White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-05
THE SITUATION
At ROCHESTER
CONDITIONS SEEM TO WARRANT
RELIEF THAT NEW CAMP Is
DESTINED TO BECOME PER-
MANENT PRODUCER.

1t was scarce six weeks ago tnat at
tention was attracted to the remark
ably rich showings on Nenzel, and
gold and silver in Lincoln mountains,
says a correspondent of the Reno
Journal. These two points OF the
new district are about two miles
apart and verging on Rochester,
Limerick and American canyons;
Rochester being the center drainage
with Limerick and American can
yons fianking the new district, Amer
lean declining into Spring valley
and the other into Loyeloek valley.
The immediate surroundings of
the scene of such activities have
been contributors to the gold and
silver supply of the world since 1862
and within close range of the Nenzel,
Schick, Forvely, Campbell and De
Lone strikes, which are the signal
evidence of the very richness of the
district, at present some S~4,500,0OO
in gold and silver having been pro-
| duced. Rochester canyon is part OF
such territory and thus has the ele-
ments which bespeak for ii a deserv-
ing praise and commentator rare
ly associated with new discoveries.
The surrounding production is a
matter of record and speaks strongly
for the underlying cause for such
wealth, for the great richness in
placer gold taken from American
canyon is an evidence of the golden
fortunes within these mountains.
Weighted down with the precious
metals, the centuries of change by
slides and erosion drained the gold
1000ft below and deposited it there
in the gravels and on bedrock which
for half a century has been a ource
of wealth to the men who owned and
worked them. The recent discovery
on Nenzel and Lincoln mountain re-
moves the thin vein which b~eelouded
the contentious of from whence did
this placer gold come? Those old
glaciers-for the moraines are evil
dent in these canyons-did great
through the mountains, grinding the
gold-laden rock and then depositing
the heavy gold nearby from whence
they came.
So much, in brief for the associ-
ated facts known as it appertains to
the new scene of excitement into
which men and beasts are being
hurled to gain additional fortune, no
matter what the consequences to the
individual may be.
This objective point of the gold
seekers is out from Loyeloek some
"a miles. In brief, the geologic con-
ditions are good. They are COM
pick, typifying what might be term
ed the true Nevada formation from
which, in other sections, likewise
such immense wealth has been ex-
tracted, other than the Humboldt
range. Rhyolites, older and newer
andesites, schists, lines, p~orphyries
and primary rocks prevail through
out the surrounding country. Con-
ditions, irrespective of the past, are
ideal for long-lasting deposits of
gold and silver and lead, and a short
distance therefrom.
These things are notable in pass
ing over and along the formation
whereon this new excitement rules
the excitement which always at
tends the dazzling gold and silver
finds of the %prospector. Standing on
the crest of these gold and silver
laden slopes, one beholds the scep-
tered grandeur which will sway for
years to come the energy and domi-
mating spirit of men to wrest for
tune and fame from these great
mountains which are swept by the
eye as one contemplates the vista and
scenes from which so much wealth
mas been extracted heretofore.
and which in this new revelation
simply recites the fact that the pros
peetor knows not in full his trade
and who for 60 years tramped over
the great wealth lying under his feet
on and over the SUBMITS surrounding
the canyon in which this human en-
ergy is applying itself to unravel the
gold and silver.
Wherever one turns he Is CON
fronted with new evidence of he
very richness of this longtime ne
elected section. This evidence is
not prospective, but is real. Ore is
in all directions. 1t is picked up in
float, put in sacks and shipped to the
shelters, with net smelter returns of
from $3.50 to $55 per ton. The
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