Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-27

A sensible View of the Future from
n Chicago Mining Review.


Remarks kindred to the annexed from
the Chicago Mining Review of recent date
have appeared in the SENTINEL from time
to time. The great Western railroad boom
must in turn bring a similar boom in the
mining industry. 1t is only a question of
time when mining property will be as
largely sought for as the agricultural
lands Of the old Northwest. The railroads
will open markets for the mineral lands.
The time will come, and that quickly,
when every fair prospect will command
money. The Mining Review truthfully
says:
The numerous railroads which are
rapidly reaching out into the mining coun-
try will make q great change in the volume
and profit Of mining. Ores may be ever
80 pure and valuable, but there is a limit
to their profitable transportation. A load
Of pure gold may be transported until dis
lance has eaten up all the profit, 80 that
there is nothing left for the owner. In
the earlier days OF Illinois and other
States in the Mississippi Valley, when the
farmers grain was raised 100 miles or
more from the mill or market, the produc-
ton was Of necessity limited to the facili-
ties for transportation and the ability to
place the product on the market hence
the amount produced was but little more
than sufficient to supply the needs Of the
producer. With the advent of canals and
railroads, the product rapidly increased,
SO that the immense harvest fields OF these
great States. now not only supply the
wants OF their W people, but furnish
bread and mat fop tha pofsona ~ 4ha
earth.
Lines Of transportation penetrating the
mining country will undoubtedly produce
as marked q change. Hundreds Of loca-
tons which now with the cost of moving
the ore TO the smelter or market, cannot be
worked at a profit will Immediately be-
come valuable, and the same results will
be observed in the mineral fields of the ore
producing territories as was seen in the
agricultural States when they were opened
to the markets.
One line OF railroad will create a demand
for another, and an unusual activity
throughout the mining districts may be ex-
pected in the near future. The advent of
an epoch Of great importance waits at our
doors; and yet very few OF our business
men and financiers seem to comprehend
the fact. A grand stretch of mining coun-
try, larger than some of the empires OF the
East. rich in every mineral product, is
about to smite the rocks with a rod Of Ia
Dor, 30 that precious metals like water
may flow out, a river Of treasure adding to
the wealth and prosperity of the nation.
Croakers scan the heavens in vain for a
shadow as large as a mans hand that may
portend q shadow of evil. With the army
people iocking here from Europe,
whose forces will be applied to the devel-
opment Of the productive u Of the
country, added to this our wide extent Of
marvelously rich mineral territory just
opening its doors to the energy and capital
OF the multitudes, whose faces are turned
the fountains of treasure that a few
short years have revealed, it requires a
prophet indeed to foretell q change
from the bright day Of prosperity which
to have settled like a benediction
over the land.