The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-01-01
Watch Nevada Grow

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give the production of Nevada for the year 1909, as reported to
L that official, $24,O67, s64, produced from 2Ss9,679 tons of ore.
Although 1909 has been termed a dull year for the mining industry
in Nevada, the production of 1909 when figured against a production
of but 1861 25 tons and $14,373,545 in 1908, shows that the mining
operations of 1909 were prosecuted along a broader line than had been
generally believed.
Esmeralda county easily leads the state in the matter of actual
value of ore, leading White Pine, her next competitor, by $2,oOOOOO,
and doubling Nye county, which is third N the list. Esmeralda
shows a production of $9,621,S 1893 from $4,000 tons of ore, while
White Pine, with an enormous total of 1852 221 tons of ore produced,
shows a yield in dollars of $~6,S526l0. This, of course, is due to the
fact that the Goldfeld district is practically a high grade gold
camp, and that the Ely district is dependent upon handling a vast
volume of low grade porphyry copper ore. The figures from the
Ely district are significant for a comparatively new camp, and the
tonnage handled is indicative of the fact that Ely will in time be
perhaps the greatest copper camp in the world. Ely, however, will
not be alone in the copper field in Nevada, for Lyon county, with its
Yerington district, bids fair to rival the Ely district of White Pine
county. Portentious developments are in progress in the Yerington
district, and they will to a large extent unfold during the year 1910.
The production OF the state as shown by the bullion tax office
books is not the real production. The output of mines is figured just
the same IS the value 81 a mans property when the assessor comes
around. 1t is never over-estmated, and it s common belief that it is
greatly underestimate and the bullion tax figures do not represent
more than an actual 10 per cent OF the production from the proper
ties that report. Then, too, there are many prospectors and pocket
miners that grub out rich stakes and never report the same, and many
small properties that are being developed in a desultory way make
ntermittant shipments and do not report the same to the bullion tax
officials. The bullion tax officials know this, yet there is no way of
rounding up all this production. 1t It's the same with real and personal
property. The assessors know they miss a great aggregate, and yet
they have no means OF assessing what they miss. There is too little
actual proof of ownership. And knowing that much bullion escapes
taxation, the bullion and tax collector figures that the real production
money.
By the time the taxes for the last quarter of the year shall have
.pNNi pau It tC otdIC VI ANCNdOd Will nave eC6lNGu IN DuInOn
for the year 1909 the neat sum of 1927, 465. Bullion taxes for the year
1908 were but $101, 656.
Comparison OF the bullion taxes and production of the state for
1908 and 1909 brings to light an interesting situation, in that while the
production of 1909 is some Is per cent greater than the production of
l9Oo, the bullion tax for 1909 is about 100 per cent greater than the
l9Oo bullion tax. And yet there is no mystery connected with that
situation. 1t S due to the fact that during the year many new mills
have been built IN the state; that transportation charges have been
eliminated by many operating mines, thus leaving a larger percentage
OF net profit by which operators and the state have benefited.
People of Nevada should enter the new year with no lack Of con.
hdence. Rather, they should realize that they have weathered a
period OF stress in a manner that is opening the eyes of the m;nino
world, and that those same eyes today are focused upon Nevada. that
from a productive standpoint Nevada is today head and shoulders
above any previous time IN her history that the steady honest and
gritty work OF the men who have stuck to the game all Owe the state
beginning to show results that will start the new wear. off with
VIM and zest that will result in Nevada, in 1910. ecipsinp the worIa,s
productive record from any mining district the size of the stato of
Nevada. The people of the state should realize that dnring the IaSt
lew months great combinations Of capital have been m;etlv coon
ing a 1oothold IN Nevada; that mills are being erected that now
properties are being opened; that the mines of Goldfeld Tononas
Round Mountain, Manhattan, Rhyoite, Death Vaney P pnupa
Phoebe, Austin, Eureka, Ely, Yerington, Rawhide. Nat;onal rhafor
and a score of other camps have proved that Nevada ored anos;. -
permanent. Even the old Comstoek lode is show;no ~. cp1 I ar
been worked out, and bids fair to in large measure II eoo;r Gov aom -"
is former glory. gan some 9
To the outside public, it may be said that there ;s n.u
|oAlon regarding Nevada S mining industry TO-DAY. That naorEa s
|unon is that at a time when the state is breaking al na 49, ~
Nevada mining stocks are at the lowest point in n 49, ~. =
|onermg to investors a condition that will perhans not m ah.a: history
ua, 10y 81 n me o the present generation. The public will not 1ana -
man blind to this state of affairs. The tremendous ns "a - long e
state o 1903, and the enormous development and MI l.! ul "a
Just beginning to get into full stride with the open;ns ~ . ~ Il is
Is gong TO cause a revival of interest in Nevada m;nao Tue year
US" watch Nevada grow in 1910 Il