The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-01-06
CHERRY CREEK.
What Editor Sessions Says About
Our Resources and People,.

Our Resources and People,.
Cherry Creek is still a busting little camp.
in which everybody seemed to be employed,
and to have some money for the necessaries
as well as the Injuries oflife. The main-stay
Of the camp is the Star mine. The Star mill.
20 stamps, is running at full capacity, but not
at a profit Just now, as the most of the ore
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 Superintendent Of the prop
erty, who is a very intelligent gentleman, is
experimenting with FIVE stamps, wet crushing
and concentrating. lie has not completed the
experiment yet, but lie has gone far enough
in it to be satisfied that by the use Of series
of blanket sluices and a 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 succeeds
in this. as he confidently believes be will. il
will assure tho Star mine a splendid future
and Cherry Greek a long life. The process
employed in the mills hitherto, and on which
the ID stamps are now run, is dry crushing
and roasting. Cherry Creek enjoys peculiar
advantages, and If Mr.. Foulko works out tho
problem Of reducing his low-grade ore profit
ably it will be a fine town for business. 1t is
what Stephen Gage would call a competitive
point" Being so near Utah it can get its
supplies frou Salt Lake if the c. P. refuses
low rates Of freight. These rates it gets on
freight hauled from Toano. Wood is very
cheap. Mahogany is abundant at 81 per cord,
and a splendid quality Of nut pine at s.. 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 al this season, Of course, but not
bleak, and the snow that falls soon melts off.
The 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 excellent
coffee from which the aroma rises gratefully
to his %nostrils. Saloons abound, most of them
two bits. There are tive which evidently feel
tie need Of advertising that they arc cheap.
On a board stuck up the paint tells you
Everything for l2}9 cents" On a recent visit
TO Cherry Creek Il Sentinel representative
met Boss Weber. lie is a genial fellow and
serves the best liquors with a captivating
smile. lie got bis name from his resemblance
IN rotundity Of figure to Boss Tweed OF Goth
an and because b. was chief fer a time among
the politicians in Kings County. having him.
sell missed the Shrievaiity Of Brooki,n some
years ago by only Il 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 4 power
in Cherry Creek politics. and is known for
his admirable quality truly Demoeratic) of
sticking TO his friends and making theirs his
personal fight until the last son Of gun has
put in his ballot. Ward keeps a fine saloon,
and so does Taylor, and all the rest that the
Sentinel man saw, for that matter. Every
body there, as the French in Paris, live in
these places Of distraction" and "a man who
does not see the salons in Cherry Creek
does not see the town. Cherry Greek is full
OF genial. free hearted pleasant people. l.
has Il good prospect before il, and we are so
much pleased with il that ii its ambition the
getting OF the county seat located there
should be realized, we would be sorry for old
Hamilton. OF course, but ready 10 congratu-
late Cherry Gre elk nevertheless.