New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-30

! ache With the exception OF the Eberhardt most
! % tho mines have done more Surface work. than
" deep digging" and some of the richest like the
Hidden Treasure have got ont all or nearly all theii
ore thus far by removing stripping oil the over
wing slate formation, and quarryng out the n,ii
rock as you would limestone i'll quarry. IL WI, No
seen that the work done in this district thus lar mas
not been carried deep enough to show cOncIuoi'oiS
whether the mines are to be permanent
like those of the ComstOck and other Wen
known quartz veins, or merely SUPERFICIAL
The general impression is, l must confess,
against the idea of permanency. Nevertheless, the
limestone formation in which they are found Is said
to resemble closely that at Chancarco, South Amer
ica from which millions millions have been taken,
and the deposits not yet exhausted There is enough
in sight to render it certain that these mines must be
productive for at least three years. after that Qae
sabe' The White Pine discovery has caused the
whole country within 200 miles around to be well
prospected and the result is the discovery of district
after district which will yield greater less amounts
of bullion for years to come, and of which may
rival White Pine itself eventually. Among these
districts are the Pinto, Eureka, Diamond, Kern Cor
tez White Cloud. Robinson, Grant. Tenn Piute' Ell,
Belmont. and dozen others, which year ago did
not weld dollar of bullion. All these will yield
more or less next year, and some of the new mills
which are now being erected will turn out immense
amounts think it safe to say that She bullion yield
of the country within radius of $50 miles around
White Pine. including much of White Pine and
Nye counties and of the White Pine district
for 1870 will not fall short of $l2OOOOOO in silver and
il may exceed that sum by so per cent The Weld of
White Pine District alone will hardly fall short of
100000 per week in 1870 and it is fast approx
mating that figure now
Treasure City is little larger than ShermantOwn
aud perhaps half the size of Hamilton, but being
built among the clouds 1900 feet above any spring.
or other supply of water, and exposed to the full
weep o the winds in Winter it is not likely to in
crease in population. The houses are scattered |
around among the mining shafts, the mines running |
all about under them, and the flying rocks from the |
miners blasts have riddled the canvas roofs of the
houses until the town looks as if it had been bonn
barded by hostile artillery. Pleasant place TO lye
As came out of the EbeThardt mine, met party |
of Cinnamon packing water in casks on little Span
iSh jackaSses, up the mountain BueROs didS CabGl-
Zero ~ said to the foremost Chinaman. John, with
broad grin, replied: Me no shabbe Mexican! Me
Chnee." lie knew, as well as l did. that did not |
mistake him for Mexican cavalier, but it flattered
him nevertheless. l have seen Americans flattered
by being addressed as "Mor," or as Rus
ans, while in Europe and John is not alone in his
to CANNON.
FAREWELL TO WHITE PINE.
Sitting on the broad piazza in front of the Re
orders Office, in Treasure City, as the day was
lrawng to a close, / looked down on one of the
yraudest scenes the eye of man ever rested upon
The landscape was a rolling Of mountain ranges
md valleys stretching away to the horizon every
ide Southwark fiat valley stretched out toward
he Colorado, almost to the limit of vision. North
ward the valley swept away from the feet of White
Pine and Moke Mountains toward the Hum
,odt far the eye could reach, white line run
ling straight out like rbbos, for fifty mIesl mark
ng the line of the stage road to ElkO. In the dim
distance a great white alkali incTusted PLAIN in
Mirage Valley shmmered in she light of the de-
lining sun, the grim ghost of dead sea, of whose
history living man hath no tradition. Mauve AMI
ale straw-cOlOr and sIlveT-gray were all the Deare
fountains, dark shadows crept along the valleys
tealthy as the sun went down. while sGft
urple haze melOwed and beauti6ed the Jagged an
aked rock-ribbed ranges fifty and hundred mIh es
way In the southwest storm cloud Sweeper X
dong on a level with the hight where rat pouD ed |
Town its food into the desert plain and the desoeI d.
ng shower lighted by the rays of the setting IN,
rallied like great crimsOE curtain the valley
The western sky gowed rs If lighted up by the n res
If a great volcano. The detonatIons of the miners
lasts. which all day long had awakenedFhe moun-l
ain echoes like the of artillery i'm battle. ha65
eased and night and silence crept hand in hand over
be landscape. As the light died out and he shadows
eepened, rode away from that airy hight. down |
le steep mountain, homeward bound Everything |
pes" in this country. 90 tomorrow Forming, aud
to the readers of The TRIBUNE and White Pine
,luctantly say, Good Night
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