The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1890-08-02
EASTERN WHITE PINE.

goth we find the following interview
with two Aurum miners. The narra-
tive they relate is true in every par
ticular:
Messrs. Davis g. Sanford, who are
still in the city, told Tribune re-
porter yesterday some new facts re-
garding Eastern White Pine. They are
residents of Aurum and are engaged
in mining. They say that besides the
mining claims held by people who do
enough representing work to keep
good their claims, there are hundreds
of claims which are subject to reloca-
ton because of the failure of the To-
Gators to do assessment work. This
is especially the case on Schell noun
tain, which is a range running twelve
miles north and fifty miles south of
Aurum. Regarding the value of claims
there, they put il thus: "Schell creek
range is only about 200 miles from
from this city. 1t has lots of low
grade ore, from which high grade can
be sorted, such as will pay to ship
here, but the cost of sorting eats up
about all the profits. Ii we had
railroad which would bring our ore
here at a cost of 50 to SO per ton for
transportation, we could send thous-
and Of tons of such ore here. The
Southern Pacific brings ore here from
Eureka, Nevada, and that is "A 800
mile haul, at only IS per ton. 1t will
be easy to build road from here to
our place, aud there is a good pass at
the north end of the range to go
west, while Connor's pass toward the
south end would take the Road
through Spring Valley, aud thence to
Robinson District, where there are
millions of tons of ore. The route
would take in Osceola, Taylor, Ward,
Robinson and Ely. At Robinson,
only three miles from Ely, they have
one of the biggest gold mines in the
county, having free rock that mills
from $40 to $50 per ton. The road
would yet big local business in
all these districts. We ship two
ways. Teams come from Toano load
ed with goods, and We load them back
with ore. MormOns come from Oasis
IL sell produce and we load them
back with ore, anu we would send out
lots more if EN- ugh teams only came
III. 1t is abou; 40 miles north TO
Toano on tile Southern Pacific, and
about the same distance south TO Oasis
on the Union Pacific. We have in
our mine 400 tons of ore on the dump
aud have blocked out in the mine be-
tween eleven and Twelve hundred
tons. We could send any amount
of $50 ore from that camp. On
questioning further il was learned that
in tile mine which Messrs. Davis 81
Sanford are working they are down
seventy five feet on the four foot vein.
The trend of the vein Is north and
south, parallel with the range, and IL
dips about forty-five degrees To the
east. The ore runs 80 per cent iron.
90 per cent silica. 1903 ounces silver
and a trace of gold. The country is
well supplied with red, white and nut
piue, FIR and mahogany, and plenty OF
water. To the west of their claims
there is quartzite belt 5000 feet wide
and this has two known assure veins
cutting across it from east TO west.
These two assures are each three feet
wide and are being developed by
Davis s. Sanford, who have gone
down on one of them twenty-five feet
These veins carry ore which assays 80
ounces silver, So in gold and 90 per
cent copper. Eighteen miles across
Spring valley, eastward, is Kern dis
trict in granite formation. A few
days ago big strike was made in the
mine known as the Granite, where the
ore is antimonial silver and manganese.
In that district no claim has gone
below sixty feet. Ii the people who
want to build railroads could only
see and realize the importance of that
country lying so near our doors, and
which would be so easy TO reach,
could only see the wealth lying there,
as do all mining men who have
visited there, it would not take long
to get railIoad running there. All
the evidence is favorable to such a
road being good paying investment
to the company. 1t would be a boz
nanza to this city.