White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-01-19

Edward Ryan, state inspector of
mines, has submitted to Governor
Oddie, his annual report for the year
ending November 80, 1912. The re-
port covers 70 pages, contains num-
erous half-tones illustrations. and is
an interesting and comprehensive re-
view OF the mining business in Ne
vada. The physicical side of mining
is considered at some length in the
opening pages of the report, includ-
ing treatment of employees, power.
method of mining, ventilation. dust,
testing safeties on cages, connecting
passages between mines, and other
matters relative to the subject.
The report gives a brief historical
sketch of the states mining progress,
from the time of its admission in
1864, in which year the only mines
worthy of note were those of Virginia
City. Under this caption, Revival
of Mining" Inspector Ryan says:
with the opening of the camps of
Tonopah and Goldfield, each show
ing signs of permanency quite as
great as that of the historic Virginia
City, and numerous others of lesser
note in many different section over
the state, Nevada again took on a
new impetus; awoke from its dor
nancy, received an infusion of new
life and once more seemed to have
taken it's place in the galaxy of
states. 1t may be well to mention
that the total output of the state for
the year 1899 as taken from the Of
fetal records of the several mining
companies. inclusive of that of the
Comstock Lode. is placed at s3,740,-
100. The Comstock contributed
$342, ,52O.40 of that amount. inclu-
sive of mill tailings.
THAT year marked the ending of
the period of industrial depression
within the State of Nevada. With
each succeeding year came immense
increases in its annual metal produe-
tion, oecasioned by new strikes that
seemed TO be of such remarkable
frequency until its production of
valuable metals in the year 1903, or
ten years later, reached the enormous
sum of S30.072.932 as before men
toned or eight times the total pro-
duction of 1899. Nor was that all.
II nearly doubled its population dur
ing these years. The influx not only
brought the miner and prospector,
but the ranchman, the farmer and
the homeseeker. for. with such re-
markable strides of prosperity in the
mining industry. naturally followed
the desire to acquire agricultural
land.
Reclamation projects became much
in evidence. many of private char
aeter, while some We're and are con-
Quoted by the government itself, un-
til at this time it may be said that, in
connection with individual acquire
ments of land, the total acreage now
in cultivation is far in excess of that
of 1879 by many thousands. Ne
vada contains millions of acres of
valley land, rich and productive as
any beneath the sun. and only await
ing the further development of ir-
rigation facilities, many of which are
now in course of construction, and
agriculture will ere many years be-
come quite as great an industry, in a
financial way, as that of mining, the
industry to which agriculture be-
comes such an important and most
necessary auxiliary.
with the close of the present
year one may notice that 1912 was
fraught with evidence of activity in
mining that will enable Nevada to
show an output in mineral that will
surpass any previous year. Since the
famous camps of Goldfield and Tono-
pah reached their zenith in point of
production, or at least greatest an
nual output so far as recorded, there
has been no year which shows
stronger, or gives greater evidence Of
increased production than the pres
ent one. and ii is only reasonable to
believe that, with a continuation of
such persisteney and resistless en-
ergy and perseverance. our great
state, which now stands only second
in point of production, will ere long
rank first among the metalliferous
states of the west.
THE state of Suspended Operations