Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-29
EVENING NEWS.
FULrov Personal---very. MACHINERY.

FULTON FOUSOhn-NEW MAChlSERf
Yesterday, while stumbling around in
pursuit of something new. we went into
Fulton Foundry, on the Divide. between
Gold Hill and Virginia. and now propose
to tell of some things that we saw already
built, and of others in progress of con-
struction. We have often passed the un-
ostentatious looking place, but until our
visit, never for q moment conceived the
vast industrial home mechanism that will
at no very distant day make Nevada's
artisans a brilliant ornamen in the front
rank of ingenuity. The building is'll2
by 90 feet in size, the front portion thereof
being used for q casting room, office, etc.,
ETC., while in the rear is a machine shop
in which are four lathes for turning iron,
the longest having a swing of twenty-six
feet, and the whole number capable of do
ing any required work. In this room we
found a new machine for shaping"
which does away with much vice work
and is q very great improvement on the
slower and usual method. Here, also. we
saw the immense tiange lathe, having a
swing o ftwenty feet, and capable of turn
ing the largest reels or driving-wheels. Il
was making ponderous revolutions at the
time of our visit, and moved with the
incest accuracy. A new styled palmer
attracted our attention by its ingenious
construction /; it works eight feet in
length by two and one.half feet each wide
and deep. In this room was various other
machinery. which we have no time to par
ticularize relative thereto, but which is
well adapted to its required use. The
whole machinery is driven BY a fine 90
horse power engine, which also drives a
fan for the furnace which has a capacity
of about eight tons TO a blast. In the
upper portion Of the building we find a
commodious pattern-shop, 50 by 80 feet
in size. and literally crowded with every
variety Of patterns peculiar to mill or
mining machinery. the entire lot being
carefully piled away for future use, should
occasion require. In this room. among
other things, we noticed a pattern for d
large engine Of eighteen inch cylinder and
three feet stroke. The entire work at
foundry is under the personal superin.
,endente Of the proprietor Mr.. Thomas
Jones. assisted by his business man. Mr..
A. W. White-to both OF whom we are
indebted for all desired information. After
inspecting the entire establishment, we
examined some new machinery for the
use of some Of our first mines and mills.
A set, Of huge reels for the Alpha CON-
pany, Of a friction pattern, weighing seven
thousand pounds each, were receiving the
finishing work as they are to be put in
position next week, and from their mas
.sive build and general handsome finish
will we judge be a great improvement on
the present wooden Hanged reels that are
Of inadequate size 10 do the work that in
= short time will doubtless be required.
Here we find an eight inch force pump
Just completed for the Belcher company.
This pump has a six foot stroke OF piston,
and is peculiar BY having q new style OF
guides, round and attached to boxes on
each SIDE for working the under pump
both so arranged rs to If, and force in a
center line, and thus avoid all the usual
w~ren,ching 10 which shaft machinery Is
usually subjected. The pump will be put
in place next week, as the company open
up their four new levels in the shaft which
is now being sunk, considerable water be-
ing encountered. Our Assayer, Mr.. Con-
rad Wiesand is having built ar enormous
safe, capable Of holding many bars OF bull
lion, and 10 be secured with cunning locks,
fire and burglar proof. This safe will be
seven feet in hight, six feet in width and
four teet deep. 4 huge treasure box tina,
we hope may be nightly filled with gold
and silver, the component parts OF which
are now nesting many hundred feet IN
the affections Of our parent earth. 4 Pc
culiarly constructed roasting furnace for
the reduction of ores is being built for the
Manhattan Gold s Silver mining COM
pany, at Austin, Lander Co.. under order
from John E. Boyd. next attracted our
attention. This furnace is built somewhat
after the style Of the n now in use at the
Central Mill in Virginia, Il Il sixteen feet
in length and seven feet in diameter, and
driven by a friction wheel rivi,ed TO the
outside thereof. aided by small friction
wheels beneath the same, which contn-
ually r~evolves the furnace in attached
guides, at each revolution a fresh supply
Of ore is being received which Is constant
" dropping through a flame OF lire, and
thereby becomes most thoroughly baked
and ready for amalgamation, the base
metals being almost entirely consumed by
the tiery test. The furnace is built OF
boiler iron lined with fre-brick and is a
fine piece of work. Around the entire
establishment lay piles of shoes, stamps,
cams, pan. bottoms, agitators, and in fact
almost every kind Of casting that is now
in daily use in the reduction of gold and
silver ore, and we feel justly proud OF
this, one of the home institutions Of five
year old Nevada that is capable Of doing
the giant work OF a full.grown and older
. State. Such an example OF perseverance
and indomitable energy will not go unre-
warded, and We look 10 see the Fulton
Foundry of much larger capacity ere
many months.
CRYSTAL PEAK Coal Cove learn
from R. D. Ferguson, that this company
started their auger about half a mile from
the hill where the coal lately received here
was taken out, and that the stratum was
struck about fifty feet beneath the sur
face, and found. on passing through II, TO
be twelve feet wide. This proves the
strata of coal to run very aa;, the pitch
being slight 10 deviate but forty feet IN a
half. mile. Still, the result is very salts
factory, and proves ,ha, the coal is not a
single deposit, as has been asserted heie-
,ofore, bu, continues in 8 solid mass, at
least the distance stated. The coal is
represented ! be as hne in quality as the
ybes, Lehiyh. and burns without the dis
agreeable resirous odor which was so an
moving in the first coal struck. The
company, after boring through the stratum
OF coal, struck hard iron rock, in which
the auger makes but little progress. lhey
intend, however. TO press, on with the
work and see what exists beneath. They
also intend to start q couple more oorers'
in different localities, and will endeavor
10 show the extent and value OF their coal