Show Other Mines and IIincrals The fcorax soda and similar mineral Interests peculiar to Esmeralda county traversed by 1 the Carson Ss Colorado i railroad maintain their good produc tivenesB 01 Pacific Coast Borax company com-pany reporting a gross yield for the nr portinE 1OSs year of ISLSjOtoiri valued at 22640 An English company with ijf Stnmll lon 1nt1 t I has taken hold of te old I Northern Bello and Holmes mining group at Belleville for working the vast mnnunt of taln ant lorjr de ore 1 Rich strikes of gold ore arc reported recently made In Hun ton district sou thor th-or Hawthorne Aurora which yielded many millions In the early days Is now a deserted mining camp except having a few stray prospectors occasionally and some parties engaged lu working the old tailings The famous 116 mine of the Silver Peak Mining company which his been chronically bound up and Its rich bullion bul-lion yield totally obstructed JY heavy moneyed litigation some years past was bought In at United Stages Marshals Mar-shals sale lat May for John 1 Blair the New Jersey multimillionaire for SGGoOOO In satisfaction of a mortgage he held upon it to that amount costs Included The six months allowed for redemption expJrejUiiNDyjnjl Blair exTcl lBlalr died December 2nd and It Is now stated that the Silver Peak property will soon change hands at any rate the active working development and production will be resumed early next season I W Grozlnger Co south of Columbus Colum-bus and about twenty mlles from the iSArson Colorado railroad are developing devel-oping n very promising coal mine In 0 slate and sandstone formation The coal is of 1 the cannel variety in small veins mIxed with bituminous shale the largest vein being about flvcfeot thick I Is of fair quality cokes well and burns well in stoves for heating and cooking purposes With limited means Its owners have worked and developed It In n mal way but recent great Improvement Im-provement In quality and quantity has brought their mine into prominence and with good financial assistance It Is proposed to open the mine systematically cally and practically demonstrate Its true value during the coming season T I roC viri uS fl valuable and Important Im-portant development ojo uutm tjjjiuj ently produces no amount of gold and silver bullion worthy of the Assessors attention yet such mining was once her chief industry Indus-try Extensive mines of the precious metals have been worked near Belmont and the western and northern parts of the county and under Improved circumstances cir-cumstances will bo again at a good profit And there are also copper lead antimony zinc and quicksilver besides extensive deposits of borax soda alum I gypsum and othqr minerals but as In other Interior localities flack of transportation trans-portation railroads etc is a serious Impediment to the profitable utilization OL theno desirable resources The railroad rail-road from Utah across the southern end of Nevada will bo a very important 1 import-ant aid and comfort In that line the greatest one thing needful The most Important development at present In the Southern Klondike district dis-trict southwest of Belirfont < whcrt avery a-very promising ravage of gold and silver sil-ver mines have been opened during the past year The principal location was made by Bell and Court their ledge being large and giving very satisfactory j aY and milling tests Itf now belongs be-longs to California capitalists who are proceeding to actively develop Its true merits I Is stated that they have already al-ready found ore In It that assays way up In the thousands to the ton principally prin-cipally silver and there Is liable to be a rush there In the spring Neither Leander Churchill nor Jlum boldt report anything new qr taxable In gold and silver production yet from most recent Information thoy may be relied upon for something better later on onWashoe makes no taxable bullion reports re-ports yet she promises a mineral boom In the near future that will be an awak enCl of old times In mining enterprises Old and new silver and gold locations around Peavlne mountain are being stirred up with better ns aYf and prospects pros-pects from recent and mol Judicious workings Induced by better Judgment < and oxnurlonce and a rich tinge of cop per comes In as an encouraging roseate glow upon the situation And the new mines of Ollnghouse district dis-trict north of Wadsworlh give golden assurance of a more prosperous coming year In both gold and silver to say nothing of copper that old ashoe has seen for many a day I Neither Ormaby nor Douglas have ever amounted to much as gold and sliver ver mining producers and there Is no particular improvement in that respect re-spect Up at South Camp opposite Genva Abe Cohn of Carson struck some very good gold orp In his mine last fall a brief runt which In hiD fivestamp mill near by gave returns of 100 per ton He has opened out on the propo sort sitlon getting after more of the same sortThe Buckeye placer goldmines about I Ihlrlyfive miles Eouth ° ost from Carson Car-son which created considerable excitement I excite-ment two or three years ago through being bonded to Mllllortplrc charms Leabue the great OiS t a jnltwojvner at lAngels Camp aXY < Vr13 > Qrpcr ore snowed under at present waiting for the melting snows of next spring t supply the requisite water for sluicing The famous ZIon unlnettffl nearer j