Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-05
THE EVENING NEWS.

neLLe company starleU us machinery To-
day, for the first time. This company's
claim has been standing idle for the past
six months for the want Of such machine
~ as was to-day put in operation. The
claim is an old one, having been located
in June 1860, and has been worked, since
that time, in several places. The last
work which was done was that of sinking
Il shaft and running drift. The shaft is
sunk only few rods south west of the
Gold Hill Cemetery, and is down some
20 feet deep. After it had been sunk to
that depth a drift was commenced and
ruRto the west, but after it had been run
some distance in that direction, the COM
pany struck so much water that it drove
the wor&men out, and prevented the fur
Their prosecution of the work in that di-
rection without the assistance of some
better means Of hosting than was here
tofore employed, which was horse
and whim. The company feeling great
confidence in the richness Gifts claim, de-
termined TO procure machinery which
would enable it TO take out the water and
carry on the work, already so far advan-
eed, to fruition. Accordingly. the ma
chinery which was necessary, was ordered
and arrived upon the ground several
weeks ago. In the meantime the direc-
ton Of the work was put under the care
of Mr.. +. J. Chamberlain, a mechanic,
whose previous works give him reputa-
ton Of being a skillful workman and iu-
diciouS designer, a reputation which he
has not in the least failed to sustain in
constructing the works of this company.
The frame work is constructed in the or
binary manner. 1t is built of heavy tim
berS, the braces being u by l9 inches in
size and the whole is united into one al
most mSeparable mass by ponderous iron
bolts. The engine is of III inches diane
ter of bore, and OF thirty inches stroke.
1t Is link motion and is capable of
working regularly up to 35 horse power.
The boiler which sits in its furnace near
by, and furnishes steam TO do the work
Is 10 inches in diameter and % feet long.
and has five tlueS. The setting of the en-
CINE and the doing of the machinist work
generally has been attended TO by Mr.. ID.
{. Morris. who is at present acting as en-
gineer. The whole of these new works
are covered by fine substantial building,
which is So by 80 feet in size and of con-
venient height for the purpose for which
t was designed. The works were COM
pleted and ready for operation last Satur-
day, but were not started until to-day
This morning about half past ten o'clock
they were first put in operation, and in
the presence of Mr.. L. W. Lee. the Presi-
dent Of the Company. Mr.. Gray ard lady,
Mr.. Bittner, and score of other stock
holders and invited guests, among
which The News" had It's representa-
rive. the engine was started and moved off
with the greatest ease and regularity and
hoiSted bucket after bucket TO the greatest
satisfaction of all concerned. But this
was not all the pleasure which laid in
store for those who had assembled there.
y basket Of champagne was quietly
opened while the engine was putting
away. and soon the party was busy show
ing their good will by drinking luck to
the company and health to its officers.
Everything moved off pleasantly, the
machinery smoothly and the champagne
rapidly, and ere the latter had all gone,
the company was nearly dispersed.
SAVING THE TAILNGs.-The Gould &
Curry Company is becoming saving in its
way. 1t is working the talings from its
mill in Flowery District. The company
have constructed a reservoir of about a
quarter of an acre in extent and twenty
feet deep, about thirty rods below its mill
into which the water from the mill carries
the taiEngS, where they settle. This large
reservoir has been constructed partly by
excavating, and partly by building stone
vail around into the rayine, Mt the cost OF
thousands IF dollars. Below the large
rtservoir, there is II sualiOr one, construct
Cd by building stone wall across the "a
vine in such a manner as TO dam the wa
ter and thus give time for the sand and
sulphurets which it contains to settle.
The space between these two reservoirs is
occupied by number of shallow watts,
thirty or forty feet in diameter, into
which the tailings which settle In
the reservoirs, is afterwards put and
there, agitated, by which means the
sulphurets being heavier than the sand
settles TO the bottom and is cleaned up
and re-worked in the mill. The arrange
ments for saving the tailings are not yet
fully completed, and their value or etti-
cheney has not yet been fairly tested
The company has expended a great deal
ofmoney in getting ready to save the tail
ings, but we doubt whether the invest
ment will be profitable one. When
large rich company attempts to carry on
such work as this, it usually expends
more money than it saves. In England
and Wales the tailings from the mills are
generally worked for the waste metallic
Sulphurets and pyrites, but it is done by
small companies that employ children to
do most of the work and mill, and min
ing companies seldom or never interfere.
Two or three different parties have within
the past six months been washing talings
in Gold Canon with not very encourag-
ing results, and this was done by men
who had worked tailings in other places,
and were in this place working for them
selves, and may therefore be expected to
have done it as cheaply, and as profitably
as possible. If they could not make it
nav. we think the Gould and Curry COM
pany have small prospect of success
However, nothing but fair trial can de-
termine the question.
SHOT HIS MOUTH OFF.-John Ander-
son, rather seedy pettifogger, formerly
from Nevada City, and like some others of
his political proclivities, fast sinking into
the last stages of political bummerism-
was Yesterday arrested in Virginia by the
Provost Marshal, for shooting off his
mouth once too often, in words as fol-
l>,,.s a. Cd d-n the Ijnited States
Government and all who uphold !" Ho,
no, "John Anderson, my 10, John !" Pack
ing sand at Fort Churchill is good exercise
and may work little secession sweat out
of your body REASONABLE sentiments,
especially on the Fourth of July. are de-
cidedly unpopular, and in our opinion a
rope encircling the threats of those who
give them utterance, will be quite orna-
mental as well as useful before the next
rainy season sets in, unless these traitor