The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-12-15
A Branch Railroad
For New York and Vel
low Pine Districts.
Good News from the Coming Min.
ing District of Lincoln.


The work Of converting into pure metal
the valuable and extensive mineral de.
posits of the Yellow Pine. New York,
Vanderbilt and other mining districts in
the southwest part Of this county and
over the line in California, is to be push.:
cd. Only few weeks ago number of
parties we're in the new country looking
iato the proposition of building rail.
road there. The matter has already taken
definite form, as shown by the following
extract from letter to Saml T. Godbe
from President I. C. Blake Of the Needles
Reduction Company of Denver. Colo,
under date Of the lat inst. which says
1--WE are about to besia the oonstruc-
tiou Of railrosd to. New York district.
thirty miies north of COTS, and which
we expect to have completed, by the lat.
ter part Of January:and In operation. SO
that at least thirty miles of your. present
wagon haul oan be avoided. Ia regard
to the completion Of the road to Good
Springs, il 200 tous per day can be guar.
anteed we would not stop the construc.
tion Of the road at New York district,
bat would. continue It through to Good
SPRING."
The proposition then 10 to ascertain a.
speedily as possible what output from
Yellow Pine district. or Good Springs. a.
1t 10 called sometimes. can DO relied on,
and if the estimates are satisfactory the
work of getting together necessary rails
and other building materials will be
pushed, so the road may be completed to
Yellow Pine before the hot weather Of
next summer sets in, as during the sum.
msr season there. railroad work could be
prosecuted only at great suffering from
the heat. and at great expense.
COTS. the initial point Of the proposed
road. Is small station on the A. 4. r. read.
New York district. thirty miles north,
is in San Bernardino county. Gala. has
long been known. and chiefly AZ . low
grade silver country. Recently. though,
it was found that the ores in general were
more valuable for the gold contained than
for silver. and fresh impetus was thus
given to development there. The Needles
Reduction Company has secured large
interests in New York district and will
lose no time in getting to work on them.
The ores there are said to average $50 a
ton in gold. The Vanderbilt district lies
Immediately north of New York district,
also in California, and here, too. extern
sivs mineral bodies are located and sew.
sral good mines opened up. North Of
Vanderbilt comes the Yellow Pine dis.
trict, 81 which Good Springs is the cen.
ter. This is in Lincoln county, ninety
miles north. Of COTS.
If the extension of the road to Good
Springs depends only on an ore output
from that district Of 200 tons day. it Is
safe to say 1t will be: there by next sum.
msr. This railroad project il but one Of
three which have been mentioned Of late.
In order to ascertain what yellow Pine
could do for road, q committee Of
three mine owners made careful exam.
nation of the mines In the district few
weeks ago. The result showed thirty.
five or more claims from which ore could
at once be shipped, and estimates Of ton.
mage then made ran from 1000 tons down
to 500 tons day. To be entirely safe
on the estimate. the latter figure was
adopted. The great bulx of mines there
are lead properties. the, gold claims being
those most recently located. A. @. Camp.
bell OF Salt Lake. who owns the May
Kirby group, is understood to have said
he could guarantee 200 tons 9 day from
his claims alone.
The latest advices from the Keystone
mine itself are that the lower tunnel al.
ter bsing driven about 800 feet, has cut
the vein at depth Of $50 feet from the
surface. The full width Of the ledge was
not ascsrtained, but q ten inch streak Of
the rich ore found above is mentioned,
which adds thousands of dollars to the
value Of the property and shows the per.
manency Of the vein. This leaves $50
feet Of virgin ground bstwsen the new
strike and the deepest shaft.