Carson with its rich golden pockets ot decomposed quartz Is lying 1 idle from litigation but It is expected to be started up again in the spring NEVADA COPPER Throughout the whole State in various vari-ous localities veins and deposits of cop per ore ave been found and some smel ters were erected to utilize them but through lack of transportation facili ties Inexperence and the low price oC the metal Itself they did not pay and wero abandoned The extraordinary high price of copper resulting from Us astly Increased use and demand for telegraphic electric and similar purposes pur-poses during tho last year or so hoy ever has created quite an active cx cltement and research after copper i mines in Nevada as well as tho rest of the country Old locations aro eagerly rolocated former workings arc resuscitated resusci-tated and nobody feels right without copper mine considering It about SIX I I teen to one better than an ordinary sliver i ver mine Humboldt county takes the lead In practical I realisation production and exportation of the popular red metal as well as In developed extent and quality of the ore Smelters are also rEO in operation at Golconcla with a twelve mlle branch railroad to transport tho ore from the mines Hundreds of tons have also been shipped to market East and elsewhere and the ore belt Is of groat extent and practically inexhaustible I Inexhaus-tible The Glasgow and Western and the Adelaide are leading companies l engaged en-gaged In the copper mining and smelt mining I I lug operations also parties from Salt Lake and Chicago Rich copper mines S are also being developed near Whine I mucca Battle mountain and at other points In Lander and Elko count Washoe county also contains many locations of very promising mines of copper all like those of Humboldt carrying car-rying more or less gold in fact such In generally the case throughout the State In some Instances as high a 16 or 20 per cent In the northern part of Washoe county In the Pyramid Lako section an extensive lode of copper secton ore carrying a large percentage gold was located a few months ago which Is developing Into a valuable property and copper has always abounded among the ncneral veins and deposits mneru of Peavlno district The sensational discovery of a copper lode of great extent and richness was recently announced an-nounced to have been made Just on tho northwest side of Reno almost within the town Itself At the south end of the county In the old Jumbo gold and sliver mining district tin the east aide Washoe lan Thy l-an wlthin half a dozen miles oC the Comstock lode a phenomenally strong mineral vein has been developed during the past year I Is about forty dmluG feet wide between distinct walls oC syinltc and porphyry and Its conslcm erated quarlzitc ore is heavily loaded with Iron pyrltos carrying gold silver copper nickel antimony and other niInrils lOut l-Out of this perplexing aggregation It was Jot easy to find one mineral constituting con-stituting a working value by Itself until recently In sinking a winze sixty feet below the main tunnel which 1 200 feet Into the mountain POOHTJ and bunches of rich red oxide appeared in the middle of the veIn assaying a high as SO per cent These increase In depth and piomlsc to materialize Into a heavy miner copper vein of which the upper als were really but preliminary symptoms symp-toms tom1his remarkable mine Is owned by Ai OBrien W H Kent and Gco Scluas ler all old Comstocktsra who propone aa aoon as feasible to ship quantities of their ore to the Reno reduction works Salt Lake and the Selbyworks near San Francisco for reduction and demonstration Following away to the southeast J strong copper range ia found OD thQ east Ride of Carson river where neat time Brunswick mill a rich vein of cppv by r side Is developed per ten feet v shaft 125 feet deep It belongs to thl Swanhllda group owned by James x Yerlngton Bob Logan and Jamei Hckey who have bonded It to a eyn S Scatoyof Astern capitalists who hava purchased or bonded other eligible COPper and Empire In near Dayton mines per first mentioned shaft near the tilt Brunswick a few days ago they report having found some spots of pure nf In tire copper Still further southwest Yerlngton district Mason valley Lyon county good veins and deposits of cop discovered several years were per ore mine old Ludwig copper ago and at the for operated and a smelter was set up th monthS but not paying at sonic of the rncta and cost otpra then price 1JeS wassuspcnded The duotion work of these copper mines arc SS own lw tliel3ostOn and Nea Consoh1datt Ook and copper Mimas companr wblehi5 erecting nielters andprePar production on alagd Ing for copper scale This companY has a capItail5a tion pf i0000O ol also ownflthY4 S uablc Mountain View gold mine in Houihcaatern Nevada SUJl farther southward with Earner alda along the Carson Colorado railroad the Vulcan Copper Mining company near Sodnvillc In Santa Fo dlHlrlct and tho CooperSiegel Copper Mining company near Lunjng both strong combinations of EaBtern capital mninjr valuable mines al the localities mentioned smelters are erecting opening 1 open-ing their mines and will soon bo shipping ship-ping tons of copper to market The Vulcan company has their smelt cr about completed and Avill handle abdut seventylive tons per day Its Capacity ca-pacity Bullard and Martin havo bought the DUnlap mine rich in redo