Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-05-08
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by's Mill, out at American Flat, two
miles from Gold Hill, where the track is
graded for a distance of nearly a mile
along the base Of Bear Mountain, in an
easterly direction, towards Tunnel No.
l. Here We found quite a little village,
consisting Of board and canvass houses,
built for the accommodation Of the
workmen on the railroad. A large
boarding house is here kept by John
Russell, formerly Of the Russell House
in Gold Hill, aud which is evidently
we'll conducted. Tunnel No. l entors
the mountain in a southeasterly direc'
ton, and is cut through a mass of con-
g,omerate powders, which are very
large and hard, but the Giant and blast
ing powder make them yield to the en-
ergies of the workmen. AS the excava.
tions proceed, the tunnel is very sub
stautially tinbered and arehed, and the
work done in a very substantial hammer.
At noon, last Saturday, the west end Of
the tunnel was timbered and finished q
distance Of 65 feet, having m zap
~proach," or open cut Of 60 feet, and as
this work was being pushed ahead and
finished at tho rate Of two feet a day,
we suppose that to-day this end Of the
tunnel is in II feet. 1t was here where
the 6rst ground was broken for the Vir-
GINA and Truckee Railroad, on the 18th
Of last February, and Mr.. Warrington,
the Superintendent of the Railroad,
and Mr.. Rose, the foreman Of this por-
ton of the work, are certainly entitled
to credit for their energy. We also vis-
tied the east end Of the tunnel, and
found that the work is conducted on the
same plan of construction, and is also
being energetically prosecuted. The
"approach" or deep cut is l25 feet
long, and the tim6ered and finished por-
ton of the tunnel is now 40 feet in. Mr..
\. c. Hay, formerly of Gold Hill, is
foreman Of this work. It is estimated
that the timbered portion Of the tunnel
will be coo feet in length, and that it
will be finished and ready for the ties in
FIVE and = half months from the day the
work was communication the 18th Of
February. Judging from the aun
the work has progressed, We predict
that i. will be accomplished. Leaving
Tunnel No. l, the railroad survey leads
of in a southeasterly direction, on the
high chain of mountains west Of Silver
City, towards the old Santiago mine, on
approaching which there is q deep cut
Of perhaps 20 feet, for q distance of a
quarter Of n mile. Between this deep
cut and the east end of the tunnel, q
distance Of about a mile, there were
several hundred graders at work, and
we expect at the present writing they
are penetrating the deep cut at the San
tiago mine.
The next point Of operations on the
road is about two miles below the Mar
shall House, ION the Carson turnpikeO
and within a short distance Of the Car
son river. From this point OF the
work to the Merrimac Mill, a distance
of perhaps two miles, there are not less
than 10000 cubic yards of Filings ~
which fact will give Il tolerable good
idea to n practical nan rs 70 the heavy
work on this portion of tho road. But
the work is making fine progress, and
is going ahead just as fast as any set Of
men could drive it with one thousand
men. We followed the limo of construc-
ton no further than the Merrimac Mill
blu, we were satisfied that from the
Santiago to the Merrimac Sill there is
water power enough to run twenty-five
quartz mills, which will reduce our
our low grade ore, at from two and a
half to four dollars per t~on-jnstead Of
the high prices which are now paid to
steam mills. The Virginia and Truckee
Railroad will be in full and successful
operation from Virginia City to Cars on
City, a distance of twenty-five miles, by
next December, if the work progresses
rs fast as it has done since last Febru-
Try. And then will mmence q new
FRA in the permanent progress snd pros
oerity of the Comstock and its towns
'uch as has never before been witnessed.
While we are rejoicing over the glad
of the completion of the great
continental railroad, which is about
the last spike" let the citi-
lens Of Storey, of Lyon, and 0rmsby
Counties also contemplate with feelings
Of joy the early completion Of our local
railroad, which will redeem and build
up to success and prosperity again our
communities, which have been for seve-
raj years retrograding, because of the
vast sums OF money which it has cost
annually to transport and reduce the
ores of our mines, and the equally ouer-
ous and oppressive expenses Of obtain
ing the lumber, the timbers and the
fuel of our mines, our mills, and our
households.
MoGE INDIAN TRoUBLES.-From pas
;engers who arrived BY the Smoky Hill