Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-13
THE EVENING NEWS.

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FRANXELL CoMPAxY.- This company:
claim is situated on American Flat, and con
tains l,40O feet. 1t is marked by a tame
which runs into the hill from L little ravine
which crosses the road little way beyond
the MIantanomOh cOmpany'S works. The
tunnel is $50 feet long, and is as straight as j
line all the way. IL Is also timbered all the
way with sets Of ground timbers, placed every
four feet apart, and Jagged over head and on
the sides. These sets are four feet four
inches wide at the bottom, three and half
feet At the top, and about six feet high. IL Is
the best constructed tunnel Of its size down
that way. The wOrkmen have lately found
considerable water in the ground through
which the tunnel has been run the last
twenty feet, aud have found IL necessary 10
put up canvas over where they stand 10 work,
10 keep the water from pouring down upon
them. There is about four inches of water
coming out OF the tunnel az this time. There
has been no ledge found in the tunnel yet,
but several small strata of quartz have been
poked through, which are thought 10 be
" feeders" and the wOrSmeu regard the
great volume OF water recently struck as
sure indication Of approach TO ledge.
Coon INDICATIONS. The Cneoto Com
pany is finding some very good indications in
its tunnel. The rock which has all along
back, until quite recently, been hard, has for
a day or two past been getting softer, and the
rock in the face OF the tunnel now is filed
with small strata Of quartz. The seams and
assures OF the rock is all filed with quartz,
and there are places where the deposits in
these assures are quite large. Mr.. Patton,
the foreman, thinks the ledge does not lie far
from the face ofthe tunnel. There are quitea
number Of men at work in the tunnel, some
OF them running it ahead and the others
doing the timbering. The tunnel is now
about 40 feet long, and is timbereG all but
few feet Of the way. 1t has already
passed through one ledge, and is now being
run for the second one, which the Company
claims. They have lately built an office
close BY the tunnel, between that and
the lower shaft. There was contract let to
some parties TO sink the shaft, but through
some misunderstanding it is not being
worked at present.
TYLER CO.-This company has now got
It's shaft down about tifty-6ye feet deep. 1t
IS timbered only part of the way, and where
the timbers are put in is four BY eleven feet
in the clear, and divided into three ccmpart-
mentS, two Of which are each four feet square,
and the other one, which is at one end Of the
shaft, is four BY three feet in size. We were
shown some rich looking rock taken from
this shaft few days ago, and yesterday we
paid I visit TO ascertain the extent Of the
ledge from which it was taken. We found
that the ledge was struck at the depth az about
+fNy. and that tho -,,sspI Fl-Dglub
is about three feet thick, composed OF soft
gray quartz, considerably mixed with clay.
This is not the only quartz which has been
found in the shaft. Several strata have been
passed through above this one. 1t is our OPT
Mon that the stratum Of quartz which was
found was only 1 spur from the main ledge,
which lies some distance west of this, but
pitches to the east, and Will not be reached
by the shaft until it is sunk thirty or forty
feet deeper.
PREPARING FOR MACuISERY.-The Nell
son Consolidated Company has number of
men at wor, grading 4 road to its shaft from
the American Flat Road. The company is
doing this work preparatory TO erecting ma
chine7y At It's mine. It's shaft IS now con-
Siderably below water level, and the water
comes in SO rapidly that more powerful ma
chiuery than ! within has become necessary
TO keep it out. This company has all along
taken the lead in making improvements on
this part Of the Flat. and is now COM
mencing preparations for erecting irSt class
steam hosting works. We wish this COM
pany every success in its undertaking. II
will have the effect to deyelope and improve
not only that claim, but all the claims in its
neighborhOod, which lie on the same range.
There IS 4 great deal OF work being done
down that way, but !: IS not concentrated,
and the full development OF this claim would
do more to increase the knowledge, and we
believe the value OF the claims down that
way than many other work PUT together.
The RAcE.-Great prep atoms are being
made at the Willows" for the Race which
is 10 come off there next Sunday. Bart. Lee
is fixing up things about right. The track is
I splendid one. 1t has been levelHd, and
made longer since the last race, and Is now
over = hundred yards long, as level and
smooth as house door, and wide enough to
allow each runner about fOuC feet space
The track is watered and patted every few
hours, and BY the time the race comes of
will be in excellent condition. There is a
large amount OF money already Staked on
the result OF tue IdEes anu lGsAL AGSA VI AAA-
teresr is manifested BY the sports on the
Flat as to how il will terminate. Both men
who are 10 run are training, and both are in
excellent condition, and there will be no.
thing to prevent either from making as good
time as he ever can put on record. There
will be lively time down there next Sunday.
MARCHING OS.-The march of improve
ment has commenced in Yirsinia-the spring
campaign Of building has opened. The
streets are beginning to be blockaded with
brick, stone and mortar, and fences across
the sidewalks, warn the passer-by Of the
Yicinage Of deep excavations. Wheelbar-
rows dart out Unexpectedly from deep inches
in upper sides of the streets, and horses and
carts rush suddenly up from pits in the
earth, all telling that the work Of excavating
foundations has been earnestly commenced.
Piles Of lumber appear to-day, where yester-
day none were visible and the sound
of the saw and hammer constantly rings in
our ears-the fierce shrieking Of planning
mills and circular saws on the still air OF
morning-all tell that the busy time Of the
builders has commenced.
STRUCK IT HARD.-The Miantonomoh
Company has struck some very hard rock in
its shaft, which is now aboI, eighty-tve feet
deep, and is about ten feet into the hard
rock. Il has taken nearly three weeks to
sink these ten feet, the rock is so hard. This
company is not now troubled with water as
much as il has been, and it is thought that
what water came into the shaft while it was
being sunk through soft ground, came from
reservoirs of surface water which were con-
tanned in the ground near the surface near
BY. The Golden Swan tunnel which runs
near this mine, also drew off great deal Of
water held py the ground, which would other
wise have come into the shaft.
MAKING A RoAD.-The Consolidated Com
pany is grading road around the side of the
hill below its dump, to permit the hauling
away of the quartz. The company has been
drifting along its ledge, and exploring its
claim 10 ind the direction in which its ledge
lies, and also its extent and the quality Of
the quartz which it contains. The company
l. IN FnPk