The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-03-31
MINES OF NEVADA
Writer for THE NEWS By N. n SHBEI, r. NJ,
BY X. n. SEIBEL, f. VI.

Butte, $500, and Utah only Park City,
| 800 feet in depth.
THE ORES HIGH GRADE.
While there are uncomputed ons of
low grade ores, Nevada has been famous
as a producer Of high grade ores. From
the Brason Hill, one car load milled
500, 900. From Humboldt county, N
car load brought 100000. One mine,
the Consolidated Virginia, paid SS0,OOO,-
900 in dividends. The ores OF Tonopah
shipped, have averaged $500 per ton.
Many tons go into thousands. Assays
from the Hawthorne district run $780,
600 and float from the Gem Mine in
Silver Star district, run $500, 900 in gold.
The pres in Nevada, as compared with
other states, have been very high grade.
There are many factors which enter
into the industry of mining. None are
more important than the question of To-
cality, not only in reference to the rich
ness of the ores, but to the question of
fuel, water, transportation, accessibility
and climate.
Nature has fascinatingly written the
story of her mysterious mineral riches
on her hills and mountains. She has
painted the story in colors OF brown and
red and grey and black, so the geologist
can read with ease. She has, by veins
and dykes and reefs ~monumented her
history, so the prospector could unravel
her story. The chemistry of color and
weirdness of landscape points with un-
erring certainty to the wealth hidden in
forbidding deserts or buried in frowning
mountains.
NEVADA AS A MINING STATE
Successful mining requires the selec-
ton of well known mineral territory,
and one would scarcely waste time or
money in a locality where experience
had demonstrated that values were low,
or that geological formation did not per-
nit the ore deposits to go to great depth.
A careful survey of the history of
mining, demonstrates that Nevada offers
more advantages in this line han n
other section in the world. Its particu-
lar advantages are:
/. Nevada has the world record for
mineral productions.
=. Nevada is the most richly mineral
lied zone in the world.
3. The mines of Nevada have depth
and ~permanency.
1. The ores of Nevada are mostly high
grade.
5. The climate permits work the year
around.
&. She has more camps with big rec
ords than any other state in the Union.
I. Nevada is hardly prospected.
CLIMATE
Work can be conducted the year
around. Winter is no drawback. The
summers are invigorating. Compared
with Mexico on the south and Alaska
on the north, Nevada is a miners para
disc. Water is usually abundant and
lumber sufficient in most cases, with
transportation cheap and comfortable.
MANY RECoR CAMPS.
One thing that attracts the attention
of a mining engineer to Nevada is that
it is not a one-camp state. Colorado
has her Leadville and Cripple Creek;
Montana her Butte only; Arizona her
Tombstone and Jerome; California her
Mother Lode; Idaho her Florence; Alas
ka her Dawson and Nome.
Nevada, with a dozen camps discov-
cred and worked within thirty years,
presents a marvellous record both in the
number of camps and their output.
1859 saw the opening of Virginia City,
which did not disclose her bonanza I'M
til 1873.
Her output, $644, 800 900.
1860 Discovery OF Austin, output, sl5o,0W,O0O