The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-06-13
LETTER FROM pALIsADE.

PAL1sADE, June o.
The new route Of Woodruff & Ennor,
from Hamilton to this place, may be con-
sidered a success, although the road is
not MS good ms it will be so soon MS time
will permit of its improvement. From
Hamilton to Eureka it is familiar to most
of your readers. and is n very cool
wagon road. but is next to impossible for
the iron-horse.
NAPIAs-EUREKA
Is growing rapidly; has three furnaces
running, three more building, and one
on the road thither. Buel and Bate
mans smelling works are turning out
fnrce quantities of bullion. and their
mine gives mp 40 to so tuns of ore per
day to the work of two men. I had not
fine to visit the mines. bnt learned from
Mr.. Coe, ex-V. P. Of the p. Z. Elk. that
they are looking remarkably we'll, and
San Francisco is rapidly awaking to their
importance. The institutions Of the
town may he classifedthns: Billy Daugh-
ertv (agent for W. & E.), the Parker
House, and the smelling works.
DIAMOND VALLEY
Is the merest desert hat ever bore a
beautiful name. and is a level plain cov-
cred with a short, misunderstanding green
sage, greasewood and occasional patches
of white sage, % miles across to running
water. and ever so long northward. Nine
miles from Eureka, however. we came
- - - - - nra~l,.z-
who had inst struok n fine body Of fresh.
cool water. at the depth of 5S feet. Four
teen miles further brought US to Sulphur
Springs whore the green grass grows
all round. the flowers change their hues
and assume the most delicate tints, and
the meadow larks begin to sing. One
small spring is warm and strongly i'm
pregnated with sulphur. while others
hard by afford cool water but slightly
tainted. Eight miles further down the
valley is another sulphur spring, which
runs fnft 1000 inches of water. Three
miles from the station. in a low range of
hills called Sulphur Range, a ledge has
been feund 3 to 4 feet wide. well defined
for GOO feet, twenty-five pounds of ore
from which. worked in San Francisco.
recently. gave 60 per cent. of copper.
| 200 the tun in silver. and n trace of
lead. All along Diamond Valley the
new road is smooth and hard as a 10 pin
alley. and the spirited horses and SPLEEN
did coaches of Woodruff & Ennor glide
over it like n swift steamer over a smooth
bay. There is very little dust on any
portion of the road. and the only portion
which appears is where Won turn from
Diamond Valley into the mountains Ia
reach Mineral Hill The stage makes
splendid time. reaching here one and
a half to two hours before the morning
train. and n ride over the new road comes
as near being a pleasure trip as staging
can be.
MINERAL HUI.
a beautiful town, which l was astonished
to find larger than Napias, bears marks
of prosperity. The town is somewhat
cramped. being in a canyon. bnt the hill
sides bear rows of beautiful cottages
which bespeak both refinement and
wealth. The stone foundation for n To-
stamp mill is about completed. at the
lower end of town. and most of the lum-
her for the building is on the ground.
We passed there early in the morning,
while most of the inhabitants were still
enjoying their ~slumbers. and l had no
opportunity of learning particulars about
tho mines.
PINE VALLEY,
30 called because there is not tree of
that kind neither in the valley nor on
the hills which bound it. has many
beautiful farms, cosy residences, cool
springs. ripping streams. broad mea-
dows. and hundreds of fat cattle and
horses. The valley extends unbroken
from Mineral Hill to Palisade. 80 miles.
and its average width is about eight
~miles-nearly every acre of which is
good grazing and farming land. easily
irrigated. In fact, the whole road from
here to Hamilton, save % miles this way
from Eureka and 10 miles across Newark
Valley. is fringed with good grass.
AS "A Railroad Route = Palisade, and
other and further particulars anon.