The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-09-26

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profit. These mines were operated
by ~leasers and individual owners and
high grade ground was worked.
Those requiring even a comparatively
small amount of development be-
yond the reach of individuals remain
yet to be opened.
The White Pine range is one of
the larger members of the basin
ranges lying about midway between
the Wasatch and Sierra Nevada up
lifts. y Like all the Basin ranges it
has a general northerly southerly
trend and is separated from the Pan
cake range on the west and the Egan
range on the east, in which Ely is
situated, by broad desert valleys.
The White Pine district covers a
portion 16 miles square,, of the
! northern end of this range, where
the strata are locally intensely fault
ed and folded, producing a rough
and uneven topography which is not
apparent in other portions of the
range. White Pine mountain, on the
western border of district, presents
a bold and precipitous outline and
rises out of the desert on the west to
an elevation of i've 10000 feet. 1t
is about 10 miles long by 8 miles
wide and attains the greater eleva-
ton of any part of the district. On
its northern and eastern slopes con
siderable areas of balsam and white
pine timber are to be seen. The
southern and western slopes are
clothed with scrub cedar, sage brush
and bunch grass. A number of clear
mountain springs gush from its sides
only Il lose themselves in the arid
reaches of the desert. East of White
Pine mountain high rolling hills of
irregular topography and lesser ell
ovation extend to Mokeamoke range
on the eastern border of the district.
The general north-south trend of the
ridges is interrupted by an easterly
westerly anticlinal swell from Monte
Cristo, which ends in the high dome
of Treasure Hill, the next highest
point in the district, with an eleva-
ton of 5000. This is locally known
as the Mote Cristo uplift." Ex-
cept for scattered patches of scrub
cedar and mountain mahogany, the
hills and ranges east of White Pine
mountain present a smooth and
grassy appearance.
The geology of the White Pine
district is not unlike that of many
other productive districts in the basin
range region. The ores occur in
deposits and veins in Paleozic
strata. Their position and mode of
occurrence can be compared to those
of Phoebe, Reveille and Eureka, Ne
vada; Tintic, Utah; Wood River,
Idaho and other localities in the
Basin range region. The silver ores
of Treasure Hill and the silver lead
ores of the Base Metal range owe
their origin to the folding and fault
ing of the limestones which produc-
ed the assures and channels in which
ore bearing solution circulated.
Absence of igneous rocks in these
featured On the other hand, the
copper ores on the west side of the
mountain are derived from an in
vasion of porphyries.
Within the White Pine district the
White Pine range widens out to the
west to almost twice it's usual width,
this portion having been subjected
to intense folding and faulting sub
sequent to the general uplift of the
range. Mokeamoke ridge on the
east is a synclinal ridge of erosion,
undisturbed by the lateral faulting
and folding involved in the elevation
of Treasure Hill and White Pine
mountain. 1t is composed of Car
%boniferous strata. Just east of
Treasure Hill this ridge is offset
about one-half mile east and from
there continues its course southwark,
where. beyond the confines of the
district, 1t again forms the main