Eureka and its resources; a complete history of Eureka County, Nevada, containing the United States mining laws, the mining laws of the district, bullion product and other statistics for 1878, and a list of county officers . longsome of the water courses. There is no timber, properly socalled. There is, however, upon most of the foot-hills asparse growth of nut-pine (pinon), mahogany, anddwarf cedar, which is used for fuel and in the manufactureof charcoal for smelting. Eureka, the shire town and the center of the populationand wealth of the county, is situated in a canon betweenDiam
Eureka and its resources; a complete history of Eureka County, Nevada, containing the United States mining laws, the mining laws of the district, bullion product and other statistics for 1878, and a list of county officers . longsome of the water courses. There is no timber, properly socalled. There is, however, upon most of the foot-hills asparse growth of nut-pine (pinon), mahogany, anddwarf cedar, which is used for fuel and in the manufactureof charcoal for smelting. Eureka, the shire town and the center of the populationand wealth of the county, is situated in a canon betweenDiamond and Prospect mountains, at an eh vation of 7,000feet abo^^e the sea. The only other towns are Ruby Hill(near Eureka), Mineral Hill, (fifty-five miles north), and Pal-isade and Beowawe, on the Humboldt ; the former near theeastern and the latter near the western boundary of thecounty. The town of Eureka is connected with the Contra^Pacific Railroad at Palisade by a narrow-guage railroad. Thisroad was Ijuilt and equipped without aid either from tluState or county, ft has nowhere a grade of over one hun-dred feet to the mile, and is reported to have cost somethingmore than $1,000,00;). Eun-ka, which in the year 1869. FRAUUK s(.iiuu>;ei;. EUREKA AND ITS RESOUKCES. 11 had but one or two log cabins, has now a population of5,000 to 7,000, two lines of telegraph, a railroad, and manyfine buildings. It is the second town of importance in Nevada. Eureka county, in common with the rest of the State,forms a portion of the territory wrested from Mexico by theheroes of 1846-7, and ceded to the United States by the treatyof Guadalupe Hidalgo. It lay within the boundaries of theTerritory of Utah as fir-st created, and in that portion of itwhich in 1861 was erected into the Territory of the first creation of counties by the Territorial Legisla-ture of Nevada, in 1861, that portion of what is now Eurekacounty lying north of the 40th parallel feU in Humboldtcounty, the southern p
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