The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1870-06-07

White Pine District Per annnm
Gross yield of free milling ore.... 81. .2O0. .00t
Gross yield of base ore and bullion. 1900, ,oot
Total gross yield for the district SO 200 00C
Eureka and west'n Div IA districtsl
Base ore. and base bullion. ....... u Ooo n0(
Ifine ores not estiInated.l ,na s
Eastern Division 16 districtsl--
Fine bars, base ore and bullion...... IL 900 O0(
Total gross values of S. E. Nevada. ~, 200 oot
This exhibit looks large to those who
are not acquainted with the great extent.
number, and richness of the mines al.
ready discovered In the thirty odd dis
tricts scattered over Southeastern Neva-
da. Our people are so much used to
passing over the magnificent distances
of the great West that they do not re-
alize the magnitude of the country to be
supplied by the proposed road.
An area of thirty thousand square
miles, with 30 mining districts-capable
of employing from 1000 70 10000 in-
habitants in each district; containing nu-
merous valleys of rich land, suitable for
the cultivation of grain, " setables and
fruits and grasses for countless herds
OF cattle and sheep a region of country
capable OF sustaining an aggregate popu-
lation of over 1901 souls, and pre-
senting such strong inducements for
occupation and Northumberland long
lie idle in this age of railroads and tele-
graphs.
The world needs more capital for the
worlds improvement, and Nevada is
called upon to open her vast stores of
the precions and useful metals, and con-
tribute no mean sums toward improving
the wealth, prosperity, and happiness of
our great republic.
The decreasing supply Of lead from
the Galena mines Of Illinois and other
States of the Northwest has increased
the price in the Eastern markets about
30 per cent. within the last two years.
We should hold ourselves III readiness to
meet the increasing demand. Our lead
after separation, and giving its precious
metals to the circulating medium of the
world, is worth much more than that
which only holds the baser metals in
combination, AMI is thrown into the
market in the crude state because sepa-
ration will not pay. Our lead will hold
precedence in the markets of the world
because it does contain enough of the
precious metals to pay for separation and
refining.
With quick and cheap transportation
for the enormous wealth encased in our
rocks, new industries will spring up that
will increase the freight lists of the road
Ere many years the great coal fields of
the Rocky Mountains will be called upon
to furnish fuel to keep the blazing fur
mace seething. The noble forests of the
Sierra must furnish lumber for the mi
ner's cabin and the ponderous mill.
Even brick made from better clays than
our limey soils can furnish, will be i'm
ported from other places to line our fur
naces.
Foundries and machine shops will be
erected, for fitting the iron coat, on the
giant of our day tsteam) and construct
ing the harness by which his enormous
strength is to be applied in hoisting the
glittering ore from the rocky depths
welding the ponderous stamps to crush
it to powder-and pumping water over
mountains 10 supply our homes and nu-
merons industries, and bring out our
resources as rapidly as the requirements
of our growing country demands.
The duty imposed by you upon us,
was to collect such statistics and facts as
would show beyond doubt that the rich
mineral country in which we are now
isolated, has within its rocky hills and
numerous mountains-available resour-
ees enough to keep a first-class road in
profitable employment from the day of
Its completion.
Your Committee does not put forth the
foregoing estimates as being immediatly
available. We have attempted to show
what we believe can, and will be realized
within the next five years, if road is
built to this place.
1t is not our province to say who shall
build the road or how it shall be done.
1t is plainly our duty to show why road
should be made, and that it will pay the
company that builds it, pay us who use
it, and pay the country at large by an i'm
mense annual increase of our national
wealth.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
j. Z. CLAYTON, Chair n,
CHAs. S. BULKLEY,
RoBT. HANEGAN,
JOHN l. GINN,
Gro. w CASSIDY,
j. b. OSBORNE,
Committee.
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