The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1891-09-05
GOV. ooLCORD ON PINE NUT. II
He Gives Little Credit 20 Senator
Haines' Glowing Report Of the Zirn

Hahn es' oIOWluH hep"s' W. sho Nsah
Mine.
In the San Francisco Chronicle of
last Sunday, Governor Colcord OF Ne
vada warns the public from rushing
to the Pine Nut region or giving any
credence to the recent enthusiastic
reports concerning the real value of
Zirns strike. The Governor fears
too many people will attach undue
Importance to the statement made by
Senator Haines:
Governor Colcord said at the Pal
ace Hotel, just after his arrival in the
city yesterday, that he did not desire
TO say word against Senator Hanes,
who was his friend and very good
man. Haines was one of Nevada S
World Fair Commissioners, and was
thoroughly capable and meant well.
The trouble was he sometimes became
too enthusiastic. The Governor said
that Haines had never been in his life
"A practical mining man, and knew
nothing about prospecting or Judging
the probable value of vein. Even
if he had been inside Zlrn's shaft he
was not capable of telling whether
the outlook was promising or not,
and il was simply ludierous fer him
TO com pare little strike like that at
Pine Nut TO Bodie IN its palmiest
days. To class Pine Nut with it
could have no other effect than to send
thousands and thousands Of people to
g part of Nevada which might not
produce anything of considerable
value.
The Governor gave his reasons in
detail for not believing that there was
anything very promising at Pine Nut.
AS man who had been a practical
miner and prospector the best part of
ms life, and who had worked in and
been connected with mines almost to
the day he took office, he said, he felt
confident that lac understood the bust
ness pretty well. The trouble with
Pine Nut was that practically nobody
vouched for it but Zirn, an ignorant
miner. Zirn had a partner, half
owner in the mine, one Schultz, who
had not yet said that he believed there
was big mine in sight. Until Schultz
said something every good mining
man who knew him would be doubtful
about the real value of the strike.
The Governor declared that Schultz,
IA butcher in Carson, was an honest
man and that if anybody could get
him tn say that the rumors about
Pine Nut were true it would be time
enough To believe them. Schultz had
been giving Zirn "grub stake" for
years. and now that the latter had d
strike. Schultz would not, or at least
had not said whether this was n good
one or not. This, in the opinion Of
the speaker, was suspicious eireum-
stance and might well be taken into
consideration by men contemplating
trip To Pine Nut
The Governor said further that he
had himself prospected the very
country Zirn's alleged strike was in,
and had not seen any good indica-
tions on the surface. Ii there was
anything there beyond mere deposit
it was remarkable indeed, aud a con-
tradiction of all prospectors' theories.
Governor Colcord will leave at once
for the Pine Nut mine, as he believes
the boom has now reached stage
where it is his duty as chief executive
of Nevada to announce definitely
whether or not there is any truth in
the sensational statements that have
been printed concerning it.