The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-06-22

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the milling ore on dumps along Blue
Hill as capable of yielding an average of
from $50 to $40 per tnn. There are
very few miners who own interests or
have expended labor in that bill who
have not been fully convinced that the
average of the figures stated can be
realized. If, then, this be true, why
should so many mills lie idle; SO much
labor become ~listless and discouraged; so
many men, owning interests in valuable
mines, he absolutely in an impoverished
condition? The natural material from
which money is coined is here; the labor
necessary to produce money is here; and
the machinery required to transmute
ores. now unavailable, into cash, is
here. We are provided with every requi-
site to produce money, yet the mass Of
our people are nn~speakably poor. We
should not permit such a paradox to be
true any longer. There is a way out of
it, and the sooner we put our shoulder
TO the wheel the sooner we will dispel
the clDul now ndftblnB over US. IL IN
time that miners had realized the fact
that waiting for purchasers to come here
from abroad TO buy their mines is a per-
nieious delusion. They would find a
speedier market for their claims by work
ing them than by giving them a saleable
look, and then sitting down hungry,
hoping for a Chicago capitalist to make
his appearance. We have said fair mill
- L. - -.
ers themselves are fearfully mistaken.
That being the case, what is to prevent
the successful adoption of the co-ope-
ratiye system. first, to get out the ores
and properly select them; and. second,
to have them crushed. Cooperation
has succeeded in an eminent degree in a
great many trades in various parts of the
world, and why not in miningy Indeed,
nearly all our mining has heretofore been
done on the principle of cooperation,
and the cooperation vi are abont TO
suggest is only the same thing on a larger
scale. We have mentioned Blne Hill,
for the reason that the interests
there are more original and com
pact than in any other locality we can
Just now think of. Let us suppose that
the owners on Blue Hill should, for pnr-
poses Of experiment, form themselves
into "A cooperative association with the
millmen. Is IT not possible that such a
combination could be established on fair
prineiplcsg II n common road is re-
quired to facilitate hauling, how hong
would it take such a combination of
labor TO build itY II would be a matter
of mere figures 10 get at the pro rata To
which each miner aud mill and millman
would be entitled from the products of
each mine. But We may be told that
there are jealousies and antipathies ex-
listing between the miners and the mill
men that it would be difficult to recon
Gle. This may be So; but the difficulty
is not insuperatle. The miners and the
mill can select mediators who would see
that justice was done 10 all parties.
Miners have failed, IN most cases, to
realize their expectations for the lack OF
expanding labor upon the dump instead
of curses upon the mills. Work spent
in selecting ores on the dump is labor
p%roftably employed. Every ton Of ore
properly assorted saves a multiplication
of labor in hauling and at the mill, and
insures mutual confidence, larger returns
and ultimate satisfaction all round. This
suggestion has grown upon US. and as 1t
As q vital importance, We shall resume
the subject of cooperation, ms applied TO
our mines and idle mills, and show that
such IN undertaking, properly directed
and honestly carried ont, would prove
eminently beneficial 10 all in a very short
space of time.
TUE NEWARK, n. ]. REDUCTION Works.
We learn that a heavy mine owner and
smelter at Eureka has received a letter
from Balbach Il Co.'S reduction works,
in New Jersey. in which il Is stated that
business had so grown upon them that
they were compelled to extend Their
establishment and increase their faeill-
ties to accommodate customers. In
answer to the complaint about delay IN
making cash returns, the letter says that
/, hereafter, the parties Mt Eureka VIII
agree to make regular weekly shipments.
the Newark works will make regular
weekly returns. From another source,
we learn that at the establishment OF
Balbach X Go. there was, a short time
since, an immense quantity of bullion
piled up. Our informant says he eonnt-
ed $50 tuns alone from White Pine. NO
wonder it became necessary 20 enlarge
the works. We presume the Alsop bnl-
lion, of which we had something TO say
last week, is waiting its turn in this pile.
1t seems to ms that capital in San Fran
cisco might turn its attention prohtably
to the erection of large reduction works
somewhere on the Humboldt river. The
bullion of this region and that OF Cope
and other northern districts would rem
der such an enterprise of great value to
the miners and profitable TO the owners.
If such works can be successfully estab-
lished n couple Of thousand miles from
here, and pay, we should think q reduc-
tion establishment located centrally, rela-
lively, to the great mining districts OF
this inland basin, would prove a splendid
Investment, as well as a great accommo-
datioh to mine owners and SHELTERS.
DELINQUENT TAxEs.-In round num-
bers. the total amount of delinquent
county taxes on real estate was S33, 900,
less the ten per cent. added by law
This included many assessments that
were found to be double, and also a num-
Der of cases whore the property was al
together exempt from taxation, besides
$4,000 due the county and State ON the
delinquent roll. The collections have
reached over half the actual amount of
delinquencies. District Attorney Ken
nedy has paid over to the Treasurer
$4,000, and about 1000 has been vol.
unfairly paid into the treasury by the de
hnquents themselves. About $1,000
more will be collected.
TAXES ON MINES. The delinquent
taxes on the products of mines, for the
quarter ending in june of this year and
september of last year, vent to judgment
SM.onuay in Justice Atwood's Court. The