The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-01-28
MIBERAL HILL.
Its Wealth and Prospects-Who are There
-Disappreyos Annexation-Etc
MINERAL HILL, ELKo Co, !
Jannary 9th. 1871. |

ing that you feel great interest in
this section of the State, and par
ticularly in the districts of this
county, j thought it might not be
amiss, in the absence of n regular
correspondent, to let you know what
was going on hereabouts. Notwith-
standing its close proximity to the
railroad, this place is less known
than any mining district of equal
promise in the State. People are
constantly passing on to Eureka,
White Pine and Phoebe, paying no
attention to
THE VAST WEALTH
OF our mines; seeming to be under
the impression that we have but
one mine, which is in the hands Of
the Mineral Hill Mining Company.
This is gross error. The company
have, in all, thirty-seven locations,
one-half of which they work them
selves, employing about fifty men.
taking out from fifteen to twenty
tons of ore day, which will work
about two hundred dollars n ton.
The other half of the company's :
mines are leased or worked on shares.
and are taking out rock equally rich
in proportion to the mines worked
by the company. The Austin mine
is owned by Messrs. Spencer,
the Hon. Senator from Lander,
Flemming, Cromby, McCabe and
Plummer. This mine is working
from twenty-five to thirty men, and
taking ont an average of fifteen tons
day. Some Of this ore will work
from eight hundred to one thousand
dollars per ton. They have the
largest body of this class of ore in
sight, ever seen in the State,
not overlooking the Eberhardt.
The '' Crooks Co, ;" or Big Sandy, -
owned by Messrs. Bradley, Rupel,
and others, isa chloride mine. They
are taking out ore which will work
from fifteen hundred to twenty five
hundred dollars a ton. There are
other mines of the class, and many
Others of lower grade which would
give n handsome revenue to their
owners; and the mines above men
TONED could extract five times the
quantity of ore, if it were profitable
to have them worked. What we
want to make our district heard from
is milling facilities. We have now
but one mill, ten stamp, Stetefeldt
furnace, which can crush an
average of ten tons a day. 1t is now
under lease to the NJ. III. NJ Co. The
bullion turned out from this mill for
the month of December, amounted
to sixty thousand dollars. As there
arc now twenty-five hundred tons oi
ore on the dump waiting to be
crushed, and ten times as much IL
sight, / do not think there could be
q better place for mill than this.
OPPOSED To ANNEXATION.
Our community have been very
much disturbed at the effort to take
this from Elko and annex it to Lander
county. We are ninety miles from
Austin, the county seat of Lander
and are within stage communication
while with Elko we have direct daily
communication by stage and rail
We hope that the members of tn,
Legislature will not be hasty in thi.
matter, as not one out of twenty o.
the inhabitants of this place are il
favor of any change.
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We have a population of abou
four hundred, and have, perhaps
sixty houses. A hotel is in cours,
of construction, to be called tn,
Bradley House" Hon. p. G. Hy
man, formerly of Hamilton, is to b,
"mine host" Hyman is II good fel
low, and we think he can keep
hotel" We shall put him to tin
proof in n week or so, as / under
stand he will have his house open il
that time. John II. Bradley, son o
Gov. Bradley is in business here
He left for California few days ag
with, hear, the intention of bring
ing his family to reside at this place
Col. Rains, formerly of White Pine
latterly of Eureka, has just com
pleted and opened handsome 50
+. loon. The mention of this gentle
mans name is sufficient, for thos
who know him are sure TO give hin