Year: 1868

ALI Nevada is excited just now by the


stories Of the richness of the silver


mines in the White Pine District, and


the Nevada Enterprise gives the follow
ing account of those diggings:
We have for some weeks as much


as possible lrefrained from giving any


thing bat "a passing notice OF the


White Pine excitement, but it has all


the time been greater and increasing in


the might untn at last it has gained


such strength and assumed such impor-


tance that We cannot we'll ignore it.


The smouldering volcano must soon


burst, if not this winter, ssrely next
spring. There is no getting around it,


the Wkite Pine mines are rich-won-
derfully rich. All the letters re-
ceived from there, and all the
men who come in from there
tell the same story. Parties who
have examined the mines say that they
are doubtless the richest ever discovered
in any part of the world. Mr.. William
Woodburn of. this city, whe spent some
days in the mines, says that lie believes
there is enough silver in the one small
range of mountains in which the White
Pine mines are situated to pay off the
national debt, large as it is. His ac-
count of the nature of the silver deposit
agrees with that of all others who have
visited the mines, namely: That it ap-
pears to be vast stratum of limestone,
as, wherever shafts have been sunk
through this limestone cap, the rich ore
has been found. In some places the
rich ore has forced itself up to the sur
face through crevices, while i'll sthers
the shaft must be sunk to the depth of
ten to thirty feet before the ore is found.
The depth of the deposit is not known,
no shaft having yet cut through it. The
Eberhart company, the Oldest in the
district, have diifted in one direc-
tion distance of $50 feet, with cross
drifts sixty to seventy feet IN
leHgth, and have sunk shaft some
thirty-fve feet in depth, and all in
solid mass of ore, worth from $500 to
don't phoo! phoo 100000 per ton
On Chloride Flat, somewhere on the
same mountain-the same kind of ore
has been found by every shaft that has
passed through the limestone. All the
miners who have "struck ile' have
piled about their shafts large heaps of
ore, ranging in value from $500 per ton
up to the frightful figures we have ven
tured to mention above. We might
make ont long list of the lucky ones,
but as it might create an incOnveuient
excitement among their poor relations,
we refrain. 1t is enOagh to say that
men who were about our streets four
months since without q cent, are now
worth so much silver that neither they
nor any of their friends can cal
culate its value-because You see, they
don't know the length, breadth nor
thickness of their pile. All from this
vicinity say that White Pine is the
poor mans Paradise. Mr.. Woodburn is
of the opinion that there will be in the
mines by the 1st of next April a popu-
lation of 10000 persons. All the stoiies
of the severity of the winters here do
not prevent the people from rushing
thither; they are going every day. No
one asks now, Are you going to White
Pine7" The question is, When do
you go" As an Offset to all the above
it is but fair for us to add that there
are many persons who believe the mines
are too good to last, and who believe
that the ore deposit is of no great thick