The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-03-18
YELLOW PINE DISTRICT.

PuoAS oAAO AoAO"hS AAsSA0SeAAAS PAA'seS
letter received by him from Yellow
Pine few days ago:
YELLOW PINE MINING DISTRICT, NEv,l
FebruaryI u, 1893
Have been roughing il here for the past
six weeks among the cacutus and the few
burros that sbount in this. desert region,
evidently the land where biblical Joshua
commanded old Sol to stand still, as about
the only trees that grow quite profusely in
one of the most forbidding spots in the
universe.
There are two great mineral districts
adjoining, namely, New York and Wander
bilt in San Bernardino county. Cal. The
first named formation is lime and por-
phyry. A Denver company is now operst-
ing there with force of 50 men holding
forth in dugouts and tents. The ore runs
about 35 ounces in silver and from 80 to 40
per cent. lead. It was originally claimed to
be a gold camp, but after its purchase found
to be the contrary. They are busy making
roads and developing group of eight
mines and storing ore until the advent of
the railroad now in course of construction.
The Vanderbilt formation is gneiss or
quartz, and its appearance is certainly in
dicatiye of good, strong mineral belt, and
is situated about s. miles from CATS sta
ton on the line of the Atlantic & Pacific.
aud seven miles westerly from New York,
and bids fair to be an extensive camp. Two
of the principal mines are down about 80
feet, with drifts run for 60 feet, showing
veins quite continuous but narrow and best
$50 gold and $S5 silver-reckoned as gold
camp-all the prospects showing thirds
gold. The ore is of q sulphuret character
and water is coming at aforesaid depth
Springs are close by and a number of mill
sites are located there.
Lyle has bonded the Gold Bronze for
$40 900 and the Gold Bar is bonded for
$4,000, and it is now foregone conclusion
that said sales will be consummated as they
have taken up two millsites for the purpose
of reducing ore within a mile from the
mines.
The camp is located in a narrow wash,
with about dozen tents, consisting of one
lodging house, three boarding houses, two
saloons, one general merchandise store and
Chinese laundry. Only Is men are en-
ployed regularly, but upwards of 200 men
are in the district prospecting, and for a
9O-day camp it is quite lively.
Now cross the deserts and dry lakes, dis
tant 45 miles to Goode Springs, thence by
trail to Keystone in the center of Yellow
Pine District, six miles; total distance from
Golf on A. g. P. road, Sc miles by said route
though by regular wagon road it is III
miles, through deep, grayelly, sandy washes
and is equal to go miles of your northern
routes for travelling.
Yellow Pine boundaries are nearly 100
miles, and from my limited travels and OBJ
seryation is the most extensive and richest
mineral belt unexplored and undeveloped
within the confines of the Union. Its as
pect is certainly very discouragiug, especi-
ally to Il tenderfoOt, and quite apt to drive
him away into some more desirable cline.
The formation is lime of varied character
and porphyry; vein are quite irregular and
country badly broken up in all directions
by the volcanic disturbances of a million
years or more ago.
The Keystone mine is about the only
mine developed to any extent, being $50
feet deep at present, with three tunnels in
said distance, and has paid from the grass
roots, as from Aug l, 1892, to Jan. l. 1898, it
has yielded $4,000, after deduction of $50
per ton freight, and if under wide
awake business management would do still
better.
Another promising mine is the Golden
Chariot. which is now shipping ore aver
aging 40 ounces, only 20 feet deep, with a
60-foot tunnel.
Thence comes your scribe with pet girl
entitled the "Marceun Clementina;" have
sunk a 11-foot shaft thereon; have extract
ed about six tons therefrom, with assays of
26 ounces gold per ton; width of vein in
bottom about two feet and four feet in
length walls are both lime, but expect
that by sinking 80 feet may strike contact;
1 own five-eights and have bond on bal
ance, SO 1 intend to rustic sale If pos
sible to Denver people who have made a
$4,000 offer, but consider it too low from the
showing of vein for 200 feet on surface and
the outcrop generally of stringers observable
in all directions, which by judicious work
may show up much better than expected,
as experts who have examined it claim may
exceed the Keystone, and is now reckoned
second best with such little work done.
The gold belt is ten miles square, lodges
all running north and sonth, the gangue of
the ore being red oxide of iron, quite