Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-05-21

VIRGINIA POLICE CorRT.-The following
cases came up for hearing in Judge Daven
port's court this morning: A. Hassitt, ar
rested by Officer Lynch for obstructing L
street by sinking prospect-hole" on the
sidewalk, discharged upon payment of costs,
and promise TO fill up the shaft he had com.
menced sinking; A. ]. Smith, arrested by
Lynch for being drunk and diSorderly, plead.
ed guilty, and was fined $40 and costs, and
in default Of payment, was sent to the lock-
up for nine days; John Snyder, arrested for
/ disturbing the peace, threats against life and
resisting an officer, was to have had u hear
/ ing this afternoon at three o'clock; r. Bigby,
arrested by Hanks for being drunk and sleep
/ ing on the sidewalk, pleaded guilty and was
| fined S. and costs, and, as he had no cash,
/ he could neither pay the fine and costs, nor
! donate money to the Sanitary Fund, so was
| sent to be locked up for six DAYS; ]. Carter,
arrested for disturbing the peace, was fined
/ s. and costs, and paid; People VS.. Sam
( Chapman and Mrs. Mary Ann Stephens,
charged with keeping and maintaining a
nuisance, was to have had q hearing this af-
I ternoon; Civil suit-Cunningham VS.. Har-
per, suit for $40 81, Judgment for plaintiff.
| OvERMAN COMPANY. - This company
keeps hammering away at its new building
and hoiSting works. The two boilers are set
/ in the furnace, the smoke-stack erected, the
roof of the building is being covered with a
| sheath of tin, and the sound of the work
mems hammers keep up 4 clatter like unto
| the confusion of Babel. There is large
/ force of mechanics at work, and for day or
! two past there has been a number of men at
( work grading a spot just south Of the main
/ building, where there will be large tank or
reservoir built. During all this confusion,
which the construction of the building causes,
work on the main shaft, which the company
/ is sinking, is not suffered to lag, but is kept
! up, and by the time the hOiSting-works are
( ready 10 90 into operation, the shaft will be
( sunk to 4 considerable depth. 1t will re-
/ Quire about monthyet to get things in work.
| ing order. The engines have both to be set
! and the hoiSting-wOrks erected, and all this
/ is a very exact piece Of work, requiring time
as well as care.
! Ell. DORADO SALOON, VIRGINIA. - We
noticed yesterday that many of our Gold Hill
( friends, when they so up to Virginia, make
it point to get something good to eat and
70 drink while there, and also that they gener-
ally stop at Asa Waugaman's Ell Dorado
Saloon, in the Old Court House Building, on
c street, south of Taylor Street-where they
say the finest and best wines, brandies, por-
tiers. ales, cigars, oysters, and other delicacieS
are TO be had in that city. We expect it is
50, although we never drink anything our
self. Mr.. Waugaman is good and expert
L o,,l h.
ought to know. His elegant Saloon is one Of
the finest in Virginia, and is evidently we'll
patr0uized. Stop and see, all eye who arc
= thirst" etc.
NELSON CONSOLIDATED Co.-This Com
pany is still at work on its shaft, which Is
now down about $50 feet. The rock which
it is now being sunk through, is not so hard
as that lying above it was, and there is not so
much water as has heretofore come into the
work. The shaft is sunk between two of the
lodges. and in formation which keeps the
water back. By the time the shaft is down
far enough to cut the ledge, the Company
will have its machine ready to run. The
Company has engaged its machinery at the
Rav, and will have it over here rs soon as the
work requires it. The engine will be OF suf
ticient power to do the hoisting, and drive
pump which will be obtained at the same
time Us the former.
REcRUITS.-The greatest number Of re-
cruitS ever sent away at one time since the
establishment of the Headquarters Of the
regiment in Virginia, was dispatched to the
Fort Yesterday morning. Sixteen men were
sent belonging rs follows: For company F,
Captain Seamonds, men; company G,
Captain Wallace, men; company b, Cap
tain ThurSton, . men company H, Captain
Kelly, , men; company y, Captain Close, l
man; company c, Captain Hasset, 3 men;
also ~ men on detached service were sent
down, in all. three wagon loads. The regi-
mental band played them farewell as they
LEFT. and they departed with the Stars and
Stripes waving from the leading wagon,
which was drawn by six splendid bay horses.
GUARDIAN CoMPANY.-This company is
sinking a shaft about ID rods north of where
the Jenny Lind Company is sinking on its
claim. The work is being done by contract.
The party who is doing the work took con-
tract to sink 80 feet, after the shaft was
started and carried down about or 10 feet.
The whole depth is now about so feet, and in
going ten more the contractor will have in-
iSlPU MS lOU. lC SA1ll 10 LOb llllOSltNi
but, as it has been sunk through hard rock
the sides stand well without. 1t is Of suth-
cient size to admit of being timbercd, and
then being four by six feet in size in the clear.
The claim on which this shaft is being sunk
is on good range, and will, we have no
doubt, prove to be a good one when it has be-
come developed.
ToNAwASDA.-ThiS company's new shaft
is now about one hundred feet deep. A drift
is now being run from the bottom Of it to
strike the ledge. 1t is only about week
since work on the drift was commenced, so
that it has not been carried far from the bot
tom of the shaft. This shaft has been sunk,
and this drift has been run through hard
rock all the way, which has caused the work
to drag along comparatively slow. Since the
work was commenced, only one shift OF
wcrkmen has been employed. We would
like 10 see the company get out of this hard
rock and strike the ledge without going much
further. We hope that when it does strike
it, it will "strike it rich
CENTRAL AMERICAN COMPANY. - This
company is now running drift southeast
from its shaft. 1t is now about 10 feet in
length, and running in the same hard ca.ca-
reous formation which the shaft and other
drift were constructed in. The first drift
which the company ran from its shaft, and Of
which we spoke some time ago, was carried
about seventy-fve feet from the shaft. The
ledge not being found in it the company very
reasonably supposed that it might have run
on the other side of the shaft, and accord
ingly drift was commenced to prospect for
it in that direction.
AFTER 1r.-The Belle Vernon Company
is at work running the drift from its shaft to
the ledge. The drift is now about eighty
feet in length, and the workmen think they
are not far from the ledge which was passed
through in sinking the shaft. 1t was thought
from the pitch Of the ledge where it was
fonnd in the shaft, that the drift would reach
it by being run about seventy-hve or eighty
feet, and the workmen now believe its course
cannot be so far changed as to carry it much
farther off than that, and that consequently
ii must be quite near the face of the drift.
We understand that Captain Wells has