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One-third of this amount, according to the best estimates, was gold, 

 and two-thirds silver. The product in lead is not so easily determined, but 

 it is not far from 225,000 tons, an amount sufficient to affect the market 

 price of lead in all the great commercial centers of the world. 



Around this industry has grown up the town of Eureka, which is the 

 center of population and trade for this part of the state. It is a long, narrow 

 settlement, lying in the main northern drainage channel of the mountains, 

 and sheltered on the east side by Richmond Mountain. Here are located 

 the smelting furnaces of both the large companies. 



The Eureka and Palisade Railway, 88 miles in length, connects the 

 town with the Central Pacific Road at Palisade. Branch tracks connect 

 with the Eureka Consolidated and Richmond furnaces, the former at the 

 lower, and the latter at the upper end of the town, and these again by 

 a somewhat sinuous course with the principal mines, which are situated 

 about two and one-half miles southwest of Eureka. There are an imposing, 

 well built court house, three or four churches, and several blocks of brick 

 stores and warehouses in the town. It supports two daily papers, which 

 have a considerable influence and a wide circulation throughout the state. 



Ruby Hill, the only other town of any importance in the district, is a 

 flourishing place, nearly the entire population being actively engaged in 

 mining in the immediate neighborhood. It is built on the north and east 

 sides of an isolated hill which bears the same name, and on which are 

 located all the more prominent mines, including the Albion, Richmond, 

 Eureka Consolidated, Phoenix, and Jackson properties. On the slopes to 

 the north are situated the Bullwhacker and Williamsburg mines, while to 

 the southward of Ruby Hill, on Prospect Ridge, are found the Dunderberg 

 and Hamburg properties and others of more or less importance. 



