, 1870-05-12
The Milling, Smelling, and Pur-
49, chase Of Ores.
Increase Of Products and New Dis
.coveries 80

Increase Of Products and New Dis
eoTeries' l*':r:
Capital and Skill Needed.
trHox orR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
euKK41xrowH, WHITE PINE CouE7Y,l
NEVADA, April p :
Thare arc good opportunities for Investment
in this mining district in milling and smelling
works; and other kinds Of buaincss, also. arc
open to the competition Of your citizens, par
ticularly in the line Of merchandise. To pre-,
sent the case more fayorably and distinctly te
thsir notice, shall outline the prospects Of
this section for tho approaching aumme'
and autumn, 30 that the advantages Of 3 judi
cious employment of capital may be seen at =
glance.
= TIE MILLING BUSINESS
In tho first place: then, it is altogether prob,
ablo that the mineral developments OF Treas-
ure Hill will be; this summer, OF An e1tfaor.
dipary character. All the largo consolidated
companies are preparing for vigorous prose-
| cution of the seasons work Confidence il
the permunency and depth Of the deposits in
this hill has increased to such a degree
that works OF tunnelling and deep mining
are projected all aronnd the mountain The
! results Of these explorations must DO Of the
/ most satisfactory character. For, to the Sc
ologist, the evidence Of 1.-The meteorological
riches OF this formation Ia cumulative. The
resemblance Of the country, In it's geological
features, to tho Hartz Mountains in Germany,
has been often remarked. That region has
been the scene Of mining operations for moro
than five hundred yaars. Like the eilver
mountains Of Potosi, in Peru, tho hills OF the
Hartz have been honeycombed with e1cavA-
| tons Of all kinds, sizes, and shapes, even to
the e1tont OF t1nnellinB twenty -four miles for
drainage alone The cost Of such extensive
workings muaE have been met by correspond
ing gains from the mountains themse1ves, or
they could not have been prosecuted Up to
the present time, deep mining upon Treasure
Hill may be said to have hardly been under
taken. II there is shaft or tunnel on any
part Of the ground that ia Oyer two hundred
feet in depth below the surface, your corre-
spondent Il UNAWARE Of the fact. Eut this is
soon to be the case in many cases, Is tho signs
tiaibfy show. -
At The depth Of liz feet, before. winter SGT
in, the Eclipse ahaft exhibited large body Of
free ore Of chloride silver, equal to any thst
the famous Eberhardt llaa produced. "A tnn-
mel ran into tho hull in the direction Of the
yious workiugs, revealed tho same quality Of
orc. The same fact may be remarked; Of the
Manhattan, formerly tho Argyle tunnel In
deed, from the beginnings already, It may
safely be predicated tlat chloride GIG will bo
obtained at depth as g1cat Is IN any other
mineral region yet lnoHD.-say. 600 feet.
10 reduce the Immense quantity Of millab1o
orc which such vast explorations must eventu-
ally bring to the surface, moro machinery will
be required than the present owners OF these
mincB hare any idea Of
Why we need suffer capital from abroad to
come iu and take all this hidden treasure from
our hands is not easily understood. There is
even now an agent Of an English corporation
here examining the most celebrated OF these
1nineB, with view of purchasing and e1ten-
sye workng Of the same Is tle9s eot capt y
profltably develop these mincs7
Mills Of the capacity OF the Stanford mil, OF
thirty stamps, will be more needed than the
large number OF smaller capacity now running.
It may be said that it were better to show the
the mines first to great depth, and 30 prov
ing tic existence Of millable ore, throughout
the mines. The answer to this is, that where
ever depth has been reached at all, that quality
OF ore Las still been found in quantity, and,
from the character OF tho formation, is likely
long as paying quantities Of this ORC continue TO
DO raised to tho surface, from inuune1able eI-
cnvatipns, machinery will DO needed, Of IN
creased capacity, to reduce it,
Still further, our operations need the aid OF
the best scientific skill in the country in the
mineral discovery to most Of thotb, and they
fail seriously IN their. Efforts to BGye the
precious metal by tho usual methods Of ANAL
Fanation. Our American schools should be
able to furnish this skill as readily as those Of
foreign countries. American capital and
American education should be competent for
the working Of these mines.
