November 15, 2011

Nevada's Online State News Journal

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Nevada History:

 [G. W. C., Letter from Mineral City, Alta California, May 6, 1869]

LETTER FROM MINERAL CITY.

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[FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE ALTA.]

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Robinson District, Nevada — A Description of the Locality — The Mines — New Town — Etc., Etc.

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MINERAL CITY, Robinson District, Nev., )

April 26th, 1869. )

            Editors Alta: Your correspondent left White Pine, with its mines, its millions, and its miseries, a few days since on a "prospecting tour" — for items — to the eastward and southward, little dreaming that so short a distance from the El Dorado we should stumble upon a district so replete with interest to all concerned in the development of this wonderful region.

            We have not the benefit of mail or telegraphic communication as yet from this point, and we embrace the opportunity of sending this brief communication by private hands, via of Hamilton. This district is about 35 miles east by south of White Pine — "as the crow flies" — and about 50 miles via of the wagon road. It was discovered in the fall of 1867 by parties from Egan Caρon, and named in honor of Tom Robinson, one of its pioneers. There are about sixty ledges located within a radius of three miles, the ore from nearly all of which shows very rich. We have seen some twenty assays, varying from $75 to $273 per ton, with an average of over $50 in gold surface rock. The ledges are all well defined, running northeast and southwest. There is plenty of wood and an abundance of water in the immediate vicinity. A fine stream courses through the district, affording some of the finest water powers we have ever seen.

            A few enterprising men have bought up the land immediately available for a town site, and they are now engaged in laying out a city, with every prospect of realizing large fortunes from the rapid appreciation in the value of their property.

            We are informed that the Superintendent of Wells, Fargo & Co. is making arrangements to place a line of stages upon a route leading from here to the railroad, and taking our own observations in connection with the signs of the times, we predict a great future for this prolific district.

            When our notes are completed we will give you a more elaborate account than time and opportunity now afford.

G. W. C.