Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-02-15

OLD EUREKA
The Finger of Activity and Industry
Again pointing That Way

The Eureka Sentlnel OF FeDrudry
10th is worthy of praise from every
source. The people of Eureka should
of it, and see to it's proper distri-
button. 1t gives a picture of the town
of Eureka, and a cross-sectional view
of the most important ore bodies ex
tracted from Ruby Hill, and a valuable
and reliable table of the ore yield
from 1873 to 1896 giving the names
of the mines, ore yield in tons value
based on bullion tax paid, showing
a total value of sS0,OOO,000 to the
a value of 125,OOO,OOO for the County
The Eureka Consolidated leads with
a product Of S17,404,727.S9, and the
Rishmond comes next with 1888.
S3145. These figures are based On
the bullion tax paid, being the net
yield after deducting every conceiT-
able thing, and We all know that
mining arrangements conceive great
mank things in order to reduce the
many things in order to reduce the
tax
On the Comstock, and likely else
where. champagne and dinners AMI
travelling expenses and private mat
tiers of different kinds went into the
reports as candles, powder and fuse
But this is past history, as our in
formant, Alfred Chartz, says:
The Salt Lake people who have
consolidated the Eureka Con. and
ed the wages Of their employees
voluntarily. They have rebuilt tnH
railroad from Ruby Hill, where the
mine are situated to Eureka, and CO.,
nected their rails with the Eureka
and Palisade railroad. and it is; pro
posed to run the ores direct from
the mines to Palisade, and there to
build a large ore chute, into which the
narrow gage cars will empty them
selves by the simple lifting OF :,
lever, and the broad guage cars Will
be filled from the chute by simp'c
contrivance. entailing a very slight
cost Of transfer. .----..
The Central Pacific and the Eureka
and Palisade railways have given a
rate of $275 a ton for ores worth
not over 50 per ton, and a prof
portonately low graded rate for ores
of. greater value. increasing in pro-
portion to the value until the rate
reaches s11.5O per ton for ores worth
800 and over For ores worth So
per ton and not over SIS the ratte
is 1875, which is very cheap con
>sidering the distance. The cost of
transfer is not included, but that
cannot exceed 25 cents per ton, Il
is the best attempt ever made by rel!
way companies to upbuild the minina
industry. in Nevada. , 5000. -, So
The reason of this outburst of State
patriotism can be seen in the fac:
that the base range ores carry a
large percentage of lead and make
fine bath and flux to smelt other
ores, and the Salt Lake smelters neet
that very kind of ores, and need
them badly 1t is suspected that thu
shelters will be satisfied if they car
get such ores, even though they
make, no sprofit from working 'the
same and return the entire vahie
to The owners, less freight charges
However this may be, it seems certain
that the arrangement must redoun5
to the great benefit of the old camp
In the early days Superintendent 8
used to "go" for the plums in tn,
pudding like children; but the pud
ding itself is4-pretty good now, evet
though the plpms have tpeen extracl
ed. Besides, the reopening of the
mines. and further development will
reveal many plums. IT; is almost i'm
possible to exhaust a silver nina
The mineral belt on Ruby Hill n
over 600 feet wide, and has bee,
prospected to a. depth Of only abou
1900 feet, and not well prospecte'
either. The richest ore bodies foun
on the comstock began at the 100
foot level, and did not produce muc
more than Eureka above that rleve
Eureka (Rpby HilD ought to, do a
well below as the Comstock did. +.
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