Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1890-08-09
EASTERN WHITE PINE.
The Country - Full OF Fay Ore
All That IL Needed fs Transports
tiOn Facilities and n Market.

In the Salt Lake Tribune of July
26th we find tine following interview
with two Aurum miners. The nara
tive they relate is true in every par
ticular:
Messrs. Davis d Sanford, who are
still in the city, told a Tribune re-
porter yesterday some new facts re-
garding Eastern White Pine. They
are residents Of Aurum and are IN
gagged in mining. They say that be-
sides the mining claims held by peo-
pie who do enough representing work
to keep good their claims, there are
hundreds OF claims which are subject
to relocation because Of the failure OF
the locators to do assessment work.
This is especially the case on Schell
mountain, which is a range running
twelve miles north and fifty miles
south OF Aurum. Regarding the
value Of claims there, they put it thus /:
" Schell Greek Range is only about
200 miles 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 a railroad which would bring u
ore here at a cost Of So to Sc per ton
for transportation, we could send
thousand OF tons Of such ore here.
The Southern Pacific brings ore here
from Eureka, Nevada, and that is a
500 mile haul, at only S. per ton. 1t
will be easy to build a road from here
to our place, and 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, and 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 $40 per ton. The road
would get a big local business in all
these districts. We ship two ways.
Teams come from Toano loaded with
goods, and We load them back with
ore. Mormons come from Oasis to
sell produce and we load them back
with ore, and we could send out lots
more II enough teams only came in.
1t is about 140 miles north to Toano on
the Southen 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
and 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 question
ing further it was learned that in the
mine which Messrs. Davis & 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 it dips
| about forty-five degrees to the east.
The ore runs 32 per cent iron, % per
cent silica, 1903 ounces silver and atrace
| OF gold. The country is well supplied
| with red, white and nut pine, fir and
mahogany, and plenty OF water. To
| the west OF their claims there is a
quartzite belt 5000 feet wide and this
has tWO kuONH hSbulo Ncillb Cuttiue
across it from east to west. These
two assures are each three feet wide
and are being developed by Davis &
Sanford, who have gone down on one
OF them twenty-five feet. These veins
carry ore which assays 20 ounces
silver, s. in gold and % per cent cop
per. Eighteen miles across Spring
Valley, eastward, is Kern district in
granite formation. A few days ago a
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 be-
low sixty feet. If the people who want
to build railroads could only see and
realize the importance of that country
living SO neal our doors, and which
would be 30 easy to reach, could only
see the wealth lying there, as do al
mining men who have visited there
it would not take long to get a railroad
running there. All the evidence il
favorable to such a road being a gooC
paying investment to the company
1t would be a bonanza to this city.