Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-12-13
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
PRRMAruRE ESrIosIoN.

and a horse went of prematursly neal
the Back-action mill, beyond Washot
City, on tho line Of the Virginia ant
Truckee Railroad, Monday afternoon
The hillside had been graded down {
depth Of twenty-five feet. Back o
and above this a large hole, thirty feet
deep, had been made, and thirty key
of powder had been poured therein,
A line Of fuse reached from the pow
der to the surface. In shoyeling In
the tamping o bowlder cut the fuse
against the wall, struck fire, anC
ignited the filling. A Chinaman was
working away leisurely filling up the
hole above tho powder. when the fore
man happened along, and seeing the
smoke OF the burning fuse, and sur.
missing the cause, raj down to the pit
or grade below, where ten horses and
carts we're standing, and succeeded In
getting nine Of the horses ouc of the
way before the blast went OF. The
other horse went of with the blast,
and some fragments Of the hide and
harness were picked up on the oppo-
site side Of the canyon. So says the
Carson Register.
CARSON IrEMs.-We extract the fol-
lowing from the Register Of this morn
ing: C. II. Belknap, Private Secretary
to his Excelloncy Governor Bradley,
returned yesterday from a two months
soiourn In the Eastern States. .. Mrs.
l.. I. l.. Adams, the talented lady who
has been enlightening and delighting
our people with her lectures on the
Holy Land, Is now lecturing in Day
ton. She will lecture in Armory Hall,
Virginia, on Sunday and Monday even
ings next In the Second District
Court In and for Douglas county, at
Genoa, RoderigOs, the Mexican who
last Summer shot Ben. Ellsworth, at
Pine Nut, has been found guilty Of as
sault with q deadly wea pon, and Is to
be sentenced to the State Prison at 10
O'Clock to-day, unless efforts now be-
ing made for a new trial should prove
successful. In the case Of the State W.
Dan. Harkins, for killing Hardwicke,
a few weeks since, q jury was obtained
Yesterday afternoon, and the examlna-
tion Of witnesses commenced.
TAcoMA.-Sheriff Ben Fitch Of Elko
county, who was at Carson yesterday,
gave the Register the following Items
relative to Tacoma, the new mining
district near Pilot Peak, twenty-seven
miles east of Toano, in which Colonel
David E. Buel and Ike Batemen are
now operating. The mines are situate
five miles from Tacoma, the railroad
station, and a town Is rapidly going
nm at the mines. Buel & Bateman's
furnace made a run Of forty-two hours,
during which time 1t turned out forty
tons Of bullion-or over 1,9OO pounds
DER hour. This bullion carries silver
TO the value Of 900 per ton and up
wards. There Is an immense body OF
ore In sight in the Buel mine-sufi-
Gent, it Is believed, to give up one ton
Of bullion every hour for four years.
There are several other mines In the
immediate vicinity, particularly the
Ironclads Nos. l, 2, 3 and 4, equally
as rich rs the Buel, and the mountains
for miles around r covered with
p]rospectors and miners at work on
promising lodges.
Coon MXRKET.-Families eating
houss-keepers, in short, all who have.
occasion to trade at the summit Mar
ket, on the Divide, between here and
Virginia, are unanimous in pronounc-
ing the meats kept there first-rate.
Charley Ziegler Is Il good man and
knows how to II a market Just right.
His sausage Is especially good and re-
liable. aud his beef. mutton, pork,
veal, ETC., will bear the most epicurean
inspection. See his advertisement to.
day.
CuoLLkR-PoTosI.-For want ofdump
room only $40 tons Of ore was eS-
tracted from the above mine last week,
assaying $43 20 per ton. About 1900
tons accumulated in the dumps, owing
TO bad roads and consequent lack OF
TRANSFORMATION facilities. This diff
entity "a being somewhat obviated by
fmproyed weather, otherwise the bull
lion yield for December would be
much decreased.
PAINFUL ACCIDENTAL the Fulton
Foundry, on the Divide, yesterday, a
piece OF molten iron from the furnace
flew into the right eye of E. b. Strick-
land, one Of the operatives, burning 1t
severely. DR.. LIE Guen, Of Virginia,
last evening extracted q piece of iron
"A large as q grain Of wheat from the
eve. The sight was fortunately moi
injured.
FIRE AT WAsuoE.-A slaughter
house near washos City was destroyed
by fire night before last. Among the
rest Of the property destroyed was Q
dressed hog and three oxen. It Is moi
known how tho fire originated.