Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-11-06
UNDER GROUND:


Of nature, II it could so happen without
injuring or moving human beings In the
neighborhood. the surface above our mine
slopes were removed, what a spectacle Of
human industry would be presented
Then would be realized, as is not now.
that Gold Hill and Virginia are popuOus
with laborers. We have frequently sug-
ges,ed to our Surveyors, that from their
respective, close surveys they make and
combine a view" Of the Comstock Lode
land Gold Hill Ledge. # considered sep
arats from the Comstock.) sin operation"
We would DO a very instructive and prac-
tically valuable picture" and we hope
i. may be duly ske,ched and Autographed
according to q partial promise we are con-
6dential recipients of. The lithosrsph
prepared for the Sutro Tunnel Company
afforded a hint Of the excellence Of such a
portrait of actual workings as is here re-
commended.
This day will exhibit to our people
something Of the strength Of the under
ground population. as most il not all the
mines have shut down for election oppor-
tuni,ie,. The crowds upon the streets,
and especially adjacent to the polls, tells
Of the army Of excava,ors that are picking
and shoveling way, way below our. feet,
day after day, the year round-scooping
on, the earth Of ages, and loading up cars
with the no-mistake bullion stuff.
We know that there are hundreds OF
folks in Storey. who have lived here for
several years, who have never visited ever
one mine-some have never put their head
into a single tunnel. Why. you don't
know what you miss. There are more
strange "sights' right under your house
than you can see elsewhere on this coast
or in this nation. The appearance Of the
work in the large Gold Hill and Virginia
mines, three to six and seven hundred
feet down in the bowels of this planet, is
wonderful past pen or pencil painting. 1t
is said tina, many persons have lived a
long life I'M so near Niagara Falls that
they could daily hear their roar, and never
oncs looked upon that majsstics and awful
cataract. Telling Of this, we undoubtedly
awaken surprise in the mind Of every
reader; We, it is nc more surprising than
the fact that you, Sir, or even you, Madam,
have never visited a single mine in this vi
cini,y. When Colfax & Co. come here,
their FIRST and anxious ambition is to go
down into the deeps Of ledge workings,
and see the wonders there developed and
displayed. At this day, it may be replied
that there 10 q reluctance on the part OF
mining superinsendents to admit visitors
into the mines. This is not the fact
to any extent that would prevent
any respectable man from obtaining
access to any mine by seeking and i'm
proving a mutually convenient time. Just
think of residing here Ave or six years, or
aver three. and going East without a
word OF direct information to the old folks,
gathered, from personal observation Of the
"shafts," "chambers," etc., Of q single
mine. There is Mr.. Potiphar Specimen,
who has . large cabinet Of splendid sam
pies, duly labeled, and yet he has never
gone out Of daylight to behold where the
porphyry ends and the lsdge-rock COM
mences. He can speak wisely Of Empire
rock-when it is duly ticketed. He has
more to say about crock" than any nan
who knows what he is talking about.
Put on some old clo'es, Potiphar, and
take a ride down some such little hole as
the Hale s Norcross shaft, and spend hall
q day with a guide in roaming through
the levels, and, by lingo, you'll learn some
thing, and be perhaps slightly entitled to
express an opinion as to what constitutes
good "breasting'' in a mineral nursery.
Al it is. you are an ignorant bore, and
you attic, US with your gable about mat
ters you don't understand. And there is
not a pre,,ier 1--WE don't say neatsr) pleas
ure excursion in the world than that made
by a party travellers through a Storey
mine. Try it, young men and women.
Now you don't have any adequate idea
of what you're walking over. You don't.