The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1904-04-07

OF the Calumet and Hscla copper mines
the salt mines OF Germany, and the
gold mines of South Africa, Nevada
has the deepest mining In the world,
and it is the deepest mining for our
money metals. Depth aud perman.
ency are characteristic of Nevada min.
ino
Another feature of peculiar signif-
canoe is the fact that Nevada Is dis.
tlnctly a high-grade State. Alaska
quartz mining is famous for low-grade
ores. So is the Black Hills. Many OF
our great producers are low.grade
camps aud properties. One carload of
ore from Treasure Hill, Nevada, yield
ed $50. 900. One carload OF ore from
Humboldt produced 5000, 900. One
mine-the Consolidated virginia-pro-
duced $4,000, 900 in dividends. The
ores of Eureka, Tuscarora, and Candle.
laria, and Belmont, and Phoebe were
fabulously rich. Such is the case With
Wedekind and the Tonopah mines.
The four men who rule the
world are Carnegie with his $500, 600,
600. not actual but fictitious wealth;
Rockefeller with s200, ZOO, 900; Morgan
with $3.50, 900. 900; the vanderbilts with
$50, 900, 900, and yet four mining camps
in Nevada have done more for civilizs-
ton these great money powers with
their actual production OF wealth
greater than tho fortunes of Americas
millionaires. And yet with this mag
nifcent DRY reproduction and achieve
ment. the story of her mineral wealth
is scarcely told.
Nevada possesses unique mining con.
ditions. There are few states concern
ing which go much that is unjust has
been said and concerning VIII ose resour-
ces so little, that is true, is known.
Nevada has generally been supposed to
be an exhausted mining State. Her
mineral wealth is supposed to be In
minted dollars. The impression erro-
neously exists that mining is in its do
cadence in the State. 1t Is true that
there was long period OF depression.
Nevada received her set back about
the time silver began to decline. There
was a great rush in Nevada from 1860
to 1880. There was twenty years OF un.
paralleled prosperity. There were
thousands of men employed at high
wages. Within twenty years Austin,
Eureka, Phoebe. Tuscarora, Virginia
City and Candela ia turned out almost
a billion dollars in gold and silver. Tho
interest was intense in these camps.
There was only one line OF railroad in
the State. There WAS little prospect.
ing outside of the camps. Men rushed
in TO make fortunes
II was simply the lootisg apparently
OF her minerals, and the vandals with
their wealth rushed TO other climes,
spent their riches in building other
cities, identifying other valleys. The
entire world has been moro or less prof
tied by Nevada's mineral output.
Men in th. mad rush did not stop Il
experiment in Nevaaa's valleys. THEY
i IL not ppreciare her climate; they
du not study her agricultural resour
ces uor the advantages OF her stock
ranges. They came 10 by night ant
spent their days in massing wealth ant
:, Il d again in he night, and there 10 N
living monument today to SHOW appre
citation or gratitude Of the men whit
profted by Nevada's wealth. No mon
uments raised, no institutions endowed
no buildings erected, no Industrial en-
. terprises set on foot Loud and con
4 tinued applause.I
AS great as our mining resources ar
! the agricultural possihilt es OF Nevad'
q are revelation 81 the easieruef Mil
!. lions of ,cre., caa be recisimed. Larg
4 in AREA, with soil Of ,muzing fertility
with more Ia, of sunshine than any
=. her,, else in the world known tO exis
= " h..rc soft tempered wiuds silkenN th
al tass.l- OF cereals and II gentle sunshin
~ uniucks the head OF "heat, v here fruit
ripen in a constant sunshine, with al
~ fafa To fatten thousands of cattle, "
20 offer 10 the home-seeker an ideal hom
u Sac.
; Our mines demand sour modern AM
costly machinery, aud in return GU
p great tomstock. our wonderful TOnO
J. puh. our rich 60 t Ii Ids and grOwinl
re Searchli.'tt district viii Sieid gold an'
;. silver for the world, White Pine yiel'
y copper for commerce., and the entir
u State contribute her quota of patrio
y tism and citizenship, which, independ
9. ent OF partisanship, makes our natio
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