Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-11-27
NYE q SPECIMENS.

Thomas Gray, Of Nye county, brought
to our office this morning a large number
of specimens" very wonderful in char
acter, very diverse in quality. A quin-
tagonal shaped rock-about a foot and a
half in diamater through, on its plane sur
face-has a beautiful impress and fossil
bed of leaves and branches. The color Of
the Original" is retained on the stone
plate, with vivid exactness and freshness.
It is a specimen" that would make
Agassiz crazy-to take a trip this way.
A smaller specimen. of the same singular
style, is also exhibited by Mr.. Gray.
These were found three hundred feet be-
meath the surface, in Union District, Nye
county, about two miles and a half south
of lone. 1t was taken out Of the "knick-
erbocker" tunnel. A very neat specimen
is shown as an average from the Stone
wall" mine and ledge, in the town Of
lone. A specimen from the (" Pleaides,"
in lone, assays for itself $1,000 to the ton;
the ledge of three feet in width, averaging
$500 to the ton. This specimen very
heavy with galena. A specimen from
Mammoth District, twelve miles west Of
lone City, of Tougue-state-of- Manganese,
is very fine. This is a luminous character
of mineral not worked in this county,
but will be very valuable when we have
the railroad. A specimen from the
"Silver Age"-owned by the Atlantic
and Pacific Company, about seven miles
south of Ione-assays 81 20 to the ton, as
struck at the depth of fifty feet. The ledge
capriciously varies from five to nine feet
in width. It is beautiful specimen Of
yellow chloride Of silver. A specimen OF
magnetic iron ore is from Grants mine,
Union District, about nine miles south of
lone. This is from a mine originally
started on excellent copper indications
pe.ering out (not a bad peter y into
iron, at the depth Of about twenty feet.
A specimen from the Clipper ledge, in
lone, looks magnif. Not assayed. Rich
with the yellow chloride. 4 honey comb
specimen from the Utica, in lone, is ex-
hibited. Nets, in working, $500. From
the Fletcher" lone City, two feet wide, a
$500 average specimen is shown. A
"Nonpareil" specimen; ledge in lone; foot
and a half width of ledge; $3.50 assay,
with ascertained average of 800. Owned
by Mr.. Gray s. Co. A specimen from the
Franklin ledge, in lone, taken out at 80
feet depth will assay $4,000; ledge four
feet wide, and will average $500. A
specimen from the Mountain Brow !; /"
which is two feet wide; is in lone /; worth
Sl75 a ton at the dump, and sold readily
at that. From the Hobart ledge, in lone,
an $500 assay specimen is shown ; ledge
foot and a half 10 two feet and a half
wide; average $3.50 in working. Andes"
specimen /; from Twin River, twenty miles
east of lone, on the eastern slope of ths
Toyabe Range Of mountains good look
ing rock, but u~nassayed; rs feet wide.
In Twin River, the Garfield Company
(Murphy ledge) are preparing to put up a
10 stamp MILL Have a road graded up
the canon. about W. miles and q half to
their mine. They have a shaft down 80
feet, where they strike $1,000 rock. The
Murphy ledge is seventeen feet wide. This
is owned by Eastern capitalists. Spaci-
mems from Crown ledge, lone, assay 5000,
three feet wide. An amonite, found in
Volcano District, 40 miles southwest from
lone; very Curious specimen Of petrifed
shell. There has been al excellent coal
deposit found at Volcano. Used alto
gether there by the blacksmiths. A number
of agate specimens, gathered in lone and
vicinity, were also shown us by Mr.. Gray.
A specimen Of petrifed wood, from Vol
cano, is an interesting article for a cabi-
net; establishing as it does the existence
of giant-treed forests in those parts, one Of
those days gone by.
From the evidences now before US, the
specimens on our table, accompanied by
the information given by Mr.. Gray, our
ideas of the richness of Nye county dis
.ricts have been much elevated. Mr..
Gray is confident ian ancient miner, he,)
that Nye county is the mineral county Of
the State ; with the richest Of gold and
silver mines, and all sorts of minerals Of
lesser value thrown in by dame Nature as
triaes of base surroundings and associates.
Eastern capital is rushing in to Nye, live
ly; building many mills /; extending ca
pacity Of those already built "times"
there in general good; people confident,
sanguine, almost enthusiastic over pros
poets.