Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-05-31
rHr SAN raANo1sao NEWS LET.
TER AND THE CoM6ToCK LODE.

THE SAN rRANUIsdo NEWS LET.
TER AND THE ooMsTooK LODE.
The San Francisco Meas Letter processes
to be q mining journal, and to have reli-
able and trustworthy correspondents and
contributors. One Of them, under the
~pretentious title Of "the Comstock Lode
and Notabilia for Wall street." furnishes
weekly, what purports to be a correct re-
view Of the mines on the Comstock lode,
their management, condition, and pros
poets. These reports, and the comments
accompanying them, may DO taken BY
parties at a distance as gospel, but, to per-
sons on the ground and acquainted with
the facts, they bring only the reflection that,
If the contributors to the other depart
ments Of the Nsw, Letter are not more cor
rect and honest than the n who provides
the "notabilia" of the mining depart.
ment, u San Francisco contemporary vii!
not do to bet on as a reliable newspaper.
Every week, the mining article Of that
paper is as full Of incorrect statements
and false assumptions and deductions with
respect to the Comssock mines as an "egg
is full Of meat" and, as far as more than
one Of the mines Is concerned, bears un-
mistakable evidence of having been con-
cocted in a spirit of "envy, hatred. and
malice, and all uncharitableness." With
those who know the source whence they
come and the character Of their author,
these distorted and exaggerated "notabi.
lie " create no more surprise at their. ami
mus than belief in their honesty and cor
rectness; but the Nsps Letter should be
careful how it permits itself to be made,
by interested and INSCRIPTIONS parties,
the vehicle Of conveying to people at a
distance incorrect views Of the character,
management, and condition Of the mines
of this State, or become tho tool Of vicious
individuals for airing their prejudices and
dislikes, and giving vent to their malicious
misrepresentation.
The representative mine Of Gold Hill, the
Yellow Jacket, has thus been. for some
time past, made the target for ignorant
laundering and wilful subversion in Hg-
ures and false coloring Of facts by this
attache Of the Neps Letter. Uno discs
omnes, we will take the last review Of
this mine, in the Neps Letter Of the 2ls.
inst, as q sample Of the reliability Of the
statements Of its mining contributor. In
that review the writer of the "notabilia "
undertakes to give q resun,s Of the ore
raised, men employed, and bullion pro.
duced, and to deduce, therefrom, certain
conclusions of cost and profit Of the mine
for the week covered by the mine return,
but, whether from vinous obfuscation OF
some other cause intentional or accidental,
has made a most e~gregious muddle Of it.
The Company's statement, for the week
ending l4th May, gives tho quantity Of
ore raised during the week as l,028 tons,
and the amount of bullion produced
S27,4S5 o.. The average number Of men
employed during the week is stated q:
232, the total cost Of whose labor this
expert in mining and arithmetic puts
down as 1892, when any school boy who
can read a plain sentence in English OF
multiply one plain sum by another would
have understood the Company's statemen,
and figured out that the wages of the mer
for the week-would be in the neighhor.
hood of $4,000. This" says this cleal
headed critic, tbs the cost Of extracting tht
ore, to which our readers must add $lt
per ton for crushing and they will be able
to ascertain the profit"
The Trustees Of the Yellow Jacket Com.
pany, every month, close up the accounts
Of the mine, make up o balance sheet, and
furnish a thorough and correct exhibit OIL
the entire business Of the mine for tht
month and the financial condition o.
the Company at its close, which
can be seen, at any time, by ap'
plying to the proper person in Sar
Francisco; and, in order to keep theil
shareholders au courant with the working
Of the mine during the intervening weeks
furnish q monthly statement Of the mum.
Der of men employed, the quantity Of ore
extracted, and the amount Of bullion pro.
duced during the week and had not the
wiseacre who did the "notabilia" for tht
Ne,cs Letter, in excess Of stupidity Oh
sheer perverseness, taken the weekly
statement of the Company for theii
monthly exhibit, he would have saved hit
regret " at the absence Of fullness and
detail in the figures Of which he COM
plains.
Once upon o time there lived in Viz
ginia, on the Comstock lode, an indiyid.
ual whose bibulous proclivities and acrid
humors consequent upon q derangemen,
of the gastric juices therefrom, were
known to all the country round. An.
other equally recognizable feature Of this
parsonage was q psnehant for inHicting on
his neighbors the "wit and wisdom" oil
the Comic Monthly. and like publications,
at second. hand, and even, at times, af-
fecting a familiar acquaintance with the
beauties of Shakespeare and other stand
ard authors. This accomplished indi-
vidual took upon himself to become the
medium through which the newspapers OF
San Francisco should be enlightened upon
the character of the Comstock lode, and
furnished the press there with frequent
letters upon the condition, prospects, and
value Of the mines BY means Of familiar
spirits, without so much as stirring out Of
doors or inspecting a mine, or even NOV.
ing from the recumbent posture in which
he delights to commune with his spiritual
agencies for q fortnight together. .
Having become an adept in knowing
all about the Comstock lode without ex-
aiming it, he had no need to be near the
mines. and recently changed his base to
San Francisco. where he furni,he, the
Nsp, Letter with information respecting
mining operations quite as authentic and
reliable as that which he aforetime fur
nished from this side Of the mountains.
His connection with A Gas COMPANY be-