Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-04
THE BELMONT MINES.

Nye county mines has brought them so
favorably before the stock specializing
world as the events of the past fortnight;
and the steady upward tendency OF the
Belmont, Ell Dorado South and neigh
boring stocks seems 20 portend very
important revival of the material inter-
ests of the district indicated. We were
shown at the State Treasurer's Office
yesterday a specimen Of the Belmont
ore-a mass as big as a mans head, a
solid lump of black chloride streaked and
wormed and foliated with many curious
veins of wire silver. Ii this is a true
sample of the great vein OF metal which
has been come upon, the calculated
treasures of the Eberhardt were hardly
in excess of the richness of the mine.
Perhaps it is too rich to last long; but be
this as it may, everybody win be inter
ested in what the RersiNs's Belmont cor
respondent SAYS of the matter. Says he:
BELMONT. October 80, 1878.
Eps. REvEILIE-The excitement now
raging ove- the late developments of the
Belmont Company in this little camp
would as.onish the oldest inhabitant Of
Virginia City CT White Pine, and We feel
sats IL saving that the immense body of
ore now being opened in the Garfield
mine VIII Yet astonish the world by its
richness and extent Already drift has
been run along this vast body Of mineral
over sixty feet-and cross cuts are
being run If short distances apart. These
cross cuts are IN over eight feet, and
they expose the pre;tiest mass of silver
ore that We have ever had the pleasure
# seeing. On either side of these cross
.lrifts the wire silver lies punched together
in the cavities Of the rock. like punches
Of white silk, while the solid portions of
the ore are rich in sulphurets and zinc
bIendc This wire silver occurs through
out all the ore yet exposed. How extern
siye this ore body is remains yet to be
proven. From the fact that splendid
ore is being exposed in the level 100 feet
below, and that this rich drift from the
winze is 80 feet below the next level
above, gives q body of 1GO feet in depth,
and rs there IS no opening on the south
side for q distance of several hundred
feet, and none whatever on the north
side, it is mere matter of conjecture
how extensive the body of ore may prove
to be. However, there is enough already
N sight to warrant the lucky share
holders a handsome ronthly dividend
for an unlimited length of time. This is
not all; splendid ore has been struck
IN the Highbridge mine. This body is
of the black metal, or Stetefeldtite
character, anu is very rich in silver.
The first shot put i'll the face of the
ledge blew out :. ton OF ore that would
average at least 5000 per ton. Only a |
few months ago when We gave you a |
description of the several locations and |
u1e chin,neys in the belt Of several thou |
sand feet belonging to the Belmont Com |
pany, and giving as our opinion that We |
believed that this company possessed |
one of the most valuable mining pro-
perties in the State, and that the develop
Inants then going on would yet astonish |
TIE natives, and that the croakers and |
5elly-achers who were then selling Bel
mont stock at one dollar would yet regret
their rash acts, ETC., we were put up as
first class blower, accused Of eIaggera-
ton, guilty of possessing very bad JudS-
Inent, etc. But time has proven that
we were right, and it is amusing now to
see the throng of visitors to the mine. |
anxious to see the big thing only partly
opened to view. They look on with |
;.mazement; they pick up chunk of /
wire silver to show some friend as evil |
dence of their bad judgment, and leave
the mine cursing the day they gave away
their stock for few dollars, and now |
bids fair to be up in the hundreds IN |
Aery short time.
FL DOEADO co.
are not sleeping. They, too, are actively
at wori, in the dark depths of mother
earth They are pushing forward the
lower drifts as fast as three shifts of men
can do it. Last week they cut tbs finest
ore ever taken from the mine. The lower
levels are each in about 40 feet on the
north side About 10 feet from main IL
cline, the rich salphuret and stetefeldtite
ore showed itself. As the work pro-
pressed the body grew thicker; when III
ten feet it showed on all sides of the
drift, and the ore is richer as the drift
goes ahead. The face of the drift Is
now about 20 feet from tie incline.
This discovery is ray Of sunshine for
the Ell Dorado North Company, who own
the ground only $50 feet from the south
edge of this rich chimney, for the dip Of
the ore bodies tending southwark, proves
that the ground of the FL
Dorado North Co. contains this body of
ore from this depth to the surface, some
is0 feet
MONITOR CO. Il
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