Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-03-06
THE EVENING NEWS.


moments produced considerable alarm
The cave commenced on the north, nea,
the line of the Imperial mine, and extend
ed south as far as the Challenge mine, thu
top earth settling and filling the uppel
levels of the Imperial, Empire and Eclipse
mines. The cave occurred at about half,
past ! o'clock A. NJ, and of course pro-
duced for time considerable excitement.
Yesterday afternoon we visited the scene,
and found on the top that the earth had
settled for long way back upon the hill,
and TO the American Flat grade, the ground
being assured in many places, and to the
width of from an inch TO three or four
feet. The ground beneath the Empire and
Eclipse hosting works was so broken as
to throw the engines out of place, and to
render them unfit for service until made
level again. The hosting works of the
Imperial company are apparently unin-
jured. the shaft being plumb, and the
timbers IN the lower working level as firm
as before the ground settled. The FIRST
level, from whence immense quantities of
ore have been excavated, is entirely filled
up-the timbers being crushed like egg
shells. The shaft of the Eclipse company
and Empire company is somewhat warp
ed, and the upper working levels, long
since deserted, are filed in, and the whole
web-work of tiu.bers crushed. So great
was the conclusion of the atmosphere
when the vast body of earth settled, as it
did in one grand crash, that stones were
forced up the Imperial shaft distance of
over three hundred feet, striking the roof
of the building over the shaft with vio-
lence, and filing the room with clouds of
dust. \ car standing in the drift. at the
first level. was thrown end for end
for q distance of forty feet, and pile of
timber and lodging, also in that drift, was
hurled to the shaft, and falling on the
cage, which was coming up, clogged the
shaft and stopped its ascent. The men IN
the lower level were of course terribly
frightened, and came from the Empire and
Eclipse mines TO the shaft of the Imperial
mine and there hoisted out. Five men in
the Empire mine, unable to get through,
passed down through the Challenge, Con-
tdence, Michigan and Burke & Hamilton,
TO the Yellow Jacket mine, and were there
hoisted out. No workman was at all in
jured-which, may be regarded as piece
of providential fortune. We conversed
with a number of the prominent Superin-
tendents Of mines in Gold Hill upon the
subject of the cave, and all agree in de-
claring that the cave is of a permanent
benefit, that it has long been expected.
and. although it will entail some expense
to put the machinery of the Empire and
Eclipse mines in working order, yet the
advantages derived from filling up the old
levels will more than compensate for that
expense. The other mines in the vicinity
were not al all affected BY the cave, and
in fact a settling of the ground south of
the Eclipse is almost an impossibllity. 1t
has been almost a certainty that the
ground in these old mines must settle
sooner or later, and now the surprise is
over and no damage done to any extent,
either to life or property. The owners
and employees feel easier, and Gold Hill
will again be worked in the lower levels,
and with certainty of success in unearth-
ing large quantities of ore.
FIREMES's ELECTION, VIReINIA.-The
election took place Saturday, and resulted
in the selection of Riff Williams for Chief,
Mike Mccarthy for First Assistant, and
Richard Paddock for Second Assistant.
Three better men could not have been Sc
lected than the fortunate ones chosen.
and we congratulate the hremen of Viz
GINA upon their choice. Some of the
defeated candidates may feel little sensi-
tive for awhile, but will, under the prompt
and efficient guidance of the bully Chief
and his able coafrees, soon get the scalp
healed of all election sores.
MORE COOP NEws.-Last evening we
learned that a new discovery Of series of
rich lodges had been made about fifteen
miles northwest of the recently dis
covered Truckee River District, on the
Humboldt road. 1t is alleged that these
new discoveries embrace several lodges of
enormous width and richness - assays
from the surface being marvellously large.
Well, let it come, we can be cheerful un-
der the accumulated press of a few tons
OF mineral.
THAT great, big, beautifully carved,
American eagle, the work of Tod Earle,
will be ratified Saturday evening at George
Lewis saloon, Virginia. Nearly all the
tickets have been sold, and the balance
will be disposed of Saturday evening.
This piece of carving is one of the finest
we have ever seen, and the holder of the
fortunate ticket will have a beautiful or
nament for court, cottage or cabin"
SILVER BARs.-This sanitary panacea
is good to have or gaze upon. Yesterday
Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped by the Pho
neer stages over fifty thousand dollars
worth of the article, and to-day we saw at
their office in Virginia, sixteen huge, gilt
tering bars, worth thirty thousand dollars.
Truly, the mines are giving out " ore.
NEAT DRAw1HG.-We were shown this
morning, a most artistically drawn and
colored plot OF the Walker River Indian
Reservation, executed by Mr.. R. II.
Stretch. of the firm Of James 8 Stretch Of
Virginia. As a specimen Of that style OF
art, it could hardly be surpassed.
YESTERDAY a man named ]. G. Slocum
got too much distilled corn in his unhap-
DIV stomach, and drove four horse team
off bank, on the Geiger grade, smashing
the wagon to atoms, and killing one of the
horses, but unfortunately the drunken
driver escaped.
PLEAsANr.-Yesterday and to-day have
been very pleasant, and the balmy air Is
laden with the perfume of Spring The
snow is rapidly melting from the streets
and hillsides, and in a short time we trust
that our travelling will be more Of earth
and less of thickened water and mud.
FROZEN. - Yesterday, man named
johnson came in from the new Truckee