Alpine

[Lat. alpinus.] Belonging to the Alps, or to any lofty mountains; high. Al'pine, in California , a northern county, bounded on the N. and E. by the State of Nevada and El Dorado co., and on the S. by Mono and Tuolumne. Lying on either side of the Sierra Nevada, it covers that range at one of its most broken and lofty points, Silver Mountain, the loftiest portion of this northerly trending spur, being over 10,000 feet high. Forming the sources of several forks of Carson river are numerous small lakes, most of them situated on the summit of the mountain. Many of them are very wild and beautiful, being skirted by belts of gra and bordered by plats of lawn-like meadow-lands. There are also many gra y, well watered valleys, rendered the more attractive by their rugged and desolate surroundings. But the great active interest in A. county is, and always will continue to be, vein-mining. The mines consist almost wholly of argentiferous lodes, though a few gold-bearing veins and ma es of quartz have been found, some of them of great richne , in the Mogul district. The ledges here are of large size and crop boldly, being often traceable for miles by their surface projections. While a vast amount of work has been expended upon them in a small way, but little exploratory labor of a thorough and systematic kind has been performed; consequently, scarcely a single prominent mine has been fully proven. A. abounds in spruce and pine forests. County seat, Markleeville. Al'pine, in Iowa, a post-village of Wapello co., on the Des Moines river, about 9 m. S.E. of Ottumwa. Al'pine, or ALPINA, in Michigan, a post-township of Kent co. Al'pine City, in Utah, a post-village of Utah co., 16 m. N. of Trονο;