Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-11
THE EVENING NEWS.

- S's~SNSN va tue sue VI Lle NH west OF tue
Uncle Sam and Ovcrman mines. The claim
is OF two thousand feet on each of eleven
Lodges, which makes the entire number oil
feet in the claim tssenty-two thousand. The
hrSt four lodges were located in 1860; the re-
naming seven have been located since. The
Claim Is worked by tunnel. which was COM
menced IN 1850, soon after the claim was To-
Gated, and has been worked ever since, with
the exception OF aboUt two months time
when 1t stood idle in the winter of 1861, and
few days now and then when the air was so
bad in the tunnel that work could not be car
ried on. The main tunnel commences on
the west side OF the American Flat road, and
runs westerly through about half way between
the Mary Ann and the Overman Companies
shafts, and Is now thirteen hundred and fifty
feet in length. There formerly was 4 large
stream Of water running from this tunnel
which came in at different points along its
course; but This has now dried up, and there
are only couple OF places in the tunnel
where there is any water ut all, and in those
taere is found only very little. The tun-
mel has been run through variety of rock,
and IN its course has passed through three
lodges. The first OF the lodges is about 80
feet from the mouth OF the tunnel. 1t is
rixed up ma OF quartz. alumina, and rocks
Nl ulL4CNEl.- N4lsll IL - IDONl lofty rect
through It, aud evidently near its surface.
This ledge will perhaps be found valuable at
some future time, when It can be worked
cheaper. but AZ present no attention is paid
20 il. The next ledge, and the one which has
proved to be the llrCes; and the best, which
mas been found in the tunnel, lies 800 feet
further - the west, and about $50 feet from
the mouth ofthe tunnel. This ledge is found
70 De about sixty ieet wide a. the place where
the tunnel runs through it. Il has castings
d! clay and is quite well defined. The third
ledge which has been found lies about 800
feet ives; OF this one. L IS not So large nor so
wei! 6eauci as the second or middle one. but
nevertheless is OF very good size and
respectable quality. The ground here is
quite wet, and pool OF water stands IN the
bottom Of he tunnel. The water comes in
from = mass VI quartz, 2ud IS goo& :rdi-
cation that the ledge IS quite IN extensive
one. From this place on 20 the face OF the
tuuuel, there axe found several other strata
OF quartz. which. however, do not deserve
the name OF ledge, and are not claimed as
such. Inc rock in the face Of the tunnel is
blue -rani.c, with seams filed with white
Qua.sZ. The granite Is in some cases COW
cred with Sp2nsleS o! PyriteS OF iron, and
very much resembles casing rock, while the
feeders" OF quartz indicate the presence of
u ledge. Work on This part Of the tunnel
was some time ago suspended on account OF
bad air, and since then mos: Of the work done
on the claim has been 10 devc.0pe the Sec nd
ledge. The company commenced 10 run 4
driit 10 the north from the tunnel $50 feet
from is mouth, on the lica Of April, 1868.
This drift WAS run IN that direction about
eighty feet. and then slope was run down
EroI1 the end Of It, at an angle Of about Fifty
=
feet further. +, he work here was suspended
on account OF the air. which became SO bad
that candle would not burn. though Il man
was all the time kept at the mouth of the tun-
rei pumping i into the mine through tin
pipe. After the woCknea were driven out
here. I shaft was commenced on the side of
the hill tbau: 500 feet west of where the
Oycrmaa compauT's new hosting works are
being erected. The shaft WIS commenced
the DIST of laS; December. /. is four BY eight
fee; in SIZE in the clear, cimosred with three
inch plankS, and dIrided into two compart-
meht> OF equal size and IS 2,j feet deep,
which carries it down about Seventv-lye feet
below the level OF the tunnel. The shaft
passes through ;hc second ledge at poiEt
about eighty feet north OF the main tunnel
and forty fee: west Of the north drift. For
the past few days. the company has been At
NDGR AALuAll% tA4iS 'EN- AANtAs NtAS A4N'htA
drift, 10 connect with the shaft 50 as 70 create
n circulation OF air and ventilate the tunnel.
The Drift was run about twenty-five feet due
ives, from the north driit; then 1t was run
about the same distance northwest, when it
came 70 the shaft which was first reached
Yesterday morning. These drifts have all
been run in the ledge or Just along is east
wall, and have found that it increases in size
and improves in quality as 1t runs that way.
Some splendid quartz was taken from this
dviis near the shaft, from which some assays
were mzGs which ranged as nigh rs Sl,6OO
per ton. There is 4 large quantity OF this
rock close by the shaft, and /: IS Of 4 quality
which Will probably pay for taking out and
crushing. This rich stratum is where 1t was
cut through bv the drift, about ten or twelve
feet in thickcess. This company is one Of
the oldes: in the district, and has one of the
longest tunnels which have been run south
Of Gold Hill. The work is carried on under
the direction and superinteuce Of Mr.. s. Noel,
who has used excellent Judgment in carrying
il on. The tunnel is run perfectly straight
the whole distance, and there is no place
where work has been needlessly done. The
shaft comes directly down upon the ledge,
and i OF double value to the company-it
yentilates the mine, and opens it TO be ad-
vantageouSly worked. The claim is now
drawing considerable attention, and We pre-
diet that it will soon rank much higher than
it has heretofore.
Snow SoUALL CoMPANY.-This company's
claim IS in Virginia District. 1t is situated
on the southeast slope OF Mount Davidson
close bv the line of the Gold Hill District.
The claim contains one thousand feet and
was located in SO or 80, We are unable to
saw positively which. II is worked by tun-
mel which runs directly into the mountain, IN
4 northwest direction. Il is now about 400
feet long, and has been run most Of the way
in verv hard rock. All but about nifty feet OF
the distance has been blasting rock, and
about two hundred feet, which is half its dis
lance, has been rock OF the hardest quality.
The tunnel was commenced in go and most
of the work done on it has been done by con-
tract. The work being done BY contractors.
They receive S25 per linear foot for running
il, and then cannot hardly make it pay, the
rock is SO hard. There has not yet been any
ledge struck in the tunnel and 1t is not eS-
pected there will be for forty or fifty feet yet,
At which distance it will reach the point where
the ledge, which crops out on the hill above
the tunnel is supposed 10 be. 1t may dip
however, in 4 different direction than that
which il is supposed to, so that it may be
fs1tlEA W EJA4AS ASN 4GSSt Va NaAS
NAV have 70 be run many more than fifty feet.
The first fifty feet which it was run, which
was in the soft ground, is timbered in SUD-
Stantial manner. The rest Of the way OF
course did not require it and has not been
timbered. Il is an old location and has been
carried forward only BY the hardest kind OF
work. We wish the company great success,
aud when it reaches the ledge hope 1t will be
found both large and rich.
RUNNING \ DRIFr.-The Abel & Key
company is running drift along the ledge
which its tunnel passed through about one
hundred feet from its mouth. The ledge
was quite large and has been found to in
crease in size as the drift has been run along
it. The drift is now about thirty feet long;
While this work has been done, work has
not been suspended in the main tunnel; but
two shifts have all the time been employed,
one TO work in the tunnel and the other IN
the drift. This claim lies next south of the
St. Charles, and on the opposite side OF the
rayine. The ledge lately struck in that COM
the