The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-04-19
GoLD IT'LL MINES.
Their Locality in NevadalTheir Value aud
Yield-1he Recent Disaster. Z

The connagratiOn which has just been raging in the
silver mines at Gold HILL Nevada is the most appall
ing mining catastrophe that has ever occurred on
the Pacific coast and has resulted in the sacrifice OF
valuable life, and the destruction Of if not the entire
tmbering of the mines, large amount of property.
Gold Hill is q thriving city OF some three thousand
inhabitants, is situated just mile from Virginia City,
Nevada, and contains some of the most lOurishng
mines upon the famous Comstock lead, the most
prominent OF which are the Yellow Jacket, Kentuck,
Crown Point, Empire, Nonpareil, Overmann, Omega,
The Yellow Jacket, at which the fire originated, is
the largest and best mine at Gold Hill, and is only
second to the Savage and the celebrated Gould and
Curry, three quarters of mile away. AS a general
thing this mine employs two hundred odd men, and
takes out on an average 240 tons of pay ore every "a
hours-it running the year around about S35 ton.
There are two shafts at this mine-the north shaft
being nearly 900 feet in depth. The south shaft is
down to the 500 foot level and it is in this level in all
probability through which fire was communicated to
the Kentuck and from thence to the Crown Point The
Yellow Jacket has system Of hOisting machinery
which cost over a quarter Of million OF dollars. 1t
has many miles of railroad track, and has more feet
of timber in its subterranean depths than there is in
all of the buildings at Pawtucket. 1t has three so
horse engines for hosting the ore from the levels,
and 300-hOrse power engine Of the Corliss manu-
facture for pumping purposes and for forcing fresh
air into the mine. More than 5S0,00O gallons of
water are pumped from the mine every twenty-four
hours.
The Crown Point mine is almost in every particu-
lar like the Yellow Jacket, except that it is running
levels from thousand-foOt shaft Its machinery is
very elaborate and expensive, costing $500 600
The Crown Point, when ore shows well, employs
two hundred men, and takes out some two hundred
tons of pay ore daily, averaging S35 ton.
To a considerable extent the Kentuck is the most
famous mine upon the lode, and is by far the richest
according to its size. When the Crown Point par
ties staked OFF their mine, instead of running their
claim up to the Yellow Jacket, they left stretch Of
three hundred feet-a deep ravine, in which, of
course, according to all the observations and treaties
of scientific miners, there could be no deposits Of
pay ore.
1t seems however, that, trial, after the great
success OF the Yellow Jacket and Crown Point some
parties staked of this ravne and commenced pros
pectng. The first blast put into the surface threw
out OF the choicest kind. Immediately hosting
works erected, and from that day 1t has proved
the richest little mine the Comstock lode all Of
its rock averaging $40 ton.
1t employs twenty men, and takes out about fifty
tons of rock day. 1t has one seventy-fve horse
power engine for hoistng purposes, its water being
drained out by the Crown Point pumps. The success
of this mine has upset the theories OF many of our
most eminent geolOgsts The earnings are nearly a
hundred thousand dollars clear monthly.