White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-02-04

tells of fertility not of a desert.
Moreover. in the production of the
last ten years Nevada's high record
has been maintained almost as an
average, demonstrating her ex-
%traordinary agricultural possibili-
lties in a way that prellides argu-
ment. In addition, Nevada clips
about 1000, 900 pounds of wool an
nually. YET home-seekers, not know
ing these things have in the past
avoided 1t and less than 5 per cent of
its irrigable land is now under cult
walton. The opportunity is extra
ordinary. Moapa, Star valley, Me-
tropolis, the Owyhee, Bruneau and
Salmon River valleys, the Humboldt
valley, where the rich black soil is
over fifty feet in depth; the Paradise,
Truckee, Carson, Mason and Smith
valleys. and others SO numerous that
our space will not permit mention,
invite the settler. A $50 ton beet
sugar factory has been erected at
Fallon.
The Pacific Reclamation company
and other companies have plans in
varing stages of completion for the
watering of nearly a million acres
more In addition, ~artesian water
at depths varying from 80 to 400
feet has found in widely separated
parts of the state. Two years ago
this source of supply vas scarcely
considered, but today wells are null
tiplying all through the state.
The hundreds of mining camps
and discoveries great and small af-
ford a strong and growing market
for the products of the Nevada farm
er and at prices higher than obtain
ed elsewhere in America.
Romance Surrounds Mining.
There is much of in Ne
yada's history and in the stories of
the millionaires she has raised up al
most in a day. In 1859 Nevada first
took position as a mining country as
the result of successful operations on
the Comstock lode, and eoincident
discoveries of lode deposits in the
Reese river country, and Virginia
city was established in that year.
The Comstoek lode produced S371,-
00O, 000 during its existanee.
During the next ten years dis
coyeries We're made at nearly all the
mining camps in the central and
northern parts OF the state. Silver
mining reached a high point in the
seventies and eighties, but suffered
a rapid decrease in the nineties ow-
ing to the great slump in the price
of the metal. Later came the swift
rise of Goldfeld and Tonopah. They
are the chief factors which placed
Nevada at the top of the list for 1910
in the production of gold, the totals
being $1,000, 900 and s19, 900, 900.
respectively. In 1910 Neyada's in
crease in gold production was three
times that of any other state, and the
silver increase was five times that of
any other.
Nevada mines pay more than a
third of the dividends paid by all
the gold, silver, lead and copper
mines of the United States. Copper
production, although a comparative
ly new factor, is already a tremen-
dous one. Ely. one of the worlds
great copper camps, produced in 1910
and 1911 % per cen of the states
grand total for all metals and 6 per
cent of the total copper output of
the United States.
During the first six months of
1909 the total output of all metals
was $13. 234.692.77; during the same
period of 1910 it was SIS ,026,432.
and during the same period in 1911
it was $~16,372,746, an increase of
"a per cent in two years. The growth
of the future seems likely to main
tain the same rate for some time, as
several large new properties are be-
ing brought into operation.