The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-05-02
NEWARK VALLEY RANCHES
Ely Record Has Following Write
up OF This Most Productive
Rancbing and Stock Rails
ing Section
From the Ely Record

DuiliiS tuC piCoCuI WCCh q iSPiC
sentative of the Record had the
pleasure of making a trip through
Newark valley, which extends in a
northerly and southerly direction for
a distance of more than so miles in,
the extreme western portion of
White Pine County. The people of
this section are mostly old time
settlers, and all are in prosperous
circumstances. having good ranches,
comfortable homes and cattle and
horses on the ranges. The valley
has an altitude of about 5000 feet
and is fairly well supplied with water
from springs from the Diamond
range of mountains on the west. The
settlers along the valley are all resi-
dents of White Pine County, but
their business and social relations
are almost entirely with the town
of Eureka, their nearest town of i'm
portance. Geographically, Newark
valley should be attached to Eureka
County. To reach their county seat
town of Ely they are compelled to
cross three ranges of mountains and
travel distance of from rs to 100
miles, which they seldom, if ever. do
unless compelled to come here on
court business. Some of the resi-
dents of that section have never been
in Ely, while others will tell you that
they were here several years ago.
They also complain that inasmuch as
they are so far away from the county
seat their roads have been neglected,
and that nomadic bands of sheep
visiting that section from other coun-
ties further north, denude their
ranges of vegetation, and at times
cause them great personal annoy,,
ances in the immediate neighborhood
of their homes.
The Record is not willing to state
that it would like to see Newark
valley annexed to Eureka County,
for by so doing White Pine County
would lose a number of splendid cit
izens and considerable property
wealth, but such change would
certainly be beneficial to the resi-
dents of that section.
During the campaign two years
ago the Record suggested that New
ark valley be added to Eureka Coun-
ty, and that Currant Creek, Duck
water and Sunnyside in Nye County
be added to White Pine County. The
people of eastern Nye County are sit
uated in regard to their county seat
very similarly to those of Newark
valley. They seldom ever go to
their county seat at Tonopah unless
absolutely compelled to do so. They
do their business in Ely for the rea-
son that they market their produce
here, and because it is much nearer
than Tonopah.
Bay State Mining Co.
When the hardy prospectors of
the early days swept over Nevada and
found rich silver ores at Hamilton,
which soon afterwards became one
of the great silver producing camps
of the State, they discovered that
for many years previous to that
time the Bay State Mining Company
had been operating a milling plant
on the eastern slope of the Diamond
range of mountains near the south
ern end of Newark valley. For the
first year or more after the discovery
of Hamilton the ores of that camp
were milled there, but later a num-
Der of mills were erected at the
mines. There seems to be no au-
thentlc history as TO the exact GATE
of the establishing of the milling
plant of the Bay State Mining Com
pany but it must have been in the
very early sixties, and the plant is
therefore one of the oldest in the
State. Richardson's Beyond the
Mississippi" shows a cut of tiny
plant then in operation in Egan can
yon, about ten miles southwest of
Cherry Creek, which was then con-
sidered as the oldest plant in the
State. The Bay State Company con-
tinued operations steadily until the
demonetization of silver carried the
metal down in price to less than so
cents an ounce, since which line the
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