The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-12-20
This Region Has Wealth That
Will Yet Yield 20
Miners

tails, and Humboldt county. with a
record of over $4,000, 900 to her credit.
's being very closely investigated hy
prominent mining men, and the result
Is q pronounced revival or mining IN
every secion Of the county saws the
Pacific Coast Miner.
Many years ago the mines of Winnie
mucca, as we'll az those IN the HUM
holdt range, We're p~oftabIy worked
and yielded nary millions in gold ard
silver. but owing to the great expense
Of reduction IN those davs. together
with excessive frei~rt ratas AMI N.
vreat cost OF mining machinery e,r
deep work, many Of these mines wara
abandoned after having been workod
TO water level at which noint ovisation
ceased. Roast'no became nocassar,- IN
the treatment IF TIE ores ard drainage
obligatory in the further evtra otion of
ore from the v-i-as r,oiyirp y III ~
All. too expensive n~orosi+ion to nar-
mt OF profitable r,;rir1 orror r.,.h
2 grade Of ore ovaro o.r~ e1ro nov 49,
To illustrate Tits 7 viii r,entio, tNe
fact thE dr~ino that pa~iod the
charpeS for treat t,,oent az the mills ,non
ore that cave an aceav aIre NJ etsn r,y
ton was 40 per cent If tha co u, a ~ cen
allowfro the rosna owner h,,t so nav
cent Or 500 out of which # was raoea-
saw thet he nav for n1inino. cartape
and FREIGHT. while at TIE n~esan+ data
the same gY'o de If ore con ba sp,a,+ed
for 50. freight 60. and other evnars,.
per ton not to exceed SIS. Tt may ha
truthfr''v statad that nv con.ar+r
ton todav ores yielding hut 800 ner n,
give large profit.
Now comes the mining engineer fror,
Colorado and Utah camps where CON
centrat'on methods have been IRA cti
cailv demonstrated with masked src-
cess ppon sulphiae ores, end all arornd
rs they are tating hold of our o,d
mines ard opening them to greater
depth and greater richress. s well IA
locating new mines upon their surface
showings and hv the cid of mode
anplian"os fo~ daen evnlora tson
core d~i'ls without diamonds revaal-
ing the ore shoots with little evnon~a
AT Winnemucca these enefne~s have
purchased the four D~ope~ties fo~,oa~
" known as the Pride of the Mounta.n
group for the Inter Mountain Metal
Mining rompanv. an Eaete~n svrdi-
cato, anS ere at n~esent rak.rg laree
improvements preparatory to deop
work. The past greatness Of this p~o-
perty Is there in silent evidence. There
are drifts, tunnels snd shafts, and hun
dfeds Of feet of slopes, but nothing
mined below the water line. while tbe
record of production undoubtedlv has
exceeded a million in gold and silvar
with al the hurdreds of feet of avnos-d
Vein below water level vet untouched
Adjoining this pronertv and ,,non t,,a
same vein system is another remark
able group of mines. known as the
Union series mines. Large omen cuts.
drifts and many tunnels show that the
lv-day miner found the surface ore
pavahle at that date This n~one~tv
has been acquired hv Trfah mining rnan
and 1t is now known that the great
fuantfties of ore that were laid bare
IN former days and left as too low
a Grade ct that date to nav. will now
bring to the fortunate owners a good
margin. 1t is understood that these
mines are to be fully daveloned to A
great depth. prepare tion for active
work is now being made by the owners
There are other fine properties on
Ninnemucca mountain. In fact. the
mountain is network of veins. and il
might be proper for other mining men
70 investigate this region.
Another mining section of historical
note within the confines of Humboldt
county is the Humboldt mountains the
home OF such million dollar producers
as the Rye Patch, Alpha, Arizona.
Sheba and others, none of which have
oeen worked to greater depth than
zoo feet, and all of which today have
vast chambers of wealth in reserve for
the enterprising engineers who have re-
Gently undertaken TIE recruitment of
each by modern methods.
The Humboldt range is probably to-
day one of the best fields for the miner
with modern ideas and a geological
knowledge of limestone and lime
shales. as belonging to the mineral
making epoch, as there is in the West
Some of the most pronounced sur
face conditions ever met with for the
occurrence of bonanvas, such as before
mentioned, are still untouched and op-
time there are two companies driving
into two different propositions which
are sure to yield bonanzas. One COM
pany is of Philadelphia and the other
of Sacramento. Cal, while another
company of Utah people, who own
the ground adjoining the Philadelphia
are making preparation for active
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