TIE SMELLING BUSINESS.
Fortunately for non Of small capital, here
IL r chance for Investment OF rare occurrence.
profitable, and tho manipulation Of tho ore so
easy, in this district, that even tho miners
themselves, in some instances, have erected
Email furnaces, and smell their orn Orc No
1uxes are needed at present, the ores them
selves containing al that III necessary for their
reduction.
Where capital has been largely Interested in
pmeltiug our ores, as, for Instance, in the
works u the Alsop, snslting Comr.ny in this
pl1ce, tho buriaeus Cannot 0o othefTlHe than
works turned out 911 600 worth Of aEgentifer-
Gus 1e1d bullion. The ore from which this
bullion WAS obtained could not have cost the
company moro than s15 per ton-. The per-
centage OF leadin the ore viii average as high as
one-h7lf. Fifty per cent Of lead, md from $40
ing pretty profitable business, while the cost
Of purchasing it from tho miners remains at
.the present low rate. :
!; But here, again, AZ said in my last conmu-
nication, We need moro skill in tho erection OF
furnaces; the present style being exceedingly
is displayed to produce lare amount Of
bullion in given time, than to save as much
. OF the precious metal nb possible The wind
of ten thousand blowpipcs would not be equal
to the amount called into requlsltion in some
;of these furuacea to reduce little carbonate
Of lead.
ruE rUacHasn AND E1z11sr1Sr OF ons AND
! DuIlIoN.
! This buRineEs is yet in its infancy, but it is
growing rapidly and will bo very profits
0ie The reduction works at Newark, N. J.,
have an agent here, who IL instructed to pur-
chase all that is offered at fair rates. The
Bank Of California aScncJ also adveTtise that
thoy r5i1l make advances on bullion shipped
either east or west. Cross u Co OF San
Francisco, arc the agents OF Messrs. Fivian &
Sons, of Swansea, Wales, for the purchase Of
either ore or bullion. The San Francisco Lead
Pipe and Shot Works purchase great deal Of
White Pine bullion, and separate the precious
from the base metal in very expeditions and
economical method, called skananing. Why
cannot the Chicago Shot Works do the eames
1 believe you have such An institution.
But the best system for tho miners and OWL
ers Of ore. were not the cost Of transportation
by rail 10 high, would be the shipment Of their
ore in bulk to either Newark or Swan6ca, wait
ing for returns until the complete reduction Of
tho eame- Advances can always be obtained
from the agents OF these works sufficient to
pay the cost OF extraction from the mlncs and
The freight bills.
rSCnEaaED PRODUCTION OF DAsE ORE.
The minea Of tho Baso range, IS greater
depth is reached, are producing large qnantl-
ties Of ore, and Of richer quality. One Of the
most noted Of these, the Alta, belonging part
II to the Alsop Smelling Company, is an i'm
menso deposit Of carbonate OF lead, with
large percentage of eilveE-abont twenty-
i've dollars to the ton. Another mine, recent
II opened, called tho Cal1alco, yields compact
carbonate, of the gray, white; and black
varieties. some of which Is nearly 100 per cent
lead. This orc contains thirty dollars in silver
per ton. Orc of still another quality Ia OK
tracted from tho Imperial nine, impregnatcd
with considerable carbonate Of copper, and
Yielding upwards OF one hundred dollars IN
silver Per ton-
On tho spurs Of Treasure Hill, facing what
is technically called the Base Metal range, are
situated mines Of base ore carrying silver to
the amount Of two to five hundred dollars to
the ton One Of these, called the E1ko, the
ownets we're offered S10, 900 for, and refused
to sell, There is another in tho Immediate
vicinity, but On the Base range, called tho
Hrot]er Cnnnuaz, which car11eH nothing but
chloride silver ora- --.----.-..
During tho ensuing summer, there will be
upwards OF dEe hundred mines in process OF
DEVELOPMENT in the Base range alone. MAny
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