Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-06-22
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One thing y. at last determined sats-
factorily to the owners Of the Comstock
lead, and the rest Of mankind who are in
terested in the premises. There actually
is defined, confessed, indisputable back
or west wall to the Comstock vein. IN
til within the past year the actual under
ground developments have not reached
this point of demonstration. Now, the
working shafts of the Gould & Curry,
Savage and Chollar & Potosi are situated
with reference to the dip of a certain dark
green hon-blende porphyry, which all
the Superintendent concur in stating is
the west wall. Heretofors--prior to last
Summer-it was necessary on large MIN
ing trials to have some expert witnesses to
swear, or in the language Of Bottom the
Weaver in AIidsummer's Night Dream"
"represent wall" And, at the beck Of
the right side questioning attorney, they
had TO "hold their fingers thEs to repre-
sent WALL" And they invariably had
"lime or rough cast about them to repre-
sent wall!" And through the Granny
of their fingers" the Pyramus and Thisbe
of the associated Comstock counsel would
lovingly whisper. Now, the personifica-
ton of the mine boundary, so far As one
(the west) wall is concerned, is not re-
quired. Here the operate chorus Of min
ing litigation comes in-" Lets all agree "
to the music of Lets all obey" This
limit to the great lode has been particu-
larly well developed in the Gould s Cur.
~, Savage. Hale s. Norcross, Chollar &
Potosi. and Bullion. In the latter mine it
is exposed BY the working for a distance
of over tive hundred feet. Though such
rock has not been struck in the Gold
Hill mines proper, the lack Of such de-
velopment is attributed by mining engi-
neers to deficiency in back workings. If
anything is ever discovered in Mount
Davidson behind this wall (west of is). we
are solemnly assured the generous Com
stockers will not molest the finders and
chalmers, nor make them afraid. This
partition has nearly uniform dip offorty-
five degrees to the east.
The east wall is not well defined, and Is
not, in fact, acknowledged as established.
But what is now permitted to 90 BY the
name Of wall on the east Is body Of
clay lined porphyry, that at first from
the surface, dips to the west, and then
after fifty or sixty feet pitch in this direc-
tion-turns and dips to the east almost
parallel with the Fixed west wall. The
dip of the so-called east wall, near the
surface, has given rise to many conflicts
of testimony, all of which were duly
reconciled, without suspicion of perjury,
when the fact Of reversed pitch Of the
lower levels was made known. But let
no ineautious prospector locate to the east,
thinking what he may find shall be his
own. The Comstock experts (whether
under instructions or not, who shall say ,
refuse to be drawn into the direct, unqual-
fed statement that an east wall has been
found. A good, healthy lead, struck near
the County Hospital, would, we verify
believe, stand its strikers in undisputed
possession. as against the Comstockers,
but q very short time. The boundary to-
wards the rising sun is more uncertain in
the minds of some professional mine map
makers than an ordinary white man. The
chance forappropriating other folks labors
in that direction remains open to the NAM
moth companies advantage.
Our communities may well be congrat-
ulated on any and every ascertained, fixed
fact in regard to the staple property of
this region. Each determined point makes
toward the establishment of unRuctuating
values. In FIVE years from now we pre-
sumo it will be impossible to shear" the
Gould s Curry, and Savage, and associ-
ated mining companies stock. Popular
information s7to Developments will be SO
considerable and accurate, that depression
or imitation viii be narrowed within very
limited space. A west wall will be raised
up against the bears, and at least an east
wall of sufficient de6niseness viii caution
the honest purchaser against undue ex-
pectations and consequent or precedent
trust in enhancing reports. We repeat:
we congratulate the folks ON the west wall
discovery; though, between you and us,
dear reader, we express the legal opinion
that if "Comstock I" is found in the
rear, the wall will be jumped, and hinder
lode may be Jumped" also. We shall
see. At present we all remain in COM
Portable, If not altogether unSuspicious,