 81 liver flowing from White Pine
mines II you were here to lcok over the old AMI
the new NINE which are being daily developed. all
doubt of the substantial character of these
mines, If YOU ever entertained a doubt. would
pass off like gray mist OF the morning. In
June | visited and located several valuable
mines in the TEN Piute. Have had nu-
merous satisfactory assays and still more salts
factory mill work. Our mill tests have been
from S19l 80 to 5000 per ION. On Monday, n
week since | crushed in mortar one and three
fourths pounds OF my Amy Bond and Younger
Born ore and adding little salt. quicksilver and
warm water turned out sixty cents of line silver
bullion, which. you see, is over 500 per ton.
This homely test proves the complete and agrcet-
BILE character OF the ores OF my locations. One
ten stamp mill with roasting furnace. all in or
der, commenced work on the Tenn Piute ores to-
day. 1t is fifteen miles distant from the mine; ;
Another mill is being negotiated for. with the in
tcntion of locating upon the Picksboo springs.
only six miles from the mines OF the district.
III Of this to show you the activity and energy Of
not only White Pine mining interests. but OF even
the most remote districts OF this great mining belt.
All this too. under the most adverse circumsan
ccs. owing TO he financial distress OF Fran
cisco and the cities OF the cast. ir m which help
TO open up and display the rich ore OF this region
was reasonably expected. In Pahranagat one
mill OF ten stamps is turning out s. 200 TO $1,000
per day. That district is 35 miles cast Of TEN
Piule. The Groom is new distict lying south
of Plhranagat. The Ely, Pitletson ard other
promising districts lie more 10 the eastward
while Rcveillc is NV. Another year will dspell
every linz ger ing of doubt which has bi iOodpd over
all this country like a nightmare Tor months past.
Every one is convinced that capital is only essen
tal to a more speedy deve lopment of the mines,
and that at the same time, the mines OF White Pine
and many outlying districts contain. almost upon
the surface all the elements necessary W repair
even that lack OF capital.
Instead OF dependence upon Chicago. New ork
and San Francisco. men have a last concluded TO
sweat the brow and strain the muscle" This
under any view was the true course, and it may
be fcly asserted that this course will result i'll
greater blessings to poor men. than it every hole
in all the land had been sold Tor. no matter how
much to eastern or western cLpttlits.