The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1870-10-22
snvu.,iou IA Mining En,.rpris.s.

mining season. particularly in new mines.
and general feeling Of disappointment seems
TO exist among those who have expected much
from the districts Immediately around Elko;
and while il must be admitted that The bullion
promised has not come up to the high-sound,
ing last Spring manifesto, that fact should not
be placed TO the charge Of the districts. Ma
ture has placed the metal beneath the hills
around us. but nature won't lift peg towards
! taking it out. II requires money to open u
mine. and the more difficulty III obtaining
money the longer will il take to develop really
| good mines. The miner or the prospector is
troubled with u thousand uncertainties; I'M
certainty as TO the extent OF the mine, its
richness, tho facilities Of shipment, of reduc-
ton, Of obtaining an honest return from the
| shipments that he may bo able to make; he
fears every day that his town partners will
withdraw supplies, that they will charge him
with bad faith If the mine does not prove
| good. or if running the work nlone that the
merchant will stop credit; and with all these
real or imaginary drawbacks he fails to prose
cute the work with thu, systematic energy
! which the merits OF the mine deserve.
WILD CAT MINES
Have done much to injure the miner of the
present day. Moneyed men far removed
from the mines have been at times sadly sold,
| and at the same time the "kid glove" miners
of the Pacific coast must admit that it has
been case of diamond cut diamond" San
| Francisco capitalists have spent much brnin"
in trying to circumvent the "honest miner"
! and if some claims have been we'll Saltcd they
are the last ones who should complain. They
have generally been able to dispose of their
stock for all the miner ever received One
difficulty which the discoverer and home mi
ncr finds most to discourage himself is the
''BULLIoS RING" or SAN FRASCIsCo.
II matters not how rich the ore or how well
and carefully selected, upon shipment TO the
Golden City, his returns are from twenty to
| fifty per cent. less than his home assay shows
him entitled to. Dealers in ore will not buy
until tho ore has passed through the hands of
one or two firms of subsidized assayers in
San Francisco. They arc in the interest of
| the buyer, aud knowing that the orc once in
San Francisco must be sold at all events and
ut any sacrifice, assays barely sufficient to
| pay transportation are returned.
Ore from Railroad district, and from Bruno,
Bull Run and Black Pine, which here, by as
| say, showed over ono hundred dollars net
value over all expenses has been returned rs
barely paying expenses. This Shylock style
| of doing business has had an important
| agency in checking the development of our
mines. The sale OF valuable mining property
has Lceu retarded by the grand combination
| of the
riuTr MILLION INcompaAnoS
OF San Francisco. There is no doubt in the
minds of the more intelligent, and testimony
strong has been for ~ long time at hand. to
prove that there is n company organized in
san Francisco with u capital OF $1,000, 900 for
the purpose Of buying controlling interest
in all OF the promising mines throughout the
State Of Nevada, aud chief and foremost
! among the stockholders il the
HANK or CALIFORNIA.
For that purpose so.cnllod mining experts
or sports" have bcen since last April visit
ing all our mines, hat,rring the pride and
exciting the hopes of the laboring miner
The miner is often deceived. \ well dressed,
wiso-looking man easily pcrsuadcs the pro-
pu'etor that his opinion or report of his mine
or HE district will determine the whole future.
ior veal or for woe. Hence miners have been
lcvGted with promises: they have bonded
Il eir mines Tor two. three, four five and six
III ont hs; they have waited patiently for the
co.. rsu mmation Of the sales aud have waited in
val II. Iior tho policy Of the Ring is to starve
mil ers into starving prices, To- delay all work
for the season, and when Spring rolls around
puu 'hasu for a mere song all the valuable min.
ing inter ests of Nevada that lie within a
reast 'nahle approach of the line Of the Central
Pacific railroad
IuE COSSrIRACiEs or CAPITAL
Have become sn syStematiEed that the discoy-
crsrs az our mineral wealth are but the mere
"hower Of wood and drawers Of water" and
honest iudu s;ry aud intelligence will DO driven
to obscurty and Slayish labor and intelliee mt
white lahcrol-s will erN long have to delvs side
Ivy side With the copper.colored slaves OF q
mcueycd aristocracy. Cheap hhcr. cheap
mines, stArvat ion prices, are the weapons in
the hands Of the great mining specializing,
soulleSs organ isAiiou, cuanating from the
Golden State.
The reading public aud the intelligent min.
er can hU; see in the shove portrait the cause
II the mining s;aSuation in our vicinity. lie,
tho rn,r,haut aud busin,ySS man hkauts, ,s,n.