Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-06-24
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Arrivals
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vAIEABLR WATER STRIKE

\ There has been much complaint OF
lite about the great scarcity of water,
owing to the falling of of the natural
supply obtained in this vicinity. For
weeks recently families, especially ut
Virginia, have had to skirmish about
considerably in order to find the neces-
sary water to cook with or to drink,
and II Of animals had to hunt
about also for water for them. Some
of the mills in Gold Canyon, and also
in Six-mile Canyon, had to suspend
operations, because they could not get
water enough to run with. The Viz
ginia and Gold Hill Water Company,
after long and expensive drifting at
the head Of Crown Point Ravine, sue
ceeded a few days ago in striking a
stream of water which furnished about
twenty inches of water at first, but 1t
has failed very much since then. The
subject OF artesian boring west of the
Comstock has also been freely dis
cusSed, and perhaps may eventually
have to be resorted to, rs the deep
shafts east of the ledge have pretty
Nell uIdlLlcu IL llliS l1l. ~ HAOAb iSo
been the falling off OF the surface sup
ply from this cause that the Water
Company has been obliged to pump
the water struck in the new shaft Of
the Ophir mine up to their reservoirs
and fumes at the upper side of the
city, allowing 4 portion also to run
down to Gold Hill. Even that sup
MY has, however, proven inadequate
to the demand, and, aS we said before,
some of the mills had to cease opera
tions for that reason. II has also been
found, heretofore, that the deeper the
shafts along the Comstock were sunk
the less water vas found indeed, the
deepest mines were almost or quite
dry ut the bottom. One of the deepest,
the Savage, Mt its tenth or lowest level.
l,4OO feet below the surface. could
only find water in occasional little
pockets or reservoirs among the dry
stratas through which the drifts passed
prospecting for ore. Last Monday or
Tuesday, however, the miners pene-
trated n seam or body of warm water,
which yielded copiously, and when
fairly tapped, so great was the flow
that il drove them out. 1t o o began
to fiji ND the lower drifts Of the mine,
and all the pumping and bailing re-
sources could not keep it from rising
high enough to flow through into the
Hale & Norcross mine, which connects
with il on the south, at the ninth level.
Not having had much water TO con-
tend with for the last few years, the
pumping arrangements Of the Savage
have not been kept M to any con-
tingency like the present; therefore,
Notwithstanding the temporary bail
ing tanks, which were also set to
working, the water rather got
the best Of them till this MORN
ing, when the abundant water be-
gan TO recede a little In the shaft.
Meanwhile the pump is being put into
more effective condition, and a new
pluneer, cast for il, will be working
tomorrow. The Hale 4 Norcross
pumps also have all they want to do,
This great increase of water Is now
flowing through the fumes OF the
Water Company to Gold Hill, giving 4
plentiful supply to all the mills re-
quirins it along the canyon. The
water from the Ophir shaft is now all
nsed in the supply of Virginia, and the
mills In Six-mile canyon. If this new
water strike will only hold out, with
adequate pumping apparatus it may be-
come permanently available and val
liable In the water supply of this sec
ton.