The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-27
THE SALT LAKE & LOS ANGELES.

Mr.. HOLSTER contributes the follow.
ing: Here is something about centra
Nevada. About 100 to $50 miles south
of the Central Pacific (Humboldt River
there is an irregular divide strikine
across the State from which the waters
| flow north and south. This divide is
the best part of the State. On either
hand are the finest valleys, either TO!
farming or pasturage. Every mountain
range is mineral range. Mr.. Stubs,
general freight agent of Gov. Stanford's
railroads. testified before the last Pacific
Railroad investigating commission tba.
so per cent. OF the net earnings of the
Central Pacific (Which begins at Sacra
mento and ends at Ogden), were from
local business. Mr.. Johnson, of Rem
ington, Johnson & Co., of this city,
who has business house in Eureka,
New, and has had for the past fifteen
years, says that so per cent. of MIR.
Stubb's so per cent. is derived from
Nevada, and that rs per cent, of the
so per cent. comes from the diyi g
spoken of, 100 to $50 miles south of the
Central Pacific. This is the region the
railroad west W II run through. Per-
haps the best route is afforded by line
about forty miles south of here, which
lets one easily through Shell Creek
Range into Steptoe Valley.
AT Mineral City it would be in the
heart of Robinson mining district, one
of the best in the whole State. A man
named Ogden mined there fifteen years
ago, built and operated furnace. But
it cost $50 ton to wagon his bullion to
Eureka, and $35 q ton to transport it
from Eureka to market. 30 $50 ore,
with charcoal at thirty cents bushel,
and these monstrous transportation
charges, wouldn't pay. Mr.. Ogden
patented his mines and left for better
country pending the arrival of another
4ilroad. And this is illustrative
what has happened all through the oelt
I speak of. Taylor and Ward mieir z
districts are east of Mineral City. the
former, at least, a good district. Min
eral City is in Egan Range,
through which Hercules Gap,
near by offer an easy pass. Spring
Valley and Steptoe Valley are the fin
est valleys in the State. Any road
from this city would probably make
for Hercules Gap, near Mineral City
through the Shell Greek Range. From
there choice of routes is presented
one passing through Ruby Range, q
dozen miles north OF Hamilton, and
ths Piute Pass in the Diamond Range
near Eureka; thence nearly via the old
overland road to Austin, Saltwater
Ragtown, and from the latter to Beck
with Pass, the best pass in the Sierras
from end to end. The othsr would
pursue nearly dire CT course from Min.
erai City to iybo, south of Belmont
and thence onward to the Walker River
country in the vicinity of Mono Lake,
and through the Mono Pass into Cali
fornia in the Heighborhood of Fresno.
Duckwater and Blue Eagle Valleys
south of Hamilton, largely supply
Hamilton and Eureka with grain and
hay.
From Tybo they are now Wagonins
ores over 100 miles to Eureka, and sendG
ing them here for reduction. At Eureka
or near there, Mr.. ] ohnson and some as
sociates eTn a mine we'll opened, with
twenty feet of solid ore, and NJ q lily
millions in sight. In making some
erosscuts tdey took out 356 tons of this
ore and had it reduced at Eureka. 1t is
SIG ore, dry, but 40 per cent. iron al
tao result was Loss. They shipred
some $18 ore here, H6weyer, and made
a slight profit on Il. This is illustrative
of the different ways Of doing things
there and here. This mine was offere &
fer $50 0O0. but declined, because thu
parties thought thsy would ultimately
get it for nothing.
The furnaces at Eureka neveNtreatee
$50 ore unless for huxing purposes il
exceptional cases. Ssven-eighths 0
the ore produced by the whole worlC
are worth less than $50. In the palm.
DAYS of Nevada, before any robbiDi
railroad had the State by the throat
the miners threw away rock worth les
than $100 ton over the dump, and es
pecially If it showed any appearance O
lead.
Every one of these ranges is minere