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

You ask me TO write three thousand
words on mining in Nevada; why not
permit so,ooo7 No volume ever bound in
.sheepskin, set in nonpareil. could tell
the story.
Mining in Nevada today" is a pen
picture Of 10000 square miles, once
~soundless, trackless. inert. nov teeming
with compressed life. the hills echoing
the chug chug of the gasoline hoist,
the deserts clouded with the dust of ore
teams.
In which Of the fourteen counties is
not mining the paramount Industry
The answer might once Ia been
Churchill. but today It has It's Wonder,
its Fairview, its Eastgate. westgate,
and and Springs.
Several years ago washoe was con
temptuously termed a cow county"
but It now has its wedekind. Peavine.
O~linghouse, washoe and White Horse.
A few months ago the writer anath-
ematised the Commonwealth company
of Galena because II was selling on the
basis of a capitalization of millions of
dollars, property that cost only a few
thousands. Development proved the
property all that its promoters argued.
Returning again to washoe. 1t is only a
few years since a Reno attorney defend
ed a washoe county prospector on the
charge of manslaughter. His fee was
paid in nuggets washed from a canon
eight miles from wadsworth. Since
then a thriving mining camp has sprung
up. A railroad reaches out to 1t and in
the vicinity is a rivaling mining dis
trict. Ye writer was enticed into the
hills twenty miles north of Reno in the
winter of iS99-1900 by the tales of a
woodchopper. II he had stayed with
the game he might ave been a
new arrival is, half owner in Nashville
and its mines. The same is true in re-
CARDS to washoe district. To the stay
ers belong the spoils.
The penner of this sketch sold his in
terest in the North Hercules III on
winnemucca mountain for IS. Now
SIS, 1000 would not be sufficient to pur-
chase the interest
Thus IT goes. Nevada is developing
the ~unthought of places. L is making
the desert odorous of gasoline and the
mountains reverberate to the discharge
of the villainous saltpetre.
What of Churchill? Has 1t not its
second Tonopah-wonder? There oc-
curs ruby. s~tephanite and c~alcopyrite,
just as in the Midway, Montana, Ex-
tension and other bonanza properties.
Proof of this is in the fact that Presi-
lent Brock Of the Tonopah Mining com
pany of Nevada has become by purchase
a large holder in Wonder. Fairview has
| Ao,.o1 tnta fha oofo1nrv 0f ShfnnarG and
a shipper it Is. There are others in
Churchill, but space issues it's ulti-
matum.
Humboldt-great in cattle, In hay, In
Industrial employment-has gon gold
and copper mad. The red metal is dis
playing itself abundantly on Jackson
creek. The Pin Forest range n Dom
nelly mountain or the Washoe frontier
are showing up gold production u as
was never before deemed possible in the
country of the branding iron n the
mocati. Even Kennedy is showing new
life and Winnemucca mountain prom
Uses to produce treasure.
Humboldt is also rich in sulphur. In
fact, it is difficult to say whether or not
the nuggets of Dun Glen will or will
not rival in value the production Of the
low value metals.
Little may be Tx of Lander. because
it is not now an aggressive country,
having thus far been missed by the
great boom. But 1T is true that Lander
rivals any other county in the state in
chances for copper and the noble metals.
Proof of this is found in the Adelaide
mine alone, fourteen miles from Col
conda, and connected Herewith by pri-
vate railroad. Adelaide is little adver-
tised, but 1t is recognized by those who
rave visited it as the greatest copper
min between the Sierra and the
Rockies.
Once upon a time Tuscarora placed
Elko county in the front rank of Me-
vada counties in point of production.
but that was through the fact that ali
the work done was on rich surface de-
posits between grass roots and water
level. Now all the good ore above
water level has been exhausted, in the
absence of adequate pumping :lachin-
cry the mines ave languished, but this
is only temporary. Salt Lake capital
has become interested and sufficient
money will shortly be forthcoming to
make of Tuscarora one of the principal
cities in one of the banner counties of
Nevada.
IT'S a pity that Their is no room to
speak of Edgemont, Mountain City ard
the new camps tributary to Elk but
suficie 1t to say that they are all COM
ers.
Is Ormsby off the map? Not at ali.
despite the fact that 1t is of limited
acreage, as BELTS the abode of a capital
city. Westward from the town that is
Kit Carson's namesake. is a range of
| rugged mountains that contains leads
of silver chloride, free gold, ~neighborly
silver and surface showings of copper
carbonate, ~sulphate and oxide that may
with depth change to sulpfides in which
copper exists in the proportion Of one
to three. The day is almost at hand
when Ormsby will rank high with her
thirteen sisters as a mineral producing
county. Only the inactivity and unwill-
ingness to take a chance on the part of
her inhabitants are keeping Ormsby in
the background.
Adjacent to Ormsby are the wooded
hills of Pinenut in Douglas county and
across the fertile Carson valley are the
v~ein-seamed Sierra Pine Nut is a terra
! .acognita. 1t has been casually pros
pected and some gold seekers have been
well rewarded, among whom are Frenzy
Benny, the pocket finder, and Zirn, the
late bonanza operator of the ground of
the ~Zirn-Schulz Gold Mining company.