New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-12
NEVADA TO THE FORF.
SHE BIDS FAIR TO BECOME THE BAN
NER GOLD-PRODUCING STATE
OF THE UNION.
WHILE THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN GOING KLoNpiKE-
MAD VETERAN MINERS AND PRosPECToRs
HAVE BEEN QUIETLY REAP1NG
GOLDEN HARVEST IN THE FIELDS
WHICH GAVE TO THE WORLD
THE CoMsToCK AND

THE BONANZA.
The interview with President Joseph L. Robert
son. of the Gold Creek Companies, recently printed,
and followed later through the advertising
columns OF the metropolitan press By the COM
panles' announcement Of their Intention TO oner
the public small interest in their wonderfully rich
and extensive holdings in Nevada. awakens curious
speculation to one OF the inexplicable freaks
OF that strangest OF created beings. man. Why.
with boundless wealth lying at his very doors is he
dazzlcd by travellers tales from that inhospt-
able region the Klondke as 10 expend time, money.
energies. and even life itself. In the endeavor TO
obtain what. II those tales prove true. may be
more easily had within the bounds Of civilization?
AS Major Robertson and his confreres seem TO be
exceptions TO the above rule and instead OF playing
leapfrog the fortune at their doorstep and
heing them off the lands end. to have sought
an Eldorado in accessible territory. a reporter
was sent to his Offices. in the Manhattan Life Build
Ing, TO If he could explain why Nevada re-
manned so long out OF the public purview-so long
(as god-producng State) in 'statu quo. and now
1t came about that while the attention OF the whole
Of mankind tamoso seemed 10 be fastened upon
Nevada TO the front
Major Robertson attributes the awakening interest
In these gold fields to the final demonstration OF
silver. Throughout the mining States there are
great numbers Of
their energies to silver mining. which at FORMER
prices presented most lucrative field OF operations
turned 10 the kindred one OF gold mining. and with
results that have as;ounded even the veterans
They did not seek the utermost corners Of the
earth. there to encounter unknown perils In the
ing of quartz and placer mines. They wisely chose
districts well within the confines OF cirilizaucn
na ep ns G %od OF be and
starting points IN their search rlcn sections whtSn
Ms the ss had Esd sSs
over. despite their tremendous yield: VIZ. Call
Re ana Sed Of so in alone
Quadrupled in the last five years And now Nevada
getting the overflow of prospectors and miners has
reporter, pursuing his Inquiries among those hos
the new discovery of the enormously rich gold feds
of Nevada would have been made earlier but for
riiory. one having been made recently only at the
request Of the Gold Creek Companies. Another
until of late almost unrestrained presence OF what
are locally known as bad Indians" Yet another
Pixies Peak discovery was made before the war.
yet prospectors, miners and tenderfeet' ran over
Since that date over $1,000 600 has been taken from
its soil. until then sheep ranch.
by its gold fields, is rapidly increasing its popua-
ton. and has SO INCREASED its yield OF the yeoT
Of vast experience in Southern Arizona and old
McKee, prsdicts it will become the leading gold
there is no doubt that the renewed efforts of miners
It's earlier gold feds The general public seems to
have forgotten Nevadas gold history and to have
lost sight of the probability that what has been
found In certain localities was but a small part OF
what was actually there. AID possibly not com.
parable TO what is to be found by intelligent search
IN similar localities. Do you think, for instance,
that they realize that since Penrod drove the first
stake In the Comstock lode, In 1859, between $780,
100000 and s70o0ooeo0 40 per cent gold and 60 per
Do you think that they know % 'n rem UTs
they ever knew-that Snake River and the Column
bia were the most famous gold-bearing streams In
the world? Or that If they did. they would think 1t
neghborhood. and State like conditions should pre-
Thus, placer work on Cedar Hill led to the dis
covery of the Comstock. After going down 100
feet the. vein became broken and detached the
result of volcanic action. The Consolidated Vir-
mile east sunk shaft l. 40 feet deep and struck
ieet high coo feet deep and 100 feet lons"out Of
Flood O'Brien. Fair. Mackey. Sharon and many
other multi-millionaires and furnished the means
to erect many OF New-Yorks and San Francsco's
. Further to the south were the Gold Hill proper.
ties. which enriched Haywood. Hobart Senator
Jones, Lucky Baldwin and others.
which has produced many millions in gold and sil.
yer Later there were White Pine Phoebe and
1 as sre all st being prSotaby worked These
me Candelaria and other dstrcts-notably the Tus-
carora within thirty miles Of Gold Creek and now
producing over 10000 per month
The gold Of the Snake and Columbia rivers Il
very me- the coarse gold settling up at the head
waters OF the tributaries of these rivers. such
pacers yield 40 cents 10 50 cents per Cubic YARD nn
the inesas or tabelands. and the guiches 81 q 70
60 ana mats conservative statement" added
Nj Cumming. Now is 1t not perfectly reason
able" he queried. that the WORKING Of tbeso
placers should lead to the discovery Of a secnnd
ana even greater Coinstock and Bonanza"