Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-16
THE EVENING NEWS.

STEELE 4 ANDRRSoN'S Mill in the
lower part of town, is being thoroughly
overwhelmed repaired and re6tted. The
old pans are being taken out and their
places supplied by Hepburn's Amalgama-
tors and Separators. There will be six
Of the former and three of the latter put
in at present, and it is the design of the
prOprietors III a short time to add enough
OF each TO make the matchmaking part Of
the mill consist of ten AmalgamatorS, and
six Separators. The engine and boiler
which has been used heretofore are also
to be taken out, and their places supplied
with new ones. The New England
which IS to be put up has cylinder OF
twelve inches diameter of bore, and thirty
inches stroke of piston. The boiler Will
be new and OF sufficient size 10 furnish all
the steam which Is required to run the
engine. Besides these requirements and
repairs, there Is TO be another battery OF
five stamps put up. There has been but
ive stamps working in this mil hereto
fore. so that when the new battery Is add
ed the capacity Of the mill for crushing
ore will be doubled. The matchmaking
department will be 50 much improved,
and its cunacitv so much increased, and
the motive power will be so much greater
than It was before, that when the mill Is
again ready 20 run it viii almost be like
q new one. The pans and part Of the
machinery has already been delivered at
the mill, and the remainder is on the way
over here from California. A force of
mIlwrightS are at work making the re-
pairs. and it will probably take but few
weeks 10 complete them and put the mill
in working order again.
The Gold Hill and Virginia Tunnel and
Mining Company keeps at work at its air
shaft. which was started q few weeks ago.
When it was commenced it was though;
that It could be sunk down to the tunnel
IN about four weeks. But the company
has had hard ground 10 sink in all the way
the shaft has been sunk at the present
time. This was not expected to be found.
The ground through which the tunnel has
been run has been soft all the way, and it
IS run under where this shaft IS being
sunk. The shaft is now fifty feet deep,
and will have to be sunk ffty-ive or sixty
feet more to connect with the tunnel. The
rock has 10 be blasted. 1t has been so
hard As 10 require this mode of operating
for the most Of the distance which 1t has
been sunk. This bed of hard rock cannot
extend the whole of the way down TO the
tunnel. for there were no signs of 1t there, |
but it NAV extend 70 within a few feet Of
It. If il does it will take five or six weeks
10 sink the shaft through. If it does not,
and the workmen come into good ground
10 work. they can do the work much
quicker. As soon as connections are made,
the work will be commenced in the tunnel
again.
THE Dewitt Clinton Company is taking
some very good looking ore from its claim.
Several tons have been taken out through
is tunnel. and ROW lies beside the track
On the dump. We know not how large the
vein Is from which the ore IS taken. No
person Is admitted into this claim without
permission of the Superintendent, gen.
lehman we have never seen at the mine.
We understand there is one, who lives at
Virginia, WAC, we suppose, like many
other officers Of the kind, draws good
salary and wisely keeps away from the
claim. 20 the great benefit of the company,
and keeps shareholders and all other peo-
pie out. TO the great edihcation and de-
light of those who own large interests IN
the mine, and of those who wish 10 buy. !
Perhaps il makes the stock sell better. |
Men have been known 20 buy mining |
stock which they know nothing about.
SAD AcCGDENT.-This afternoon, at
about o'clock, a workman in the Bacon |
Mine. in Gold Hill proper, accidentally |
slipped and fell a distance of sixty feet |
down the shaft. He sustained disloca- |
ton of the right ankle, and fracture OF |
both bones of the right leg, above the an
kle, besides sundry bruises, etc. He was !
brought to the top of the mine, and tn cas-
sistance of Drs. Weber and Castor called, !
who, as our paper goes to press, are ope-
rating upon the fractured limb. We have
been unable 70 learn the name OF the
wounded man.
KEYSTONE Co.-This company is at
work again on its claim. \ drift is being
run to the ledge, and has been driven
about SO feet from the shaft in that direc-
ton. 1t Is being run in very hard rock,
and can be driven ahead but slowly.
There has been no water struck IN the
shaft Or drift yet, although they are both
lower than the water level as it stands IN
several of the claims near by. The reason
probably Is, the ground IS so hard the
water cannot soak through it.