Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-13
THE EVENING NEWS.

IL NAAsAAt III NhS SOuSH SAo ASAHtot4OA Which,
il struck some time ago. There is not
much inconvenience experienced with the
water, which, before the worSmen struck
INTO this clay bed, used to give trouble.
Since the company started up its works
couple of weeks ago, it has sunk down
about fifty feet. so that that the entire
depth of the shaft at present is about
2S6 feet, the old shaft having been 236 feet
deep. The company hoiSts all the water
which comes into its shaft in the buckets
with the dirt. The company put in its
new ten-inch pump some time ago, when
there was considerable water in the claim,
but did not then put it in operation. 1t
has no water to pump now, so that It has
no use for the pump at present. When
ever a cut is made through into the ledge,
there will be water enough to keep it busy.
for the bottom of the shaft is now about
forty or fifty feet below water level in the
ledge, and as soon as the clay wall be-
tween the ledge and the shaft is cut
through the pressure viii force it into the
shaft with great rapidity.
The NORTH AMERICAN COMPANY is
still running the two drifts which it COM
menced some time ago. The water which
was struck in one of the drifts soon after
it was commenced, and which came in so
rapidly as to rise in the shaft and sub
merge both drifts, is all the time diminish
ing. Il is now kept below the drifts by
running the engine to MOIST water, only
half the time. The water IS hoisted to
500 feet, in l20-sallon buckets, and when
the engine is running it hoiStS about one
bucket 10 the minute. This is taking it
out pretty fast, considering the distance
which it has TO be raised. The engine,
700, is small. 1t is of 20-horse power.
but it does the work required of it. The
company will put up very large engine
here, when the drifts which are being run
70 connect with the Uncle Sam and Bal
tic claims have been put through, and
will then put in a pump as the water will
have TO be raised only 10 the latter drift.
TIE Belcher Company will finish sink
ing its shaft to-day or tomorrow as deep
rs it intends 10 sink it at present. 1t Is
now about $40 feet deep, and is about 100
feet deeper than the tunnel through which
the ledge Is now being worked. As soon
as the shaft is finished, work will be COM
menced in the drift already started. The
shaft a, this point Is about forty feet from
the ledge. Il will not take long to run
drift thai distance, and we expect in the
course Of @ week or TWO to hear that the
company i taking out richer rock than
ever before. In the meantime II drives
work ahead on its new dump. The walls
for i have been completed some time, and
the carpenters are now putting up the
frame and doing the wood work. When
completed il will be forty-eight feet long
and twenty. two feet wide and will be
built IN the most substantial and approved
style.
The Globe Company has run its drift
about $40 feet west from its shaft towards
It's ledge. but has not yet reached the
latter. The distance from the top OF the
shaft to the groupings OF the ledge mea-
>ureS something like 500 feet, but the
ledge is known 10 pitch towards the shaft
81 an angle Of about fifty degrees from the
perpendicular for the first hundred feet.
This is known from the position of the
ledge in works constructed before this
shaft was commenced. II was supposed
az the time this latter work was started
that the company would be able to sink
the shaft at least go feet deep without
erecting machinery, but It struck so much
water as to prevent sinking at less than
200 feet deep. The drift therefore will
have TO be run long distance TO reach
the ledge, even though it continues down
at the same pitch which it has for the first
hundred feet.
ANOTHER PuMp.-The Crown Point
Company has procured the six-inch pump
which the Yellow Jacket Company pur-
chased some months ago and has since
had it at its claim but has not in use, and
are now putting it in the shaft with its ten
inch pump. The latter pump is submerg-
ed about fifty or sixty feet under water
and cannot be got at for the purpose Of
changing the buckets. The pump which
has Just been procured will be placed IN
the Shaft Just below the drift through
which the ledge is being worked, and
used to keep the water below it. For
few DAYS past the water has raised short
distance in the shaft and it has been nee
eSSary 10 hoist it with buckets to keep it
below the drift. The company continues
10 take out as rich rock as ever from its
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richer every day.
TYLER CoNPANY.-rhis company is
down TO the depth Of about one hundred
feet with its shaft. There is considerable
water to hoist, but the company few
days ago put up good whim, and can
now do that part of the work with ease.
The work is, of course, slower than it
would be if the ground was dry. The
shaft is sunk on the east side Of the ledge.
1t was commenced at the east wall, but
as the ledge pitches to the east, It comes
nearer and nearer to the centre of the
ledge the further It IS sunk. The pitch is
not great, and therefore the shaft will
have to be sunk to much greater depth
than it now is to come far INTO The ledge.
At present there is considerable very good
quartz taken out, although the greater
part of the rock found in the shaft is of
other quality.
FIGHT.-A couple of lager-beer muir
derers, not long from the banks Of the
Rhine, had few pokes at each others
rosy mugs. and then tumble into the
mud in the road, opposite the Rhode
Island mill, yesterday afternoon. They
both dove as far as the depth of the mud
would allow, and both came out with
black and bloody phizes. The cause Of
the set-to was an extra glass Of lager. The
mud poultice which they received in their
warlike plunge seemed to have drawn out
the ire which the extra glass had instilled,
for each went on his way apparently well
satisfied.
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