["Chloride," White Pine, Territorial Enterprise article reprinted in the Alta California, March 1, 1869]

 

WHITE PINE.

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Correspondence of the Enterprise.

TREASURE CITY, Nevada, February 16th.

THE EBERHARDT.

            This ledge, the pride of the district, and monarch of all mines, was one of the last of the leading fissure veins discovered, and when found was not considered of much value. One reason for its tardy discovery was its situation. Treasury [sic] Hill is an oblong mountain, running north and south, and is some two miles long on the summit. The Hidden Treasure was found on the north end of the mountain. Naturally the first prospecting was confined to that quarter and down the northern slope, where the Mammoth lies, and it was only by degrees, and after that portion had been pretty thoroughly looked over, that the prospectors turned their attrition to the south. At the south end of the summit there is a sudden, precipitous break, or descent, and the Eberhardt lies on a kind of table land below. Before prospecting could be carried to that point the snow had fallen and stopped operations.

CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE EBERHARDT.

            One Sunday, in January, Linsley was in his cabin melting snow. Eberhardt and Cole, who had been chumming with him, took a stroll around the south end of the summit, and in their rambles Eberhardt stumbled on the croppings of the vein which will perpetuate his name forever in the history of mining. Cole suggested the name, but Eberhardt constantly demurred, on the ground that the vein was of no account, and he didn't want his name connected with a claim of so little value. But the boys got to calling it the Eberhardt and the name stuck.

HOW IT WAS LOCATED.

            Everything about the Eberhardt is peculiar, and even the original notice of location of it is an oddity, probably without a parallel. One peculiarity of the notice in this; the original claim and the south extension are all included in one notice. It simply stated that the parties thereto claimed 1,800 feet on the ledge, running 1,000 feet north of the notice, which part was the original location, and the 800 feet south was put in as an extension, which Eberhardt located as a gift for some of his friends. I will give you a copy of the notice by and by. All the veins on the hill were found to run north and south, and the Eberhardt was supposed, of course, to run the same way, and the 1,000 feet north of the notice was considered the best part of the claim, whereas the South Eberhardt, which the locator gave to his friends, is the one which has raised all the excitement, and out of which it is supposed two million dollars have already been taken. A munificent gift, certainly. Well, I was going on to tell how it happened that the wealth of the, at first, much despised Eberhardt was discovered, but it is a long story, and I must leave it for another letter.

CHLORIDE.