Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-11
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we have just oeen handed an q
rately prepared pamphlet of twenty-five
pages, entitled Observations and Expe-
riences among the Mineral Regions of Ne
vada, by John Penn Curry, c. E." and an
accompanying diagram, which is entitled,
Diagram of the Virginia and Gold Hill
Silver Mines of Nevada" They were
handed to us by a gentleman who has re-
Gently received them from his brother in
Boston, where he says they are creating
great excitement, and where a "Mr. N.
King Lamson, from Gold HILL" who is
circulating them, and offering for sale
some of the wildcat claims they describe,
is reaping a rich harvest. One look at the
diagram is sufficient to convince any man
who knows any thing at all of the topo-
graphy of Gold Hill and Virginia Dis
tricts, that it is q "billik." The diagram
lays out to the wondering eyes of credu-
lous Eastern capitalists the "Comstock
lode east" and the "Comstock lode west"
knocking the one ledge theory high and
dry. On the west lode" is laid down,
first, on the north, the Burning Moscow 4;
next, south, the Moss; then the Ell Do
RADIO, S~inaloa, Birdsall, and so on, until at
the south end Of the lode, as per diagram,
is the Crown Point, Belcher, Southern
Gold Hill, and Clinton & Co. The east
lode, according to the diagram, is located,
first, on the north by the Jacob Little
Company. Then comes the Ophir, Mexi-
can, Gould s Curry, and most of the
principal Virginia claims. The claims on
the south, on this east lode, are the Apple,
the Paris, New York, Polhemus, and Ne
vada, ]. G. The lodes are represented as
lying parallel. On the eastern one, is the
Bullion, m the west; opposite to it, the
Apple s. Bates, and the Imperial. On the
west lode are the principal claims of Gold
Hill proper. Opposite, on the east, are
the Empire No. 2, Plato No. 2, Addison
and Belmont. The Yellow Jacket is no.
where. The gentleman tells us that his
brother informs him that Mr.. Lampson has
sold the Southern Gold Hill mine for the
sum of 1927, 900 that he is now negotiat-
ing for the sale of u one-third interest of
Empire No. ?, for 100000. All the
claims he puts upon the market he says,
pay dividends! The Boston man wants
his brother to let him know Immediately
what he thinks of the Empire No. 2, as a
company of capitalists are buying it, and
want him TO take some shares. Our in
formant the day before yesterday tele-
graghed to his brother not to buy, that it
was q swindle. Ye schemer has played it
sharp. In the diagram he has represented
his worthless wildcat claims as lying on
the same ledge and contiguous to the best
silver mines in the State by which means
he befogs the Eastern men who know that
such and such mines are good, but do not
know that mines represented as being on
the same lead and contiguous have no
location there and are ,corthksss. All this
barefaced thiefs mines pay diridends
But where does the money come from
Of course the Eastern capitalist, when he
pays over his $4,000 and receives his
worthless Southern Gold Hill" or EN-
pire No. ." stock and dividends, don't
stop to ask that question. He leaves that
until the next quarterly dividend is over
due. In the pamphlet the same plan has
been followed as in the diagram. The
writer descants eloquently upon the extra
ordinary wealth and enormous yield Of
such mines as the Bowers, Empire and
Plato, and then goes on to tell of the
fabulous wealth Of Empire No. ?, which is
offered for sale. On page eighth we read 4:
THE dividend declared on the Plato mine
alone, in Gold Hill, has been Sl,335 per
foot in a claim of only ten feet, or, in
other words, $lS,35O in gold for a single
months work" On the same page says {:
1.-THE Bowers claim of twenty feet was
leased in 1868 for $4,000 per month.
The lessee, ex Ex-Governor Nicely Johnson,
of California, succeeded in twelve months
in reaping a rich harvest" (Bully for
Nicely y
"Oh won't you lend me your mule
lSays Nicely to Sandy,l
"Oh won't You lend me your mulei'
tSays Nelly to Sandy,l
of course, will. says Sandy"
(The "rich harvest" gave rise to a poem,
BY Walter Bray.)
The Empire NJ. and NJ. Co.." it
farther says, yielded from December l,
1868, to December l, 1864, the sum Of
l,O43, 72O." All right. Perhaps some
Boston men owned in the Empire; un-
doubleday some one there knew these
mines to be rich. But after going on and
speaking of these claims we are informed
that
I'm others, such as Plato No. 2, En-
pire No. 2, and Addison mines, situate in
the Gold Hill District, on the Comstock
lode, what is now being done in working
them is mere prospecting, when compared
to what in a few years will bs their enorm-
Gus Yields. Their location it will be
found on investigation, is the most argenti-
ferrous and favorable part of this ledge
upon which the Gould s Curry, Ophir,
Savage, Chollar, Mexican and Bullion
companies connect with them on the
NORTH"
Now, how are those men who know
the mines described as SO productive, to
discriminate between them and the worth
less wildcats which they are assured in
almost the same breath are equally rich,
and which are displayed on a map which
they are assured is correct, in close prox-
;m;,v IN those rich claimSa They cannot: