Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-01-13
THE EVENING NEWS.


-CLYpB LgDaE.-A few weeks ago we no
ticed this company's claim, and remarked
shst they were lin company with others)
building grade from the ophir road to their
mines, located at the head Of Crown Point
Canon. Since that time, the grade mas oeen
completed, and some rock brought down 70
Darst & Harris mill, which, upon WORKING,
was found to contain sixty dollars TO the ton:
The company was formed and claim located
in August, 1860, by Mr.. J. 5. Watkins, to
whom all the credit is due for prosecuting
the work under unheard Of trials and DIM
culties, which will be noticed below. The
FIRST work was done upon the ledge through
short tunnel, striking the ledge some sixty
feet below the surface. From this place rock
was obtained and sent to San Francisco and
assayed BY kellogg & Co, yielding ,2SS 30
TO the ton. This was sufficient encourage
meut to induce the company to run lower
tunnel. They have run this lower tunnel 4Zz
feet, developing well defined ledge hye feet
wide. In running the tunnel some eighteen
feet beyond the first ledge another one was
found, and Zoo feet located. called ledge
No. 9. There is an abundance OF water IN
the back part of the tunnel, but OWING 70
creyices and seams in the rock through which
the tunnel is run, it does not tnd its way out.
The Conpany will erect mill at the mouth
of the tunnel in the spring. The difficulties
under which the Superintendent has labored
have been many. First-the rock through
which the tunnel is run, has all been OF the
hardest kind, requiring blasting all the way.
Then, but few of the company would pay as
sessments and the ground would not sell at
any price until last spring. In the mean
time, Mr.. Watkins, Notwithstanding his best
friends, or would-be friends, thinking him
visionary in his ideas of ledge OH the range
Of the one-ledge theory, labored to induce
him to give up the work. They even went
so far as to get some engineers TO go upon
the ground, and in their assembled wisdom
thigh in mountain air, to denoonce tne
idea Of ledge, away up there, declaring that
it was away out Of the range, and far above
the deposit of arpentiferous metals. Astound-
inc wisdom the personifcation OF the one
lcSve theory: which, like all other theories,
in regard to the deposits of the precious
metals, are easily upset BY the pick and
shovel. There is a good paying ledge there,
one half mile west of the ComStocS range, ana
this is not the only good ledge either; Miners
here know that there are many lodges all
about us, only waiting the application OF
labor and capital to bring them to light
Moonstruck theorists and visionary specula-
tors may wish to prove it otherwise Let
them pirate about the one-ledge theory, and
hold il up rs a bug-bear. Also, let dis,
appointed ofice-seekers, cry out and
shout, and make all the political capital
they can. The miners stand back and laugh
at their folly, and upon the nineteenth OF tins
month they will mock their fear and defeat
cometh. Therefore, let them cry continually.
All the disappointed othce-seekIng parasites
in the Territory cannot make the miners ana
men Of sound sense believe in this one-ledge
theory, or that there is any danger OF any
class of mcn-lawyers, doctors, professional
or professional-making it for one mo-
ment appear that there is but one ledge in
washoe Why, it is so supremacy ridiculous
that even A. Wards babes in the wood
would boot at the idea. And those who are
so short-sighted as to think there is danger Of
the one-ledge theory being fastened upon US
If We have State under our present Constr
tuition, must think that the miners are all
fools, to saw the least. Such persons will be
held in remembrance and they better hang
up their political fiddle before its groanings
herald their speedy dissolution. Amen! so
mouSht it be.-IOur Reporter spreads HIM
self outside of his subject.-ED.l
MoRB Rich LEDGEs.-And yet another
rich strike hereabouts! We were shown
this afternoon some exceedingly rich speci-
mems of quartz taken from newly-discovered
lodges IN the Devils Gate District, which like
American Flat, is looming up as hopefully as
suddenly. These lodges are named the May
flower and Allen, and are consolidated.
They are situated Immediately on the line of
the Carson road, to the left, and nearly op-
posite the Phoenix mill, and between the Cen
eSsee and koSSuth claims They were dis
covered BY Mr.. Henry Allen, an old resident,
and a loBg-experienced miner, and locator
and prospector, both here and in California
II was he who discovered the famous Bowery
claim in Gold Canon. At depth of thirteen
feet the ledge of the Mayhower WAS found to
be three feet in width inside the hne hard
casing, while the ledge of the Allen, at
depth of three feet, was five feet in thick
ness, inside the casing, and each becomes
wider as the depth increases. Gold, IN the
specimens shown us, predominates over sill
yer, and can be plainly seen with the naked
eve. Millmcn have offered to crush the rock
at their own risk and give a correct return OF
the result. The claim is twenty-fOur hun
tred feet on each ledge, and work thereon IS
being pushed forward rapidly. 1t is owned
only BY a few, and they are chiefly men OF en-.
terprise and capital, who are sangiine that
they have a good thing, and who are deter
mined TO spare neither labor nor expense to
develop it.
DOUGLAS & Co. Quartz MILL.-Ncxt be-
low the MaysviIle Mill, comes the Douglas.
The present mill was built in the fall of sixty,
but some time before this, upon the same
site, there was n small mill erected contain
ing two large arastras. This mill has ten
stamps, fourteen 4 foot and ten foot pans,
run by an engine Of twenty-horse power,
consuming three and one-half cords Of wood
per day, and using three inches Of water
The ore which is worked at this mill is OBJ
tanned from the Beleher mine. About 100
tons are crushed per week The mill runs
steadily, day and night, there seldom being
any delay BY breakages-
STASGRooN CoNPANY.-The Stangoom
Company is situated on American Flat, and
was located BY Mr.. S. Stangroom and others
in the month Of March, 1862. For some
time work has been suspended, but recent
deyelopements in the claims adjoining has
awakened them to the sense of the value of
their claim, and has decided them TO COM
menee work Immediately to develope their
mine. They have meeting tonight to in
corporate.
AMERICAN FLAT.-We are informed by
Mr.. Norton, one of the proprietors Of the
new town laid out on American Flat, that
about one hundred Of the most eligible lots
will be offered for sale next week, on terms
such as to induce an early settlement Of the
place. Arrangements have already been
made FOR the erection Of large hotel and
several other fine buildings. 1t viii be
lively place next summer.
FoR TAxEs.-City Attorney Hardy hav-
ing given an opinion that either the Police
Magistrate or Justice Of the Peace, had Ju-
risdiction in suits brought for the recovery
of city taxes, the Board Of Aldermen, Of Viz
ginia, have instructed that officer, to hereaf-
ter institute all such suits in the Police Ma
gistrasa,k Court.