The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-23
MAS HAD 1000 EfFEcT.

NAG HAD dUuu kffkIis
The interest manifested by our people
In the subject of erecting separating
works here has borne good fruit. Before
we explained the process of separating
our metals, and turning our base bullion
into actual money, without sending il
away several thousand miles, at great ex.
pense, and frequently without ever hear
ing from it at all, everybody was i'm
pressed with the idea that half a million
dollars would be required to start any
system of works that would extract the
silver from our base bars. Even after
the simple process had been clearly ex-
planned, and 1t had been shown that the
same method had worked successfully for
As years in England, there were found
breakers skeptical of our ability to erect
here works that would prove successful.
1t is remarkable how apt we are to give
undue importance to anything, either in
science or in ethics, that has the prestige
of a mysterious renown. There are men in
Nevada who have some obscure, indef-
mite, but perfectly fixed notion that moth
ing in the art of metallurgy is well done,
unless it has emanated from Freiburg or
Swansea. These old establishments are
invested with a sort of divine and exclu-
sive right over mines and minerals, and
until they have passed upon ideas con-
nected with improvements in the treat
ment of ores and metals, nothing has
been accomplished. Your Freiburg stu
dent, fresh from his studies, is an oracle
in mineralogy. His views are worth all
the practical experience of our own
miners and professors; and, as a general
thing, thoughtless people are impressed
with the notion that there is something
in the atmosphere of Cornwall and Baden
which renders refractory ores and COM
pick metals only to be successfully treated
at these two great metallurgical Meccas.
But we are about to dissipate the sa-
cred reverence with which these venera-
BILE mothers of meteorological science are
held, and to make an effort to have a
slice of Frieburg here, instead of send
ing large invoices of Nevada there. The
interest our people are taking in the
movement in establishing separating
works in White Pine, has communicated
itself to a gentleman, already here, who
is now theoretically engaged in putting
up extensive smelling works in Hamil-
ton. We allude to Governor Matteson.
He, too, hos studied out the simple pro-
blem which Swansea and Freiburg have
so mystifed, and will erect, in conjunc-
ton with his furnaces, a separating ap-
paratus that will meet our most imme-
date wants. He purposes, as we under
stand, to put up enough crystalizing
kettles to separate his own metals as well
as those of customers. He has fully
studied the entire situation, and goes
into his enterprise with his eyes wide
open to all the difficulties to be over
come, and with capital enough to rem
der any reasonable Undertaking success
full.
We believe that the Governors atten-
ton was first fixed upon the value of
separating works by ON timely agitation
of the subject, and by the great degree
of interest manifested in procuring them
by the people. So much, at least, has
been accomplished. Now, the adjourned
meeting to be held on the 30th, at the City
Hall, will find that with this partial sue
cess we also have more work before us.
We can not be over-provided with works
that will part silver from the base met
ais. There is an inexhaustible abund-
ance of ores here only requiring the
labor of the miner to turn them into
money. AS soon as it is known that
every pound of ore can be turned into a
decent silver value without delay, every
mine in the District will become the
theater of busy, productive and profit
able labor. 1t is only the first step that
is difficult, and that we think is about to
be taken.