The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-02


condition of the mineral industry of
Nevada during the year of 1904, the
marked revival of its activity
throughout the state is most appar-
ent. In the days when reduction
costs were higher than they now are,
and the percentage of values
saved lower, and the problem
of transportation yet unsolved,
Nevada produced her millions
and now with the advance of sci
enee of metallurgy, the reduction in
cost of mining and treatment of ores,
increased facilities of transportation,
with the wonderful production of her
new camp "Goldfeld," that in a lit
tie more than one year produced over
1000, 900 as the result of work done
under leasing by the ordinary every
day miner, who starts without CAPT
tai. Have we not in all confidence
a right to believe that Nevada, in the
production of the precious metals,
will be greater in this the Goth cen
fury than she was in that of the 10th.
The Goldfield district comprises the
camps of Goldfeld, Columbia Noun
tain and Diamondfeld, all within a
distance of two or three miles, and
although but a few months old its
history reads like a romance of Col
| annIo az {bo 1onnnIs &c ua,lfb @bo{
poured out of Pactolus, in the Gre
clan fables.
The story that Tonopah-Goldfeld
tells, is not only one of remarkable
production of gold ores that run up
into the hundreds of dollars to the
ton in train load lots, classed as low
grade; and of other ores valued at
$4,000 a ton, that are sacked, and
still richer than this, too ricn to be-
sacked, and are transported in large
tin cans. reaching in many instances
the enormous sun of from. 100000
to $250,000 per ton, but it opens the
searchlight of reason to all who read
the story right, to the fact that the
miner is the true pioneer of civiliza-
ton. and that mining for the prec-
ious metals is not a qdesti male
venture. hut a thoroughly practical
and most reliable business, and the
most attractive and successful Of all
human employment, when conducted
on business principles.
In 1850 our gold and silver product
amounted to $79,700,00O. Now note
the steady increase in the precious
metals. In 1890 our product was
$l03. 309. 645. in 1899 it was $141,-
! scoops in 1900 $153,7 O4,495 and in
1904, not official. but estimated, $153,--
69S.5G7.
Increase 1880 23, 6O9,645 over 1850
Increase ls99-$3S,550,3s1 over 1890
Increase 1900-$11, S44,469 over 1899
Decrease 1904-$5,99s.
Should this decrease prove to be
ports at close of fiscal year in June
next. it can be accounted for by rea-
son of the long continued strikes in
Colorado in 1904, and not to the abil-
itv of our metal mines in that state
to yield its usual annual increase of
precious metals.
Now take up the early history of
Nevada regarding the production Of
the precious metals and We find tina
some Of the most marvellous silver
mines in the world were those upon
the Comstock lode in Nevada. Mines
that produced from 1860 to 1880. a
period of twenty years, 1880 900
worth of bullion and had Jan. l, 1850.
go miles in shafts and galleries
opened up. with $500 men employed
earning average wages of 81 a day,
with $40 additional men employed in
the amaleamating mills.
As early as 1879, earnings for that
year Of the comstock, amounted 70
$1s.0O2.906 il gold and $~20,570,07S in
silver or a grand total of $3S,572,9Sl.
Nor is this all that can be sale for
the early history Of mining in Nevada.
There is the district in which the Eu-
reka and Richmond mines are located.
These mines produced during the cen
sus year ending May 81, 1880, 62,S93
ounceS in gold and 2,037 500 ounces in
silver. total value $3,934,621 and al
though the extraction Of silver from
it's ores is the bushes of the metal
lurgist. and not the miner, yet it must
not be forgotten, that it was to the
treatment of Nevada ores that We
owe the system of pan amalgamation.
1t is true that mining in Nevada
was rather quiet for a time, but the
year 1905 finds it on the jump. Up:
up. up is the word all along the line.
from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean,
and mon that do thinpS are Scramb-