Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-30

A Brief sketch of the Town, Its
Mines and POssibilities-A Word
of Caution TO Business and Work
ing Men Seeking New Fields.
The town of Taylor in White Pine
county, of which considerable is heard
nowadays, is situated in the foothills Of q
range Of mountains about halfway between
Eureka and Phoebe on the White Pine
stage road. Directly across the valley,
which at this point is eight miles wide, is
the town Of Ward, and both towns have an
elevation above the valley Of probably $50
feet, and above sea level q fraction over
1000 feet. Taylor has been in existence
about three years, but II was not until last
| Spring that it attracted much attention.
When it became patent TO all concerned
that the settlement was liable to develop
into a town Of considerable proportions, a
conflict OF opinion arose as to where the
town proper should be located. By an ac-
cident one OF the poorest sites talked OF at
the time was decided on, and as q conse-
quence the main street of the burg, which
comprises two levels. one being three or
four feet above the other-it extend
ing along the side of o hills one Of
the most u%ngainly to be seen in any camp
in Nevada, il not on the Coast. Before
the question was settled quite a number,
anxious to build, were ON the qui vive, and
when 1t was seen that a man of some
prominence commenced grading on the
principal t~horoughfare Of the present town
for the erection Of q business house, others
rushed in wildly and in Q day the question
OF tie towns main street wRs settled.
Business houses sprang up with consider
able rspidity, and for q time 1t looked as
though many more structures than the
camp would justify would be erected.
While Taylor is surrounded by many
promising mining properties, yet what
might be termed active work is carried on
only by the Monitor and Argus companies.
Both have large claims, especially the lat
ter, whose surface ground covers over 100
acres, and both have their reduction mills
about eight miles from town. The Monitor
mill is run by water power, the Argus by
steam The production OF the mines OF
these two companies to date exceeds$1 ,200,-
900, the greater part OF which amount was
produced by the Monitor.
The formation of the district is lime
stone and p%orphyry, and thus far all the
ore extracted has been from chambers, some
Of which produced as much az 1000 tons
each. All these chambers are contiguous
to one another, and as yet but little work
has been done by either company below a
depth Of 1870 feet. By both companies new
chambers have been discovered right along
almost as fast as the old ones were worked
out, and while the ore in them has been
very rich In spots, yet that shipped to the
mills has been so mixed with the low grade
as to work from $50 to $50 a ton. From
several OF the small properties OF the dis
trict punches of good ore have been ex-
tracted and sent to the mills, but unfor-
tunately for the camp such properties are
In the hands of either imprscticable or i'm
%pecunious men. Among some of the good
properties of the camp that are believed to
possess considerable, if not great merit,
might be mentioned the Breechloader,
June and Hayes.
Taylor ia a good little camp. It's entire
population does not exceed $50, and until
more work ia don by operators there the
town will not justify and support any more
people. The number of men employed BY
abe Monitor and Argus companies, both in
their mines and mills, will not exceed 1876.
The wages paid range from So to So so a
day. both for miners and millmen. The
town has as many business houses OF all
kinds as it can support, and II the coming
Winter proves q severe one, n unless
operations are prosecuted on a larger scale
than now, some now there will have all
they can do to pull through until next
! Spring. Like nearly all its sister camps in
Eastern Nevada. Taylor needs more prac-
teal mining men Of capital, who will as
sist in extracting the wealth her mountains
contain. As ii now is the camp is lively
about pay-days. The people there, even
from the principal mining operator to the
humblest ~workingman, are generous and
hospitable, and many spend their money,
not only generously but improvidently.
But, as can be judged from the number of
men employed and the wages they receive,
the mou OF coin dispensed each
month is limited, and within q week
after the pay-days Of the Monitor and
Argus companies the TO- assumes its
normal condition, and like other camps in
the State has q quiet appearance. Some
building is being done even now in Tay-
lor, but inasmuch as one or two struct-
ures there can be rented for q reasonable
amount, it is hardly probable these i'm
| provements will continue much longer
or until matters improve. All the water
used in the town is hauled from springs
three and four miles distant, and sells at
the uniform price of two cents a gallon.
Our advice to business and working
men seeking new fields is to 20 slow on
Taylor at present. AS we have said. the
camp Is most promising in its mineral
| productions and what it now needs is
more practical men Of means to take hold
Of her many mines which are liable to
prove equally as valuable as those now
being successfully worked. Until such as
sistance comes TO the camp it has all 1t can
do to sustain those already there.