Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-30
eureka Dnilp 5rnt,nfl.
SATURDAY ..DECEMBER 80, ISIS.
,rs,rIaArE MINING.

legitimate and the iliegltlnlate' Llttle
need be said of the latter sort. The peo-
ple of Nevada are already familiar with
it. Legitimate mining has been the
chief cause of our u~nsavory nickname IN
the East. the ~''rotten borough. Gut OF
II has come the present "black eye
which causes our principal industry to
languish everywhere throughout the
State. Travel over Nevada and in every
section of the country You see crushing
monuments Of fraud or folly, sometimes
of both. but generally of the former en-
tirely. The fact is SO well known and
50 profoundly appreciated that special
reference is not necessary. There is
hardly any camp thas has not been
wounded or temporarily killed by a mill
or two costing from $780, 900 to $780,
OoO-mills and other works erected at
great cost without ore, with sometimes
hardly a hole in the ground to warrant
the expenditure. Mining camps have
great local pride, hence it would offend
aud d., no good to lame these monu-
ments of folly or OF fraud. Nor has the
season OF such disastrous ventures passed.
Within the year about to transpIre the
same rather old time scandal has been
repsated. Elegant hosting works have
been erected and a splendid mill with
the capacity of 40 stamps half built.
The parties furnishing the means from a
distance stopped suddenly in their career
of -unwarranted expenditure and now
rroan over the established fact that
there is not a pound OF ore in sight and
mourn over the ruins they have reared
with precious cost. They bleed inward
" if they do not shed actual tears.
This is but one OF a series OF terrible
blows to the mining industries OF Ne
vada in this way, and it is made proml-
nent by specific reference only because 1t
is the most recent Of the kind. Yet tins
thing OF building mills and Aoistlng
works prematurely that are destined to
drop TO pieces unused is only one OF the
WAYS in which mining in Nevada has
been made the most ~precarious enter
prise in the world Tor capitalists abroad.
Extravaganza and waste have been the
rule. It IS notorious that generally a
mine Is not valuable in accordance with
its mineral contents, but IS only fit to
make a tnrn in for those ION the inside.
i. mas been what the gamblers call a
h1Egias game, put up Tor the benefit OF
= lew who take no chances IN the specu-
iasion but rob all others whom they can
afford to rob without breaking up the
game. The reaction comes after a while.
Sleek suDerintendsnts and impertinent
secretaries have to give up the fat things
that have lost their nutriment by the
bl9od-sucking. This class Of fellows who
produce nothing. but dress exquisitely
and least every day, are seldom out OF a
sob, however; their blood-sucking is
hardly ever more than briefly suspended.
This sort OF thing, along with the manlp.
ularions Of that monstrous fraud, the
Stock Bard in San Francisco, has re.
dueed Nevada, IS a mining community,
to extremity. We're this State less rich
in the precious metals it could exist nc
longer in the commercial world, and,
having died, would be remembered only
by its spasmolic bonanzas and the start
ling examples of crooked wastetulness
that have made it conspicuous, pleas
antly and unpleasantly, for the last 81
years.
But there are hopes OF a better day
Nevada will live ior hundreds OF year,
by her mining some way or other
Legitimate transactions are be
coming more difficult as mimi.
grows older as a permanent industry
Ultimately, the development of a min'
will be undertaken and carried on as
legitimate business, just as farming o
manufacturing is done-and there is NJ
reason why this should not be the case
Shafts may be sunk and tunnels run anc
hosting works built on the same bust
ness economic principles that inspire thu
farmer to construct barns, to f%ertilize th'
soil and SOW his various crops. There !
uncertainty as to the yield Of a mine
but not less so with regard to the in
come from a wheat field or a cotton man
ufactory. The only difference is tina
mining has seemed to afford opportuni
ties for fraudfpl speculation, by which
other branches of business have not beer
so conspicuously hampered. This methoc
Of working a mine as a man would run
saddler's shop, or a railroad, or a brew
cry, will eventually prevail. In fact
some wholesome and striking example!
of this way of legitimate mining are il
the writer's mind just now. The Gedde'
& Bertrand is being worked for what i!
in it, at a splendid profit. The Monitor
mine, in Taylor District, White Pine,
out of which three men divide S25, 00(
among themselves per month, is another
recent example of what may be called
legitimate business in mining, Not that
these are the only ones, but because they
are of more recent development, and are
what mining people are pleased to call
"small properties" Another aspect oil
legitimate mining which is coming hope
fully to the front in Nevada is the efforts,
in several instances already crowned
with gratifying success, being made to
reduce low-grade ores at a profit. The
aSarrapoa ia NOT nacessarv that Ftthare's