White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-05
NEVADA MAKES
FINE SHOWING
GREATER PART OF INCREASE IN
MINING INDUSTRY HAS COME
FROM WITHIN IT'S oNN
BORDERS.

The annual review number of the
Mining World of Chicago, n of the
most influential mining journals In
America, contains a long article on
the mining industry of Nevada, from
the pen of H. z. Davis. In comment
ing on the wonderful growth OF our
mining industry during the past year
that able journal says:
With a gross production of more
than $4,000, 900, and a record in
paid dividends of $12, 604,O23, the
mines of Nevada made a splendid
showing during 1910. The state
produced about $25, 100000 in 1909,
and the story of the growth of the in
dustry in a 12-month is told in a
glance by the mere comparison OF the
figures of the two years.
This enormous uplift in the mining
industry of the sta1e has come In
larger part from within the state OF
Nevada itself. The investing public
during the past three years has not
taken kindly to Nevada mine pro-
motions. The state has been left to
work out its own salvation in large
part. During these three years mine
development has been slow and
painstaking. 1t has been hard for
really m%eritorious properties to
secure necessary finances for mill
building and development. That, in
spite of adverse conditions, Nevada
during the year 1910 enriched,
through the product of her mines, the
nation TO the extent of SAL 600 600,
should be eloquent proof of the rien-
ness of her mineral domain, and
should convince the most skeptical
that there is genuine merit in the
producing properties of the state;
that they are possessed of per-
manence and stability and that in the
thousands of square miles of highly
m~ineralized mountain ranges. yet I'M
prospected, there are opportunities
for the acquisition of wealth that are
not surpassed in any other part of
the world.
The stream of wealth. that is flow
ing from the mines and mills of Ne
yada is already having its influence,
and it is growing more and more
easy to secure funds with which to
develop a likely prospect, or 10 con-
struct a mill on a partially proved
property. In fact, all over the state
new mills are being erected. New
mills have just been started, others
will be erected during the early part
of the present year.
Eloquent of the new era in Ne
vada is the fact that many small mills
are being erected-mills of from 10
to 80 tons per day capacity. Several
of 100 tons per day have been con-
structed. But where the company
and mine superintendent formerly
CROPPED for those high grade seams
and pockets and deposits that have
in the past made Nevada famous. and
passed low grade ore bodies by. II is
these same low grade ores that are
now being looked for. These ores
are being blocked out and mined, and
when the mining company sees a
sufficient tonnage blocked out to pay
for a few stamps and put a little
money in the treasury, the small mill
is built. on the unit system-a COM
plete facsimile of the best mills In
the west. And while the mill. handl-
ing low grade ore, is paying the bills.
development work is steadily I'm pro-
gress and along with the high grade
usually comes some of those rich
stringers which, alone. We're the OBJ
jective point of the early day miner.
Ores are now being handled that
would not have paid the haulage TO
railroad in early days, let alone rail
road and treatment charges included
Millmen, metallurgists and chemists
are studying vel the problem of
taking a few cents per ton from the
cost of treatment; engineers are
figuring on a reduction of the cost of
power and of labor, and all to the
end that the cost of handling a ton
of ore in the state of Nevada is rapid
ly being lessened. From an unpre-
JUDGED and unbiased standpoint. and
from careful study of the situation.
it appears that Nevada is destined TO
be II of the greatest milling states
in the union. And as the search for
milling ores is now started, and mill
ing ores will be developed, this search
will divulge other great high grade
deposits, and the state will in all
probability boast other such camps
ae Virginia Tononah aud