The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-11
NEVADA'S .
FUTURE.
From Los Angeles Mining Re-

From Los Angeles Mining Re.
view.
With each month that passes,
Nevada looms larger as a pot
tential factor in the financial and
Industrial economies of the
country.
Important as have been the
successes sof the Z established
camps-Tonop4h, Goldfeld, Bull
frog, Searcalisht it is not these
nor even their promised pro-
duction, which calls for a
prophecy of future greatness.
It is the very significant fact
that new gold, silver and copper
districts are being found with in
creasing frequency, almost
throughout the length and
breadth of the state; and often
in places that have been passed
over scores and hundreds of times
by prospectors, as showing no
indication of payable ore.
Half a dozen great camps
would make of Nevada a pros
porous State-but let there be
twenty or thirty great camps,
by present indications not an
improbable number, and the
affair assumes national import
ance.
Within striking distance of
each one of the established min
ing centers in the Western gold
belt, extending from the Com
stock to Searchlight and beyond,
there have during this spring
been discovered new districts of
extraordinary surface promise.
OF these Manhattan alone is old
enough to have undergone any
development worth mentioning
but so far as this has gone in
dications are apparently for per-
manency.
In Humboldt county west of |
Lovelock, in the western and |
southern parts of Churchill |
county, at Yerington, at Aurora, |
Palmetto, Silver Peak, Gold |
Crater, Gold Mountain, the
Trasvaal, Charleston Mountain, |
Manse, Johnnie, Good Spring,
Sandy. Eldorado, Sunrise and on
into California and Arizona, dis
coveries and active development
of gold, silver, lead and copper
veins are filling up the gaps be-
tween better known centers of
mining industry.
These many discoveries, what
ever may be their future in
dividual prosperity, are import
ant now in their bearing upon
the mining stu ltion in Nevada.
They have emphasized the fact
that In the desert, where forma-
tons are so obscure1 by alluvial
wash and debris, only the most
obvious mineral areas have been
found, and that as the State be-
comes more settled, as prospect
ors have more bases from which
to work, such finds as those at
Manhattan and Transvaal may
reasonably be looked for with
recurring frequency and over a
tremendous territory.
With this probability in mind
a study Of the map Of Nevada is
inst .uctive. Wherever, through
out northwest and southwest
bslt 400 miles long by 100 wide
transportation facilities are sucn
as to encourage exploration, dis
coveries of pay-ore in what pro-
mise to be important metal-pro-
ducing areas have been of late
so frequent that this portion of
Nevada is evidently to become
tina scene of intense and closely
connected industry.
In the eastern part of the
State, Delamar, Caliente, Pioche,
Ely and Cherry Creek show con-
clusively that rich mineral de-
posits are not confined to the
western areas; while Eureka,
Ruby Hill and Austin, all famous
old camps, help to fill the gap
between Ely and the Comstock,
forming vast triangle; and |
within this a territory little
known, but offering a great and
field for profitable
exploration.
There can be no reasonable
doubt that every one of the pro-