White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-26
WERE
lever BETTER
BOOM METHODS GIVE PLACE TO
STEADY AND PERMANENT
METHODS, FOR STATE WIDE
DEVELOPMENT.

throughout Nevada eannot be gain
said, whatever it may lack of the
spectacular features tina marked the
boom of five years ago. No one who
is at all familiar with mining con-
ditions in the state will attempt to de-
ny that the industry Is now on a far
sounder basis than formerly, or that
more important and lasting results
are promised from the work as it Is
now conducted In the mining camps.
During the boom, for the most part,
development was directed to the
opening of h~igh-grade ore of such
value as to bear the cost of shipping
to smelters and usually found in
small volume and shallow depth.
From Death Valley to the Oregon
line, mines are now being developed
with a view to securing a large ton
mage, justifying the erection of mill
ing plants to treat the product on the
blOhhd III mus ODNaAh III 0hAAl0
profit recoverable, says the Goldfield
Tribune.
Mining camps and obscure mining
districts have sprung up over night
during the boom times and faded
into oblivion. That there are fewer
stampedes to new districts is by no
means to be accepted as indicating
a less substantial condition in the
mining industry, but rather a more
businesslike conduct of mining af-
fairs and a saner conception of the
natural laws surrounding and gov
erning the business of mining.
Blooms Are Likely.
While authoritative reports of a
new discovery will send men into
the field to make locations and
even to secure leases rear a strike
of proved worth, We now see great
er dependence placed upon reports
of engineers and less of the ~feverish
"gophering" after hig-grade
SENS, guided by no definite know
ledge of geological conditions,
which marked the former opening
of new mining camps.
OF all signs of the times which
mark the new era in mining deyel-
opment in this state, however. the
most significant Is the character of
men who have become financially in
terested in mining during the past
year or less and who are now de-
voting large sums of money TO min.
ing in the various districts of prom
Use. This is particularly true of the
Goldfeld district by reason of the
fact that, owing to the comparative
ly circumscribed area that has been
actively producing, the impression
had gone abroad that other parts of
the district had proved unprodue-
tive. A list of names of men who
are now heavily interested in the
development Of Goldfleld proper
ties includes those of the foremost
mining interests In the entire coun-
try; men who are known wherever
the sound of steel against rock is
heard and whose names are synony-
nous with financial success in its
broadcast sense.
Within the past few months plans
have matured for the development
upon an elaborate scale of a dozen
properties in the Goldfeld district,
and the work now outlined is of far
greater scope and importance than
ever attempted in a mining camp I'm
the west in an equal space of time.
Where formerly the development
plans of a mining company in this
district contemplated a system of
blind prospecting at depths, ae-
cording to the available funds, of 100
to 500 feet shafts of large dimen-
sens are n ,w being sunk to 1900 or
1000 feet and are equipped with the
highest type of ooe machinery.
Operations are conducted with a
view to employing every known
means of economy and efficiency in
dc, elopmert with every advantage
to be gained from the work that has
gone before in adjacent territory;
the latter a factor of importance in
gaining results IN %ghexplored
ground.
Whole State Busy.
Not only in the Goldfield district
do these conditions prevail, but they
are extending rapidly throughout the
state. And while the millionaire
operators are sinking deep shafts
and ~endeavoring to open other Gold