The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1897-04-10
ROBINSON DISTRICT
a DESCRIPTION or ITS EXTENT
AND R~asoURCES.

the Central Pacific Railroad, in the
Esan range of mountains, near the
swn OF. Ely, the county scat.
The mines of this district wore,
sene of them, located as ca as
1869, about thu Time OF the discov-
cry of Tho celebrated White Pine
MiAing district. They were at first
kslieved TO be silver-lead mines and
were worked for that kind of min
srai. A smelling furnace was erect
"a for the purpose of working the
apes, and considerable of it was re-
dusad in that why, but at that early
day smelling had not got to that de-
yree of perfecticn that it has since
ettained. and this process was aban-
d~1ed.
From the surface indications and
Che ,%iscinct character of ore found in
this district it is the Judgment Of many
that there are two ore veins that are
separated by Robinson canyon, The
vein on the north side Cf the canyon
contains ore that is valuable largely
in silver, lead and very little gold,
while the vein on the south side Of
the canyon contains ore that is ralua-
hle largely in gold and very little
| cad and silver. This is not the case
In each instance rs the mines that are
situated next to the canyon on the
north side are, some Of them, very
Smilar to those on the south side of
she canyon. This is especially true
Of the mines located east of the Great
Western, while those lying further to
the north and higher ON the mountain
ara of tho silyer-lead character. Il
may be that the gold vein, or the vein
on the south sile Of the canyon IS
separated, and forms a spur, or ut
thia point, becomes wider and extends
further to the north and beyond the
eanyon.
before proceeding further III His
description it Will IN well to atata t,at
TIE oro IONS passes thrndgh the dis
srist In u north-westurly md so8tii-
sssterly direction ana Robinson can.
ysn cuts through the district IL a
asuth-easterly course near the middle
III the ore Il
Returning again to the worl: done
In the early days of the district, while
+hey were prospecting chiefly for ail-
ser and lead it was discovered that
1e lead bullion carried a large
amount of gold, Upon Investigation
{. was found that tho
AuLTMAN MINE
Wss furnishing the greater portion Of
vAis valuable metal. The Gre of this
AfAs was of such character that it
Ssula not be reduced rapidly. il being
assemposed quartz, y large portion of
which was clay, which bahled the
sasst experienced smeltcrs of the
emp. 1t was ut last concluded to
abandon this mine so far as smelling
SBs was concerned; they however
worked the property il pursuit Of
lead, which WAS not found in paying
Quantities, but they did develop a
large VEN of ore carrying gold The
cine was left in this condition until
1887, when Messrs. Underhill, Me
0Mis and others secured n lease upon
tAs mino and worked the property fer
. number of years. They construct
81 9 mill of ten stamps capacity and
sedused the ore by crushing and pass
Ing tho same oven copper-silyered
plates. The process was incomplete
ed the loss too great to make it prof
fable. Under this lease they devel-
spsa large quantities of ore that can
Pc made profitable by working on u
Arse scale and with q complete mill
As plant. 1t would he difficult TO
estimate the amount of ore developed
in the Aultman, it not being suili-
IDENTITY blocked ont, but there are
large quantities of the average value
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