Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-03-26

through the ulStIlctS ol GoIu 1lIl anu W.
pinia. and that one is the Comstock. Others
hold that there are three parallel lodges run
ming down from the northern part of Nir-
ginia TO the American Flat. We know from
personal observation that there are several
lodges which run nearly parallel; and we are
of the opinion, which we have formed after
close observation, that lodges are separate
and distinct. Where the lodges are very
close, and the rock is of the same cha
racter, the lodges may perhaps unite at some
depth below and come from the same source,
but the different lodges almost always have
different colored rock, ard other different
characteristics. In the Gold Hill mines, the
Developments have exposed the true situa
ton of the lodges, and it has been found there
are in some places =, in others or 4, and
in others only one ledge. In Gold Hill the
lodges are not SO well defined as they are
either north or south of it. There a ledge is
often struck and found very rich; but after
little time il give out at that place, and there
comes in a stratum of dead rock, and then
another ledge. Sometimes several lodges
will lie side BY side, only few feet apart,
and in another place, not more than couple
of hundred feet away, the ledge will be gath
cred between two castings, and will be OF ell
ormous size, like the,edge of the Eclipse.
These lodges of Gold Hill, we believe, are all
of the same origin, and if ever these mines
are worked to such depths as they have been
in some other countries, these lodges will be
found to unite together and form one large
well-deftned stratum. When we come to take
a close look at the mines of the southern part
of this town, we find the lodges there to run
nearly parallel, but greater distance apart.
They follow about the some general course.
while at the same time they are full OF short
curves and turns but always well defined,
and never broken up like the lodges in Gold
Hill. Take for instance the Midas claim,
which lies just south OF the Belcher. There,
close to the shaft, is a ledge Of brown colored
quartz, which produces largely in gold. In
fact, the returns from this rock, which that
Company has had crushed, have been more
than half gold. About go feet west Of this
FIRST ledge, is another one of blue and white
quartz, which produces silver. Now it is not
probable that these two lodges, so dissimilar
in quality and appearance, are of one and
the same origin; or that they will unite into
one at any depth. Take another instance:
Enter the Mary Ann Company's tunnel, and
as you go along, you come to ledge about
six hundred feet from its mouth, and in about
three hundred feet further is another large
ledge, cut through by this tunnel. This
will bring you about as far west as
the mouth of the La Plata Orc Tunnel,
which runs into the mountain just by the
American Flat road, nearly above the Mary
Ann tunnel. II you enter the La Plata Orc
tunnel and that through its whole length,
you will discover no less than five lodges
some Of them Of very large size, and others
smaller. When you have seen these, YOU
may come back, and then climb up the noun
tain west of the road until you stand on its
summit just west Of that great ledge of rocks
which looks down on American Flat, and
there YOU will see the groupings of another
large ledge which your eye can trace down
across Crown Point Ravine, and upon the
mountain on the other side. All these lodges
run parallel, and have no signs of being con-
nected with one another. They are each
well defined. The character of the rock
is different its color is different there
are no arms running from one
to another of the lodges; and those farthest
on either side lie 4 full half mile apart Yet
the intermediate lodges fill up the space be-
tween, at nearly regular intervals; and all
run parallel to each other. If any of those
lodges come together, il is just as likely that
they are ali connected, for all are just as
much connected with one another as any two
bic. II they were of the same origin, and
were connected, the lodges would all be OF
the same character and color, and they would
be connected by strata of quartz, running
from one to another, and their course, too,
would not be so uniformly parallel, but would
be broken up and irregular. 1t is natural
that company should, when they have once
become established on large, rich ledge,
claim all other lodges which may be found
anywhere near by, as spur, branch, or
part of their own, and sgrec that they
come together below but VIC are of the opin-
ion that if any company on either OF the
lodges in this district sinks down so low on
their ledge, as to find the place where the
others unite with it, they will be nearer to
the Internal region, than we ever wish to
venture.
THE ALABAsTgR CAVES OF WAsHUg.-
There are probably but very few persons who
are aware of the existence of caves Of beau
tiful alabaster within three or four miles from
this city. The BWlIetiR says that among the
hills to the west of American Flat there is an
extensive limestone formation, worn and
crowded into precisely similar shapes as the
limestone that forms so peculiar feature in
the geology OF the counties Of Tuolumne,
Calayeras and Amador in California. But
short distance from this limestone there is
beautiful cave Of alabaster, from the roof of
which, when first discovered, hung long pend
ant stalactites, Of snowy whiteness and rare
beauty, which visitors have from time to time
carried away. The alabaster in this cave is
so soft that it may readily be cut with jack
knife, while much Of it is, both in appearance
and softness very much like damped common
", ~, 10Th and tha
limestone are wholly unfit for building pur-
poses, as they crumble on exposure to the
air, though they are very beautiful in appear
ance.
AMERICAN CITY.-Late developments in
the mines in the vicinity Of this flourishing
place, give assurance that it is bound to be-
come place of no mean, if not of the first
importance in the land. The Comstock vein
made Virginia what it is; at present there
are the very best possible indications of at
least half dozen Comstock's in the vicinity
of American City-what, then, should this
new city become Not only has American
City the great advantage of being surround
ed by the most promising-and most dealt
in-mines of the Territory, but it has other
advantages that are of great, of vital i'm
portance, to any city in WaShoe; we mean
those of a level and sheltered site, and the
great one of having a convenient and bounti-
full supply Of pure and wholesome water.
Should the mines about American
city prove as rich as the de-
velopments on many of them at present
indicate, nothing could prevent the city from
growing almost at once into place Of great
Importance among the cities of the land.
Robert Jersey, reached Virginia yesterday
from Carson, under the military escort of
Sergeant J. F. Hewitt. 1t appears that Jer-
sey made considerable secesh noise around
the streets of Carson, and wound up with
yelling hurrah for JEFF Davis, and shouting
proclamation to the effect that he feared not
the entire military of the Territory, nor
any particular soldier thereof. He was there
fore taken prisoner by Lieutenant Warfeld
and Sergeant Hewitt, who placed handouts
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