The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-12-29
MINING in NEVADA TODAY


In point of copper showing and It's gold
and silver mines are also being extern
sively developed. notably those on
Mount Como. The red metal Will. how
ever. in future years be the principal
output of the county. On the hills bor-
dering Mason valley are many rapidly
growing dumps, green tinted. which
await shelters to transform the owners
thereof into miilionaires. Mason valley
ranchers will soon have in their nos
trils the onion fumes of reducing plants.
Old Eureka is under slow bell at
present. The capital city had dwindled
down to ap oint several years g that
there were more base rangers" in
Reno han there were in Eureka, but
this condition has changed. The oper-
ators have returned to work owing to
the increased price of the white metal.
and the companies are employing more
men than for many years. while the
leasers are producing a large amount of
low grade ore.
Old Storey has experienced q rein
~carnation. The camp Is working hun
dreds of men and 1t is making daily
shipments. At one time the Comstock
saved the union with its half billion of
wealth. If the ophir and West End
mines continue their present showing
1t will be in a position to sustain 1t.
Lincoln, owning to bonded indebted
ness, was once the poorest county in
the state, but now promises to become
a banner bearer The building of the
Clark road and it's tentacles is opening
up a score of districts that hitherto
could not ship their ores.
The eyes of the world. not otherwise
diverted, are centered upon White Pipe
county, for here is being opened a cop
per district that promises to make the
Lake Superior section a poor second and
leave the United Verde in the class of
the also rams. If all reports be true,
the Ely mines alone will supply the de-
mand for copper for decades to be. Not
alone in copper is White Pine destined
to find its future. Gold is widely dis
tributed there. Placers a been
worked for many years and now it is
claimed that the quartz zones are being
found.
AS to Nye. Its recent history is like
the perusa1 of a dehorned frenzied
finance article. Nye has made good. 1t
is making better. 1t will advance to
the superlative degree. The geograph-
ical map of Nevada Is not a geological
one, else the n~eighbors of Nye would
nave been permitted to share in It's g
perabundant benefits. Note the scope
Of the ore zone. Begin with old lone
of Midas record. Here are it's shipping
neghbors, Stratford and Phonolite.
Draw the line hence through good old
Da1-o1r+ o-l afhAr hio rr0l,,noro af che
early days. Their you have Round
Mountain of auriferous sands and gold
slugged lodges. Come next to Man.
haitian. the camp of one clear eye and
one blackened optic, which like a tub
nov sits upon it's own bottom and which
will boom within a few months Thence
1t is a Sabbath days journey to Tono-
pah, the camp which has never doomed,
never will and hopes never to, the
camp with $4,000. 900 in sight and
plenty more ore blocked below its deep
est workings. Thence is a cry to the
wonderful arid Amargosa river, where
ship never sailed save the wonderful
Argosy, on board which men arrive
paupers and depart m~illionaires. This
Bullfrog country, traversed by the cur
rentless tide, promises to be the great
est milling camp the world has ever or
will ever see.
Would that Esmeralda's story would
write itself. 1t is something too deep
for words, too sacred for poetry, too
magnificent for prose.
1 live here now, or have alighted
here, put long enough to ave had h
glance at the soul intoxicating Mo
hawk. There is something even IN the
dross of gold to set the blood scrging
to the tips of the finger nails. On my
desk is a chunk of ore. high graded
today from the Frances-Mohawk.
Through 1t runs a seam of bronze, the
local hue of gold, which is nearly haiti
an inch in thickness. On it's other side
is the solid sylvanite and tellurium.
Tiffany could not produce such jewelry
If given the chemically pure gold and
all the other elements known to science,
And this is not all. I saw this ore
sacked and carted to the vaults OF the
State Bank and Trust company. I also
saw 1853 sacks from the Hayes-Monnette
weighing lis pounds each. stacked like
-four in the vaults of the bank of the
job s. Cook company. When you re-
alize that nothing less than $40 a pound
ore goes into these sacks you can re-
alize the tingling sensation felt by the
i~mpecunious writer as he smelled the
foul exhalations of this fortune in the
air tight vaults and beheld the untold
millions yet to be purloined from the
strong box of Mother Nature beneath
the forest of hoists that marks the un-
paralleled Mohawk.
Nor is the Mohawk all of E~smeralda.
overpowering that 1t is an anti-cIimax
to tell of the auriferous sands of Dutch
man creek on the reservation. the mex
haustible zones of gold, silver. lead and
copper on the rim CT Death Valley, the
treasures of Ida and Palmetto. the
- But 1t is enough. va
You wish me to write of the future
of Nevada as a mining state. 1t hasn no
future, nothing but an unending and sx-
banding present.
The railroads that will network and
gridiron the state are already builded
in the minds eye. The roar of the hur-
ricane that today threatened the de-
struction of our beloved Goldfield by
flames is the thunder of ten thousand
stamps. The clouds that swept today
from the far away White mountains are
but the fumes of the sEaelter.s smoke
that will be the odor of vine and hot
house flowers for hundreds who now
shiver in ragged garb on the desert
amid November's chill.
Nevada, I reiterate, has no future.