Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-07-06
LOCAL MINING REVIEW.
For the Week Ending Jnly ;. 1873.


ing one in mining circles. To con-
fess the truth, public attention has been
more conferred on the proper celebration
Of the ever-glorious Fourth of July, and
its attendant festivities, than on what is
popularity supposed to be the only sub
iect Of contemplation suited to the mental
capacity of the denizens of a mining
camp, the ups and downs of the stock
market, the discoveries of new, and
strikes in old. mines. Nevertheless,
the stalwart miners, who, deep down in
the bowels of the earth, WELD, untiringly,
the hammer and the pick, have never
ceased their labors; the steady pulsations
OF the powerful engines, that night and
lay are bringing the rich ores to the sur
face, have never ceased to beat, and il
we have nothing very new to chronicle, it
is because the statement of our unbroken,
UNMARRIED success as a mining district, is
getting to be, to Us, an old story. As we
have often stated before, the best, the
truest test of the value of our mines is
TO be found in their productive power;
so TO our bullion shipments We point
with an honest pride, and challenge the
world to show like result from the same
number of stamps. Improvements about
different mines, OF a substantial and
permanent character, point with unerring
certainty to profound confidence in the
minds of the enterprising and sagacious
capitalists who furnish the 'sinews of
war" for these expensive works, in the
permanency as well as richness of our
mines, and so far as explorations have
been made, their confidence has not been
misplaced. The Raymond & Ely Com
pany are erecting new hosting works of
q magnitude and power certainly equalled
nowhere in the State, except, perhaps,
on some of the mines on the Comstock
Lode The Mazeppa, a week ago, COM
pleted hosting works calculated to sink
the shaft and work the mine with ease to
the depth OF thirteen hundred feet, while
there are now on the way and soon to
arrive, machinery for the same purpose,
tirst-elass in every respect, and of great
power, destined to be speedily erected on
the Silver Peak Mine. These are sub
stantial evidences of our prosperity that
cannot be gainsaid, and should serve to
confirm the minds of those who have
been prone to doubt of our future, and
to strengthen the arms of the poor but
determined men, whose only capital is
their muscular endurance and unweared
patience, but whose prophetic vision sees
in the near future rich reward for the
hardships and priyatious of to-day.
We continue to receive excellent ac-
counts OF the progress of developments
III the. mines of Bristol and Highland
Districts, both old locations and new
and every week become frmer in oul
faith that these two Districts are des
tined to take high rank among the min
my uiSlIlCts Oh the STATE.
To the south of us, Long Valley Min
ing District is beginning to assume, al
we learn, some considerable Importance
We have been shown recently some very
rich specimens of silver-bearing ore from
there, and are told that the veins from
which the ore we saw came, were boil
large and we'll defined
SPRING MOUNT.
This Company is sinking to strike tn
Spring Mount lode, which is undoubtedl,
identical with the famous Burke ledge
In the upper works they struck thre
very large and well defined lodges, but tn
ore was not considered rich enough t.
pay for working at present. The mai
shaft is down about $50 feet, and is be
ing driven night and day with three shift
of hands. The dimensions of the sha.
are as follows; two compartments, 4x4 I
feet each, inside the timbers.
MEADOW VALLEY
No ore is being raised at presen
through the shafts on No Z and No. j.
everything coming through the No.
0Adit 'hpuEu III Jolllt VI ldCt IL udlul
deserves the name, when taken in con
nection with such a mine as tn
Meadow Valley, being small and crooked
In size it is only 5X6 feet, and of thi
only two feet nine inches is devoted t
the bucket, which is necessarily small
in order to raise the requisite amount q
ore TO the surface to run the mill, til
lack of carrying capacity has to be mad
up by a speed of eight hundred feet mil
ute. The wear and tear is tremendou.
SO that the same kind of rope that We
formerly used three months, now onl
lasts twenty-four, or at most twent,
eight days. As soon as connection
made with No 5, where are the mai
hosting works of the company, ever,
thing above and including the 7th leve
will be worked through that shaft. Tn
connection will certainly be made by IL
list proximo, by which time it is expec
ed that the new works on No. 8 will |
completed. The new engine has
twelve-inch cylinder, and is rated at A
horse power. 1t was made at the Risde
Iron Works, San Francisco. Thirty-s
tons of ore are now being raised dali
Notwithstanding the difficulties to whit
we have alluded, and it is certainly full
as rich as any we have ever seen fro
the mine. The bullion shipment f
June was in the nighborhood OF 1885,
600.
CHIEF EAST.
Drifting west for the purpose of esta
fishing connection with the workin
of the Chief of the Hill mine, who a
drifting east with the same object
view, viz: to thoroughly ventilate DO
mines. As soon as the connectio