Show ONE CNE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MILLION if a veteran mining man in his rambles ramble among the old and practically deserted mining camps of the west should stumble upon an ancient district whose mammoth dumps dilapidated mine buildings hoists and reduction works told the story of active and mammoth operations many years before he would stop and ponder over the subject as to why production had ceased and the question would ever be on his tongue as to the circumstances which had brought about such wonderfully changed conditions conditions that had a once prosperous camp into the solitude of a graveyard and his wonder would be greatly increased if he were to be told that this camp which in reality had r really eally been but barely prospected as yet had in times past produced a million in the precious metals or even ten or twenty millions such districts as these are to be found in various sections of the west with many of the old timers their existence has become nothing more than a mere memory and it is only now and then that the pres ent day mining operator ever hears of them nevada is full of these old time bonanza districts some of them because of the infusion fus ion of new blood into these sections are being resurrected and it will not be long now before they will be duplicating their splendid records of the past when from their mines a steady stream of the precious metals flowed into the channels of trade and commerce A few such camps whose production in the halcyon days of a quarter of a century ago amounted to millions upon millions are still outputting to a limited extent among these might be mentioned eureka district eureka county eureka district at one time was one of the greatest mineral producing camps in the west and yet in a measure it is but a virgin field and when capital is again directed to its old bonanza mines its promising but practically undeveloped prospects it will rise again to the prominence it once held in the mining world in looking over the columns of the sen tinel published at eureka the commercial center of eureka district the mining review was greatly impressed and also greatly astonished at finding a statement to the effect that up to date the mines of eureka district had produced bullion to the value of according to smelter returns and verified by the books of the county assessor any mining man would certainly be impressed by such a statement and such a camp as this if located in alaska in south africa or in the wilds of old mexico would be the scene of the wildest stampede imaginable to its borders were even unsubstantiated reports in circulation as to its possession of such magnificent mineral wealth and yet the deepest workings in eureka district will not exceed 1200 feet two of the mines of the camp the eureka consolidated and the richmond on ruby hill are accredited with a bullion production of about the balance of the being divided among other producers in that section among which might be mentioned the diamond the jackson ruby dunderberg alexandria silver connor and others with such a splendid record to refer to with mines still unexhausted with new properties giving excellent promise for the future with a perfect mineral bearing formation to rely upon and with railroad and shipping facilities handy the mining review can see no reason why this old camp should not take on new life in the near future and once again occupy the position among the great wealth producers of this intermountain region to which it is so justly entitled |