The Central Nevadan. [volume] (Battle Mountain, Nev.) 1885-1907, 1903-02-12
Recent Progress.

nevada has resumed ner place as one
of the leading mining States of the Union
and as one of the chief fields to which
American and foreign capital is turning
10 search Of opportunities for legitimate
Investments.
The State comprises one OF the worlds
great mining regions that has been
mich greater 10 the past than now and
one that will be much greater in the
future than now. The general feature
of its current mining story is the new
life that has come to its mining industry
in large measure and with great promise
for the immediate future 1t is, perhaps,
peerless among her sister States of the
Union in it's wealth of mineral resources,
and it has the advantage of being stu
ated squarely in the path of the great
westward movement OF industrial and
commercial progress-an advantage
which happily supplements the greater
one Of the possession of wonderous stores
OF mineral wealth that many generations
will not exhaust
Nevada has made many stirs in the
mining world. She began making stirs
in the early sixties, when district after
district displayed superficial wealth in
the precious and economic metals and
experienced the "rushes' Characteristic
of the times. Its homes have not all
been ephemeral, but, on the contrary,
some of Nevada's mining fields have
risen to greatness among those of earth.
The mere mention of the Comstock
Lode suggests one OF the greatest
stories Of the mining world, and so great
was the record Of the Comstock in the
palmy days of its career that it obscured
the records of other great but lesser min
ing fields of the State that produced SO
many millions.
The Eureka district is to-day almost
forgotten, but its precious me al record
reaches into the scores OF millions and
other fields like that of Esmeralda
county, have made records reaching into
the tens OF millions OF dollars.
Nevada is in truth mineral empire,
lying fairly in the heart Of the great
richly mineralized region Of Western
America 1t is wholly within the Great
Basin consisting of an elevated plateau
ribbed with several parellel mountain
ranges. In the beginning CT Nevada
mining silver was King, and Nevada will
always be one of the important silver
producing regions of the world, but now
attention has mainly turned to gold and
the yellow metal is the chief object Of
the most Of the current mining enter.
prises.
But there are few areas in the world
which present greater variety OF min
eral resources and the westward advance
of civilization will in future give large
industrial Importance to the deposits OF
the economic minerals with which the
mountains and deserts of the State are
filed. Nevada early made record in
the production of copper, lead, borax,
salt, sulphur, antimony, etc, and it has a
long list OF other economic minerals.
At the present time the Toropah
district is the cynosure of the eyes of
the mining world. The production of
several millions within two years from /
near the surface, makes this one of the
notable mining districts of the world.
Time and developments will be required
to determine the lateral and vertical
distribution of the values there stored,
but it may be said Of the new district of
Touopah, as OF various other Ne
vada districts that were similarly rich,
in the early days of their career that
where SO much wealth is displayed near
the surface there is a promise OF fairly
permanent values at greater depth.
One of the most promising features OF
the mining situation in Nevada is the as
surance that there will be speedily built
across eastern and southern Nevada a
new transcontinental railroad that will
open great mineral region hitherto SO
badly handicapped by lack OF transporta-
ton facilities, says the Reno Journal.
During the past year a very great
number of investments in Nevada min
ing properties have been made in dis
tricts scattered throughout the length
and breadth of the State and there has
been accomplished more development in
new and in re-opened mines than in any
year for generation past.
There has also been more activity in
prospecting all over the State, and es.
pecially in the southern part than ever
before.
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