CENTRAL AND EASTERN NEVADA. 



407 



Name. 



Amount. 



Yielding per ton 

 in coin — 



St. Louis Company 



Mt. Tenabo 



Berlin ............ 



Tons. Lbs. 



25 863 



13 1546 



9 1593 



76 27 



$67 56 

 57 80 



153 78 

 55 66 



Arctic ............ 





Mineral Hill District.^ — This district is situated on the west side of 

 the Pifion Mountains, near the southern end of Pine Valley. The town is 

 37 miles from Palisade, the nearest station on the Pacific railroad, 435 miles 

 from Sacramento. It is 42 miles from Carhn, and 91 miles from Austin. 



The mining operations of the district are centered in an isolated hill, 

 standing out from the main range, at the base of which the town is situated. 

 The summit of this hill is nearly 500 feet above the town. 



The district was discovered and the first locations were made in June, 

 1869. At the date of these observations, three months later, all the mining 

 locations then made were upon the west side of the hill, scattered over the 

 slope from base to summit. The whole side of the hill is a mass of quartzite 

 and limestone, very much broken up. All the "ledges" dip to the eastward 

 into the hill, but at varying angles. They have a general strike of north and 

 south. The principal claims are the Live Yankee, Great Repubhc, and 

 Austin. 



At the time referred to, September, 1869, about 50 tons of ore had been 

 reduced at the Manhattan mill, in Austin. It is said to have yielded $400 

 per ton. There remained on hand a considerable amount of ore, the value 

 of which was estimated at $200 per ton. At that time there had been no 

 very extensive work on any of the claims ; the ore obtained had been taken 

 out from small chambers, or pockets, near the surface. There was no mill 

 in the district, but negotiatious were in progress for the erection of one in the 

 ensuing spring. 



^ From notes furnislied by Mr. Arnold Hague. 



