Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-09-25
THE EVENING NEWS.

YELLOW JACKET MINE-PRssESr Ar
Enthusiastically afternoon, in com
pany with President, John B. Winters
Trustee John Gillig. and Messrs. Sharon
Mcdonald. Brooks, Hurst, Rhoades
Westfan and others, we paid a visit to til,
hrst mine Of Nevada. At the seconC
level, a distance of three hundred anG
sixty feet from the surface, we step from
the car, and winding to the west through
a continuous mass of ore, find that point
where a shaft to connect with the Lowest
working level has but recently been com.
menced. This shaft, started with but one
compartment, as an air shaft simply, but
upon sinking q few feet, so fine a body OIL
ore was cut that Mr.. Winters concluded
to make the same I by u feet in size, and
TO sink to the lower level, a distance Of
about seventy feet. At the second level,
and at the point Of starting the shaft, the
ledge has been opened for a distance Of
twenty-five feet of pay rock, and the send
thereof" is as yet unknown. On this
level much fine ore remains to be worked,
and in all directions we find that each
side of the ledge-from casing TO casing.
or rather from east clay to west porphyry
and granite-the ledge is the same in
character as above, where the Yellow
Jacket first achieved its brilliant name.
Descending TO the lowest working level,
a distance of four hundred and fifty feet
from the surface. we find that a splendid
level opening" has been made, excel
lently timbered with huge l4-inch stuff,
which has been most carefully matched
and set under the direction of Charley
Booth. who has so long and well acted as
boss carpenter" OF this famous mine.
To the west, for a distance of seventy feet,
a drift has been pushed through a mixed
stratum Of quartz and porphyry similar
to that in the level above, and it is ex-
-pected that in running a short distance
further the west pay ledge will be cut,
which seventy feet above proved so emu
nerative. On the east, a distance of one
hundred feet in the drift. has been reached,
the first portion of which has been run
through a mixed quality OF quartz, por-
phyry and clay f~eelers, that eventually
has led to a fine ledge which was cut last
Friday. and which shows fine sulphureted
ore, both in main drift, and in branch
wind drift" to connect with the second
level. The face OF ore so far exposed is
about ten feet in width. with no east limit,
although it is reasonable to suppose that
the body Of ore must reach to the front
front wall a distance Of fifty or sixty feet.
One thing is certain, these recent devel-
opments at the lowest levels proclaim that
the ledge of the great Yellow Jacket mine
is as large in size and much better diffused
with minerals at the lowest levels than
above, for as we go down we find excel
lent ore all through the ledge from casing
70 casing. while above the ore was equally
as rich. but spotted so with barren quartz
that the cost Of extraction was much more
than is possible at this the lowest attained
depth, where the ledge is larger, more
thoroughly equal in value, and. as Il ne
ceSsity. more valuable. At present, about
two hundred tons Of ore are being raised
daily from the upper working levels Of the
mine. about fifty of which are hoisted
through the Princess shaft, from the north
ern line of ground. Upon a careful view
of the mine we were led to this conclu-
slon-tirst, that the quantity OF ore in
creases as the ledge is sunk upon /; second,
that the ore is better ditfused with gold
and silver than above !; third, that John
b. Winters, Esq, knows how to manage
a big mine in excellent style; and finally,
that the Yellow Jacket is the best, biggest
and most enduring mine in Nevada. The
new shaft is now down near four hundred
feet, and levels" corresponding with
those of the old mine are made with tim
Der sets from which connection will duly
be made with the old works. The entire
machinery of the new SHAFT will be in po-
sition in about sixty days, when the work
of 4" opening up" each level will be Wig
~orously, and we doubt not successfully
prosecuted.
THIEVES. - Lookout for for thieves.
They are as prevalent in Virginia as small
pox IN a Chinese c%ampooda. Since last
Friday evening the following larcenies
and burglaries have been committed in
Virginia The room of Miss Mary Reilly,
who keeps a lodging house opposite Wells,
Fargo & Co.'S, was entered and the sum
of Sl75 in gold coin was distracted. The
Occidental Hotel, South G street, was
entered Saturday evening and a number
of fine blankets stolen therefrom. Later
in the evening the White House, nearly
opposite the Occidental Hotel, was ran
sacked and a number of pull mattresses
taken therefrom. Yesterday, the clothes
line of Mr.. Charles Jennings, at the north
Of the city, was robbed Of the weeks wash
ing, and a house near by was robbed Of
some bacon, -four and butter. Evidently
the grass is becoming short, and people
should fasten their doors. Again, look
out for thieves.
The GALE.-Yesterday was one Of the
most terribly windy days ofthe year, and
the dust filed the air TO the hight Of Mt.
Davidson. Emigrants thought the day
of dissolution had come and, really, at
one time, in Virginia, while standing on
street and looking eastward towards the
Gould & Curry mill, one could see quartz
teams, steam apparatus, mining timoers,
;ce-cream carts with donkeys attached,
hardware Of all kinds, including stoves,
chains, anvils, etc., omnibuses and Piute
souaws, all sailing eastward in a cloud Of
dust. I, looked rather rough for m
gra,ion-still it is nothing after getting
used to il; and, this morning, when we
saw tin-roofs on c street, dead squaws on
d street, and unroofed buildings on F
street, we could yet look back over five
wears of life in Washoe, and in spite OF
Ross Browne and hurricanes, calculate
and a~rtculate a: l love the land Of zephyrs
HUNTING. W. X. Smith, Of Gillig.
Mott s Co.'S house, in company with
George Bivins, of the Empire, went to
the Truckee hunting. and succeeded in
capturing a co,ton-tailed jackass rabbit,
reported by Farrand and Tom Peasley to
have been laboring under severe indispo-
sition for some time. We, of course. don't
think the rabbit was sick. Oh, no; for