Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-07-26
THE EVENING NEWS.

We were yesterday shown the model of
novel and most ingeniously arrange,
quartz mill. The model is one-twelhl
the size of the working machine and i
very neatly constructed. The machini
Of size for actual working of ores vii
be % feet In diameter and 20 feet high
circular in form. 1t is calculated to be
driven by horses and the inventor claim:
that two horses viii be able to run sc
stamps with ease, though this is but one
fourth the number of stamps calculated
to be placed in the complete machine
There viii be one hundred and twenty
stamps, each weighing three hundred
pounds, standing in a circle around the
circumference of the main driving-wheel,
which is twenty-five feet In diameter
Fixed upon the circumference of this huge
wheel are inclined planes filed with fric-
tion-wheels by means of which the stamps
are lifted. When all the stamps are go
ing, eight fall every second. The mill
can be started with ten or fifteen stamps
and others can be added as they may be
required. Eight horses will run the
whole one hundred and twenty stamps
and drive the whole of the amalgamating
machinery, which is inside of the circle
of stamps and below them. The amalga-
mating machinery is unlike any in use in
the Territory, or in the world. We know
Of no way to explain it in words. We
may say. however. that the pulp is STIR
red by agitators fastened upon the same
wheel that drives the stamps. There is
absolutely no machinery about the whole
mill. Nothing but an upright shaft with
large wheel on it--just ike common
within. 1t is upon the top of this wheel
which is well represented by the drum
of whim-that the inclines are placed
which lift the stamps. The crushing part
is ike a Rowland rotary battery on a
huge scale. We were also shown by Mr..
Wilkins the model of most ingenious
furnace, or rather furnace and steam boil
er. The furnace is for roasting ores pre-
paratory to crushing. 1t is upright,
standing sixteen feet high, and is eight
feet in diameter at the bottom and six
feet at the top. The same FIRE which
roaSts the ore generates the steam In the
boiler, for the boiler surrounds the roast
ing furnace, there being space of two
feet on all sides for the water. Mr.. VII
kins says boiler of the size mentioned
above viii generate sufficient steam to
drive forty-horse engine. 1t is most
ingeniously eontrived affair, and besides
roasting ore and generating steam, does
all the retorting, and condenses and saves
all the sublimated metals escaping from
the furnaee.-Entsrpriss.
SUNRISE CoNPANx.-This company has
got its shaft down to the depth of 2l5
feet, which was as deep as it desired to go
before it opened its ledge at that level.
Sinking in the shaft has been stopped,
and drift is now being run to the east
ledge. The shaft is sunk between two
hedges, and drift has been commenced
on either side of the shaft to run to both
of them. Work is at present being done
only in the one running to the east. The
one started to the west is in only few
feet and is not run further on account of
the probability of striking large body of
water as soon as the casing of that ledge
is cut at that depth, and the company do
not want the trouble and inconvenience
of dealing with a great volume of water
before the other ledge-the one on the
east-is prospeeted. The same amount of
water is not expected to be struck In that
one, at this depth, although some win un-
doubtedly be found. The company is
doing all its work In the most substantial
manner. 1t has timbered the shaft all the
way with new and heavy planks, and it
is now timbering its drift with sets of ten
and twelye-inch timbers. The drift is
being run in tough clay formation where
there is no water. The drift beng run to
the east is now about twenty feet in length.
The clay formation in which it is being
run is not hard, but it IS tough and very
rapid progress cannot be made. The work
is, however, carried on day and night, so
that by constant application, the drift is
quite rapidly driven ahead notwithstand-
ing the nature of the ground makes the
work itself slow. The ledge is expected
to lie not far from the face of the drift at
present and viii soon be reached. Then
the ledge at the west will be prospected,
and viii not be long before the company
will be taking out ore and probably that
which viii pay.
LEGAL TENDER SMELLING OUT.-A
certain hombre wishing to have q glorious
time all BY himself, borrowed fine gold
watch of his friend, with which he might
attend the ball given at the Collins House,
American Flat, last Friday night. Either
from the effect of the gold watch, or too
much bad whisky upon his brain, he be-
came so much elated as to attempt the
exploration Of the Flat, without duly con-
sidering the dangers from the many open
shafts which abound in that locality. At
last, bringing up at the Legal Tender
shaft, he must have concluded there was
a chance for a speculation, for no sooner
had he discovered it than in he went,
probably head first, where he remained
until the following evening, when passer
by heard an unearthly sound, and imme-
diately proceeded to the shaft, and by
yery hard work succeeded in raising him
TO the top of the shaft by means of q
bucket, rope and win 1lass, which was
fortunately at hand. The poor. un-
fortunate fellow thought he was
" cen a most kilt" and it was wonder
that he was not, as the shaft was over
fifty feet deep and the bottom covered
with loose rocks. As it was, he was pref
ty severely bruised, but is now able to be
about and in fair way to entirely recov-
or. But alas for the borrowed watch, for
it was crushed into numberless fragments.
Moral-Let all ball goers remember that
Legal Tenders are " heap belle good but
when man goes into them, he should be
careful not to go In too fast or too deep,
and should by all means leave his friends
gold watches at home, when taking such
" desperate chances"
The Crown Point Ravine Company is
down with its shaft to the depth Of about
ninety feet at present and were down
shont eiohty-fiye feet deep a few DAYS ago