Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-03
THE EVENING NEWS.

NEW WORKS STARTED. - The New
Oregon Company commenced operations
with its new hosting works day before
yesterday, and now has as good machinery
as could be wished, and that which is as
powerful as win be required to sink down
900 feet or more. The works were con-
structsd by Messrs. Thayer s Wells, the
same mechanics who constructed the
Chollar Works in Virginia last year.
They are built on the general plan Of most
of the hosting works which have been
erected at our different mines, and are
strongly put together and are well nm
ished. The timber of the frame is heavy.
Ponderous bolts have been used wherever
they were required to give strength, and
all the. wood work has been protected
from decay by coats OF paint. The lower
beam Of the pit head IS twenty feet above
the frame sills, and the upper beam IS SIX
feet above that, making the pit heads some
rwenty-six feet high in all. The shiyes
are four or five feet in diameter, and are
set between these beams, which are con-
nected BY a net work of braces, rendering
the frame firm and stiff. The company
has a splendid engine, the cylinder of
which Is fourteen inches diameter of bore,
and thirty-six inch stroke Of piston. It is
rated at 65-horse power, but is capable of
working up much higher than that. The
Ay wheel is fourteen feet in diameter, and
very heavy. There are two three-foot
reels, worked by the common groove
friction wheels. which are to do the hoist
ing from the mine with, through the two
east compartments of the shaft. A pit
for pump bob has been excavated in
front of the west compartment, and made
ready 10 receive q bob whenever il be-
comes necessary to put a pump into the
mine. The pump can be attached to and
worked by this engine whenever neees-
sary, as there is ample power to spare
over that required for hosting purposes.
The boiler which supplies the steam TO run
al this machinery, is sixteen feet in length
and fifty inches in diameter, and has IS
three-inch tubes running through its full
length. There is therefore large surface
exposed to the fire, and an immense
amount of steam can be raised from the
small quantity Of water which will neces-
sarily be heated at time. The works
were day before yesterday put in motion
for the first time, and everything worked
IN manner to give entire satisfaction to
every one concerned. Everything was
new, but it run smoothly, and just as
desired. The company is now ready to
20 to work in earnest. Its shaft is already
24O feet deep, and down 40 feet below
water level. The water which is now in
the shaff will be first taken out, and then
work viii be commenced at sinking again.
AT sixty feet deeper the company expects
10 find pay rock, and from appearances of
that in the shaft, at the depth to which it
has gone we have great reason to believe
that it viii. If it is not found at that
depth, however, it has plenty of power to
go on down another hundred or two hum
dred feet, at which depth it will without
doubt find rock which win pay handsome
profits for taking out and working.
BELcHBR.-The Belcher company has
been taking pay rock out of its ledge
through its engine shaft for two or three
days past. That which has so far been
taken out, is what has been excavated in
running the drift westward from the shaft
through the ledge. The ore found in this
part Of the mine is very rich. 1t is COM
mon to find large pieces of rock which are
speekled all over with fine gold. An as
say of an average quality of the ore found
in this part Of the ledge, yielded we are
told at the rate Of Sl46 per ton. This new
drift opens the ledge about 100 feet south
of the old works, and at greater depth.
Work is still going on in the old diggings,
where unusually rich rock is also being
taken out. The yield of this mine is now
much greater than at any time before, and
as soon as chambers can be opened along
the ledge from the new drift, the yield viii
be again much increased. We understand
that the mine pays a dividend this month
of S24 per foot which is an increase on
those paid heretofore. The company viii.
in a short time. put up another engine at
its shaft which viii enable it to sink its
shaft down deeper, and also at the same
time work the mine. II is laying in
large supply of timber, and baggings to
use in timbering the mine, when chambers
viii begin to be cut out in its lower works.
UNCLE SAN.-This company continues
to sink down with its shaft, which has
now reached the depth-o of about $40 feet.
Il still continues in the clay formation
struck some time ago, and consequently
the workmen find but little water. The
company is now down with its shaft more
than hundred feet deeper than it was
when the ledge was opened and worked
before. We believe it is the intention Of
the company not to open the ledge until
the drift which is being run from the shaft
TO connect with the North American mine
is completed. When the ledge Is opened
at the depth to which the shaft has already
been carried, on to the greater depth to
which it viii be sunk, the company ex-
poets to find good deal Of water, and for
that reason does not wish to cut the clay
wall which hes between and keeps the
water of Of the ledge from the shaft until
a connection with the North American
claim is made, so that the water can be
discharged through there, instead of being
raised to the top of the shaft. The COM
pany has ordered and win soon receive
another steam engine. 1t will then have
one to do hosting, and one to do pump
ing. and with this additional amount of
power win be able to work large force
Of men, and take out an immense quantity
Of rock through the shaft.
NORTH AxERIcAN.--Since the drift
which was run to connect this company's
works with those of the Baltic has been
finished, nothing has been doing in the
nine, except to run the drift north to-
wards the Uncle Sam, until yesterday,
when work WIS RECOMMENDED in the drift
which was run TO the west, some time ago,
for the purpose Of driving it on 70 the
ledge. The drift which IS being run to-
wards the Uncle Sam is in about l60 feet,
and the one being run from that claim to-
ward il to meet and connect with it is
nearly as long. About 300 feet has been
!, -,,,, y, all We ava Uniformed that the dis