Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-10

rectory for 1861.
MINING IMPRovBHESTs.-There willNcon
be lively times down on the American FIT
among the various mines. The North Ame-N
rican company will, before long, erect two
large engines. One OF them will be Of forty
horse power, the other OF eighty horse power.
Just short distance east OF the North Anne
rican claim. the Dardauel.e company is now
employed on the frame Of its new hosting
works. This company, Will, before long,
erect thirty horse power steam engine,
with other works 20 correspond. further
down on the flat, down beyond the North
American claim, the New Oregon company
Is preparing to erect steam hosting works.
The engine which will be used here, IS al
ready in process OF construction IN California,
and will soon be finished and delivered to
this company. Al these conpany's works
are under wav Their eng lss are ali build
ngat the various shops in California, and here
the companies are making Preparations 10 re-
ceiye them, so that the time will not be long
before, they will be in operation. BesidcStaeSe
three companies works, the Overman Com
parry is now engaged in putting up machinery
on its claim, which will De ready 70 run IN
short time. The machinery is now on the
ground, and part Of It s set. There are two
boilers and two engines, one to do the hoist
ing from the mine with, and the other one Is
designed 10 drive the pump which the COM
pany will put into the mine. The Nelson
Consolidated Company is now sinking its
shaft bv means Of whim, but as soon rs It
is carried down 20 water, 50 as 10 require
more power TO work it, that company Will
also get machinery. These Improvements
will all be made as soon as possible, and will
determine in 4 short time the value OF not
only those claims which they will be erected
upon, but also of the other claims which are
in their vicinity. There is general belief
among persons who are best acquainted with
the mines down this way, that there are rich
lodges running through these claims, but that
they lie deep, and that to open them success
fully, works will have to be sunk
down 10 I much greater depth than
is necessary further north along the
same range. This theory appears true, when
a person considers the increased depth which
the companies down this way have 10 go on
their lodges to get down 10 pay rock. In
Gold Hill, paw rock was found AZ the surface.
Further south, in the Yellow Jacket claim,
the paw rock was found at the depth OF one
hundred and twenty-five feet. Further south
still, the Belcher Company had to sink down
about two hundred feet TO take out pay rock;
and at the Uncle Sam claim, pay rock IS not
found as near the surface as that. This be-
ing the case, it is quite fair 20 presume that
down on the Flat, At the New Oregon claim,
there will be no rock that will pay well for
crushing taken out nearer the surface than
three hundred feet. When these works are
once constructed, times down that way will
become more lively, business better, and work
on other claims will be renewed with increased
vigor. Owners Of ground down that way are
anxiouSlv awaiting the time when they Will
be nut in operation, and will not venture
much money on claims until they come.
BRANCH MINT CoMPASY.-This company
some time ago let contract to sink shaft
on its claim. to the depth of 200 feet. It was
believed that at that depth the shaft would
strike the ledge, which had been found IN
drift from the company's old incline which Is
run down from the American Flat road few
rods northwest of the Crown Point mill.
This contract has been completed, but the
ledge has not been struck; owing, It Is
thought, to some inaccuracies being made IN
making the survey. Some calculations wnicn
have been made since, have led the owners Of
the Branch Mint claim to believe that the
LEDGE lies about fifteen feet from where the
shaft now is. The work on this shaft Will be
carried on, nevertheless, until it is sunk tif-
teen or twenty feet deeper; then, If the ledge
is not struck in the shaft, DRIFT will be run
10 IL This shaft has been sunk all the way
in hard rock, and part of the way in rock
which was unusually hard. At present the
rock is not very hard and can be worked out
with little trouble. The shaft is timbered 4
part of the way down from the top with two
inch planks, but down towards the bottom,
where the rock was more damp and there
was an appearance Of water in the seams, 1t
is timbered with planks which are three
inches in thickness. Il is four by eight feet
in size, in the clear, divided by a partition
into two compartments of equal size. The
company has been grading around the shaft,
and, as soon as the ledge is struck will put up
either steam hosting works, or whim, to
be determined BY the appearance and the
uLaiity Of the ledge. The work on this claim
is being carried on night and day, and ever
since the shaft was commenced, 1t has been
driven rapidly forward. The most of the
work on the incline and drift spoken OF above,
was done last summer, and was done princi-
pally for prospecting purposes, and they are
so constructed that they Will never be oil
much use to work the ledge by. This claim
is north of the Original Hawkeye on the op-
posite side of Crown Point Ravine. 1t is sit
uated on a good range and we believe VIII
prove 10 be Il good claim, when little more
prospecting is done on 1t. The shaft Is now
so deep that if the ledge is struck in the bot
tom, by going only few feet further, or II
drift be run 10 it from the bottom OF the SHAFT
after il has been sunk few feet deeper, 1t
will strike it at such depth that it can easily
he determined whether the ledge is valuable
or not. or what it would amount to If 1t was
sunk down deeper. By doing one or two
more weeks work, the problem of the value
of this ledge will probably De solved
Scorr Co.-This company is now engaged
in running down its shaft. The shafG which
IL first sunk was small and round, and i'll
adapted to carrying on work Vigorously or
successfully. The shaft was about four feet
in diameter, and is being cut down, so that 1t
is now, as far as the work has been done,
four and half by nine feet IN size. II has
haen cut down about twelve or fifteen feet
onlv. The round shaft is about seventy-ive
fsst deep, and will be enlarged all the way
down, and then timbered, before more work
will be done towards sinking it deeper. The
shaft is so large that it can be timbered, and
then be four by eight feet in size in the clear.
This is a small claim, containing only some
four hundred feet, and mostly owned by a
couple Of the stockholders. 1t lies just north
OF the Original Hawkeye Claim, and, as far
as location is concerned, 1t occupies very
promising place. The owners irst sunk the
round shaft to prospect the ground; and in
doing so, found sufficient indications to war
rant the charging of the shaft and fitting 1t
up to make it permanent mining work.
BULLION SnPPED.-This morning Wells
Fargo & Co. shipped 10 bars and 2 sacks o.
bullion. weighing in the aggregate l,4Sz
pounds, and worth, according to assay