Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1868-02-20
THE EVENING NEWS.
Thursday Evenins,.--...Fes. 20, 1s8S.

coyery OF some excellent ore ne nau
developed in the groupings of a ledge
in Silver Star District, told US at the
same time that he knew Of another lead
somewhere between Silver City and
American Flat, where there was still
richer ore to be found in the groupings.
This morning he showed US a piece OF
dark reddish, porous, rusty looking
quartz, about the size of a common
water pail, wherein could be seen any
amount of small particles OF gold, sew
cral Of the size of pins head, APP
~parently pretty well disseminated all
through the rock. Such ore would pay
two or three hundred dollars to the ton
This, he said. was from the last men-
TONED lead. and he believed there was
nlepty more rock in il rs rich as that,
or nearly so. The lead is n small one,
only about four or five feet / at the
s@nrTacc. but il is traceable for two hun
drcd wards or more, running in q nearly
c,s, and west direction. There is u
prospecting shaft sunk on the ledge,
ON seventy or eighty feet in depth,
but from certain indications it must
have been sunk FIVE or six years ago,
since which time no work has been done
on the ledge. In case no adverse claim
ants are found to interfere, this
ledge also may be heard OF by
and by. Mr.. Winston is an old miner
and ~prospecter in quartz, having fol-
lowed il principally since 1851, when
he had al interest in the famous quartz
mine at Murphy's Camp, Calaveras
county, California, the first OF any note
developed in that State. Last season he
prospected all through Montana and
Idaho, and lastly before he came here,
Mt Black Rock, which he mentions as
the greatest mining humbug he ever
saw. He saws there are many very eS-
cellent mines in the eastern portion oil
Nevada, but considering the facilities
and cheapuess Of working, and general
advantages, he greatly prefers taking
chances in this section, n on surface
ore at that. For the last two or three
weeks he has been prospecting in this
vicinity, and he showed us the certih-
Gates of sixteen ASSAYS from the crop
pings of rs many different lodges to the
southeast of Gold Hill and Virginia,
this side of Carson river. These assays
vary from So to Sl70 per ton only 1--WE OF
them, however, being above $50 per-
ton Two or three years ago, Mr.. Win
ston, in company with q strong party,
passed through the present reported
rich Sweetwater country, and he does
not seem very ftvorably impressed with
il. He says there may be rich mines
there, but he does not believe they are
ANYTHING like as rich or extensive as
they are reported to be. What few In
dians they found were hostile and
troublesome, and the country q
very rough one; everything bu,
n leland of milk and honey"
He is not going to Sweetwater his sea-
son, but is apparently bent on knowing
what the surface ore hereabouts is good
for. The Comstock he looks upon as
the great chief mine of the world, and
declares that outside Of that one great
main lead this section of country is not
half ~prospected yet. Who knows but
what he is about right?
PIpERs' OPERA HOUSE," Mazeppa"
attracted u little more than the ordinary
attendance at the Opera House last
evening. The FIRST part, consisting OF
the usual ovcrtures, music, songs, con-
undrums, w~alk-around, ETC., was very
good and Lizzie Worrell's new song OF
Norah O'Neil was received with special
favor. 1t is a very pretty ballad, and
swectly sung BY her. We like to record
ANYTHING new and pleasing in the way
of u song, especially in the melodeon
business, where n certain class OF songs
are most Professionally bored away at
evening after evening, until they are
dead, dead, dead, past all possible hope
of future resurrection. Miss Addie
Lamont as "Mazeppa," in the burlesque
a~fter-piece of that name, showed several
fine points, rs that peculiar line oil
artistic, and those who did not see her
last evening should avail themselves OF
the opportunity, and judge for them
selves. Miss Lamont had a run OF two
or three weeks in the same character Mt
the Olympic Theater, San Francisco,
before she came over here.
JOHNNY TUERs' BENEFIT To-NIGHr.-
Pursuant to previous notice and pub
lished correspondence which al be seer
in another column, the grand farewell
and complimentary benefit to Johnny
Tuers takes place this evenings at Piper:
Opera House. A monster double pro
gramme Of entertainment is offered fol
the occasion, the entire Opera House
troupe appearing, in addition to which
p. NJ. westwood, Harry Spriggs, Jacl
Lee, Miss Jennie Lewis and Frank Spar
row, have kindly volunteered their ser
vices. Johnny Tuers himself will ap
pear in the first part, with some OF hi:
choicest witticisms and eccentric droii
cries, it being his first appearance or
the stage since his recent long and Sc
we're illness. In consequence OF tina
northumberland at several times, near
ly fatal illness, Johnny's treasury ha:
become much depleted, but his legior
Of friends in this section will set hin
all right in that respect this evening
for he cannot fail Of = hugely crowded
house. Go everybody to Johnny's bene
fit tonight.
ITEMS ScARcE.-Let nobody complain
of the scarcity Of local news items il
our paper. We get all there is going
aud will be happy to record anything il
the shape of a fresh horse killed, heads
legs or nccks broken, or any item il
that line, that anybody will be kline
enough to bring us. We would'n
mind lying down and letting a four
teen mule quartz team pass over us
in order to furnish the publ
with o choice, horrifying, sensation
item, were it not that it would furnisl
our Horntown contemporaries with
more gratifying and satisfactory item
than i, would our paper, unless we sur
vived long enough to write up or die
tate the item %ourself, together with ju
d%iciously selected dying words, etc.
VIRGINIA FInEAES's ELEcrIoN.-A.