Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-01-11
n EVENING NEWS.


mills situated in the town Of Gold Hill,
and propose giving q sketch of the num-
Der of stamps, amount of ore crushed,
commencing with the Petaluma mill.
This mill is located in lower Gold Hill,
and contains l6 stamps, and is capable
OF reducing SO o n of ore per "a hours.
This is q new mill and is just starting
up, the machinery not being fully regu-
lated yet. The Petaluma mill is owned
by Mr.. Greedy, Of foundry ~notoriety. The
Sapphire mill, located some two hun
bred yards further up in town, contains
Is stamps and is capable Of reducing
30 tons Of ore per day. Next above the
Sapphire is the Rhode Island mill, be-
longing to the Crown Point Company,
and has IS stamps, with a capacity to
work so tons Of ore per day. This is
one Of the best mills in the State. All
the machinery is first class, and the ore
worked gives a better result than almost
n other mill in Nevada. Near the last.
mentioned is the Marysyille mill, with
u rotary battery Of six stamps. This is
one of the first mills built in the
State and still remains in its primi-
tive state. But few, if any, however,
have turned out more bullion than this
little rafting and Gathering old mill,
and manages to work twelve tons per
day. Next is the Gold Hill mill, with
Il stamps and q crushing capacity of
"a tons per day. This mill belongs to q
French company, and has, within the
last 20 months, undergone many repairs
until at the present time it is classed
among our best mills. Just across the
street from the Gold Hill mill is the
Union mill, which contains 'ten large
stamps and four small ones, making in
all, IA stamps. The crushing capacity
Of this mill is about "a tons per day.
The Eclipse mill, belonging to
the Eclipse company and situated in
Upper Gold Hill, contains Is stamps.
with a capacity to reduce some 80 tons
of ore per day. The Granite mill, with
in a few feet of the Eclipse, has for some
time past been shut down, therefore, we
shall not mention it. We see by the
foregoing schedule, that there are on
Main street and in the built portion Of
our town, seven mills, containing LOG
stamps, with a capacity to reduce 2l2
tons of ore per - hours. Still further |
down, in Gold Hill, are several other
large mills, containing quite as many
stamps and capable of crushing equally
rs much ore as the oneS mentioned.
Thus we see that Gold Hill proper,
has plenty of mill capacity to properly
work I24 tons of ore per day. EStimat-
ing each mill TO cost, with all the ma
chinery, pans, ETC., $4,000 per stamp
(which is very low,) the mills of Gold
Hill have cost S336, 900. In addition
TO this there are within the limits Of the
town, eighteen hosting works and three
mills situated on the back streets, that
have cost not less than $780, 900, max
ing the whole cost Of mining machinery
within the limits Of Gold Hill not less
than S996, 900. Add to this the cost of
the Granite mill, which We did not esti-
mate, would bring the value OF our
mining property up to 81 zoo, 900. Es-
timating the ore TO yield $50 per ton,
and allowing the mills to run 300 days
in the year, we would have a result of
81, 500, 900 per year as the result OF the
mill productions of Gold Hill alone.
Not bad for one small town.
MINING ACCIDENTAL the change Of
shifts last evening, at 6 o'clock, at the
Hale l. N~orcross, an accident occurred
by which a man by the name of Pat
Burns lost his life. We visited the
hosting works this morning and
gathered the following particulars :
The brakeman had just sent down a
cage full Of men who were going to
work the cage was soon loaded with
those who were coming off, being rather
slow the night foreman gave the rope a
shake which is a signal to hurry up
Just then the bell was rung to hoist, but
some one on the cage feeling the rope
shake sung out that something was fall
ling down the shaft, every man made a
spring to get off, and all succeeded but
Burns, who had half his body of when
he was caught between the cage and
top Of the drift, his legs and part Of his
body being on the cage while the re-
mainder was outside, he was thus drawn
up until within thirty feet of the surface
where there is an opening or the side
of the shaft, here he dropped out and
fell to the bottom and landed IN top of
the stump. His death was almost in
Simultaneous /; no blame is attached to
any one but the sufferer. After a bell
is rung men should never make an at
tempt to leave the cage.
OPP FELLOWS LYcEUx.-Last evening
We had the pleasure Of attending the
Odd Fellows Lyceum, which is a most
excellent institution. There were pres
ent quite a large number Of both ladies
and gentlemen, and the exercises were
very interesting. An essay was read by
Mr.. Whitcher which was a most ele-
giant production. 1t was voted to have
it published, therefore we will make no
comments on it, but advise all to read
it when published. The question for
discussion on next Thursday evening is,
"Should the right of suffrage be extern
ded to all white persons, irrespective
of sex
SHOOTING MATCH. If it does not
storm tomorrow, there will be a jolly |
time al the foot of Union street, vir-
ginia, for all those who are on the
shoot. There will be genuine sport in
it, and all who are good shots should
be on hand.
Broke An AxLE.-Last night, at the
corner of Taylorand G streets, Virginia, |
in front of Lilies store, a huge quartz
wagon, with several tons Of quartz on
il, stood in rather a d~ilapidated condi-
ton, having broken an axle, and was
left to its fate in the center Of the street.
HANDSOME FISrsH.-The cupola on the
new Presbyterian Church has received a
handsome finish, in the way Of an iron
,pire, with two arms. On the extremity
Of each is q large gilt ball; above is a
large gilt arrow, and on top is a hand,
with the index-fnger pointing TOWARD
Heaven. The finish looks well.
ATTENTION, FESIASsl-An members
of the Gold Hill Circle are requested 70
attend at their place of meeting, on
Sa~lo- -- Iapnary 18th. 1901, III