Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-04-11
THE EVENING NEWS.

This tunnel Is very near the center of this
claim, there being one thousand feet located
on each side of the ravine The tunnel was
started Immediately after the claim was lOca-
ted, and has been worked upon at intervals
ever since. Il runs in northweSteTly direc-
tiOn, SO that It cuts the lodges and strata OF
quartz through which it passes at right angles,
as their course is like that OF the range of
the hills in which they lie. which is northeast
and southwest. The tunnel Is not tlmbercd
for the first eighty feet but there the rock is
firm and it does not need such support.
For the most part OF the remainder Of the
way there are sets OF six by six inch timbers
placed every four feet. These sets are four
OK six feet in the clear in size and support
l...SingS overhead and in some places against
the sides where the nature of the ground is
such rs 70 require il. About p feet from
the mouth the tunnel passed into the ledge Of
the Wax EaSlc Company, which IS found 10
be about - feet thick a; this point. The
rock OF this ledge is of very good appearance
although the place where It Is cut through
bv the ;unncl Is near the surface. About SIS
fee: further in the tunnel, it comes to another
ledge which we were informed Is the Golden
Swan No. ledge. Il is in this tunnel very
much broken no, and presents much more
the appearance Of ledge Of blue clay than
OF quartz. IL is about twenty feet wide
and IS mostly clay, which is very full Of
sulphurstS Of iron, but is mixed with con-
siderable quartz. Following along the tun-
mel 50 or 81 feet further, brought Us to 4 diff
fsrcnI formation OF rock. For the first part
Of the wJy the tunnel was run through
kind Of rotten dead rock, which was quite
easy to pick, but which would stand very
well without ,imbering. At this point, how
e -, Il T..
becomes harder. and the strata which had
hitherto pitched TO the westward, here COM
mcnce to slant towards the east. All
through this formation. which forms the sur
roupdinss Of the tunnel for about thirty or
forty feet, there are between the LAYERS Of
this HARD rock, strata Of quartz, some OF
them only 4 few inches thick, but others
as much Is two feet wide. After the tunnel
had passed through this hard rock il came to
= stratum very mach resembling that passed
through a hundred feet OF 50 from its
mouth. There the LAYERS OF rock are
very nearly horizontal. and pitching
very slightly 10 the west, and here again oc-
cug 1 good many strata OF quartz waich is
Of a white and blue color, and which we are
told bv the Secretary of the company pros.
poets ye-y well. This may almost be called 4
ledge, ~ the strata Of quartz occurs very
frequently, and no doubt i: followed 20 4
greater depth they would BE- found much
better defined. and perhaps ;he quartz so
much improved IN quality as 20 pay for work
ing. This kind of ground continues for some
considerable distance, and then the tunnel
strikes into 1 Kind OF rock or earth which is
different from ANYTHING which has been found
anywhere on the Fla. Il Is is black as coal
and some Of the pieces OF rock very much
resemble that article. When placed upon 4
stove and thoroughly dried it is covered with
i glossy, black, oily substance. and when
rubbed against ANYTHING leaves 4
a,a:k mark. I: it is put into the
trs, i will. when i becomes heated,
turn t. red color. but does not crumble
f-om the effects OF the fire. The owners have
never had 4 trial made By practical chemist
g see what the stuff IS composed IT, but its
singular appearance and properties are such
as 20 puzzle the miners who have examined
il. The tunnel has been run in.0 this s:ra-
tEn : distance OF about twenty feet, and
there are no signs Vi getting through it vet.
This tunnel IS now about SO feet long, and
is being pushed soTAard might and day by
two gangs Of workmen. There IS probably
no similar work on the Flat, which has made
50 many developments in running the same
number Of feet. or has passed through SO
many lodges. The company think that they
will have 20 ran their tuncel about nun
bred and hftv or two hundred feet
further to reach the main ledge. which
thew are running for. The intention
of the comp INV = to push the work forward
IS rapidly Is possible unit, that ledge is
reached It will De strUrk at good depth,
and IS expected 70 be found rich. We
hope !. Will, for tGe company has expended
good deal Of money on the claim, and has
valuable, well-cous,ructeG tunnel. All the
hedges down this wa require deep mining
works to open them down to where the rich
rock is found. and tunnels will not do It, but
as this one will be several hundred feet in
length when il reaches The ledge, and viii
strike the ledge At the depth OF three hun
dred feet or more, It Will, perhaps, be deep
enough to md pay rock.
JEwErr 4 SHEPARD CLAIM. - Work is
being rapidly driven forward on this claim.
The whim will be erected and ready for use
in few DAYS. In the meantime work is
being rapidly driven ahead in the shaft, which
is now about $50 feet deep. The ledge which
was first struck has since been passed
through, and the shaft Is now being worked
far down below it. Although the shaft has
passed through ledge, it has not passed
down from where it left the hanging wall of
the first large brown quartz stratum 10 its
present depth, it has been at intervals of
every few feet passing through strata OF
quart. Some Of these strata are large, and
some are small, and the whole distance
from the foot wall Of the main ledge
OF the shaft, 20 the bottom might
almost De termed ledge of itself.
There IS one thing which is quite noticeable
about the strata of quartz which have been
passed through within the past few feet, and
that is, the change in the character OF the
rock which, instead OF remaining Of the same
brown color, with seams and spots OF black,
as it was in the main ledge, Is now found in
a great measure to be of white and blue color,
and not so fine or so easily puiverized as the
first was Some Of the men who work IN
the claim, and some Of those who are other
wise best acquainted with it, think that these
are sure indications OF an approach TO another
ledge. These strata are, some Of them,
few inches wide, and one of them, which we
noticed near the bottom of the shaft, and
from which we picked a piece of very good
locking quartz, is nearly two feet IN thick
ness. We do not know where these new veins
of quartz lead to, but evidently they are not
feeders of the first ledge, for they are of
different character of rock. II Is very likely
that they are the feeders OF a different ledge
from the first, which is vet to be found one
that perhaps runs parallel with II. The tu-
ture only can determine the question, but the
rapid developments now being made will
make the period of suspense short; We un-
derstand that the company intends to sink
t5a sbaft until it comes down to the water
level, and then they will run drift to the
northwest in the hope of reaching the ledge,
which they think to lie in that direction, and
Of which they think the seams o; quartz late
" passed through IN the shaft are feeders.
MoRE SorATrER TRoUBLEs.-Yesterda
afternoon, young Frenchman was shot and
killed on the Steamboat Springs property by
a party of settlers. 1t appears that party
of five Frenchmen had built house on land
claimed by DR.. Ellis, and party went out
20 the house, which was situated about
mile north of the hotel to drive the French
men off. The jumpers were driven away.
and their house burned to the ground. In
Gilman ahOuf 81 wears