red-o lde o copper and tire running n tunnel tun-nel to tap the lode UOO feet below the outcrop Ingalls and Booher are developing de-veloping a lint copper ledge near Hun lOOn twenty feet wide In Douglas county near Genoa some I I very rich copper ore lo found In scattering scat-tering Beams and deposits and In White Pine county the old Star and Calumet pioUp of copper mines it being > re opened The main lodge simply Immense Im-mense carrying 10 to 20 per cent copper and l big imcle Is proposed f to be j ejrcqted next spring Copper Is found il many other Iqcal Itb thioughout the Stale but enough ii ling been mentioned to demonstrate that Nevada can bountifully supply her quota of the worlds demand for the red r metal Moreover the strong pcrcenuipc of gold found In all these copper ore discoveries dis-coveries promises to become a prime factor of Increase In the future precious metal product and wealth of Nevada AGRICULTURAL The grain and hay crops throughout Nevada during the last season were about up to the average notwithstanding t notwithstand-ing the protracted and severe spring frosts lasting along toward midsummer midsum-mer In Washoc county the llrst crop of alfalfa along the Truckee meadows was therefore Q little short but the second sec-ond and third crops made up for IL Plenty of wheat was raised for home consumption and flour for export keeping keep-ing tho noted Riverside mills on Truckee river at Reno running to full capacity turning out as good flour as can be found anywhere Barley and oats however being hardier grains give the best crop returns throughout the State JIumboldt and Elko counties out along the railroad also made a fine showing of hay and grain for home use and export to California the rich and j extensive ranch country about Lovelock I j being especially favored and so also about Battle mountain Churchill Lander Lan-der and Eureka counties also gave a surplus yield good prices prevailing throughout the State Many Indians llnd employment making ma-king good ranch hands after a little experience especially In the hay and grain harvesting fields also among cattle cat-tle and sheep Douglas county Its best lands Including the extensive and fertile Carson river valley section is the most prosperous little county agriculturally of any In the State her hay and grain crops giving n better yield per acre For nstance thirty acres of Chris Jensens ranch lost season yielded sixtytwo tons of choice barley about seventy bushels to the acre Oats also turn out heavy crops of the best nunllfv 1 I CUamy IRRIGATION But In Douglas county as elsewhere In Nevada good grain crops cannot be depended upon without Irrigation which Idea Is very well understood and practically utilized by the ranchers with their excellent facilities Last fall they combined together and bought out the damming reservoir and irrigation I Opan controlling the headwaters of Carron river thus managing their water rights and irrigation to cheaper and better advantage then ever before Not the least Important result will ben be-n largely Increased accrage of hay grain and other agricultural production during1 the coming season In fact thls test progressive proposition is enter talncd in ail other prosperous farming 1 communities of the State In anticipation anticipa-tion of continued prosperity and good prices Moreover the example of the I Douglas farmers In controlling their own Irrigation Is a good one to follow They also have two good flouring mills to grind their wheat giving plenty i of flour for their own use besides con elderablc for export together with their surplus barley and oats Every good ngrlculturaJ section in the State has its ilouring mill and Nevada flour rises la high used fn public estimation wherever It CREAMERIES The Douglas County Creamery company com-pany established five years ago on the cooperative plan Is one of the most successful institutions in the country I is very eligibly located In tho heart of Carson valleyjind Is owned by sev cntyflvo farmers composing the company com-pany who manage and conduct It I within themselves utilizing 1500 cows which furnish 3300 pounds of milk per day Two shipmentstwo and a half tons each of butter are made per week nil of which finds n ready market in San Francisco aucj Sacramento at 2 and 2 cents per pound more than California butter A limited amount only Is conceded con-ceded to the local trade The ceed lol tr c byproduct bypro-duct skim milk buttermilk etc goes to the fattening of 1500 hogs which are marketed yearly adding that much more to tho treasury fund and regular dividends of the company I The Smith Valley Creamery company in Lyon county owned and conducted on the came successful plan by eighteen eight-een members utilizing SOOO pounds of milk dally from 400 cows ships to the same market one ton of butter per week The Mason Valley Creamery company com-pany also In Lyon county near Yet ington same cooperative plan and style twentyfive members 500 cows 10000 pounds of milk dally ships also to the same market 2GOO pounds of butter but-ter wek The Ormsby County Creamery company com-pany is projected and expects to be In operation next Aprl1L will be on a similar plan having oVer COO cows already al-ready promised from Waahoe Eagle and Jacks valleys And there arc others In the State but these will do for good examples POTATOES r Ormsby is comparatively a small county