Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-08-04
THE EVENING NEWS.

The Crown PoISr RAvTNE Co., is down
one hundred feet with its shaft, and has
just completed timbering It, to the bottom,
The work has been driven along quite
rapidly since it was commenced, and has
also been done in g very workmanlike and
substantial manner. Theishafr is COM
posed Of two compartments, each four
and half by five feet in size in the clear.
The tlmbers which are used are four IN
ches in thickness, and one foot in width.
They are full Us large, and as heavy, as
those put in any of our mines, excepting
two or three. AZ present there is no wa
ter in the shaft, and the ground IS hrm
and solid, but the company expects TO
come into wet and soft ground before the
shaft has been carried down another hun
dred feet. In about two or three weeks,
or as soon as it has come down to the
tunnel which is about % feet below the
present bottom of the shaft, it will come
into ground which is somewhat wet but
which does not contain enough water to
seriously inconvenience the workmen in
sinking. Greater care IS required IN put
ting in the timberS where the ground is
soft, and the shaft has TO be kept timber
ed closer down.
ErRExA.-This company is drifting
northward along its ledge. \ drift has
been run from the shaft TO the westward
about 10 feet. at which point it struck the
ledge. Some very fine looking quartz was
taken out there, and drift was common
al. Tho lplrrn The lr,Tf .
the one now being run along the drift to
the north. We understand that no rock
hiss been worked by mill process, which
has been taken out of this claim, though
tons, and tons of it, have been taken out
and now lies scattered around on the
dump. Tests of the rock have probably
been made which showed that it was not
of sufficient richness to pay for working.
1t looks rich enough, as it lies there on the
top OF the dump, BY the shaft. The drift
IS being run in the ledge so that quartz is
being taken out all the time. The drift is
about 24O-feet below the top of the shaft.
The developments made BY it are such Us
show the ledge not to be of sufficient rich
ness at that depth to pay. The company
will have to go deeper to get pay rock,
and from the prospects found at this level.
we are led to believe that it will De reached
at the depth of hundred feet more.
The YoLo COMPANY is sinking its shaft
below the level of its tunnel. The shaft
is now about 260 feet deep in all, and of
this depth. about 81 feet is below the tun-
mel. The hosting is all done by wind
lass at the top of the shaft, but the dirt
and rock which is excavated out in sink
ing down is raised only 81 feet and there
swung off into q chamber connecting the
tunnel with the shaft, where it is dumped
into car, and run out through the for
mer work. The work of sinking IS much
less laborious than it would be if the rock
had all TO be hoiSted to the top of the
shaft. There is some water in the shaft
but not so much as there has been for
some time past. The rock is also softer,
and better to work out than has been had
for two or three weeks past, and the pros
pect now is that the work can be carried
along more rapidly than could be done
for some time, heretofore. Mr.. Long still
has charge of the mine, and takes as much
pride as ever in having the work well
done, and is as watchful as ever to see
that II is so done.
WILL HAVE A WHIM.-The Jewett COM
pany has let contract to grade place
around the top of its shaft to erect whim.
Work on the contract has already been
commenced. The shaft is now down about
$50 feet and the pull at windlass to hoist
a bucket of dirt to the top is becoming al
together to long. The shaft is situated on
q side hill which is pretty steep, and it will
take good deal of work, and consider
able time 10 excavate spot sufficiently
large for a whim, and all its appurtenan-
ces. 1t will be done as soon as possible,
and while the grading is being carried for
ward, the within will be framed and made
ready to erect as soon as the lot is ready.
Bully for the Jewett. We hope when its
within is up, it will strike ledge which
will be rich enough to pay for steam hoist
ing workS,before the close Of the year.
The Fair Play Company is busily work
ing in its shaft, sinking it down. 1t has
already attained the depth of forty feet,
and has been sunk nearly half that dis
lance through hard rock. The company
has a good shaft, and expects shortly to
strike into o good ledge. We hope 1t
will. Every claim that is now working
has good prospects. Wildcats are de-
funct. People will not now spend money
on claim unless there is a prospect of
getting return, and that very speedily.
The company that owns and works this
claim regards it in just this Light, and
knowing that the ledge is there, and that
labor is necessary to open 1t, and feeling
confident of rich reward when 1t Is
opened, it is determined to do it as early
as possible.
JACKSON Co.-This company keeps at
work as steadily as clock work. 1t has
completed the road it was building from
the Ophir Grade to its shaft, and has now
convenient means of bringing up lumber,
or timber, or of hauling away quartz when
necessity requires. The company must
now be close on the ledge, which it IS
drifting for, which crops out above the
shaft. The shaft is between 200 and 800
feet deep where the drift runs from it, and
as the drift runs into the hill, and has
been run quite long distance. and will
have. to go further to strike the ledge, the
latter will be opened at least 800 feet deep
and perhaps much deeper, at which depth
pay rock is confidently expected to be
found.
BRANCH MINT Co.-This company has
suspended operations on its claim for the
present. Its shaft is some 22O feet deep,
and from it drift has been run to the
ledge, and several ton of rock has been
taken out which was crushed, but did not
yield sufficiently well to authorize the
working of greater quantity. Since the
trial of the rock has been made, the COM
pany has run drifts along the ledge and
thoroughly prospected it. No pay rock
has, however, been found at that level,
and the developments show that the ledge