Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1873-07-22
Eureka as Viewed by a Travelling
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this section; The district comprisinv
Eureka contains about four thpusani
souls, and it's location is about 81
miles south of Palisade, on the G. p.
X. H., or about 65S miles east of San
Francisco, and is situated at an sleya-
ton of 6,651 feet above tide water.
This place contains five hotels and
some 30 mercantile establishments.
Daily and tri-weekly lines of stages
ply between here and Hamilton and
Palisade, also to Elko and Austin.
The fare from San Francisco to this
place is S5S and the time required to
make the trip is 4S hours. A little of
the early. history of the place may
not be embarrassing at this time. The
DISCOVERY OF THE DISTRICT
Was some time in September, 1864,
when some prospectors came in from
Austin, which is situated 70 miles west
from here. They adopted laws to gov
ern the district, and a Mr.. Tannahill
was elected the first Mining Recorder.
These p~rospectors discovered some
carbonate ores, and made several To-
cations; but in the "finds" there was
nothing of a high grade except some
pockets; nevertheless, these humble
miners succeeded in interesting a
new York company, and one small
urnace was put up, i'll the Summer of
1866, the remains of which are still
visible. They met with little success,
however, having not only a poor fur
mace to contend with at that time, but
being very distant from their base of
supplies. This occurred before the
e.. Z. K. r. was completed. From
this time on until the great excite
ment Of
WHITE PINE,
In the Summer of 1869, which brought
the miners and prospectors again
through the district, but little is
known.
In 1866, however, Alonzo Monroe
came and located some mines on what
is now known as Mineral HILL"
Finding some good ores, Mr.. Monroe
went over to Austin in the Summer of
1865, and interested Mr.. S~tetefeldt, of
that place, with him in the erection IF
The first blast furnace eve built here.
In March, 1869, the first run with this
furnace was made; it proved, how
ever, a failure; for after running about
$500 pounds of bullion, this pioneer
furnace froze up. Attempts to run it
proved unsuccessful, until Major Nc
Coy came over from White Pine,
bringing with him two Cornishmen,
named Jones and Williams. These
gentlemen remodeled Monroe and
Stetefeldt's furnace, adding more
tuyeres, and finally made the first
successful run of a furnace in the dis
trict. About that time the
CHAMPION & BUCKEYE
Mines (Which now constitute the
Eureka Con. NJ. Cor, were secured
by the second pioneer who entered
the district, Mr.. David Buell., who
bonded the said mines some time in
November, 1869. and sent MI. Isaac
Bateman to England to dispose of the
same. He interested some English
capitalists in the enterprise, and they
sent out engineers to look into it, who
reported favorably. Those furnishing
the capital, however, were not salts
fled, but had some experts from Cali
fOrnia to make a report, which was
adverse, and the sale fell through. AS
it subsequently proved, they lost a
valuable purchase. Mr.. Buell., un-
daunted by his failure, appealed to
San Francisco capital, when the pres
ent Eureka Con. NJ. Co." was incor-
porated, the history OF which is too
familiar to bear repetition-eXcept the
development, which l propose to give
you in a future communication, to-
gether with notes OF many other
prominent mines in this district. /
will, however, add a little OF the early
history of an adjoining district, known
as the
SECRET CANYON,
which is located about seven and a
half miles southeast Of Eureka, and
was discovered by II. A. Hogdon, in
August, 1869, and before Mr.. Buel
created any excitement at Eureka /;
Mr.. Hogdon had extracted and
shipped ION mules, by pack train
several tons of ore to different mills
at Austin, in the Reese River district,
and ShermantOwn III White Pine dis
trict. The mine from which he ex-
tracted this ore is named after himself
and known as the
HOGDON MINE,
the pioneer or discovery mine OF the
district, and the one which created the
first great excitement, which brought
so many ~prospectors to Eureka dis
trict, and vicinity in the Fall of 1869.
Quite an amount of ore of high grade
was extracted near the surface OF this
mine, and, as above stated, worked at
mills located in Austin and at Sher-
mantown. There has been but little
or no work done on this mine for the
last two years, until the present sea-
son. This mine was Incorporated in
December last as the HOgdOn Mill
and Mining Company. with ELLIOTT ).
Moore as President, John Nj. Moore
as Secretary, and H. A. Hogdon as
Superintendent.
THE PRESENT DEVELOPMENT
consists of a vertical shaft, so feet deep,
from the bottom of which an incline
is run some 40 feet deeper, exposing
a metalliferous stratum, with streaks
of ore of a high grade, indicating a
body of ore close at hand. This o +
poration claims 1000 feet ntheir loca-
ton, 800 feet of which are as n crop
pings as | ever saw. l neglected TO
state for the first 20 feet in this com
PAWS shaft they found fine ore; but
wishing to develop it at a greater
depth, they are not extracting ore, put
sinking, working night and day-shlIts.
A subsequent location, known as n
Geddes Il Bertrand, is about 500 1eet
south of the Hogdon ; and about one