The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-16

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besides an incline connecting two of
The shafts of which all are in fine
)re. This group is in a narrow cam
yon running from the Rocco canyon
road to the base of Treasure hill. Be-
sides these properties Mr. Minoletti
and Alex Muir have valuable group
of claims in Rocco canyon, below
the famous Recco-Homestake and
the Ne Plus Ultra. Minoletti and
Louis LAM own several claims of
great value. Although it was 1885
before Mr.. Minoletti came into the
camp he proceeded to carry out his
plans of being the largest owner of
mines and real estate in the district.
He bought about year ago the fin
est brick building in Hamilton,
erected in 1869 by ]. II. Whitening
ton. The structure is two stories
high, with a native stone front that
cost originally $4,000. He has had
added to his purchase new roof
her teacher, land | hope you'll bach
and is now engaged in painting and
papering the fifteen rooms and when
through with his improvements will
have one of the best hotel buildings
in eastern Nevada. The rooms are
sunny, and several of them have
fireplaces.
/ might go ON and write for a
week about the mines of Hamilton
and Treasure hill and then not mem
ton all of the properties. However,
after giving my own impressions,
will turn the district over to the eX-
perts. | will not attempt to COM
pute the wealth / have seen sacked
and piled on the dumps awaiting
shipment, neither will l attempt to
compute the value of the ore | have
seen in the various mines visited,
but will say that | have seen much
more than almost any other district
in Nevada can boast of having, and
il Hamilton and Treasure hill were
located in almost any other section
of the state capital could not be
kept out of the district. The great
est drawback | see to the future de-
velopment of the district is so many
United States patents. Many of the
gotten that the district ever existed
and to pull the heirs of the dead to-
gether will be an endless task. 1t
can probably be done and will be
accomplished in time. Another draw
back to the camp is the high prices
everyone finds who come here with
view to investing. 1t would be
far better, in my judgment of course,
for those owning mining ground to
absolutely give one-half of their
holdings to anyone who would de-
velop the other half. The men here
now came in the prime of young
manhood and have grown to be old,
gray-haired men while waiting for
better day to come. OF course,
they have all made a comfortable
living while waiting for their ship
to come in," and the camp has been
more than self-sustaining for all
these long years. The district is I'M
questionably very rich and will be
proven so in a few years later. 1t
may be proven before Treasure hill
is covered with snow in the fall of
'0S.
An Interesting Relic.
This evening Alex Muir loaned me
copy of the White Pine News, of
date February 81, 1869, that to me
carried much interest, and took me
back over the rough trail of life to
my boyhood days. The News was
published weekly at the time on
Treasure hill by Pithford and Simp-
son. | find among its advertisers
the names of many who long since
departed from this life. The paper
contains fifteen columns of adver-
tisements and about five columns of
reading matter. Among the profess
sional men of that time | find Thorn
as P. Hawley, William H. Davenport,
Pier and Furguson, Charley belong
who was a candidate for United
States senator in 1865, and was pit
ted against James w. Nye and Chas.
d. Clarke, brother of the late Cen
eral Robert M. Clarke of Carson.
Charley Clarke was one of the
brightest young men of his time and
gave up life on the wind-driven peak
of Treasure hill in the winter of
1869.
messed some experiments with giant
POWDER" and the particulars of the
test" are carefully written up. The
News was looking after the better
ment of the community where 1t was
published, as it is today. A fire-fight-
ing machine was strongly advocated.
pat Kelly murdered Daniel
Flynn in front of saloon last Thurs
day evening"" Another item reads:
Last Sunday night will long be re-
membered as the coolest ever ex-
perienced in Eastern Nevada, and
many incidents of suffering are re-
lated. On that night the thermom-
eter measured the low point of TWEEN
ty-three below zero. The cold SEEM
ed to eliminate on that night, as
on the following day there was no
wind, the sun shone clearly, snow
melted rapidly, and the streets were
thronged with people enjoying the
pleasant weather." Still another:
''Up to date of February Goth, there
had been incorporated sixty-nine
mining companies for operation in
White Pine, with an aggregate cap
ital stock of $SS,603, O00."
THE Central Pacific railroad, on
Sunday last, was completed for a
distance of $50 miles from Sacra-
mento. During the present week it
was intended to lay four miles of
track daily"
REV. T. R. McGrath will preach
in the courtroom of Judge Burns,
Treasure City, on Sunday afternoon
at IL O'Clock, and in Silver Springs.
in the log stOrehouse at o'clock
Sunday evening""
Hon. Thomas P. Hawley was presi-
dent of Treasure City Masonic asso-
citation and H. B. Pomeroy was sec