The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-02-18
THE WHITE PINE MINES.

The following extracts from cor
respondsnce, dated Treasure City,
Jan. ., 1869, will be found of inter-
est:
To give you correct idea Of this,
the richest silver mining district in
the world, is, perhaps, impossible
1t is in Lander county, Nevada;
about one hundred and twenty miles
little southeast from Austin, in
range of mountains extending from
somewhere about the Valley of the
Humboldt, southerly to the Rio Col
orado, and about ninety or one huns
dred miles south of the line Of the
Central Pacific Railroad-frOm VIZ ich
we are soon to have good road,
over an excellent route, through a
good grazing and agricultural coun-
try-with first class stock, coaches,
etc., which will render the trip from
San Francisco to this place compara-
lively an easy one.
The principal mining now being
done here is on and around Treasure
Hill, which, of itself, is sort Of a
curiosity; but cannot describe il
minutely, although nave been all
arosud and over it in every possible
direction. Suffice it to say that
Treasure Hill is a sort of detached
or separate mountain or hill, in the
range of mountains aforesaid, about
one thousand feet high, and SUR
rounded by other mountains, with no
valleys, only canons or deep gorges
intervening-the mountains on the
west being Of greater, and those on
the other sides of lesser altitude than
Treasure Hill itself. 1t is about five
miles from north to south, and per-
haps about three miles from east to
west, and composed of granite, lime
stone, spar, quartz, and general con-
glomerate of all sorts of rock, as if
nature, in a wild freak, had thrown
the whole vast pile together, regard.
less of order, beauty, or symmetry.
At the northern base or extremity
of this Treasure Hill, is the town Of
Hamilton. 1t is the best site for a
town in the district; it is we'll sup
piled with wood and water; of easy
access; contains a quartz mill, assay,
post and express Offices; stores, lodg-
lighthouses, restaurants, shops, etc.,
dd infnittm.
Shermantown is cozy little place
in the canon at the southern extremi-
ty Of Treasure Hill. 1t has a good
climate; wood and water is plainly; a
saw mill; the Eberhardt Mill and
Assay Offices.
Treasure City is near the top, on
the western slope, and about the CEN
tire or middle Of Treasure Hill. 1t is
a fast plaee-the place of business fol
the district; is building and improv'
ing rapidly; contains the banks, law
offices, Recorders Office, Justices
Offices, etc, Of the district; has stores
whisky shops, and all other kinds oi
shops, innumerable. Here all the
sharpsrs, spectators, and jayhawker'
most do congregnte; the fighting, lot
Jumping, quarreling, trading, cheat
ing, gambling aud whisky drinking
of the district is mostly done here
There is neither wood nor water here
except as supplied by hauling uI
hill, and in every respect it is |
rough old place for town. | sup
pose the population Of Treasure City
is about two thousand, though it il
impossible to estimate accuratel!
either the population Of any towI
here OF Of the district.
On the south eastern side, or slop'
Of Treasure Hill is the great Eber
hardt mine, consolidated with thC
Keystone and Bluebell. 1t is alto
gether the richest mine in the world
much of the ore yielding from Gift,
to seventy per cent. of the finest sil
yer. 1t is easily worked, and ex
haustless in quantity. Above tn
Eberhardt are the Aurora Sou tn an
Aurora North, both rich mines. BE
low the Aurora and adjoining tn
town is a sort Of fat or hillside o
the western slope of Treasure Hill
7 called Chloride Flat, full Of holes 0
shafts, where are found deposits {
: very rich ore, lying in spots, froI
the surface to a depth Of forty feet
that being the lowest depth to whic
any shaft has yet been sunk. Th