Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-30
CHERRY
something About Its Resources
and More AbOua Vfs panule.

SOhheshtns About ITS Resources
and More AbOus Vts People.
Cherry Creek is still a bustling little
camp, in which everybody seemed to be
employed, and to have some o for the
necessaries as well as the Injuries of life.
Tit main-stay of the camp is the Star
mine. Thu Star mill, 20 stamps, is run
ming at full capacity, but not at a profit
just now, as the most Of the ore being re-
duced is of low grade and does not pay.
OF this character of ore, from $50 per ton
down, there is a vast quantity in the mine.
At present Mr.. Foulke, the Supcrintend-
ent of the property, who is q very intelli-
gent gentleman, is experimenting with one
stamp, Wet crushing and concentrating.
he has not completed the experiment yet,
but he has gone far enough in it to be sat-
lsiied that by the use of a series of blanket
sluices and II pair of reservoirs, in which
to save the sediments, that he can save ten
per cent of the assay value of the ore,
which has hitherto been lost. If he sue
ceeds in this, as he confidently believes he
will, it will assure the Star mine a splendid
future and Cherry Greek a long life. The
process employed in the mills hitherto,
and on which the 10 stamps are now run,
is dry crushing and roasting. Cherry
Creek enjoys peculiar advantages, and if
Mr.. Foulke works out the problem of re-
ducing his low-grade ores profitsbly it
Will be a fine town for business. 1t is
what Stephen Gage calls a competitive
point" Being so near Utah it can get its
supplies from Salt Lake if the G.. P. re-
fuses low rates of freight. These rates it
gets on freight hauled from Toano.
Wood is very cheap. Mahogany is
abundant at Sc per cord, and
a splendid quality of nut pine at So.
The town is delightfully."- located, being in
Steptoe Valley, on the east side of a high
range Of mountains. Passing into this
valley through Egan Canyon you leave
cutting winds and deep SNOW behind you.
The air in Cherry Greek is cold at this
season, of course, but not bleak, aud the
snow that falls soon melts of. Ths cosy
little town has three or four very good
restaurants in which the hungry man can
almost imagine himself at home in front
Of a fine broiled steak and a cup Of excel
lent coffee from which the aroma rises
gratefully to his n~ostrils. Saloons abound,
most of them two bits. There are two
which evidently feel the need of advertise
ing that they are cheap. On a board
stuck up the paint tells you everything
for 12S cents" On a recent visit to
Cherry Greek a SENTINEL representative
met Boss" Weber. He is a genial fellow
and serves the best liquors with a capti-
waiting smile. He got his name from his
resemblance in %rotundity of figure to Boss
Tweed of Gotham and because he was
chief for a time among the politicians in
Kings County, having himself missed the
Shrievalty of Brooklyn some years
ago by only a few votes, hardly
any more than our old friend Pogonip Bill
needed in the last election to make him
Sheriff of White Pine County. Boss
Weber is a power in Cherry Greek politics,
and is known for his admirable quality
(truly Democratic) of sticking to his
friends and making theirs his personal
fight until the last son of a gun has put in
his ballot. Ward keeps a fine saloon, and
so does Curtis, and all the rest that the
SENTINEL man saw, for that matter.
Everybody there, as the French in Paris,
live in these places of abstraction" and a
man who does not see the salons" in
Cherry Greek does not see the town.
Cherry Creek is full Of genial, free hearted,
pleasant people. 1t has a good prospect
before it, and we are so much pleased with
it that if its ambition (the getting of the
county seat located there should be real
lied, we would be sorry for old Hamilton,
of course, but readily to congratulate
Cherry Greek nevertheless.