The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1902-06-19
How Nevada Is
Fast Advancing.

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creased wonderfully during the past
few months, as mining men in search
of opportunities realize more and more
the unlimited possibilities of this great
mineral region and as mining capital,
especially of the East, turns in .ncreas-
ing volume to this enormous mineral
field 80 filed. with natures mineral
boupties.
Here is a mineral empire OF $4,000
square miles, which has only Just begun
to be discovered. 1t lies squarely in the
path Of the westward movement OF pop
ulation. capital and industry, is poten.
TALLY one OF the greatest mineral re-
gions OF the world and will be possessed
by the resistless invaders who are now
turning to the Pacific region with energy,
intelligence and capital. Progress will
be certain and persistent and Nevada
has magnificent statehood assured her.
There is now more general activity 10
prospecting, mine development and min
ing investment 10 Nevada than ever be-
fore in its history. This is partly nat
ural result Of the advertising which the
mineral resources Of the State have been
receiving. Very effective exhibits Of the
minerals of Nevada were made at the
Chicago worlds fair and then at the last
Paris exposition and the Pan American
exposition at Buffalo, the last two main
ly by the Southern Pacific Company. j.
A. and E. B. Yerington were prominent
ly associated with these enterprises and
during the Buffalo exposition e. B. Yer
ington remained with the exhibit to
meet the many whose interest was ex-
cited by it. Recently. e. H. Prentice,
division freight and passenger agent OF
the s. p. Co. at Reno. has been collect
ing interesting mineral specimens and
forming small exhibits to be displayed at
leading depots aud ticket Offices. One
of these collections has been placed in
the main ticket Office on Market street
San Francisco. The discovery of the ro.
markable ronopah district has also been
an effective influence in turning atten.
tion 10 Neyada's mines.
Another strong aud effective influence
has been the Pacific Coast Miner, which
during the current year has published a
series OF descriptive articles on leading
counties and mining districts of the
State, and which have had wide circu.
lation throughout the United States and
which comprise more information about
the districts described than can be found
published anywhere else. In this and
other ways Nevada has won recognition
as mining state and gained entry on a
new era of progress.
The variety Of Nevada's mineral wealth
is as remarkable as its quantity. Its
fame is mainly associated with silver,
though about half its precious metal out
put has been in gold, and the future will
know it mainly as gold mining state.
But besides the precious metals it has
inexhaustihle stores OF long list OF
economic minerals In the past it has
| produced enormous quantities of lead, in
! association with silver, and lead will in
| the future cut an important figure in its
mineral industry when the great gold
sllver-lead mines that were ciosei at
small depth are reopened for new careers
as they will be. The State has produced
great share of the worlds borax supply
aud it's salt and soda will be very i'm
portant resources in the future.
There are immense deposits Of copper
and iron, some Of the largest deposits Of
antmony in the country, and sulphur,
nickel gypsum, etc., are among other
minerals known to exist in such quanti
ties as to await only the commercial con-
ditions favorable to their exploitation.
But il is gold that the mining world
mainly wants from Nevada now There
il no danger OF any silver excitement at
present. The white metal will he a by
| product for awhile. But it was silver
that made Nevada then broke it. 1t
was the Silver State when the Comstock
lode was in the heyday Of its wonderful
career, though about half OF its product
OF over S60OO00,000 was in gold, and il
was silver that doomed and sustained
and then dropped into oblivion such IA
nous mining districts as the Eureka
with its output Of s125, 100000 in gold
silver and lead, the Tuscarora in Elko
county with its S25,OOO,000 the Austin in
Lander County with s35,000,000, Esmer-
aida county with $40,000,000, mainly
from the Caudelaria and Silver Peak
mines, and such other districts rs the
Ely and Egan Range in White Pine
county, the Peavine and Pyramid in
Washoe county, and others in Humboldt
Nye and other counties. In the '70's
some of these districts supported boom
ing towns Of 10000 or more population
and great mining and reduction plants
we're active and profitable.
But silver dropped, shafts got below
water level, costs increased, processes
were more expensive than now, and cities
and districts passed into history. The