Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-08-16
Mill. and Mining in silver Mountain.

SILVER MOUNTAIN, August Is, 1866.
EDITOR News This has been a day
Of jubilee and merry-making to the citi-
zsns Of Alpine county. The cause OF the
jollisy and good feeling has been owing
mainly to the laying of the corner stone
of the George Washington Quartz Mill,
under the superintendent of Mr.. Uznay,
of the firm of Kustel s Uznay, who have
succeeded in leasing the Davidson Mill
property, and are now engaged in the
erection of a frst-class mill. with the
necessary furnaces TO introduce the Erie
burg process for the treatment Of our ores.
A general invitation to the citizens Of Sill
yer Mountain, Monitor and Mogul was
extended, and the result was that about
two hundred ladies and gentlemen were
assembled on the ground by IL o'clock,
where they partook Of a cold collation.
which had been very considerably fur
nisbed. After the drinking OF many a
bumper Of sparkling champagne to the
success Of the enterprise, all with one &C.
cord proceeded to the foundation, where
the corner stone had been prepared for the
ceremonies, which were conducted by the
Masonic fraternity under their imposing
forms. In the corner stone was q copy
Of the days proceedings, signed by every
person present, together with copies Of
the Silver Mountain Bulletin, Monitor,
Gazette and Alpine Miner. After the clos
ing Of the Masonic rites, speeches were
BY Messrs. B. Pilkington, Uznay r.
Thompson, J. r. Marshal, and several
other gentlemen, who take an active and
well-directed interest in the development
Of our mines. The press was represented
by S. G. Lewis, ESQ, Of the Alpine Miner
and Measrs. Hayes & Ballord of the Silver
Mountain Bulletin, and a correspondent
Of the american Mining haGez. The mill
has been christened the George Washing
ton, after one Of the most prominent mines
in the county, the ores Of which in con-
nexion with those Of the Morning Star are
to be worked in it. The George Washing
ton mine may well be ranked as one Of the
first mines on the eastern slope Of the
Sierra Nevadas. At a depth OF 200 feet
they have q solid ledge Of ore fully three
feet wide, which, by assays from all parts
Of the ledge, averages from 5000 to $500
per on. II any of your washoe readers
doubt the above assertion. Just tell them
to step over and see for themselves ;
and, like doubling Thomas, have their
unbelief removed.
The Morning Star Company has sold
10000 tons Of their ore, to 0e mined at
the expense Of the buyers, for which the
company receives Sl7 so per ton. Where
can you point to a parallel case where any
mine is receiving that amount over ali
expenses Times may be hard and peo-
pie over cautious in mining matters, but
one thing is certain, we have the mines in
Alpine county, and with perseverance our
present sparse but energetic population
will demonstrate il to tho world by ship
ments of bullion as regular as now comes
from the famous Comstock mines. That
we have not been shipping bullion hereto
fore, has been owing altogether to the
ignorance Of the conductors Of our mills,
Of the essential principles of metalurgy-
they having, like vendors Of quack medi-
cines, but one parallel for all the different
kindso OF ore which our mines yield, and
Nat the same as adapted for the free ores
OF the Comstock. Thank God, that class
OF metalurgists and mill men are at last
disposed oil, and we now have the advent
among US OF a class fortified by science
anu experience, to pilot us to q safe
me'hoo Oh reducing our ores. As an evil
eenee that the above is true, we have only
70 teiet 70 the working Of the l. X. L.
company 8 ores last summer, while under
Ape iougn treatment at the mill here, lief, A
residue in the tailings Of as much a. th.S
extracted, which amounted 10 over sSS
per ton. There Is much on this sub;ec,
that ] should like to say, but this le,,sr
has already spun out to a grea, Length
and sol shall try TO emboby such item,
and facts as may present themselves in
my future correspondence to your valua-
bio journal. iOsLocx.