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1869, appears, from the assessor's returns and other sources of information, 

 to be about $325,000, coin. 



There are many other mines on Lander Hill, some of which have been 

 extensively developed; but the high price of labor, the great cost of working 

 such small veins, and the expensive methods of treatment that are necessary 

 in order to extract the silver from the ore when once obtained, have caused, at 

 least for a time, a suspension of operations in most of them. A few men 

 were still working on persistently in 1868, when the White Pine discoveries 

 began to attract attention, and such was the excitement that followed this 

 event, that both labor and capital were diverted from all the neighboring 

 localities toward the new El Dorado. Owing to this and other causes many 

 of those who were then working at Austin suspended labor ; and in 1869 

 only two or three companies were still active. The chief of these were the 

 two mines already described. 



Some of the other principal mines of Lander Hill that have been 

 worked considerably, and until within a year or two, are the Troy, Florida, 

 South American, Magnolia, and Diana. The Savage and Great Eastern, also 

 on Lander Hill, were very productive mines in former years, but having ex- 

 hausted their known sources of ore, have been idle for a longer period than 

 those just mentioned. 



The Whitlatch Union, on the southern slope of Union Hill, a mile or 

 more south from Lander Hill, has been an important and productive mine, but 

 is now in the same condition as the last-named; and its neighbors, the 

 Camargo and others, have long been idle. 



In Yankee Blade Canon, two or three miles north of Lander Hill, is sit- 

 uated the Yankee Blade mine, opened and extensively worked some years 

 ago, producing some bullion, but allowed to lie idle for several years. This 

 mine has again resumed operations under a new organization. In this portion 

 of the district are many other ledges, partly developed, but for the present 

 closed, partly owing to want of capital and partly to serious disappointments 

 that have destroyed confidence in their value. A detailed description of all 

 these mines, which in their natural features and methods of development 

 have a great deal in common, and some of which have been already described 

 in other works, is unnecessary here. A few notes concerning the more im- 

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