Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-01-02
White Pine, tho Wonder Of tho World.
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| White Pine, tho Wonder Of tho World.
Although only about three months
have elapsed since the first noteworthy
shipment of bullion from White Pine
reached this city, that district has be.
como most populous Of any in the grea,
inland basin of the continent. The
number of men now in the vicinity is
5000 or more, and Of these n thou
sand are engaged in taking out ore, the
quantity extracted daily being about
800 tons, and average value is estimated
by one excellent authority Mt $500 per
ton, and by another at 5000. A man
| who worked in a custom mill informed
US that he had worked ore from thirty
FIVE different mines, and only two lots
out Of the thirty-fre yielded less than
$3.50 per ton. At 5000, the yield of a
year, counting 800 working days, would
DO $l5, 000, 000-that is If the supply of
ore should not be exhausted. A much
greater quantity could be taken out
now, but there are not mills enough TO
reduce what is being extracted, and
many Of the claim-holders make great
sacrifices to raise the necessary ex-
pensss, and 1t would be a serious loss
to them to pay miners for work from
which no income could be derived be-
fore next summer. If the deposits are as
extensive as they now appear to be the
district in 1869 will ~astonish the world.
Tho Eberhardt Company, who own
the typical mine Of the district, have
worked 700 tons which assayed 81 900
per ton, and yielded $3.50 in the mill-a
total production Of 1896, 900 from that
one mine alone. They have on the
dump and at the mill COO tons of ore,
and they have 500 tons moro |" in sight
AS rich as that heretofore reduced.
Counting the ore reduced, that extract
cd and that in sight, the E%berhardt is
certain to produce at least 81, 500, 900.
They have, however, not gone down
more than about forty feet, and they
have not reached either tho bottom, or
the eastern or western limit Of the de-
post. A drift Of 1874 feet, cut with the
meridian, has struck the walls on each
side.
The Keystone mine, which ranks next
to tho Eberhardt, has worked $50 tons
averaging $500, and has extracted 1000
more which average $500, making the
gross value Of the ore produced so far,
seas, 900. The Robert Emmett has taken
out 100 tons and worked 81, OF which
40, first class, assnyed $l,2l6 per ton |;
and al of second class assayed 1886 and
Welded $34l net. The Stonewall has
taken out 200 tons, md reduced 60,
which yielded $500 per ton. The South
Aurora has out 500 tons that will aver
age at least $3.50 per ton the North
Aurora is taking out 20 tons per day,
worth $3.50. The Eclipse, n claim that
has attracted little attention, compara-
lively, has been sold to J. B. Winters,
the superintendent Of the Yellow Jacket
mine, for S35, 900. These are only a
few out Of many. An area two miles
wide and six miles long appears to DO
underlaid by an srgeutiferous deposit
similar to that in the E%berhardt. More
than q hundred shafts have been sunk,
and nearly all have found the ore within
ffty feet, most of them within thirty
feet OF the surface.
Mineral deposits in limestone, which
is the bed rock at White Pine, are ordl-
narily of small extent and soon exhaust
ed; but the newly discovered deposit is
certainly an exception in regard to It's
extent. The silver mines Of Canarcillo,
in Chile, are in limestone, and they have
been worked steadily for thirty-six years
and have produced SEQ, 600, 900. There,
as at White Pine, the lodes near the
surface contain largo quantities OF chic.
ride of silver, which could DO mined
and reduced at very little expense.