The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-07-31
OUR MINING REVIEW
For the Week ending July 30.

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tons, upon which work had been sns-
pended for some time, are now being
explored, and in many instances a good
class of free ores is being hoisted to the
dumps. The Original Hidden Treasure
is employing the usual force of hands,
and we hear of good average rock coming
out of the lower level. The continue
ions westward of the Hidden Treasure
are vet affording n satisfactory yield.
We learn nothing new as to the workings
in the Anchor Consolidated; only we
know that those interested in this finely
located mine are confident that they have
a good property.
We have, from time to time, noticed
the splendid developments in the South
Aurora, and have nothing to add about
this very superior paying mine. The
HIGH ores taken out OF the new strike run
up to 81, 900 per ton, and are carefully
sacked. The Stanford mill is kept busy
night and day on South Aurora rock,
and the bar shipments OF the company
are the best evidence of the great value
and the even and continuous yield of
this unsurpassed mine.
As regards the Eberhardt Company,
under its reconstruction, we have no in
formation to offer. Nothing of a promi-
ZEN and striking character has been
done-at least nothing that is generally
known-and the plans of the company
are surrounded with mystery and invest
ed with silence. Rumor has ii, at Sher-
mantown, that no new mills will be built,
and that no operations outside Of thor
ouph prospecting will be done, until the
experts are fully satisfied of the truth of
their theories and the probable extent of
the profitable workings. We rather like
this careful mode of procedure, and hope
the company may succeed in pursuing
their business successfully on the sensi-
BILE principle Of induction they seem to
have adopted.
The Base Metal Range, if we except
the leading mines that are being actively
worked, mostly On resources from abroad,
evinees no additional activity. Unfortn-
nately there are too many mines for sale.
The absurd hope that purchasers will
come along, and hunt a man even to his
dump, has a very demoralizing effect.
The miners lose their vim and industry,
and idle mines, coupled with idle owners,
would defeat sales, even were purchasers
as plentiful ms gr~asshoppers.
The Trench mine loses none of its in
terest. II gives out lis great wealth Of
ore with n liberality which assures its
fixed standard as one of the most reliable
mines in the District. Indeed, all mines
on the west side Of White Pine Mountain
are in very good repute, and experienced
miners have great hopes Of the future of
that section of the District.
The Stetefeldt furnace, under way at
the Monte Cristo mill, Is being con-
structed as rapidly as possible. Wag-
ner, the iron-wright of this city, has
completed a set Of chimneys for il, and
the feeder, pipes and other portions of
the iron work are now on Main street,
ready for freighting to the site of the
furnace.
Since our last we have paid a visit to
the Jennie A. Consolidated and other
mines on the brow of White Pine Noun
tain, and near its northern extremity.
To say that we were fayorably impressed
with the developments we saw there
and the extensive workings exposed,
would be tame. We saw in the uncoy-
cred surface and in the penetrated depths
Of that portion Of the mountain, enough
to convince even the most skeptical that
An exhaustless bed of metal is natural to
the entire White Pine range.
We can abate nothing of our opinion,
formed on the ground, after n careful
aud painstaking examination. that the
Jennie A., the Blackjack and the extern
sions, form one Of the most permanent
and valuable mining properties in East
ern Nevada. The new strike made in
digging for a foundation for the furnace,
on the Jennie A., was uncovered for n
distance Of rs feet, the vertical facing
forming q continual breast, upon which
the men are following the ore down and
into the hill. As the men work in. they
stand on a bed of solid ore, the width of
a good sized wagon road. The top Of
the deposit or ledge il in no place over
four feet from the natural surface of the
mountain, and lies under n cap wall of
limestone. The ore pitches down into
the mountain at IN angle of about IL
degrees. There is not less than 500 tuns
of ore in sight at the strippings; how
much more we shall not just now EN-
ture to conjecture. Within q few feet
of the shaft, where the Jennie A. mine
was originally sunk into, Is the com
mencement Of the now strike, and it
runs north along the side of the noun
tain as far as the men have stripped it.
The old shaft and the inelines are down
altogether about so feet, and the amount
Of work that has been done upon ore in
the depths is incredible. There are
drifts and chambers in every direction,
where n fine class of ore is being con
stantly taken out. Mr.. Biggs, the Super
intendent, has adopted the safe and
economical plan Of leaving solid
pillars at short intervals, through
out the excavations. The ledge
in the various chambers is a continuous
one. and from its general direction and
strike, it forms an undoubted connection
with the new workings on the surface,
Fifty men can be advantageously worked
in the shaft chambers and in the sink
ings on the foundation. A large tunnel
drift, running to the west, will soon form
a connection with a tunnel already in
some distance from the west side of the
mountain. When this is done, the noun
tam Will be pierced from side TO side,
and the new strike abutting on the shaft,
may be worked both upward and down.
ward: There is considerable engineer
ing skill displayed in this mine, and the
safety OF the operators has been carefully
consulted by the Superintendent. When
the ledge has been opened into by drifts
and cuts below, and inclines and wines
irom above, any amount OF labor may
De advantageously utilized. No mine we
nave lately examined has presented 80
comprehensive an outline as this one,
nor has any we have seen been so favora-
bly, exposed to determine the value and
extent of its ores. There now are fifteen
men employed in all the works, and the
camp presents a very busy, snug and