Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-12-17
OUR MINES.

past we have been at q loss to
know why San Francisco people should
better, quicker and thoroughly
on the condition of our mines
than WI who live in their immediate
So, to satisfy o%urself, We
out, a day or two ago, with a
view Of getting light on that subject;
and we succeeded in finding it in the
person Of q young friend, a thorough
miner, who has had many years expert
ence in the old silver mines of Central
Mexico. In company with him we made
a thorough survey of the Yellow Jacket
and Confidence mines, and as we came
out again, and after having partaken Of
a few lemonades, we all at once lost
sight of our friend; but on inquiry found
him close at hand, in the Telegraph
Office, quietly sending off to San Fran
cisco some long cypher dispatches. One
of them read thus: ''Emperor's Damsell
in Dixie, adventure. Considerable sack
ore. Excellent. Unchanged. Virgin
poetry a, E. X. H." Conquest Creole
ceremony pleasure. Twelve (l2) months.
Fancy" Which means: Yellow Jacket
opening out ~splendidly in south mine,
lower level; considerable sack ore.
North mine unchanged, but promising;
condition ofmine warrants better prices.
Cheap at closing prices" coincidence
upper levels look well, and are improv-
ing. Dividends in sight for about twelve
months. Will give full particulars by
Express to-day" We were aware then
that some capitalist in San Francisco
already knew about the condition Of
those two mines before we had n chance
to whisper to some friend; much less
before we had IN opportunity to make
an item of it.
The Su6terranedn Rdmbie. w must
not say anything concerning the loca-
ton, works and management Of the two
mines in question, for nearly everybody
here knows them to be desirable, sub
%stantial and durable, and in every re-
spect as good as could be wished.
Yelor Jacket South Mne.-Reaching
the lower level, we went a long distance
west through a wide, well timbered
drift, and came to where they just made
the connection with Al incline WINE,
sunk down from the level above for the
purpose of prospecting the vein and to
get good air. We found the miners
busy sacking frst-class ore and getting
ready generally to commence breasting
out on the large and beautiful body
Of ore here exposed by cross-cuts and
WINS; and as we laboriously crawled
I'D through u small hole We found
ourselves some 20 feet above the level
Of the main car-track drift, in cross-cuts
and drifts, run from the bottom Of the
incline Wine. Going up the winze we
followed the ore all the way, and as we
reached the next level some hundred
feet above, we went into a similar in
cline sunk down about 80 feet in the
Kentuck ground. The Yellow Jacket
incline is about 200 feet north Of the
Kentuck line, and as the kentuck in
cline shows about the same kind of ore
in point of character and extent, as the
Yellow Jacket, it is proven beyond a
doubt that this is II very extensive and
valuable body of ore. The ore as now
l-Ia-ol Ill ha ahNnt An faaf uysAa nm
an average, and will give the Yellow
Jacket a length Of about 240 feet and
some 100 feet in height. Every ton of
it, it is believed, will average not less
than from S35 TO S45 per ton, mill pro-
cess-and that, too, after selecting say
FIVE tous per diem irst-class ore, that
will mill, by ''Frieberg process" about
$500 to $500 per ton. The upper levels
in this mine also show considerable yet,
left in stopping up. We were told that
they hoist $50 tons Of ore per diem,
averaging, including "sack ore" $40
per ton, and calculating SIG to SCI as
the total average expenses per ton, our
readers can easily find out what the
total profits will be per month from this
part of the mine alone-to say nothing
about the north mine, which, when the
sos feet new level is fully opened will
probably be better than any level ever
before opened in this mine. We have
no hesitation in saying, that as soon as
San Francisco people understand the
present good and permanent condition
of this mine, the shares will be eagerly
bought at higher prices; because the
mine is good for a number Of large divi-
bends.
Confidence Mne.-We also went thro'
this mine, and we were surprised to see
this little mine, consisting Of 100 feet,
look so we'll. Instead of finding the
upper levels nearly exhausted, as we
supposed was the case, We found a large
body of ore on the west, and 9 fine ex-
tensive vein Of ore lying east against
the hanging wall of the great lode. For
some reason or other, this ore was never
half developed-or known to eI-
island they are only now commencing
to realize profits, as heretofore they
have been working on very ordinary ore.
The ore will probably mill all the way
from S23 to S35 per ton, and all over
SlS or Sl9 per ton will be nett profit.
We calculate they have enough Of this
class of ore in sight to pay from $40 to
Sl2 lone hundred dollars per foot) divi-
dends. We understand that this month
they will be out Of debt, and commence
the first dividend in January
next. The prospects in the lower level
are also very promising, and it is ex-
pected that as the Yellow Jacket open
their sos feet level, they will drain the
when operations in the lower
level will be resumed.