The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-05
MANY OLD CLAIMS
NOW BEING REOPENED
MORE COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE
OF MINING RESPONSIBLE FOR
RESURRECTION.

When silver was dropped from the
coinage act in 1873 many mines
were abandoned in nearly every min
ing camp in Nevada. MANY of them
were patented, the face. of the tun-
mel boarded up or the shaft covered
and in that condition they have been
for years. Now that silver is look
ing up and lead is in great demand
they are being relocated and opened
for work. White Pine county is not
alone in abandoned mines that have
been relocated within the past three
years. The Salt Lake Mining Re-
view prints the following on the sub
ject:
Quite a number of instances have
been cited of late where old and
abandoned mines, located in differ
ent portions of the west, have been
redeemed and are now on the pro-
ducing and paying list.
Because q mine or prospect has
been abandoned, because develop
ment work has bene suspended for
number of years, is no excuse for
the assertion that the property IS
valueless.
AS general oil Olu anu
abandoned mine was originally re-
garded as being most promising
prospect. When first located, with
out doubt, it was looked upon as be-
ing the most valuable ground in the
district, the cream and choice of the
country, and it's early operators were
firm in the belief that it would de-
velop into a bonanza proposition.
Many of these old mines were
heavy producers and were only ADAM
doned, but not exhausted, when local
conditions became such that they
could not be longer worked at a
profit; or because of difficulties ex-
listing between owners. And still
others were given up because of poor
management, the exercise of bad
judgment in development and the ex-
travagant expenditure of money.
In nearly every case these old
mines can now be worked to advan-
tage and at profit. Those which
were heavy producers in the past can
now be handled again, owing to the
advanced and improved ideas and
methods in mining and milling, i'm
proved transportation facilities and
the increased demand for the baser
metals in the commercial and manu-
featuring world.
In this class we often find prop
critics where ore is soon found, after
they pass into the care of careful
and up-to-date mining men.
For instance, we have in mind
case where long tunnel was driven
into the mountain for a distance of
LOO feet, and, no ore being found,
work was discontinued and the prop
erty was idle for years, until lately
when lease was obtained upon it by
an experienced and thinking man.. 1t
was then demonstrated that the long
tunnel, for almost its entire length
had paralleled the vein, and a short
crosscut soon took the workings into
magnificent body of ore, and now
this mine is looked upon as one of
the coming big producers OF the west.
And this is not an isol tied case either
as almost every old r,ining camp in
this inter-mountain re; ion can make
one exhibit. If not nj, of the same
character.
Many of these old and abandoned
mines are now being resurrected,
and they are proving to be the equal,
if not the peer, of the wo,,der1 I'll new
finds and discoveries which have been
chronicled the last few years, the de-
velopment and operation of which
have electrified financial and business
circles from one end of the globe to
the other