The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-12-27
ELY'S BRIGHT PROSPECTS.
A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE MIN
ING SITUATION.

i 10 hind = iOlclAi anu Alicu Nlbu uItdni
OF future wealth, but the prospee
which now confronts US rests on firm.
er basis than ever before in the history
of the camp. For the benefit of tht
many on the outside who have theil
attention drawn toward us, it may b,
we'll therefore, to briefly review tn,
situa tion.
In the first place, this is gold camp
1t may also be truly said, and perhap.
more truly, that it is copper camp
And it would not be stretching tn,
+ Gospel to say that it is a lead silver
camp. For all of these ores are found
in large quantities within the bounda
I ries of Robinson district, each distinc
belt by itself.
1t was the lead silver ores that first
brought tie district to the attention OF
the prospectors who swarmed the hills
in the early seventies and resulted in
founding the long since defunct town oi
Robinson, which was located about
half a mile up the canyon from the
present town of Lane City and three
miles from Ely. Smelters were built
and "A great deal OF development work
was done, but the ore proved to be too
low grade to stand the high cost of re-
duction and transportation of those
days. The principal mines we're pat
ented and have stood idle ever since.
THE GOLD DISCOVERY.
Next came the gold discovery and
the Joana mine sprang into prominence
in the latter years of the SOS, when
Ely was founded. A streak of ore that
would yield several dollars to the pan
was struck, besides big body of lower
grade rock, and Mr.. A. X. Watson,
It's owner, is reputed to have refused
1850, 600 for the property. But the
rich streak was lost and no method OF
saving the gold in the other ores had
at that time been discovered. The mine
became involved in litigation and, when
Mr.. Watson died, the lawyers and
creditors took the property and 1t has
remained idle ever since, though there
are large bodies of ore exposed in its
workings that would yield handsomely
under present methods OF treatment.
THE CHAIRMAN MINE.
Its next door neighbor, the Chain
man. has been more fortunate. This
mine was located about twelve years
ago by Messrs. w. N. McGill, VIM.
Lyons. J. p. McOmie and A. J. Under
hill. In a small ten-stamp mill which
they built, several thousand tons OF
ore we're worked netting them a nice
little stake, but every dollar of it was
put back into the further development
of the mine In 1897 the property was
bonded to Chas. ID. Lane of Angels
Camp, California, and he erected a mill
on the mine which for Inconvenience
and waste of material exceeds anything
on the Coast Mr.. Lane was unable to
personally superintend the working OF
the property and mismanagement was
apparent in almost every detail OF its
operation. The result was that Mr..
Lane gave up the property in 1898 and
with the new mill and power plant 1t
reverted back to the original owners.
They remodeled the cyanide depart
ment and for year worked the mine
on small scale, too small to make it
pay, but with the result that they dem
onstrated that the values in the ore
would weld to the cyanide treatment.
Being themselves without the necessary
capital to build plant of sufficient size
to make the property pay, they again
bonded it only two months ago to
company of eastern gentlemen with
headquarters at Elmira, New York :.
The purchase price is $50, 900 of which
$50, 600 has already been paid and the
balance comes due within few months.
This mine is the best developed prop
erty in the camp, having shaft 265
feet deep and nearly 200O feet of drifts
and cross-cuts. According to the re-
port of the experts who recently ex-
amined it, there are l0l, 300 tons OF ore
blocked out in its workings OF an assay
value of $40. 46 in gold and 4 ounces
of silver per ton. The new company
which is known as the Chairman Min
ing and Electric Company, has started
up the Lane mill for the present, but
we understand that it contemplates
the erection of new l0O-top cyanide
plant in the spring. This is one of the
enterprises which the people of Ely
can look forward to.
THE ROBUST NINE.
aThe Robust mine is another gold
property that has come to the front In
the last three years. 1t was owned or
iginally by w. Il. Thomas, r. A. anc
Henry Riepe, but was only prospect
until 1t was taken in hand by its pres
ent owners about three years ago. w
p. Lynn OF Salt Lake City has been th'
moving spirit in its development and i
to-day the largest stockholder OF th'
Ely Mining 4 Milling Co., under which
name the property is Incorporated. Tn
purchase price of the Robust claim wa
$40. 900, and the company has expended
, close to $50, 900 more in the develop
ment of the mine and in the acquisition
of adjoining claims. The company es