Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-01-28

Stephenson, Humboldt, M~urchison, Ly-
ell, Cuvier, Agassiz, ctc.-risions OF
everybody, at the Cornish Mining
School, that was established by my
brother, John Phillips, G. E., Mining
Engineer, Surveyor, etc. visions as
above1, who has since discovered gold
and located Goals in Australia [how
kind of him to locate Goals in Australia!
Benefcent John Phillips, Q. f., NJ. h.,
S., etc.l and is Registrar and Surveyor
of those gold fields. During this edu-
cational period | had the advantage o.
attending my brother in his practical
(surface and subterranean) surveys OF
the various mines, lin fact, carried the
candle1, the weekly lectures delivered
at the school by Robert Hunt, the emf
nent Chemist, on Mineralogy, etc., Lind
lev Murray was then, unhappily, de.
functl, my fathers extensive allurial
tin mines, and my uncle's tin smelling
works, mot q word about your W
brass foundry, Phillips? W. have "tin"
here, j. S., don't you wish you may get
some; and by the way, will you nave it
now, or would you prefer to waittill you
get it2 If you prefer to wait, you can,
you know. Or if you object to waiting,
YOU might advantageously return to
your uucle's works, or your aunt nne
castle in Spain, or your beloved orother
in Australia, or to your own dear tath-
er, who, let us trust, is with the elect,
bappier than his son who has fallen up
an n misbelieyinc and soothing genera
toni. then served six years In the
largest foundry in the world. Since
which, and for the past twenty-threc
years, l have been seyerally engaged
for severely engaged ]. ST rs Foun-
der, Mining and Mechanical Engineer;
having designed, made, erected II
worked some fifty steam and water ma
chimes for pumping, hosting, crushing
milling, smelling, saving, and locomo-
tive purposes. [Have you one OF The
locomotives about you p have super
intended financially and practically
the development Of nino mines in Corn
wall and Devon; some gold lodges for
an Eastern Company at Humboldt Co.,
Nevada That WiH do; You worked for
an Eastern Company, and You went into
Humboldt 0 you sweetly innocent
Phillips-thus hopclessly have you
cooked your own goose and since then
have examined for them, others, and
self, some hundreds Of lodges in about
fourteen months, having Travelled over
at least four thousand miles, at different
times, and in different directions this
is gratifying but probably irrelevant;
my last journey being over fourteen
ranges Of mountains mot laid down in
the & geography books1, eight hundred
miles to the southeast corner Of the
State, being the longest trip ever made
by q lone ~prospector [poor boy across
mountains and away from roads Of traf-
fc. Thrilling !! My last engagement
was to remodel and superintend the
mines and smelling works at Torrey
City, Nevada Tuow paying e-nor-mous,
where l succeeded in reducing the most
refractory, argentiferous, antimonial
lead ores thatthcy had previously failed
to smelt. This was a highly rcbellious
a~ntimonial, cupriferous, %arsenical, ar
geutiferous, refractory and Internal ore.
| We have seen n sample OF it. Phillips
gave it hell. With perseveringacquis-
itiyeness UNITED to n gigantic brain
these various positions have enabled me
learn oil the requisite professions and
trades, manipulating RI from the dor
mant mineral in veins to the moving
machine! invented the Anti-Choking
Bilgc Rose ian invaluable devicc] Sail.
ors' Friend, and General Purpose En-
ginc, Ia most ingenious continuance; it
works on general principles, but what
is it, after all q Cylindro Conical At
mosphere Twisting Shot and Shell, for
large smooth-bored guns Especially
adapted to the lunar atmosphere, tho
capitalization of which is highly con-
ical]; the Angle Dividing Fend OF, for
connecting pump rods Ian Offensive
invcntionl; the Hydraulic, Humping,
Winding and Crushing Engines will the
composi,or please be careful about
these capitals y at Great onslow Con-
sol Mine, Cornwall; and various other
improvements in mining machinery [too
numerous to mention.1 Present Age,
A years" Irrespective ditto, 70. In
durable. A man with no more sense ut
~ will go to m asylum for idiots, or
fall into the FIRE before he ismuch Older.
Go home, ]. s.; leave this blarsted
country. 1t is not adapted to your con-
fguration Of intellect.