The Nevada journal., 1853-01-28
Whining.

Mining.
We visited Shelby Flat the past week
for an hour or two. We found the same
features of busy workas on this,side the
Sugar Loaf One immensely long sluice
we were told, was worked day and night
and had been for months, rain or shine,
by twenty men, and about $1,000 per
! week taken from it. There were two or
three proprietors. A third Of it was of.
Tered for sale last week for $4,000
Water is scattered all over the hills by
bitches and reservoirs, From one poin;
on the Sugar Loaf we counted sixteen
large reservoirs, from all which q net
work of bitches conveyed water to ap-
parently the most inaccessible positions,
The operations of miners are not con-
fined to the old ravines where gold was
found abundantly year or two ago, but
extend into the most unlikely spots pos
sible where formerly men would a.
most as soon looked for coined money as
for dust. That great leveller. the sluce,
is working wonders We often visit the
surrounding region, but never without
new surprise at the earthquake-lIke do
ings of the present race of miners For
instance, the high hills OF the Cayote
range have had perpendicular chasm
oxeavated through them of an hundred
and fifty yards wide to the base rock, SO
that the road that formerly passed over
them is diverted in distant circuit to
the right. The enterprise and industry
that has effected these works is miracu.
lous, and the result is worth O visit to
this region 10 see.
From Oregon Hill, long lines of sluices
lead between high banks that have been
cut and blasted through to lay down the
slRices. The water is passed through a
channel in the earth, and the earth all
"iouhu IhioNH III. IL uiSnolNes Ill VHe
rushing water, the gold falls lazily to
the bottom, the gravel and mud pass Of,
to the wooden sluices, where rifles catch
the remaining gold, and thus acres on
acres of hills disappear.
The same operations are rife on Buck
eye Hill, and even more scientifically on
old Cayote Hill, where the rich Cayote
lead was first discovered.
At Gold Run and Flat, in the opposite
direction, we found as many men at
work as ever though the diggings that
formerly yielded richly are not worked
The operations ere chiefly sluicing the
hill sides We observed, however, most
determined efforts on the part of Green
& Co., to free of water by means of
pumps and steam engine, some claims
they have in the centie of the Flat
The lead below is very rich, but all their
exertions this winter have not effected
a reduction Of the incoming water lower
than the drifts Of last years shafts. The
lead is about twenty feet below the sur
face, in the midst of broad, marshy
fat
While at the Flat we visited Whie
hams Quartz Mill at its head. The
lead of this mill was located in Jan.
1851, by the proprietor. In May he
went to Pittsburg, and returned in No
vember with sixty horse power engine,
and machine of thirty-two stamps, the
pattern of which he obtained in Virgin,
ia. He got it into operation in June fol-
lowing, with eighteen stamps, crushing
twenty tons per day paying on the av.
: erage s35 per ton. The first drift he
; ran into his claims was 400 feet in length
and 20 feet below the surface. HAVING
worked from the surface to this deoth,
he ran two drifts 100 feet below the sur.
face, and in these is yet working, intend
ing to meet in the centre. The shat,
we entered was carried so yards before
touching the lead, and been worked Coz
feet in the lead A railway from ths