Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-05-11
ruo uoURS IN THE YELLo"
Nv" JACKET MINE.

JACRET NINE
Rv invitation of Mr.. Manseau' one Oh
rhe "solid men " Of the Yellow jack
we Yesterday afternoon paid VISIT 10 '"'s
immense mine. in this town. 1t was our
frs, visit. and, although our descriptive
powers are not particularly smooth nor
abundant-especially in cropping through
the dark recesses of the earth-yet We can
no, le, this opportunity pass without
giving 10 the readers Of the NEWS or'ef
ske,ch Of what will be the greatest mine
in all Gold Hill. We believe, after an
examination Of this immense mine, that il
the gentlemen who are " bulling and bear
irg" the market value of the Yellow
Jacket so industriously IN the San Fran
cisco Stock Board, would just come up to
Gold Hill and for one day explore, and
examine into, the vastness, and we may
safely say, the inexhaustible argentiferous
deposits which are owned BY the COM
psny. they would learn and know more
abou, the Yellow Jacket mine than they
ever before heard, than they ever before
imagined. or read. But, to our visit: On
arriving a, the top of the shaft IN the
hosting works, we took position on
cage, OF iron frame, attached TO a cable,
the bell is tapped as signal for the en-
sineer and brakeman to lower. Away
we 60. down into a pit Of darkness-aS
dark, in fact, as dark can be-down,
down, for three hundred and seventy-fve
feet. It takes but little while-the sem
sation is just becoming pleasant, for the
descent has not occupied more than per-
haps minute-when the speed is slack
ened. lights appear, and the cage gently
touches the rail track; you get of the
cage, a dozen candles blaze within sight,
men are running cars TO and from different
directions-some are empty, and just low
cred from the top; others are loaded and
run to the shaft TO be hoisted to the sur
face. The first drift we entered was run
IN q westerly direction for a distance Of
two hundred and nineteen feet. at the end
Of which, workmen were cutting into
splendid ledge of rich ore. The ledge, in
fact, extended from the shaft to where the
men were yet cutting through it, two hun
dred and nineteen feet-and how much
further it will extend we of course can not
tell. This drift is timbered up with hew ed
and sawed timbers a foot square, and
the space in the shaft about six feet
square, the space between the timbers be-
ing filed up with heavy plank. For two
hours we wandered through drifts, nearly
all of them being timbered substantially.
and having rail tracks laid along the
floors. Drifts run west, south, east and
north; and when we tell our readers that
We visited net less than a dozen different
floors. or galleries, all substantially TIM
bered and planked. and at no time hardly
were out of sight of silver ore. from first
to fourth class ore. they can form some
kind Of an opinion Of the vastness Of the
cluster of lodges which concentrate. as it
were, like the top of a live-oak tree. i'm
med,a,ely under the Yellow Jacket hoist
ing works, for distance OF from two
hundred and fifty TO i've hundred feet. at
a depth of three hundred and fifty feet
from the surface. There are large bodies
of ore, called, we believe. third and fourth
class rock, which are slowed away among
the timbers, which looked to US like i'm
mense grain-bins. All these immense
quantities of what is now considered re-
fuse ore, will all be valuable to the COM
pany after while, when the expense of
milling is less than at the present price.
While in the mine, we made the acquain-
lance of Mr.. O'Donnell, the Foreman,
who has about ninety men under his COM
mand. He is gentleman Of remarkably
good mechanical and mining knowledge,
if we are to judge of the manner in which
he is excava,ing the bowels of the mine.
and rebuilding it with substantial timbers
"a process of such immense magnitude
that the people of the outside world will
never realize it until they go down and
see for themselves. The Foreman, we no.
ticed, has the assistance in his exeavating
and mechanical works, of some of the very
bes, miners in the State, and whose tough
sinews, horny hands, and good, honest
and open brows attest the hard but honest
labor Of the deliver in hidden depths Of
our mines. May God bless the honest
miner, upon whom We all so much depend
to develop our wealth, and which sus-
tains our business, and makes US all pros
porous and happy! II. within three
hundred and sixty feet from the surface,
and within the same distance in the diff
ferent directions of the compass from the
main shaft of the Yellow Jacket mine, the
incontroverrible evidence of vast wealth
is 50 apparent, what will not be revealed
in the claim when the work is prosecuted
to double the extent: Our opinion is,
that it will be an endless source of riches
an incompatible Cresus. Would that
we had plenty Of money to buy Yellow
Jacket stock, that We might become a
millionaire!
The CIRcUs HAS CONE Lee s Ryland
pitched the canvass for their circus OPP
IL. ,ha Nrwa office this nnornino and