The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-12-19
Big MINES NOT
ALL DISCOVERED

notwithstanding the fact that the
belief IS often expressed that the west
has been gone over, thoroughly, in the
search for new mines and prospects.
It IS amazing to note the large area of
nnexplored territory still remaining,
within the environments of which
great mines may, and probably will be
found. 1t is not fact that all the
big mines of the west have already
been discovered, neither is it fact
that even sections supposed to have
been fully covered by the prospector
have really been carefully gone over.
hundred men may have made what
apparently seemed to be an exhaustive
Investigation of a supposedly mineral
district, with failure as an ultimate
result; while a mere straggler, in 60
ing over the same country, may STUN
bic upon one of the greatest mines
ever discovered. Tonopah is an ex-
ample Of this, and so is Goldfield. A
stretch of country may be Travelled
over, for years, by men who see moth
ing in it worthy of attention. Fol-
lowing in their footsteps another will
find huge outcroppings fairly glisten-
ing with gold, and new mining camp
springs suddenly into existence. A
prospector may spend months in try
ing to find mine in the section he is
in, and still walk around great de-
posit which, perchance, is within
hundred yards of his camp.
There are great many wonderful
mining districts throughout the west;
but as many more will yet be found,
some of them, doubtless, in sections
which have been travelled over for
years, while some will be located
within a few miles from long-estab-
lished camps whose mines have al
ready produced millions, and which
have paid out fortunes in dividends.
A veteran mining man recently
stated that "what this country needs
is the discovery of more new mining
camps intimating that they would
never be found. And yet, important
discoveries are being made with pleas
| ing regularity, and some of them in
mining sections which have practical
! ly been abandoned for years. Others
have been made in regions over which
lprospeetors and mining men have
travelled for a quarter of century.
National, in Nevada, was not an un-
explored section, by any means, and
lyet no camp, today, has brighter fu-
ture; while the whole county in which
this district is located, is teeming with
veins and lodges which, so far have
escaped the eagle eye of the pros
pector. Hundreds of mining men
have known of Rochester canyon, in
Humboldt county, the very latest SEN
sational mining discovery, and vet
early locators there are sending out
shipments of surface float that means
handsome profit, while the lodges
are reported to be both large and
strong, and of excellent shipping
grade. These outcroppings the same
abundance of float, and the same
lodges and veins existed in Rochester
canyon before the discovery of Ameri-
ca, and yet they have remained un-
known merely because the prospector,
heretofore invading that region, may
have swerved a quarter of a mile to
the right or to the left when search
| ing for mineral deposits.
This whole western country is still
a treasure house of mineral Perhaps
| it is well that all of these deposits
have not been found, as vet, for then
there would be no promise for the
future for coming generations. But,
the fact remains that many new dis
tricts will yet be discovered, as big
and as rich as any yet found; and,
some of these so near to well-known
districts of note that the mining world
viii be startled as well as greatly sur
sed.-Mining Review.