Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-11-26
STATE, COUNTY AND CITY.
THE AGRICULTURAL AND MINING
RESOURCES.
TOGETHER WITH A CONDEN-
SEQ HISTORY OF CARSON.
SUMMARY OF RESOURCES.

To the enquiry of the farmer and to
those who look to the land for Il living.
What can we do with our products in a
State of such limited transportation as
Nevada?" we answer: The mineral
wealth of the State under a proper state
of development will afford a rich and
highly r~elnuneratiye market for all Of the
State. The advantage of having a home
market cannOt be overostimated. 1t is
cash market and a high price market,
! that i'll the past has made rich men of
those who profited by its advantage. The
little mining camp of Bodie that enjoyed
a brief period of prosperity afforded a
market for the products of Mason and
Carson Valleys, and in a few years built
up wealthy agriculture sections distant
over q hundred miles away. The infiu-
ence of the Conlstock in a short time
changed western Nevada from cattle
range into a prosperous agricultural sec
ton. TuscarOra has done the same for
Elk0, the same may be said for Austin,
Eureka, White Pine and Phoebe. Hith-
erto agriculture has followed in the wake
of mines and mineral productions in the
State. But now a change is coming, Sill
yer mining has waned and the agricultu-
raj communities that have been built up
by fireman, while the mining has in a
great measure been abandoned.
This condition cannot last. The youth
of Nevada will find work for all idle
hands. There will he a welding of the
mining and agricultural resources on a
basis so firm and solid that the true era
of the States prosperity and advance
ment and its integrity as a State and a
people will be dated by it. Pending the
arrival of legislation tn at will restore sill
yer as money of ultimate redemption and
its acceptance as such by the civilized
world, let us look at the gold resources of
the State: 1t is among the richest in the
Union to-day. Employment can be found
for more men mining for gold, than sill
yer mining has afforded in the past, and
a greater output of wealth can be re-
turned from it every year. The Com
stock produces gold in proportion of
forty five.
RESOURCES.
The mineral sections lying in the vi
, vinity Of Ormsby county, and using Car
son City as a base of supplies, promise to
be the richest mining districts of the
7 State. During the past ten years the Red
Canon district, although worked in a
crude way and with the expenditure OF
but a small capital, has been a steady
& source Of gold supply, ard not a week has
ever passed during that time that this
district has not sen its little bar of gold
to Carson City. These mines have never
la1, ~, +lN ,,nx1-Ct or p+,,l- hnnrl anS
\ their owners have had very little to say
regarding them but the fact that they are
4 not for sale. or their owners looking fol
4 partners, shows how well they are PAYING
- upon a comparatively small investment
d IL DISTRICT.
S An extensive placer ground i'll Dougla'
g county, is another one of these promisin:
le gold fields. The gold is of the cOarS
l. variety known as pumpkin-seed gold
v and so rich that on one occasion a lady
who was allowed to pan out gold i'll thi
"a district, made between four and five dol
1e lars per day with a pan, not working owe
id four hours a day. She was totally unao
I'd quainted with the use of the gold pa
r prior to hat time, and it is estimate
es that the returns were not over half {
what might have been obtained by an eS
to perienced placer miner. On some occf
I'd sions nuggets weighing over 500 hav
" been found in this district.
With a small run of water, and tt
tie most primitive appliances, as high /
seven dollars per cubic yard was washe
,st ont and brought to the Carson mint. lG
ID than a single weeks run being repr
er- scented by $1,000 in gol,j. This waltz
ed BILE property is owned by the Raycra
ear brothers and others.
en-. Extensive arrangements are being mac
in to work these claims in the spring. The
da placers cover several quare miles
as ground and are the richest known OH d
continent of North america.
mp THE PINE NUT GRoUP.
leu Another fine group of mines also
Douglas county and mostly owned by Ca
son parties, is the Pin Nut group, lyiI
Ivy twenty-five miles southeast of Cars
originally discovered by VIM. Zirn. T
principal locations in this group are t
Schulz-Zirn, the Rich Copper, the Bal
of California, the Esmeralda, the Bank
Nevada and the Bullion Bank, all
which are owned at Carson City. The
mines are both placer and quartz. d.
ing the past summer, with a limit
amour of water from Anderson ere
men, who are obliged to haul their dirt
OH mile for washing, have made four a
ion c.. dor Tba formation Z
had 49, c.-- ...b;na ole. o,or f,n,d
p it Na.oao 49, .,rtoo n,oson,i,e a or
ans. 0s" 'Ho -
variety of lodges which run in differ
and directions, and which are very puzzl
life oooo;.ts prof Clark Of Co,ora
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