Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-04

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afterwards accomplished it. But what a
change has taken place in the aspect
OF this great corrugated basin since those
eventful times Its hills and valleys
are now no longer the home of the
savage or the hunting ground Of the trap
per. The civilizing influences of modern
life-such, at least, as distinguish and an
innate mining lifo-haye long since found
a Judgment in the vast area of this I'M
known wilderness, imparting life and ac-
tivity to scenes, where, in the past, the
deepest solitude reigned supreme, except
when broken by the predatory thread of
the painted aborigine, whose war whoop
has been superseded by the c~easeless hum
Of the industrious thousands who cultivate
its valleys and explore its hills in search of
hidden treasures, and with their stalwart
arms and energy have made many OF the
barren spots Of the desert to bloom and
blossom like a summer rose.
EASTERN NEVADA
Comprises that portion Of the State, which
lying south OF the Humboldt river, stretch
es away to the Colorado, and east Of about
the line Of the forty-first Washington me-
ridian. This area includes a tribe more
than half the geographical extent Of the
sagebrush State. geographically, it pre-
sents the appearance Of having been a vast
plain, which, being pressed together from
east to west by some sudden CONFUSION,
broke or wrinkled the country into immense
parallel ridges of mountains and valleys,
whose axial lines extend quite regularly
north and south. Mining Nevada, though
small in comparison to the whole, ontranks
in extent any of the Atlantic States, and
even contains considerably more square
miles than the island of Great Britain.
One peculiar physical feature is, that it
has no outlet to the sea, and its streams,
which are quite numerous but generally
small, flow from the mountains and
through the great valleys, to be finally and
mysteriously lost in the sands, to be after
wards borne, perhaps, through some sub
%terranesn channel to the great wave-crest-
ed ocean beyond. Tn mountains, which
rise in many instances quite precipitously,
are from q few hundred to a few thousand
feet above the snbjacent plains; and, as
the general elevation of these is about
5000 feet above the sea, il follows, as a
matter Of course, that the Hottest peaks at
tain quite q respectable altitude.
THE TOWN OF EUREKA,
whence | write, situated in nearly the geo.
graphical centre of the State, has an alti-
tade of something less than six thousand
feet above tn Bay of San Francisco, while
Ruby Hill, whereon the Richmond, Eure-
ka Consolidated, X X and Albion mines,
two and a half miles distant to the west
ward, measures nearly seven thousand
feet, increased by nearly two thousand
feet more in favor of Old Prospect, the
main ridge of the district, wherein, too,
are situated many of the properties which
| propose to describe in their proper place,
and which, in the near future, are destined
to make a. noise i'll the mining world of the
Pacific, unless science and experience and
those indications upon which men place
faith, shall prove false.
But they will not for the greatness in
store for Prospect Mountain is written in
ineifacable characters upon its rock-ribbed
sides. The laws Of the Modes and Persians
were not more immutable than this fact,
attested as it is by the unerring hand of
Nature, and already more than proved
both by scientific and exploratory re-
searches.
But to return to our more immediate
mutton.
EUREKA DISTRICT,
Now the second and, possibly, soon the
leading bullion producing section in the
State, was first prospeeted and organized
as a mining district in 1864. The chief To-
cations made here at that time were, / be-
lioee, made by the agent OF the Tannahill
Company, of your city, which, unfortu-
nately for the interests of Gotham, soon
after collapsed, as have many of those
formed in the empire city to operate in this
State: but from what cause this deplorable
state Of things have been brought about. it
is scarcely possible to say just now, other
wise than that they fell to pieces from the
lack Of those essential elements which i'm
parts the vigor, the stability and the adhe-
siveness, which characteristics the compa-
MES formed on the Pacific Coast.
1t is remarkable, but not the less true,
that this has been the end of almost every
one of the high-sounding interpretations
formed in New York to operate in Nevada.
Excepting, both the sRescue" and the
''Hoosac," recently organized to work the
properties of the same names, located in
adjacent districts, and of which l shall
have something to say in due time, | have
now no recollection of there being q single
New York company in successful operation
on the coast, outside of the State of Col
orado. Can this exhibit be accounted a
creditable showing for the great and
wealthy city Of New York; Hardly; yet it
Is the
LEADING BULLION MARKET
OF the continent; the center into which is
daily poured in a steady stream, so to
speak, the precious product of the great
industry which without prejudice to other
sections OF our common country,
hos been almost wholly developed,
sustained and male profitable by the
liberal outpouring Of the gold, by the en-
ergy, the pluck and the indomitable per-
severence Of the people of this coast, whose
ardor no reverses have been able to
dampen, and whose courage and mining
enterprise no misfortune has been able to
subdue. What is the result? Look at the
great city Of San Francisco, with its teem-
ing thousands, its magnificent punlic a
private structures. Its arts, and
fast agg egation of W alth-all of these
furnish the answer. And if necessary we
can even go farther, and cite as further
evidence of the value Of mining, the S45,-
000, 900 to $50, 009. 900 which have been dis
bursed in dividends to our people, over
and above what they have been called upon
to pay in assessments. When a Pacific
coaster ~speculates in mining stock, as a
general thing, he is not deferred by the
fear Of Irish dividends, for he looks upon
assessments as some of the inevitable con-
| sequences which attend mining. There
fore he composedly and ph~ilosophically
accepts the situation, when he reads his
| patronymic in the assessment list for some
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