Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-09
THE EVENING NEWS.

city and Territory, for the following items IN
regard TO the mines of Reese River and Hum
boldt: Mr.. Robinson left here in July last
with stock Of goods for Unlonyille, HUM
boldt mines, and in his dealings with the
miners, and from having been among the
mines himself, has had excellent opportunl-
ties for becoming acquainted with all the
principal mines Of the county. The follow
ing leads, situated in the Humboldt country,
are mentioned BY him as being valuable
They are all being worked at present, and
the majority of them yield ore worth $500
and upwards per ton. Many of these veins
have yielded as high as $500 per ton when
worked in the milis-as the Manitowoc,
Monitor, Moonlight, Anderson, Ophir, Hum
hOldt, Cresus, Aud Lang Sync, Little Giant,
Iowa, Hamlin and Queen Of the West. Mr..
Robinson has visited nearly all the following
leads in the Reese River country: In Reese
River District-the Oregon, Clyde, Palmetto,
North Star, Morgan & Munsy, Fanny Dam
icls, Hawkins, Gov. Morton, Union No. =,
Tippecanoe, Grand Turk, Magnolia, Florida,
0sceola, Oweneco, Richmond and General
Grant. The width Of these leads vary from
inches to eight feet. He visited the mines
in Amador District Amador, General Banks,
Rough and Ready, Upward and Onward,
Corral, Lady Hunt, Herkimer, Old Hickory,
Kappa Company in the Corral lead, Mills,
Tribute and Yankee Blade. These leads are
from six to twenty-five feet in width. In
Smoky Valley District: Mammoth, Smoky
and the Olive Branch. The leads in this
district are Of about the same width as those
of Amador. In Santa Ee District he visited
out one mine, the Vulcan. Mr.. Robinson is
well pleaSeS with all the mines he saw. Near
IL every one of those mentioned above are
being worked: many yield paying ores, and
all show a very promising amount of metal
He thinks next season will be one of great
and general activity in the mines Of both
Humboldt and Reese River.-ERterp'1se.
DESERT DisrRIcI.-Mr. Benham, Of this
city, and Mr.. Robert Rowland, of Aurora
both just in from the Desert District, east of
the Carson Sink, called on us yesterday.
They have spent some two weeks IN that VI
cinitv, and examined the lodges found there
as only old miners can, and each unite IN the
opininion, deliberately formed, that accounts
heretofore published, have not exaggerated
the wealth of this new district Gold is I'M
QUESTIONABLE abundant, and in a shape to be
easily extracted. The only real drawback Is
the great scarcity OF wood and water. Or
the; first the country is utterly barren, but
the aqueous element may yet be found in Inn
tied quantity by sinking wells. The Carson
Slough is but eight miles away, yet i Is so
very sluggish and impure as 10 afford little
hope as 4 means Of relief However, the
distance to Ragtown is but thirty miles, and
the rock is rich enough in all conscience to
warrant hauling it even further than that.
This will finally be the mode adopted, where
nv to make the gold available, since 4 suth-
cheney of water will scarcely ever be availa-
bic in the immediate vicinity. OF the salt
mine lately discovered in the same neighbour
hood these gentlemen could not speak with
certainty, vet they also aver that 1t is re-
ma-kably extensive and pure.
CALEDONIA Tunnel GOLD AND SILVER
MINING CoNPANr.-This company have
claim of $500 feet, located east Of the North
American. They claim seven lodges, two Of
which have been found in their upper tunnel.
The 6rSt one is from eighty TO one hundred
feet from the mouth, and the second is about
fourteen hundred feet back of the first The
main tunnel has been run four hundred feet
beyond the second ledge, striking a large
stream of water, about II inches. The COM
panv are now sinking upon the second ledge,
and although thew are fifty feet below the
level of the main tunnel they find no water.
Some five hundred feet below the mouth Of
the main tunnel, another tunnel has been
run for the purpose OF prospecting the first
ledge. This tunnel will strike the ledge
SoIac sixtv-five feet below the main tunnel,
II is now IN $50 feet, and the foreman eN-
poets TO reach the ledge every day. They
are now working both tunnels night and day,
their claim WAS located early in the spring OF
1860, and has been worked almost constantly
until the present time, doing vast amount
Of work, for the main tunnel is now in 1870
feet, and the lower one $50 feet, making in
all 1880 feet OF tunnel; both of these tunnels
have had TO be timbered all the way. Mr..
William Vincent is Superintendent.
The UNCLE SAM NrSE.-The company
now have their shaft down 22O feet. 1t is di-
vided into three compartments of about four
feet square each. Two Of these compart-
ments are used for hoisting purposes and one
for pumping. The hoiSting is at presentdone
by means of whim; but this somewhat
primitive means Of extraction will in week
or so be supplanted BY steam machinery.
The company have a splendid S0-horse power
engine on the ground, and two fne boilers,
each is feet long and - inches in diameter,
which will soon De ready to go into operation.
The building in which this machinery is be-
ing erected is of the most substantial charac-
ter. The main building is 40 by 50 feet, the
boiler-room and blacksmith shop is 20 by so
feet, and they are now grading I site on the
south side of the main building for carpen-
ter shop, which is to be 80 BY 40 feet. The
architect employed BY the company is our
well known fellow.ownsman, Frank Denver,
ESQ, and we presume that he has given per-
r - -, kah ae al,
done before. For the past week they have
been hauling ore from the mine to the mills
for erushing.-EHterprise.
GOLD HILL MISEs.-The current week
has been one of unusual activity in the stock
market, and the mines of Gold Hill District
have eugrossed most Of the public attention.
The quotations in the Stock Exchange shows
an almost unprecedented uniformity of ad-
vance in the Gold Hill stocks, and the sales,
both here and at San Francisco, have been
almost exclusively of shares in this District
Our streets and the vicinity Of those places
where brokers most congrcgate have been I'M
usually crowded, and great number Of pri-
vate sales have taken place at higher figure
than those quoted at the Board. An unusual
number Of companies have been incorpora-
ted, and the job-presses Of this office, which
are pretty good barometer of the state of
mining operations, have been on the constant
move during the week. We have turned out
an unprecedented number of stockbooks for
new companies and have large number Of
orders on hand. Our weekly review Of the
Stock market, on Monday, will set the
" Montgomery street miners" wild again, and
require very heavy wet blanket from the
San Francisco press to keep the fever down.
CREDITABLE.-The most creditable thing
done at the mass" meeting last night, was
the taking up of collection for the benefit
of the Nevada Volunteers, amounting to
S2S4. There are few people here, whose
heads are not sound on the Constitutional
question, but in their views as to the correct
policy in that matter, they do not lose sight
of their duty to the Government, and their
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