White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-25
One of Best School Years Recorded
DEPUTY SUPT A. B. IGHTFOOT DISCUSSES CONDITIONS
As OBSERVED ON $500 MILE TRIP THROUGHOUT THE STATE
ManyBoys Complete Common Course

! shop has been erected and fully
equipped with best grade and pattern
of shop machinery and tools. Also,
very fine Office building has been
put up this spring. These are the
only new buildings as yet completed,
| but a mill of 300 tons daily capacity
is under construction, and three ten
, animal teams and two fiye-ton auto
trucks are engaged in hauling the
machinery and materials for the mill
from Blackburn to Buckhorn, dis
tanee of about Is miles A hotel of
80 rooms including elGb room and
other high-class conveniences will be
erected by the Buckhorn Mines COM
pany, the coming summer. A power
line is being constructed from a point
on the Humboldt river near Beo-
wave, to Buckhorn.
AT Cortez, the cyanide plant is
working at full capacity, and several
miners are taking out ore, from the
old Winban mine which Is under
lease to Tom Parker and associates
At Mill Canyon. four miles north
from Cortez new mill is being erect
ed, and so men are employed in de-
veloping the mines which are now on
producing basis. Mill Canyon
shows a strong indication of becom-
ing a real mining camp of fair pro-
portions.
'The Keystone mine, 10 miles
south from Cortez. has been bonded
to Salt Lake parties, and is already
being put into condition for produc-
ton.
AT Hilltop and Mayville, in Lam
der county, about Is miles southeast
from Beowawe. new mills have been
erected and are now operating
regularly. on a good grade of ore.
All living accommodations are filled
to overfiowing, and the population is
rapidly increasing. Both places are
/
extended period of litigation, and
will probably become large producers.
At Austin, everything is quiet. with
little or no prospects of immediate
revival
Concerning the live stock outlook,
Mr.. Lightfoot's observation were as
follows
Horses. cattle and sheep came
through the winter in excellent con-
dition and with very small losses.
The range in White Pine and Eureka
counties has been good this spring,
but in Lander county the supply of
water has been unusually short. So
short, in fact, that the acreage of
grain and other agricultural produts
will fall far below that of last year.
! The recent rains covered only a
small section of territory. and were
very heavy in but few places. Much
moderate crop of hay is assured. The
crops of lambs and of wool are above
the average this year. but the market
for wool is very uncertain"
When asked as to highways en-
countered, the Deputy Superinten-
dent said:
As regards roads, they are good,
bad and Indifferent, the worst roads
being in White Pine county. The
road from Eureka to Austin is in ex-
cellent condition and there are crews
of men repairing the highways in
both counties"
Mr.. Lightfoot made the entire trip
in his new automobile, an "E. NJ. r.
30 car, with Bud Bodell as chauf-
feur. With the exception of two or
three minor mishaps usual to auto
travel, the car came up to all expec-
tations and requirements. and proved
its superiority to team transporta-
ton.