Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-06-26
LOCAL MINING ITEMS.
YELLOW JACKET.

ploycd. In the north niue an addi-
tional Roots patent blowing machine
has been put in operation, SO that now
a double blast of air is forced from the
surface down into the 500 and 9oO.foo,
level drifts. The old wiuzs AZ uc
north part Of the mine, between these
two levels, is abou, being pumped AMI
cleared out, and through means of i; a
connection be made, thus scoring
better ventilation. Within 30 days, too,
a vinze which is being raised from tie
so0-foot level will give n full aud free
draft ventilation of air through the
old north shaft, which is 700 feet deep,
down through all the levels below. The
old hosting works over that shaft will
by hat time be ready to start up, when
advantageous and productive miaIns
operation, will thenceforth DC ia order.
These old works are beirg thoroughly
overloaded and renovated. The boilers
are reset, and the two hosting engines
one of 60 and the other of 40 horse
power, are being lined up, and all the
other machinery put in proper trim, by
Mr.. |. F. Thompson, the well known
mechanical engineer. The top OF tue
shaft Is being raised, and n new hoist
ing frame erected over il. The building
il sadly racked out Of shape by the
settling Of the ground, aud will have to
be principally rebuilt aid the roof
raised several feet higher. james
0'Donnell, the former foreman OF the
mine, vas reinstated yesterday mora
ing. He was foreman for seven years,
until Mr.. Kellogg was substituted some
seven or eight months ago, aud now
will bring the advantages of his former
intimate and extensive experience OF the
mine into use again. In a month or
two the Yellow Jacket mire will be in Il
pretty fourishing coudition-decidediy
more so than it is at the present time.
VIRGINIA CONSOLIDATED.
The new shaft is to-day cScavutcd
and timbered to .ae depth Of 40 feet,
The rock works easy, being o: II soft
nature, yet blasting i resorted TO with
excellent advantage, saving much hard
picking. Ross Il Co., who have the
contract to sink the frs, 500 feet, are
prosecuting their work very euer-
getically, W. S. Wright being foreman.
The Lstrobe tunnel passes about 50
feet to the south Of this shaft, and 1873
feet below the top of il. The mouth
Of the tunnel is some l,a00 feet east
from the shaft. A Wine connection, or
" raise" was completed this mornics,
from the tunnel up TO the bottom of the
shaft, therefore the ~excavated erouud OF
the shaft will hereafter be dumped down
it aud sent out through the tunnel-a
very good arrangement. After the
shaft gets below the level OF the tunnel,
the e~xcavated debris in shaking will be
hoisted by e of u small steam en-
CINE, which is already on the ground
ready to be placed in position whe" re-
quired. The shaft consists OF two
working compartments, each four aad "
half by FIVE feet square in the clear
and a pump compartment six by i've
feet in the clear. Il IS timbered in sets
after the usual style, Had in avery work
manlike and substantial manner, the
,imbers being inches; square, Jagged
between with three inch plank. We
have rarely seen rs good u piece OF
carpenter work ofthe kind.
CROWN PoISr
The great amount of water eneouGt-
cred, impedcs progress with the LOO
foot drift EAST considerably. The Other
drift east, at the l,000-toot level, has
reached the ives. portion of the ledge,
but no rich developments are made as
yet. The east ledge will show better.
All the levels above remain closed IA
before, on account Of the fire which is
still burning ; therefore no ore Is pro-
duced from the mine. About =
P. n. yesterday the crank OF one
Of the hosting engines broke, causing
the immediate smashing ont o' hoin
cylinder heads. Fortunately no one
was hurt or scalded. A cage tank with
AGO gallons Of water was being hois,ed,
and was 200 feet from the bottom Mt tae
time of the bresknge. The engineer,
with great promp,itGde, immediately
inserted a wedge under the edge Of the
fy wheel, and thus eased the cage n
tank back 10 the bottom OF the shalt
without injury. II will take three or
four days to repair the damage; mc"n-
while the other engine will have to
perform the requisite hosting.
HALE + S~oRcRoss.
The fifth or |, 030-foot level continues
10 hold out we'll, giving the pfiacip"i
WELD Of the mine. This valuable de-
post evidently extends far deeper than
the present workings, but no deeper
sinking for a new level i, contemplated
a. present, or until required. There is
of ore in the mine, already de-
Yeloped, to last for years. Tie present
yield per day is about 200 tons. The driiI
made C. few days ago with
the Chollar-Potosi at the lowest level
gives an exceedingly good and vN!uahis
Of pure air throughout the
mine, the curren. being II ye:y strong
one snd setting from north to south, the
top of the Chollar Potosi shaft being
the lowest.
IMPERIAL.
The new shaft is to-day l,l3I feet
deep, and the bottom is iu hard black
porphyry, with no quartz worth men
tioning. There is almost no water ~
all to contend with, the workmen
having to use water in drilling the holes
for blasting. The drift south for The
Holmes ground, at the l,0so-foot level
i snow in 1871 feet from the shaft, and
the face shows hard east country rock;
The old Alta mine continues to weld
about so tons Of good ore per day.
ALPHA.
Nothing new or important developed
Of late in this mine. Its future is prin-
cipally d~cpeuden. on what the lmper'a'-
Empire shaft may develope. AT tue
annual meeting Of the company, held on
the 22d at San Francisco, the following
trustees were chosen for tue ensuing
year: J.. D. Fry, Thomas Bell, Alsinza
Hayward, Louis Gerstle, Thomas sun
dsrland. ]. D. Fry was subsequently
elected President, and William Willis
Secretary.
cHoLLAR rorosI.
About 2so tons Of ore per day are
yielded, averaging over 500 per 'on;
The drift north at the l,loo foo, level
has been completed beyond the nor'o
line to a connection with the l,oso-foot
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