The Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1869-1872, 1869-06-26

A good road winds round the hill through this
lofty city of tents, and hundreds Of pack mules
daily bear their burdens through the main
''street" to the northeast of US.
HIDDEN TREASURE CoS.-The south incline
of the Hidden Treasure Consolidated Is now
down about fifty-one feet, and the ledge is
widening. The face of the incline is mix
ture of black spar and quartz, with a fair
amount of pay ore. About thirty feet north
the ledge has been followed to the depth of
about ten feet by incline with the dip, and
from this point to the south incline "a cut will
be made and breast commenced to follow
the ledge into the hill. A large amount of
other work has been done in the way of strip
ping, etc, but these points occupy all the men
employed at present. There are also two or
three large piles of ore ut the mine, the
amount OF which in tuns We did not hear esti-
mated, but the indications fully justify the
high reputation the mine is winning for itself
in the stock market.
SoUTHwARD.-B. G. Monroe, Deputy U. S.
Surveyor, and party started south few days
ago on a surveying expedition 20 the Arizona
boundary. Mr.. Monroe, We believe, has been
assigned the duty of running township lines
over belt of country thirty miles wide from
here to the Colorado rive, and the military
expedition now en- route hither is probably
remotely or directly connected with the survey.
There appears to be half expressed DISPOSE
ton on the part Of the ruthless and rowing
spirits III this region to beat southwark, and
these expeditions will doubtless be the pre-
cursors of Il large emigration south There is
in the country shortly to be explored large
tracts of fine agricultural land, and perhaps
much mineral wealth, and the climate is IN
surpassed even by that of California We
have IA competent and reliable correspondent
with the surveying party. and shall give our
readers sketches Of the country passed through,
as often rs the party meets with returning pill
g1ims or reach points where there are mail
facilities.
BULLIoN.-Wells, Fargo n Co. dispatched
yesterday four bars of bullion 20 san Francis
co, weighing 33I pounds and valued ut So
26S ~; and four bars overland weighing 2Og
pounds, and valued at S5,57S II; total, ST.
SIG 81.
MAN KILLED By LTGHrNING.-A miner
named Charles ID. LuthorsOn, n native of Den
mark, aged about 10, was instantly killed by
lightning, at ! 30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
and George Smith. his working partner. was
severely injured. The two were engaged in
the Nova Scotia mine, on the summit between
Bromide and POcotillo flats, in the sarof the
ridge. They had shaft down eighteen feet
and an incline from this ten feet further
They had just put i'll two blasts and returned
To the surface To await the result, when, as
Lutherson was removing the windlass tho
lightning struck, throwing both man and wind
lass out upon the dump eight or ten feet. and
killing him instantly. At the same moment
Smith, who WAS on the other side of the shaft
was knocked scnselcss, i'll which state he re-
manned several minutes. The shock startled
miners underground half-a-mile away. and
shook down loose fragments from drifts on
the lower end of Bromide fiat and the whole
mountain seemed to tremhl from the terrible
conclusion.