The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1875-03-27
WHITE PINE NEWS
Saturday, March ~, 1875.
FL OUTLOOK.


Recently quite q large number Of men
have returned to this district to work
their mines, and the outlook of our camp
is more than ever encouraging. The
parties we have met are the real hard
listed miners, who. upon hearing that
there is a chance for them to sell their
ores on the dump at a fair price, have
come back to open up their claims and
share in the wealth that lies buried in old
White Pine Mountain. These are the
kind of men we welcome, for. by their
muscle and perseverance capitalists can
be induced to invest in the many paying
mines of the district, and also to build
furnaces necessary for the reduction OF
our ores. These men talk very little
about buildingrailroads just now to trans
port the bullion they seem to have a
correct idea of the situation, and they
rgue that the facilities for producing the
bullion is first in order, and that a rail
road will be built soon enough is a mat
ter of course. This view we think is Cor
rect what we want now is furnaces, and
the railroad will be next in order. Give
us buIlion-producing furnaces, and the
means of transportation will soon be in
readiness-one will naturally follow the
other. The sole inducement for building
a railroad would be for the purpose of
transporting our bullion, hence it must
first be produced before capital would be
drawn this way to build a road. The
first step towards our prosperity is to
build furnaces that this will be done,
and that soon, we cannot doubt, for CAPT
tai is always ready where a showing can
be made hat the investment is safe and
remunerative. That we have made this
showing there can no longer be a doubt,
and the dark cloud under which u com-
munity has SO long been resting, is about
to clear away and the sunshine of pros
perity take its place.
There are two companies now being
formed in the city Of San Francisco for
the purpose of working White Pine ores;
one has in view the running of the Mat
tison furnace, and the other to build n
at some suitable place convenient to the
mines. These companies should be en-
couraged by our mine owners, and every
facility extended them in the purchase
and working of our ores. We believe it
is the disposition of the mine to
deal fairly with all who wish to purchase
their ores, hence the companies referred
to will have no difficulty in getting all the
ores they want at a fair figure. This is
right. for when a mine owner parts with
his ores at a fair price, he should not
complain if the purchaser does make a
profit on his investment. No jealousy
should be shown because the furnace
companies make money out of the in
vestment, for it must be remembered
that they risk their capital as much for
the mine owner as for themselves. The
best kind of feeling should exist between
the furnace companies and the mine own
ers, for their interests are mutual, and
should be so considered. The mine own
ers in this district, as a rule, are not in a
condition to act too independently of
those who wish to purchase ores, hence
they must for the present, at least, keep
in view their mutual dependency upon
those who risk their capital in buying
ores, building furnaces and developing
mines.