Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-13
THE EVENING NEWS.

Hill proper, and upon the future success:
of which all the mines from the Alpha tc
the Consolidate are in great manner de.
pendent. The company Is composed o.
the owners in Gold Hill, who have COM
bined not only to make a common drain
age for all their mines, but to retain and
sell the vast body of water which it is ex-
pected will be raised daily. In order to
make the work substantial, the old tim
bers in the shaft of the Imperial company
have been torn out and new and large
ones put IN their place for distance OF
200 feet in the shaft. These new tlmoers
are eight by twelve inches in size, and Will
prove of substantial service. After the
repairing of the shaft drifts were run and
strongly timbered for the reception of
pump bobs;' two reservoirs, built of
1000 gallons capacity each, one at depth
of two handred, and the other at the
depth of four hundred feet in the shaft,
Huge t:mbers, twenty-one inches in dame
ter, have been Melted across the shaft for
II foundation of pump No. 2, and at the
lower depth massive frame has been con-
Structed for the disposal of pump No. l.
The design for hosting the water is this:
Three pumps will be used. the lower one
ofwhich will be 4 sinking" pump, which
will be securely bolted to the frame before
mentioned, and as the work of deepening
the shaft progresses, will be continually
lowered. This pump will raise water into
reservoir No. l, distance of 80 feet, from
whence it will be taken by lift-pump No.
and raised 200 feet to reservoir No. 2.
where it will be discharged and taken
again by plunge pump No. 3. (Which con-
meets directly with the engine at the
mouth of the shaft,) and forced distance
of two hundred and fifty feet to above
the building, where it will be received into
a huge reservoir capable of containing
$4,000 gallons of water, and which
has been built in a secure and substantial
manner. From this tank the water will
be distributed through pipes and viaducts
10 the several mills in the canon below.
These pumps are of huge proportions,
being each of lO-inch cylinders and II
feet stroke, lifting forty-eight gallons at
each stroke, and capable of making twelve
strokes per minute, or III twenty-four
hours raising the enormous amount Of
S29,440 gallons of water from the lower
level of the Gold Hill mines. These cyl
inders are three IN number, each weighing
5000 pounds. The pipes of the lift and
sinking pump are each one foot in diane
ter, while that of the force or plunging
pump is ten inches. The main beam OF
the plunging pump is constructed OF solid
lO-inch timber, firmly fastened together.
and running through guides ten feet apart,
thus maintaining a steady motion TO the
beam. From the plunge pump strong
cross-piece projects each side OF the cylln-
der, from which the beams of the lift
pump and settling pump do their work,
the beams of the two lower pumps being
of seven and one-half inch timbers, also
firmly bolted, and running through
guides. The motive power necessary to
drive these immense pumps consists OF
monster low-pressure, direct-action, Cor
Gss engine, 500 horse power, and thirty
four inch cylinder - the cylinder and
piston (which is four and one-half inches
in diameter) weighing ten thousand four
hundred pounds. The boilers are twenty
four feet in length, five feet in diameter,
and contain one hundred and ninety tubes.
The whole machinery is already on the
ground and will shortly be erected. In
order to get direct action and the re-
uuired strength, the huge cylinder will be
Sc, on a massive bed-piece, weighing
nearly four tons, and in a verti-
cal position, directly over the
mouth of the shaft, the cylinder taking
steam from the lower portion only, and
exhausting the weight of the water in the
left pump, and in the thirty foot sinking
pump, and of the piston and pipes IS so
great, that it causes the piston TO fal into
position and forces the water through the
plunge-pump into the receiving reservoir
on the surface. In the words of the old
saw, killing two birds with one stone"
The shaft IS row down distance of $50
feet, at which point the water came in 50
rapidly, that it was found impossible to
continue the work until the pumps should
get in position, when it is proposed TO at
once. TO sink sixty feet further, the depth
of the Alpha shaft" and to continue
sinking as fast as the mines on the ledge
work down. As the shaft is sunk, the
sinking pump slides down the prepared
grooves, and joint after joint is added to
the main pipe. The pumps will exhaust
water a further depth of three hundred
feet, or a total depth of seven hundred and
fifty feet. When, if it be desirable to sink
lower, another reservoir can be constructed
at that point, another pump placed IN
position. and so on G9 infnltnm. The
erection of this machinery is under the
supervision of Mr.. B. D. Cutter,
thorough machinist, practical engineer,
and man who evidently understands the
difficult nature of the vast enterprise in
trusted to his care, and to whom we are
indebted for a detailed account Of the
work. Mr.. Cutter assures us that the
work will be completed by the first OF
March, twelve men being employed, and
the work is being pressed night and day.
Of the successful termination of this gigan-
tic enterprise, We have neither doubts OF
fears, and of the vast benefits that will
accrue to the mines of Gold Hill proper,
by this drainage. no computation can be
made.
SINKING FOR OIL.-Recent indications
have induced certain shrewd capitalists of
Virginia to commence sinking a shaft on
y street, Just south of Taylor. feeling very
confident of striking coal oil in the i'm
mediate vicinity. A windlass is being
used at present for hosting, but if pay
ing lead is struck, we believe Mr.. Jones,
the chief in the enterprise, will substitute
other apparatus for raising the oil to the
surface. All Storey needs now to be
promising is soap and baby mine.
REcoRDER's COURT, VIRe1NIA.-The
following business was transacted before
Judge Davenport, to-day: F. Thomas,
arrested by officers Hearn and Soule. on
complaint and warrant, forfeited his bail
of SOS John Doe, arrested by officers