Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-18
THE EVENING NEWS.


MICHIGAN N. s If. Co. - After four
years Of steady prospecting, the Michigan
Company, at Gold Hill, last week struck
fine ledge of quartz, which bids fair to
amply recompense its owners for all the
money and labor expended. From the
mouth Of the shaft to the lower level IS
about four hundred feet from this level
q drift has been run, in which the ledge
has been struck. Seven feet have been
run into the ledge, and the eastern wall
has not yet been reached. Several tons of
rock have been extracted, but the great
influx of water has prevented it, so far,
from being hoisted to the surface. The
rapidity, however, with which the pumps
are gaining on it. viii soon overcome this
obstacle, and then we viii have the graft
fcation of adding one more to our already
good sized list of dividend paying claims.
The Michigan, we believe, is the first COM
pany in Gold Hill that made location
for quartz ledge, having done so in SO
at time when the other rich companies
now there had merely made locations for
surface diggings. Abouta year ago good
hosting works were erected, which are
still in operation. We examined the mine
Yesterday, and the rock we were shown
looks in all respects like that of the Impe-
rial. little further north. This Develop
mens affords another inconuovertible
proof of the wealth contained in our hills.
-Piste.
YE DExocRAcIE.-The Central Com
mittee of We fierce Democratic of Virginia,
held meeting last evening. to fix up a
"slate" for the election. We believe
this step is right, for we should be ex-
tremely sorry if we voted for single
candidate on a Union Ticket who could
command the votes of the played OUT
gang known as the Democracy of the pre-
sent day. Let them vote their own tick
ct, and not cast any of their political
odium upon the skirts of true Union men.
There is report out that these Buzzard-
BOOSTERS have suddenly become the espe-
cial advocates and defenders of the Judges
of our courts; at which we are not in the
least surprised. DR.. McMeans being the
leader os the Copperheads, possesses in
his own character, acquired as defaulter
to the people Of California in many thou
sands of dollars, all the elements neces-
sary to defend any one accused Of bribery
and corruption. Let each party. faction,
and clique, show its "hand," and the
people will shuttle the cards to their own
satisfaction. The game is commenced
Roll!
STRUCK 1.-THE Atlantic Gold and
Silver Mining Company, situated in Dew
IFS Gate District, have struck their ledge
and are now taking out some very fine
looking ore. In the first place they run
in tunnel some l60 feet, and then sunk
so feet, when they struck water, and were
compelled to change their " base of oper-
atoms" They then sunk another shaft to
the depth Of so feet, and drifted $50 feet,
where, after passing through ten foot
wall Of clay and quartz, they struck the
ledge. THIS claim was located in the
spnng of 1860. and is 1900 feet in extent.
The ledge pitches east, and promises to
turn out rich. Three shifts of hands are
now at work, and the Superintendent feels
confident that they have got "good
thing. Union.
TIE FIRENES's BENEFIT. = The per-
Torrance by Wilson s Zoyara's Circus,
last night, for the benefit of the Fire De
partment of this town, was decidedly
big thing, both in the way of perform
ance and benefit. The immense pavilion
was crowded to its utmost capacity, 1t ap-
pearing as though everybody in town was
there with his wife and family. Eagle,
No. 8, and Young America, No. 2, Of Viz
ginia, were both represented by respecta-
bic delegations. We are not informed as
TO the exact result in dollars, but 1t must
have melted the firenen very substantial
sum.
PERsoNAL.-The Secretary of the Ter
ritory, Orion Clemens, Esq, came up
from Carson City yesterday. Orion looked
dusty and careworn, probably the effects
of the heavy responsibility resting upon
him in managing that comic Territorial
seal, to-wit-the drunken miner celebrat-
ing the Fourth of July.
PARDON TO JoHxsoN.-Capt. johnson,
who killed Horace Smith in Virginia, last
fall, and was sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for a term of years, has been par
doned out by Gov. Nye.
The BAIL LAST NIaKr.-The Ball at
the Turn yerein Hall, last night, for the
benefit of the Catholic Church, was largely
attended, and was most decided sue