New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-24

| TREASURE CRY, White Pine County Nevada.
| Aug Mime thousand feet above the level Of tho
| sea, away up in the air among the clouds, and yet
| from greater hight by 1000 feet and more the od
| monarch Of this mountain region, the great White
Pine Mountain savage and silent in lonely grandeur,
looks down upon as. am tired Of climbing, am high
enough up in the world already and don't ascend an
other rod for anybody Am nowise sorry that came
thus far. The White Pine Mining District takes its
name from White Pine Mountain, the great noun
tain, 10000 feet in hight and say ten miles in ex-
treme length north and SOUTH and four miles across
east and west. The first mines discovered in this
district were on the western side Of this mountain.
| A Connecticut company built the Monte Cristo Mill
there nearly three years ago, badly msmanagod mat
ters never crushed tun of their rock, and H.
nally let everything go to the dogs. don. know
| who are to blame, or most 10 blame; the owners
blame the employees, the employees the owners, and
each individual among them blames somebody elso
| in particular. l owned any stock there ami
| am not going into discussion of the question.
WHITE PINE PREsEST FROM THE RED urN.
Some time in the latter part Of the OF lsI
an Indian of the Sbosbone or Snake tribe, NaDais
| Jim" by common designation, who had been hanging
around the camp for months, told the employees 40
the mill that he knew place where there heap
quarterly much quartz, and for sack Of -four anh
pony he would take them TO It. They agreed to-
give it. and he took them around the mountain to
what is now called Treasure Peak, from the summit
of which am now writing, and on the eastern edgo
thereof, where the dolomite or coarse limestone.
which is the country rock of the district, bad BEEN
broken off and crops out sharply on the face Of tho
PERCEPTIONS cliff, and pointed confidently to somo
dull-looking rock which he thought was quartz. Tho
party were tired out with the journey and the ascent
Of the mountain and in no humor TO be humbugged-
The rock looked much like cast-ron OF the refuse
Stag from an iron foundery it did like silver, and
they were savagely indignant So they kicked the
gentle savage off the hill, with an intimatiOn
that his cdbed would be blown into ten thousand
fragments, more or less if he ever attempted any
more nonsense with them. and gathering up few
samples of the supposed worthless rock returned
sadder if not wiser men. Now Napais Jim was wiser
than his time and true philosopher He let his
claim lie in allegiance, as we are doing with the Ala
bama claim, satisfied that time would do him Justice
and give him chance TO yindicate himself. limo
ddit Several months later lump of the rock, which
had been lying INFESTED in the blacksmiths shop at
the mill was placed in the fire Of the forge, and IN =
few seconds great globules of pure silver came out
all over it, Back went the party to Treasure Noun
TAIN and the now celebrated Hidden Treasure Nine
was located. This is at the point where the rock
was pointed out by Napais Jim. The now more cele-
brated Eberhardt and Keystone mines since cOnso-
idated under the name of the Eberhardt mine. were
located about three-fourths of mile southwark on
the same line of Outcroppings, and lower down tho
hill by some 500 feet.
THE DIsCOyERER OF THE HIDDEN TREASURES,
Napais jim had his reward. He is to this day pen-
sioner on the whites and whenever his ragged tribe
get out of grass seed and grasshoppers they cali on
the citizens Of Hamilton, Treasure City, and Sher-
mantown, for contributions and the call Is always
generously responded to. His people longer starye
IN, W,pta lint han md which
sprung up like magic in this barren and forbidding
mount tain region, do chores, chop wood run on er-
rands, &C.. &c, and have enough of soft-bread,
"biscake to satisfy the almost nsatate cravings Of
their capacious stomachs the year round. ] Ma
pals Jim yesterday. He was gorgeously appareled
in miners cast-of red wooden undershirt, pair OF
cashmere pantaloons, long enough for the Scotch
Giant: broad brimmed hat with turkey feather in
il and red paint on his face. lie is a king OF men
rad men-and rides pony worth $50 If he is worth
cent Since saw Napais Jim am satisfied that VIZ
tue Though its own is not its only reward and haya
concluded to stick to it a while longer. | am glad
that met him. His example was needed by asinint
world
THE THREE MOUNTANs-wHITE PINE, TREASURE
MOUNTAIN, AND MoKE-E-MoKE.
gave YOU the latitude and longitude of White
Pine in my last The district embraces three noun
toins Of note viz: White Pine Mountain proper,
10000 feet high on the west Treasure Mountain,
9163 feet high in the center and Moke-e-Moke noun
tain about 97OO feet high the east On the west
ern side of White Pine Mountain there are mines not
now worked and believe not workable; near ~
summit are some lodges bearing silver, but mixed
with the baser metals principally Lead with anti
mony and copper. and not now worked; on tho
southern end in a lower mountain. called Nouns
Ophir are more Mines bearing silver. with baser
metals one of which. known as tho Trench has been
nroved 10 be of value. The summit and sides OK
White Pine Mountain are covered with sparso
growth of scrubby pines. which give it It's name, and
afford small supply Of very inferior lumber for tho
district All the good Timber comes from the Sierra
Nevada in California 800 miles away. IL is broueht
by rail to Elko and from thence hauled here ~
miles by mule OK teams.
THE BASE RANGE.
ravine or cafion, 800 feet deep. running north
and south, separates the White Pine Mountain from
Treasure Mountain Treasure Peak. or Treasure Hll'
as it "a ndiscriminately called. In this canon Is
range of lower hills, kn0wn as the Bose Range OF
Base Metal Range, in which the base metal Ut argeh
tiferous galena mines are situated. As yet 'heso
Base Range mines have produced nothing beyond
small amornt of refractory ores and large amount
of wildcat mining stock. Several costly furnaces
for reducing these ores by smelling, have been
erected and wholly OF partially failed Some small
furnaces built on the Mexican plan at small eN-
nense are now about TO be tried with iar prospect OF
success The average ore from tho Base Range
MACS probably yields 80 or 90 per cent of lead, and
$50 70 s75 per tun in silver. Some OF the deposits
Weld ore with much more lead, and some show 500
TO g., 900 per tun IN silver. .....
WHERE THE RICHEST MINES ARE FOUND-TIEAsuEH
Above the Base Range rises Treasure Mountain ON
the east. In this mountain, principally near tho
tha mir of the