Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-27
THE EVENING NEWS.


the New Oregon mine yesterday situated
in American Flat. The claim was located
in 1860, but in the ensuing year the lnde-
pendence Company and the New Oregon
Company consolidated under the name Oh
the latter, with a gross location OF tour-
tssn hundred feet on the ledge. Five tun-
npIs had been driven into the hill. one
6;s,ance of FIVE hundred feet and the
otbar seven hundred feet. but after the
co,solidation a new tunnel was COM
mepceG. and driven over twelve hundred
feet. in It's course cutting three quartz
ledseS of an aggregate width OF eighty
feet hut very much broken in character.
At that time the prospects of the Com
pany were so favorable that il was deter
mined TO sink shaft on the ledge and
erect substantial hosting works for the
more full development. Accordingly a
fine building. eighty bv forty feet in size
was erected in Il most substantial style,
containing engine and boiler department,
and carpenter and blacksmith shops. A
fine new +0-horSe power engine, with a
boiler sixteen feet in length and ffty-two
in place, and the shaft OF three compart-
mepts, each four by four feet in the clear,
was commenced and sunk to the depth Of
two hundred and seventy mine feet, cut
ting the old tunnel. Here drift was run
10 the east and ledge, broken in forma-
ton but containing much fine ore, was
cut; the shaft was then sunk 10 a depth
Of three hundred and forty feet, and
large body of water struck, which tor
time seriously retarded operations. Then
followed the financial and mining crash CT
last year. and the Company resolved to
discontinue work until more prosperous
times should come. and the works have
been inactive until last Monday, when the
engine again commenced revolutions, and
the work Of prospecting has now COM
menced with a discrimination. The water
has been gradually drained. and the drift
at the cut from the bottom OF the shaft
is again in progressive operation. IeSter-
day the west wall of the ledge was cut,
and some very fine looking rock taken
out. The drift will be pushed through
the ledge, and every indication points 10
a large mass Of productive silver bearing
ore. The water is not at all troublesome,
and there seems to be no hindrance to the
further prospecting Of the claim. which, If
It meets the expectations of owners and
experienced miners, will az once place
American Flat mines at par in the market.
We were courteouSly received by the
Foreman, I. 3. Orvis, and are indebted
for much information uuat;ainable except
through him. We shall repeat our visit
at an early day and report progress.
A NEW TIMBER FRAMER.-AS mining
in Nevada progresses, and the peculiar
wants pertaining thereto are developed, 20
invention comes to the rescue, and i'm
prcvemens Of vast importance are daily
being made. NesSrs. Denver Hoch- |
holzer have recently invented and built |
machine, to be run by steam power, which |
will prepare all kinds of timberS for mining |
purposes at less than one-SiSth the present
cost, and with perfect accuracy. The ma
chine has been built at Mead u McCoue's !
Foundry, at Johnrown. and will be put |
at work at the Savage mine next week. |
The following is description. from spe-
ci6cations and plans: \ sliding-table, |
bearing the timber designed 10 De framed, |
run upon a wooden frame having ways
in grooves beneath. and 50 regulated as TO
be forced to the front by a hand-wheel,
pinion and rack. The timbers used being
hewed. but not square nor Of uniform
thickness, are first properly conferred and
marked with a line Of chalk, and then
placed on the frame in a circular iron
band, and 50 adjusted with set-screwS
that the chalk lines on the timber shall
correspond with the lines marked at right
angles and through the center of the cir
cular iron band which revolves in the
After due adjustment Of the timber, the
band is fastened to the standard with an
iron pin, and the timber forced forward
against the cutters, the timber passing
over the same. These cutters are made
like ordinary planning knives, and have an
addition Of a small circular saw for cut
ting the square shoulder on the timber.
The bevel cutters are without the saw,
and are placed az the end Of rapidly re-
volying shaft, so adjusted in brackets as
10 be raised or lowered so as to cut any
sized tenent. The iron bands holding
the timber revolve one-quarter revolution
at a time, at an angle Of ninety degrees, |
without any displacement Of the timber, |
thus cutting the same at an equal bevel |
on all four sides; again. after cutting the |
tenent, the timber is moved forward
against two circular saws that square the
ends of the same, and the work is COM
pleted-no subsequent dressing being re-
uuired as in other inventions of the same
character. The machine will be in opera
ton at the Savage mine next week, when
all can see its working. A patent has
been applied for by the inventors.
SAFETY CAGE FOR SHAFTs.-We have
to-day seen the plan of patent cage, IN
vented By Mr.. Henry Berry. but Of such
evident utility that we think full de-
scriprion will be interesting. One Of
these cages in use may be seen at the Saw
age mine, and we saw experiments that
prove beyond doubt that i, possesses all
the qualifications claimed by the inventor.
For instance, car was placed on the
cage and loaded with ton Of ore, low
cred to the third station, a distance OF
two hundred and Seyenty-hve feet from
the surface, when the safe was cut, the |!
cage and car being free to drop three hun
dred feet under ordinary method-but, |
presto, the safety bars acted TO charm, !
and the cage, with its monster load, was /.
securely held in the shaft. Again the
cage was drawn TO the top of the shaft,
the rope slackened several feet, the brake
underneath Withdrawn. and 10 it dropped |
but two inches. and was securely held in
the Aanses of the shaft. The manner in
which this life insurance benefactor works
is quite simple. and as follows: In case
of a breakage OF the rope. the cage is so
constructed that two gutts-percha springs
throw two steel prongs, stoutly built, into
the wooden Aanges in which the cage
runs, and the weight of the cage car and
load. acting as weight on the two arms
ar once drives them so securely in the
Welding wood tina, any further descent is