Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-14
THE EVENING NEWS.

taking out pay rock again. At present it
is sinking its shaft. This has been car
ried down about IS feet since the compa-
ny started its new machinery. The shaft
was down to the tunnel then. and the tun-
mel ran on the ledge at water level. The
company Is, therefore, at present, 65 feet
below water level and that distance deep
er than its ledge has ever been worked.
When chambers are run from this shaft 10
work the ledge, at this or a greater depth,
we expect to see very rich rock taken out.
The company is now as we'll prepared to
carry on mining operations rs any III the
district. Its hosting works are powerful
and complete. The TWO new engines
work admirably, and are each capable OF
doing their respective portions of the work
without the least strain. The engines
will do steady work, such rs is now per-
formed by them, for years, without giving
out, if properly taken care Of; and, in the
long run, will BE- found much cheaper for
the company than if it had put up that
which was lighter. or had put up only one
Of the engines TO do all the work. The
combined strength Of the two engines is
about lOO-horSe power, the one driving
the pump being 90 and the other +0-horSe
power. The most pleasant feature about
this comoanv's works is the size, convent
fence and neatneSS Of its building. 1t
presents a splendid appearance as whole
on the outside. with is white painted
weathcrboards and cornice, and tin roof;
but when 4 person enters into the main
building and peeps around the massive
hosting works and well kept engines,
through galleries which are spacious and
clean. he viii pronounce that the most in
tereSting part Of the Improvements. Then
there i in the same building the black
smith shop and boiler room. all spacious
and we'll arranged. anu separated from
each other by doors and partitions. There
is considerable water TO deal with now,
and the pump is kept running all the time.
Considerable dirt is hoisted too. but at
present, only one of the company's two
boilers Is used.
BULLIoS HoTEL.-Mr. George Sven
son, an en;erprising Gold Hitler, who was
for long time Secretary Of the Oneoto
and Superintendent of the Michigan
mines is building a spacious new hotel on
the Divide close BY the Bullion NINE
The main building will, when completed,
be Is feet front, 81 feet deep and two and
a half stories high. The building is all
inclosed, except putting in the doors and
windows. Il is being painted on the out
side. and IN the inside is being laid off in
10 rooms and lined and papered. George
is . capital fellow, and will make bully
landlord. His house is in 4 central
place. There are large mines all around
il. and Is soon as he opens his house he
will have large family 10 care for.
The LAFAYETTE COMPANY is busy tim
ber:ag its shaft. This work has been de-
laved from time 10 time, on account of the
non-arrival of the necessary lumber. 1t
takes lots of timber to curb a shaft well,
and there Is 50 much being used this sum-
mer for building and mining, that it is
almost impossible to procure even enough
at a time to do a small job, without en-
gasing il long beforehand. This company
has had its timber engaged for several
weeks. but has been d Sappointed about
its coming a dozen times. 1t IS just be-
ginning TO arrive, and several thousand
feet which were to have been delivered
long ago are now just coming to hand.
IxcoRPoRArIoS.-The Alta Lake Wa
ter Company yesterday filed articles of in
corporation in the Clerks Office of Storey
county. The company declare their in
tenriou TO convey from Alta Lake. pure
water with which to supply the inhabi-
vancs of Virginia, Gold Hill, Silver City
and American Flat, and for fire. milling
and mining purposes. The capital stock
of the company IS 100000, divided into
5000 shares of the par value of 800
each. The company is represented by the
following gentlemen as Trustees j. NJ.
Thompson, 5. 7. Watts, J. W. McCahill,
D. P. Rose and P. W. keyser, and the
principal place Of business is Virginia.
CArGHr.-One day last week, officer
Sheppard. of Virginia, had prisoner
named " Lager Beer Charley" in his care,
and while hunting bail in Gold Hill, in
company with the oficer-Charley being
char ged with exhibiting and drawing
deadly weapon-he gave the officer the
slip, by reason Of the good Sheppard not
watching his flock close enough, which
caused the officer to come to grief, and to
20 home BY himself. Deputy Marshal
Tom johnson this morning nabbed the
aforesaid Lager Beer Charley in lager
saloon in Gold Hill, and on due requi-
sition from Judge Davenport of Virginia,
he has taken boarding at the Hotel de
Purcell.
The YELLOW JACKET COMPANY is busy
running a drift from its shaft into the
ledge. long distance below where the
latter has hitherto been worked. The
drift is now about thirty feet long, and has
not vet come into the ledge. The COM
PAW is also sinking an air shaft down
from the old chamber in its mine to con-
meet with this drift when it shall have come
into the ledge far enough. From this
shaft Is being taken out some Of the richest
rock ever taken out by the company.
When the company gets the drift in and
commences working the ledge through it,
q: that depth, it will undoubtedly take
OUT SOU, S@CO VI S@AUO LONH GIL Inc lAiiAS.
MORE MAcHISERY.-The Minerva Com
panv has received its steam boiler and
smoke stacks, and the engine and other
machinery necessary to have to put hoist
mo works into operation is on the road
between here and Sacramento, and is eX-
peeted to arrive every day. 1t was ship
ped from that place. we believe, on the
fifth of the present month, so that 1t has
already been nine days on the road. The
engine, we are told, is Of sixty-horse pow
er, and the other machinery is to match.
The boiler, which has arrived, is fifty two
inches in diameter and sixteen and halt
feet long.
THE WORK on the Town Reservoir goes
on slowly but surely. The large stock OF
three inch planks which were delivered