with but a limited acreage of acrenre grain lands but especially on the small ranches around Carson City tromen dous crops of potatoes are raised tho noil being of the most favorable character char-acter also tho climate And the same In Lyon and portions of r il porlons Emeraida countira and In favored localities out along the railroad tho best potatoes in the world bringing a cent more a pound in the markets of San Francisco than any others Agents from there come every year contracting for crops before k they are harvested railroad rctlroad transportation k transpor-tation being convenient and cheap therefore the potato Industry forma an important source of revenue The cuLl mated crop of the Carson river ranches atone for the paut season was fully 3000 tons two ranches lo near Fort Churchill shIpping thirty carloads each or about 720 tons FRUITICULTURAL Jn all the valleys and favorable places for fruit trees throughout the State and especially the woHtern counties COUntcB along the base oc the Sierra Nevada all kinds of fruit are raised In great profusion and proportion Apple and pearl find a ready market in San anc claco by reason of superiority in quail rtiy there being no scab bug or other JiiMOCt pests affecting the trees us in the CKC elsewhere and the climate being oapoclally favorable for the production of the beat fruit But owing to late nprjng roots a good full crop of fruit dtt an exception and not the general rule by any means I JH Q half crop oftenor than 1 full crop and last year Jit was 0 total failure throughout the fetato and n loss ot at least 5100000 lfiato this never happened before LIVE STOCK CULTURE 4 Nye Lincoln White Pine and other countlcfl not contiguous to railroads or I fines otpheap transportation do not I depend so much agriculture as upon mining or cattle raising But they have grand broad ranges of good grazing lands iv ho re cattle upon n thousand hills feed and flourish with oxceodlng profit Nevada beef having n superior name In San Francisco as well as Chicago Chi-cago and the East Owing to the high I pricey during the Inst year or two Nevada vada cattle raisers have found prosperity pros-perity and i calf zed much wealth from 1 Clef ot their abundant herds The 1 J demand still continues yet the supply Is not exhausted by any means cspccl > ally In the northern and eastern sections sec-tions and the outlook for the cattle Industry continues very promising unless un-less hard winter supervenes Increased attention IH given to the raising of line stock callle horses and I sheep especially In the western part of the State and out along the railroad John Sparks whose ranch Is Just south of Reno and who Is noted for his large I band of Inc Hereford cattle has Just added to his stock and fame by the Introduction of Armour Rose a supormoynlflcent young heifer of the purest Hereford blood which he pui ohosod at a recent great Bale of other Herefords In Kansas City for 2500 i being the highest price ever paid for such animal I Theodore Winters at his ranch In Washoe valley Is also widely known asa as-a judicious breeder as wel lU educator of line horses of noble blood and pedigree I pedi-gree Many choice horses of high de gree have gone forth from the winters ranch to win both fortune and fame at I agricultural fairs and famous high toned races Hon A C Cleveland at his ranch In White Pine has blooded cattle In quality style and numbers not excelled by anyone In the State The Nevada sheep interest Is also In an exceedingly thrifty condition cheep doing as well or better than cattle and with the same ready market and good prices for mutton Over fiOOOO sheep are stated as being fed on the meadows about Lovelock and around Reno and It Is predicted that Nevada wool will brlns 0 cents L pound during the corning corn-ing season INCREASING PROSPERITY The population of Nevada has not decreased during the past year but on I the contrary an Increase is noted especially es-pecially in the extreme White Pine Lincoln and Nye county sections where hundreds of Mormon setters Including families have been moving In seeking homes and domestic prosperity In the favorable localities conditions opportunities oppor-tunities and climate presented A significant Increase of taxable property prop-erty throughout the State Is also noted for the past year over the previous one the total amount for 1S9S being 231S7 2111C and for 1899 5235C515S30 show Ing a Increase of 537821711 Seven counties Douglas Eureka Lincoln Lin-coln Lander Nye Ormsby and Storey I show a small decrease but the other seven Churchill Elko Esmeralda Ilumboldt Lyon Wnshoe and While Pine furnish the stated Increase Elko Is the banner county on that showing showlnS Sl04025 for 1S9S and 51C2S270 for 1S99 an Increase of 5320725 Washoe stands next showing 51970900 for 1899 an increase In-crease of 513G307 over the previous year Unusually heavy reserves of the beautiful snow already whiten the summits sum-mits of the Sierra Nevada and other mountain ramros and much more mar be expected to accomulate before spring assuring good water sources for the rivers and streams to draw from for irrigation and all other popular purposes pur-poses when needed and the great ma jority of Indications point to a prosperous I prosper-ous neW year therefore Battle Born Nevada feels Justified In wishing her sister States of our glorious American I Union happy new century |