The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-29

pie, and drop the pretentious title city.
II not overdone this year, by an unwar'
ranted expansion of the town element,
the new town will build up TO sturdy
proportions which will make her one OF
the most independent mining eeaiels in
the State. In yesterdays issue we gave
the names of some of the more promi-
nent mine locations on which the hopes
of the town are based. The lodges are
large, well defined, and the average OF
assay values very highland the distri-
button of pay ore through the lodges I'M
usually even.
Phoebe is the center of population for
the county of Lincoln. The District
Court, which has its seat assigned to
Hike, the present county seat, transacts
business almost continually in Cham
bers, in Phoebe. An election for perma-
nent co~unty-seat is demanded by the
people, and an election mean simply
removal to Phoebe. Such an election
will very soon be called by the Commits
s~ioners, in obedience to the demand of
the business wants of the people. Some
short-sighted people in Phoebe accuse
White Pine of jealousy of the prosperity
of Ely District. This is preposterous.
We can afford to be fair and generous in
pres emitting the claims of our neighbor.
Ely draws from White Pine the enter.
prise and much of the money on which
it Is so firmly building up, and in many
Ways is returning good accounts for the
Investments we send her. Much of the
freighting of the District is done by way
of Hamilton. Many of the business es-
adjustments which are erecting in the
new town are branches from Hamilton
houses. The business management Is
in large degree conducted here, and we
all hope and strive for the prosperity of
the giant young town which is doing so
much to aid us in attracting to Eastern
Nevada a part of that attention to which
the wonderful mineral resources of this
section are entitled. Outside of White
Pine, we do not believe a richer mineral
section can be found in all the State;
and all its successes will and must re-
dound to the advancement of White Pine
and the Great East. We are determined
to work with Ely, and want Ely to de-
spise all petty je%alousies and work with
us; and what we shall together attain to,
in the road to mining development and
prosperity, We shall see.
Phoebe lies on the southern slope of q
mountain, in an airline not much over
one hundred miles in a sontheasterly d.
rection from Hamilton. 1t has a genial
climate, quite warm at present, when the
weather is 80 warn everywhere; but in
Winter has great advantage, in a climatic
way, over this portion of White Pine. 1t
is in great degree sheltered by mountains
from the severity of the Winter blasts,
and lies low enough to be protected from
very deep snow falls. Timber grows
profusely on the mountains surrounding.
Firewood is cheap, and good building
lumber commands only S75 per thous-
and. The Mormon settlements in the
valleys about furnish fruit, poultry,
eggs, vegetables, and -four, in abund-
ance, at low figures. Pasturage is ex-
cellent in the valleys, and cattle thrive
without care the year round. Water,
for the present, is supplied from carts,
which haul it about three miles and sell
at two to three cents the gallon; but just
over the crest of the mountain back of
and above Phoebe is a cluster of springs
of excellent water, and parties are now
striving for the purchase, and means are
at hand for the prompt construction of
conducting apparatus to bring the water
in pipes through the town-with supe-
rior natural advantages for providing
protection against fire.
Building goes on with great spirit
houses spring up every day, and lots sell
at constantly advancing figures. A
friend Of ours one evening, while we
were there, bought a lot corner of Main
and Meadow Valley streets, for 1000,
with the intention Of building; but be-
fore morning he sold the naked lot at an
advance of 5000. Such transactions are
Of daily occurrence. Money is not
abundant, and yet not very tight.
Everything bears something the marks
of that vigor characteristic of a new
mining camp, where money is held light
"a looseness begot of confidence. the
hope of things looked for, based on the
groupings of fortunes to be dug. The
worst that can be said of Phoebe, is that
the pistol tenure by which some of its
best mining property is held is not
healthy. This we will not enlarge upon
at present. 1t is unfortunate, and time
and additional population must solve
that trouble.
The town is well supplied with bust
ness men. Ashim & Co., Wheeler &
Co., Major Hosmer, the Halpin Broth
ers, Lewis & Co., Felstenthal, deal in
general provisions. Hutchinson, lately
80 popularity known at the establishment
Of Travis Brothers. in Hamilton, has
just erected a fine establishment which
he calls the Fashion Stables Barnum
w. Field, at Wells, Fargo & Co. 5 Office,
accommodates the public with coir
checks on Homer s. King, Hamilton
and does a variety of business, as con
veyancing, and the like. Len. Martin
j. NJ. Kennedy. Gov. Murphy, Henri,