POTENTIAL GREATNESS OF NEVADA 



placer-gold to the earliest prospectors of the Great Basin, 

 and has gold ledges of promising extent and value which 

 are now being carefully explored. Ilumboldt, central 

 on the northern boundary, presents as great a variety of 

 resources as any district in the United States. Besides 

 silver, it possesses gold, copper, lead, tin, iron, anti- 

 mony, nickel, cobalt, bismuth, nitre, sulphur, gypsum, 

 borax, soda, and salt. Coarse gold to the value of sev- 

 eral millions has been taken from its placer and gravel 

 mines. Gypsum is shipped to San Francisco for fertil- 

 izer. Near Lovelock, in this county, are great hills of 

 fine bessemer iron ore, yielding eighty-six per cent, of iron 

 and twelve per cent, of aluminum, with no trace of im- 

 purities. Eureka county, in the central part of the State, 

 has many mines in which gold predominates, besides largo 

 deposits of magnetic iron ore, of lead, of granite and 

 other building stones. Lander, adjoining Eureka on 

 the west, has valuable undeveloped gold deposits and 

 the richest mines of antimony in the world. Of the 

 western counties, Washoe reports recent discoveries of 

 gold, copper, and iron ; Douglas, quartz and placer-gold ; 

 Lyon, mines which run high in gold, with but little sil- 

 ver; Churchill, gold, copper, and other minerals; while 

 Storey contains the Comstock. Esmeralda, bordering 

 California on the extreme southwest, is very rich in 

 gold - bearing quartz, and is being actively developed. 

 Lincoln and Nye, the two great counties of the south, 

 have gold, copper, lead, antimony, zinc, quicksilver, 

 fire-clay, chalk, soapstone, borax, and alum. In Lin- 

 coln there is a deposit of zinc, estimated to be worth 

 several millions, which cannot be worked because of lack 

 of transportation facilities. There are hills of salt, the 



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