Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-09
THE EVENING NEWS.

III THIS oiSulcS, South OF Gold Hill proper.
1t comprises what was a part of the old
Hawkeye claim, which was located Febru-
airy 10th, 1860, and contained 2,l0O feet,
In September, 1862, some of the owners
in the old company commenced proceed
ingS for the segregation OF the claim, and
in June following the claim was duly
segregated, and is now divided among
three companies, known as the Central
Hswkeye, the Hawkeye Co. No. l, and,
this, the Original Haw&eye Company.
This company, at the time OF the seeresa-
ton, had set off to it l,ll6 feet from the
north end of the old claim, and ll9 feet
and q fraction of a foot from the south
end. giving it l,23j feet and fraction of
foot in all. Soon after the segregation
was made, this company commenced work
ON its claim, and has continued TO work
with but little lost time ever since. For
the past five months the claim has not
been suffered 10 stand idle an hour. The
company last winter commenced work in
shaft. which had been sunk down
about eighty feet by the old company.
This shaft is situated by the side
Of the American Flat and Vir-
ginia road, about 20 rods south of Crown
Point Ravine, and Is now down to the
depth Of 27S feet. When the company
had sunk to the depth of 2lS feet, it was
prevented from going down any deeper
BY the large body of water which was
struck at that level. The shaft was then
in ledge. 1t had been running down in
the ledge for some distance, and there had
been some water coming in all that time !;
but here appeared to be the level OF larger
volume. The company at this point COM
menced drift to run east, and has since
run another one on the same level 10 the
west. Both these drifts run some distance
in quartz which is very compact and Of
good quality. The drift which runs east
is $40 feet in length. After it leaves the
compact quartz in which the shaft is sunk.
it runs in mixed, broken-up mass Of
quartz, magneSia, porphyry and granite.
until it comes TO a clay wall, lO3 feet from
the shaft, which stands nearly perpendlc-
ular. and is supposed TO be the east wall
of the ledge. After passing immediately
through this stratum, the drift runs on
the remainder of the way through form
alton of granite and greensboro rock,
through which extend at the distance of
few feet from one another feeders of
quartz, which lie nearly horlzantal, but
dip slightly TO the west. These feeders
are OF various sizes, some being q few
inches in width, and others being two or
three feet thick. At the distance Of l23
feet from the main shaft, croSS-drift was
run from this main drift few feet TO the
south. and q chamber cut there from which
shaft was sunk 80 feet deep. y drift
was run from the bottom of it to the west.
After running in thaC direction short
distance. an immense stream OF water was
struck, which came in with such rapldlty
rs 10 make il useless TO attempt taking It
out bv windlaSS. Il rose 80 feet III the
shaft. The company then commenced a
DRIFT at that level. which was run i'll the
same direction as the one below it. This
drift is 50 feet long. There was some wa
ter struck in it, but not so large quantity
as in the lower one. The drift TO the west
OF the main shaft is 10 feet in length.
Ii runs a few feet in quartz, and then
comes into q formation of trap, granite,
and greensboro. through which it runs the
remainder of the distance. The question
may be suggested in the mind of some,
why were these drifts run and money en-
pended in doing all this work: when the
company all the time knew that It had its
ledge in the main shaft. 1t is sometimes
necessary. in this land of litigation, to
know that there IS no other ledge within
300 or 400 feet of the ledge which the
company is working, and it was to show
the isolation of this ledge that there drifts
were run. The company has not yet
been mixed up in the litigation which has
been going on among It's nelghbors, and
has taken the precauton to open Its mine
in such manner as 10 leave no doubt, II
possible, on which TO base ItigaGon.-
II has drifted east $40 feet, and knows
that its ledge is that distance from the
Belcher Company, and in all probability
it is considerably over a hundred feet
more than the distance which the drift
has been run from one ledge to the other,
4 few weeks ago, the company COM
lnenccd sinking in its main shaft again,
and went down as far then as possible, by
using its new within and running its
horses but after sinking it few feet IN
that wav, the work had 10 be again suS-
pended on account of the water, and it
was allowed to rise for few days until
the Overman Company commenced hoist
ing water with its new machinery. When
that company took the water out of its
shaft, the water subsidized in this one, so
that this company could commence sink
ing again in few hours; AMI since the
Overman has been using its pump, and
sinking, this company has been sinking
all the time, without any serious mcon-
venience on account Of water. If the gen.
orally adopted theory that water follows
q quartz ledge is correct, it is pretty GER
tain that the Overman is working this
company's ledge, and not the Belcher
ledge. which it located. This company's
shaft is four by eight feet in size IN the
clear. timbered all the way down, and at
present with four-inch timbers. 1t Is dl-
Yided by a partition INFO two compart-
ments. When it has reached the depth of
500 feet, the company intends to drltt
east and west from its shaft, to show the
thickness and quality of its ledge at that
depth. The shaft IS being sunk in solid
mass of white and blue silver bearing
quartz, and at that depth the company
expects to find pay rock, and from present
appearances we have no doubt 1t will.
The mine is under the superintendent of
Dir. Van Vleet, who is doing everything
necessary to insure the successful opening
Of it at the earliest possible moment.
ANOTHER Brute MISUNDERSTANDING
afternoon, about 4 o'clock, another one OF
those sickening accidents occurred in our
town, which chills the blood to witness.
\ quartz wagon. heavily loaded. while
descending Telegraph street, near the Vel
low Jacket mine, by reason of an insecure
brake, was suddenly thrown upon the