The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-08-07
Local TntfIligfllrr.
DIRECTORY.
our MINING REVIEW
For the Week ending August q.

For the Week ending August o.
Since our last, a marked change has
taken place in the development of mines
In and around Treasure City. The i'm
provement in feeling is very great, and
the impetus appears to have an honest
and legitimate origin, assisted but very
slightly by outside capital, and relying
in the main on the r~ejuvenated energy OF
the mine owners themselves. II we can
build up a successful era of mining on
such a basis, the natural association of
interest which blends our free ore deyel-
opments with those of the base metal
range, will soon produce a degree of STA
BILE prosperity, and alter the character,
appearance and business prospects OF
White Pine. There Is nc denying that
grass is mighty short here at the pres
emit writing. We all know that the
causes therefor are not Of a local and ill.,
superable nature. We all know, further,
That we have a vast and i~nexhaustible
amount of wealth in our hills, which,
under proper and intelligent action,
would bring plenty and prosperity. We
hive never ceased in these columns to
iterate and reiterate these conditions as
facts; and yet when we consider that the
District is yet young, and that it has
only gone, or is going, through the same
yicissitudes of fortune that invariably
attend new regions, whether they be
mining or agricultural, we cannot but
cherish the certainty that VI shall,
sooner or later, emerge ont of the
woods. This certainty is doubly as
sured by the operations now going on in
the free ore range. and the enterprises
on foot TO resuscitate our base metal
mines. One is the handmade of the
other, and the success Of either must
necessarily influence for the better every
branch Of industry and source Of wealth.
All the leading mines on the Hill are
in active propagation. n what is mate
rial to the realization of the truth of the
opinions we have laid down, is the fact
that in every instance a progression of
work has resulted in a progression of
favorable appearance in the mines.
Within the past week some astonishing
developments have been made in the vi
cinity of the Silver Wedge, the Silver
Wave and that series of mines the lodges
of which trend in an e~asterly and west
erly direction from the main thorough
fare of Treasure City. In the former
mine we are not alone greeted with indi-
cations, but with concrete actualities,
and a class of ore is being exposed not
only rich per Sc, but carrying with it the
indubitable evidences of an extensive
sub-stratum of wealth, which only re-
quires time and energy TO turn it to per-
manent and splendid account.
The eyer-reliable South Aurora, the
crown jewel in the diadem that covers
the brow of our naturally favored Dis
trict. continues TO pour her exhaustless
wealth into the lap of industry and we'll
directed capital. The shipments of fine
bullion from this pre-eminent mine are
as regular and as certain as the move
ments of our planet. Without noise, it
sends forth from its mountain Of hidden
treasure about one-half of the entire fine
bullion shipment of White Pine. And
yet no man Of oxperienco-no man whose
opinion is of value-will hesitate TO
affirm hat there are a large number of
South Auroras within the radius of n
circle OF half n mile of the Autumn pit.
Original Hidden Treasure is looking
well generally, and from this time will
ship first and second class ore to the
mills.
The Eberhardt is still in allegiance to
red-tape or something in the slow
....h linz W. acanrad hnu0vaF
thai they only await the perfecting of
their patent, in order to ope-
rations ON n large scale. Other mines,
such as the Iceberg, the Glacier, etc..
are coming into active notoriety, and
show hopefully.
We can not say much for the Base
Range, generally, that would alter the
situation in which we left it in our
last report. The mines are there in
abundance, but the developing energy,
on a scale which their importance would
so eminently justify, is not as extensive
as we could wish. We have, in the past
two days, seen some very desirable ore
from the Argentine, and in saying that
such ore. IL properly and expeditiously
converted into money. is abundant enough
10 turn White Pine into a healthy hive
Of profitable industry, is to cover the
entire ground. What we call. as q class,
the Elko ores are predominant from the
westerly slope Of Treasure Hill TO White
Pine Mountain. II exists in vast bodies
and underlies, at variable depths, a zone
of argentiferous country equal to at least
five square miles. With the reduction
works here that the merits of our re-
sources would justify. all this vast ex-
tent of partially dominant wealth would
become active.
And this brings us to the subject of
enterprises for the speedy convertibility
of our ores and metals into cash. Gov
ernor Matteson is pushing his trections
along with commendable activity. He is
also using great prudence and business
Judgment in arriving al the ultimate OBJ.
ject Of his undertaking. and will, when
his works have been completed. have
within his own control, and under his
own manipulation, every branch Of pro-
ductive accessories necessary to the ena.
bling of him to cause the crude material
to furnish the capital for its own con-
version and ultimate transmutation into
the commodity which moves everything.
But what can We say about the efforts
made by n few of our citizens to rouse
the business men of this community
into taking an active interest in the
movement to establish a company to
erect separating works here to meet the
full capacity Of our mines and furnaces.
The latter do not or will not compre-
bend the pre-eminent importance of the
subject, and, with one or two exceptions,
eyince about as much energy in pushing
it ahead as an oyster would in getting
out of the way of n pair of tongs.
They have yet time to redeem
themselves, and help to inaugurate
a system of reduction enterprises which
will some day be the pride of Eastern
Nevada. Whether they win put their
shoulders to the wheel or not, we have
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