Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-12-28
WHITE PINE.
Camps PFospccts-What It Was
and what 1t Is.

<AA OAu EcslueHbs OpIkAOn Oh tme
Camps PFospects-WhRt IL was
and what It Is.
WHITE PINE DISTRICT, Nevada,
December 23, 1880.
EDITORS EUREKA SENTINEL: It has been
my lot to be o resident Of this hald-headed
region, now capped with so-called beauti-
full snow, for q period Of twelve years,
nearly all Of which time I have faithfully
put in prospecting and examining mines.
and taking notes.
The starter OF White Pine was the dis
covery Of the Eberhardt mine. In the
spring of 1859 parties in San Francisco
telegraphed the owners Of the Eberhardt
mine offering them So, 900, 900, but they
replied that 1t was their intention first to
extract enough silver to pay the National
debt, then to take into consideration the
propriety Of selling for So DOC, 000.
Seven hundred and fifty tons Of ore
from the Eberhardt mine yielded 81, 50O,-
900; it was this and other facts, that start
ed 5000 people to migrate to White Pine,
and the cry was: ssAll we need is quartz
mills" and quartz mills came; eighteen
were carted here, a~ggregating $50 stamps,
while freighting cost fifteen and twenty
cents per pound, and everything else was
in proportion. The mills were built, and
nothing was done on the mines.
Treasure Hill, it was said by experts,
was a solid mountain of silver, six miles
north and south, and three miles east and
west. Everything ran high and wild;
mills charged $50 and $50 for milling:
carting ores cost $40 and $40 per ton. 1t
cost from $4,000 to s 5000 per month for
superintendent, clerks, dead-heads and
drones TO run o ten-stamp mill. 1t re-
CURED ores from $500 to $500 per ton to
Keep up such extravaganza. and when it
Jailed the cry started, "White Pine is
played OUT Next in order was, " White
Pine needs furnaces" and there were
thirty-nine built from date.
All the work done in White Pine Dis
trict-twelve miles north and south, by six
east and west-length Of shafts, drifts and
tunnels would not measure three miles, all
put together.
Out Of $4,000 locations made mot re-
corded) and the little work lone on mines
IN white Pine District, we have shipped
about $13, 000, 900 in bullion.
The merit Of White Pine stands TO-DAY
oA e eAco6a uofcf tOucQeQ. Treas
ure Hill, Babylon Hill, Blue Hill. Carbon
ate Hill, Bullion Hill and White Pine
Mountain are grooming with precious met
ais. A hundred things have detracted
from u success. principal among which
are the constantly-recurring new discoy-
cries being made at other points, attract
ing capital and population away from us.
and leaving ''us in the shade" white Pine
was the starter Of Phoebe District in 1870
Eureka District in 1871, and in white
Pine county, Robinson, Sacramento
and S~hellbourne from 1868 to 1850.
Ruby Hill white Pine county). Oneen
Springs Hill. Silver Canyon, Ward. Osceo-
u. Taylor. Nevada. Hunter. Copperhead.
Egan Canyon. Munce Creek and Chsrry
Greek. White Pine opened up 800 souare
miles OF mineral and agricultural Iands
Inc glory OF White Pine has failed ANA
some Of the Damphool Infrmery Of ths
county are agitating the idea Of moving
the court-house to Cherry Creek. For al
tne good It has been to this district. / saw
" to the proposition. Ward NAV
want II stopped thereabouts, and ID il nos.
sibie Hamilton may desire To- have II ~
again III it should be moved. II comfy
seat has anything to do toward deyeloniny
any mining district. / say keep il eeine
and give all the same chance Ham;lto1
mas had for the past twelve years.
J. q.