Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-23
THE EVENING NEWS.

JACK company, yesterday morning, udue
connections between the new shaft which
it has been sinking from near the mouth
of the old incline and the air shaft which
it sunk from in the mine. \ drift has
been run from each of the shafts toward
each other, and yesterday morning the
shift which was working in the drift being
run from the air shaft, broke through into
the other one after having, in about eight
hours, run a full seventeen feet OF DRIFT,
six feet high and three and half feet
wide. The immense amount of work
done by the men in so short time, shows
what kind of miners the company en-
pIov. This drift is being run at the depth
of 500 feet, and at that level the shaft is
some forty feet east Of the east casing OF
the ledge. y splendid drift IS being run
from the shaft TO the west. 1t is now
about fifty feet long, timbered with sets
which are five feet wide, seven high, and
built of timbers one foot square. 1t is de-
signed 10 push the work on this drift ahead
until It reaches the west wall of the ledge.
The distance from the main shaft to the
air shaft is about hundred feet, and all
except the forty feet nearest the former is
solid quartz. How much it extends to
the west beyond the air shaft We are una
bic TO saw. The drift made, however,
shows the ledge at this level to be enor-
mouslv large. II is rich, too. The rock
IS white and blue, and very little or none
of the brown quality which was found
nearer the surface is found here. This
level is about eighty or hundred feet
lower than that at which the mine has
been worked at any former period. The
rock. therefore, IS expected to be much
better than was found in the old diggings,
and it is better. II is, nevertheless, from
above water level, and cannot be expected
to be so very rich, In fact, it is generally
held By miners that silver ore seldom
changes much for the better above water
level. With this rock TO improve on, the
company will be apt to find about as rich
ore as mines in this country produce by
going down hundred feet deeper.
FIRE.-Last night about quarter to II
o'clock n fire broke out in barn belong
ing to Mr.. Mason, situated on the Divide,
about thirty rods east of the main road
leading from here to Virginia. The barn
was situated on such high ground, that as
soon as the FIRE burst out it lighted up the
Divide and the sides of Mount Davidson
and Mount Butler like MONDAY. The
whistles at all the hoisting-works and
mills, from the Nevada to Silver City,
sounded the alarm in shrill, discordant
tones, which started divers Slumberers from
their couches with fear and trembling.
There was q very large crowd Of people
gathered at the scene of the conHagration,
from both Gold Hill and Virginia, in a
very short time. Members Of Silver Bar
Hook and Ladder Company were on the
ground among the first. Engines No. >
and No. 3, from Virginia, came rafting
down the street with the crowd, and first
No. > and then No. took suction at a
large tank between the road and the burn
ing barn, and soon got to playing on the
fire and deadened it down. The frame
was all burned, however, before the boys
got at work, but there was about eighty
or hundred tons Of hay in the barn,
which made a sinouldering fire which
they could could not extngush, though
they deluged it with water. The barn
and hay will prove nearly total loss.
Some bales of the latter were pulled from
the burning mass, but in so damaged
condition as to be nearly valueless. The
fire was the work of an incendiary, who
it is thought took this way to crafty
spite ngainst the water company, by de-
strOying the property Of one of its MEM
berS.
The Crown PoINT Ravine Company's
shaft is down about 80 feet deep. The
company commenced timbering it few
DAYS ago. and will not sink it deeper I'M
til it is timbered all the way to the top
It had not been tiInbered at all previous
10 the time of putting in the first sets the
other day. The company Is doing all its
work in the most substantial and perfect
manner possible. The timbers put in
Immediately at the top of the shaft, are
four inches in thickness, the size which is
used only in our very best mines. There
Is a large stock Of timber on hand for use,
and when the shaft is down so far that 1t
IS all used, the company will procure
more, and that which is HEAVIER, still, If
required. The stock on hand will pro-
badly be sufficient to timber the shaft
down to water level with, and then the
question as to the quality of the timbers
10 be used can be settled with more GER
tainty.
The Cr9sus Company continues sink
ing its shaft which is now down to the
depth of about 400 feet. There has been
but little water struck yet, and the sinking
is going on very rapidly. The workmen,
we understand, in sinking yesterday, come
down on to a formation of bed rock, and
think that they have either struck the
wall of the ledge or a "horse," at present
they cannot tell which. The shaft has
been sunk in the ledge more than half its
depth, and has not run out Of it, on ac-
count of the ledge being so large, although
the latter stands at quite an angle from
the perpendicular.
MAcHINERY.-The Minerva Company
has received its engine, reels and other
machinery for its hosting works, and is
now busy putting them up. The steam
boiler which arrived several days ago has
already been set in its furnace. The foun-
dation on which to set the engine is now
being made. The engine itself is very
fine one Of 65-horse power. 1t was made
in San Francisco. The reels are on the
ground but have not been put into their
places yet. The most there IS to do now
to put the works in running order. is to
set the engine and reels which will take
from two TO three weeks.
THE HALE s NoRCRoss Company is
hurrying up the work on its new ma
chinery. The pitheads of the hosting
frame have been erected, and the most of
the other wood work put up. The en-
gines have both been put in place, though
there is considerable work to be done on
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