Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1875-10-06
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Boulder City, Colorado, is a happy
city. Licenses for saloons, shows, etc,
pay oil its expenses, and the taX-roliector
is unknown.
Superintendent Crawford informs the
Carson Appeal that at the Mint Treas.
ury, awaiting purchasers. are no less
than S14 900 in twenty pieces. !
The surveying party which has been
engaged in Surveying Government lands
in the vicinity of Austin has completed
its labors.
p. W. Johnson, OF Winnemucca. has
accepted an invitation extended by the
officers of the Humboldt Agricultural
Society to deliver the address at the
District Fair.
Wells, Fargo & Co. shipped from Aus
tin during the month ending September
30th. ninety four bars of bullion,
weighing 6,4l6 pounds. valued Mt $751;
661.42.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
propose to take q hand in extending
the Utah Northern Railroad from Cor
inne north 10 the gold mines Of Mon !
tana.
The Leader admits that the Black |
Hills Juror has filled Cheyenne with |
desperate and dangerous characters, who |
gain precarious living by thieving and |
free lunchiDg
The incoming legislators of Wyoming
will be asked to repeal the disgraceful
gambling and lottery license laws OF that
Territory, and already the sports of
Cheyenne and Laramie arc raising
corruption fund of $4,000 to defeat the
movement.
The Eko Independent is informed
that the prospects for permanent mine
of frst-class mica much superior to
anything upon the coast, has been found,
The quality is first-class and the quantity
unlimited, the deposit being ninety feet
in width and cropping out at intervals
for distance OF over two thousand feet.
The Papamint News reports that the
Sunrise mill is running splendidly and
has quite large amount of amalgam on
hand, from which bullion will be made for
shipment by the LIST proximo. Although
but five-stamp mill it thinks, Mt the
rate she il now working, that $2S, 900 to
$50, 600 per month will be turned ont,
and this without roasting the ore. The
work OF sinking on the ledge goes con-
stantly ahead, and the ore is constantly
improving in quantity and quality.
The Brunswick mill has been pur-
chased by the Consolidated Virginia
Mining Company and in few days will
be started up on ore from the Consoli-
dated Virginia mine. This mill has fifty.
six stamps. twenty-six pans and thirteen
| settlers. The motive power is water,
with Leffel turbine of tifty.six inches.
The mill ia capable OF crushing 40 tons
per day. This mill will now be run on
Consolidated Virginia ore, and shipments
have already been commenced. This
will add about 100000 per month to
the crushing capacity of the company.
Ophir is now taking out four hundred
tons of ore per day, Of which three hun
bred and twenty are milled. With an
increased milling capacity the amount
could readily be increased to six hun.
dred tons per day. Yesterday. says the
Enterprise of the LIST, the Pacific mill
commenced its crushing Of Ophir rock
This mill has thirty stamps, fifteen pans,
five settlers, two cleanup pans, is steam
power, and has capacity, when run to
the full of its power, of one hundred
tons per day. From and after to-day the
Kelsey will also join the Ophir ranks
and add its fifty tons capacity to the
others. This means business. The
average of the ore stopped, as run to the
mills, is $94.35. Rock from the 1000
averages $2l0 per ton.
IT'S thus that the Battle Mountain
Measure for Measure dscourses of Win
nemucca: Reports of late discoveries in
the mountains come in daily, as thew
proverbially do in mining camps. Win
nemucca in this respect holds out in its
early freshness tougher than any town
for hundreds of miles. Every few days
an entirely new thing-and bigger thing
| than ever-is announced; and after
the fortunate discoverer has been
kept drunk for few days and nights. az
in duty bound, company is made up
and the new Dorado is visited and
properly recorded, and white man
is put in as superintendent over
two Indians, two picks, shovel
one side of bacon. n sack of -four, a
| frying pan and paper of coffee; and the
retiring party is closely followed into
town by one of the Indians with horse
| in lead, and note in bis pocket notify.
| ing the partners of the superintendent
that he has struck an excellent prospect.
| and it will undoubtedly make their for.
| tunes-do IT sell; send some more ba-
con and sack of potatoes. All this
keeps up the pungency of a gritty pros.
| pectiDg enterprise, and gives the town a
| wide-awake air.
The Inyo Independent says: The Sill
yer Sprout near Independence, Inyo
county, has shaft sunk upon it ninety
seven feet deep. The ledge in the tun-
mel is fourteen feet wide. The walls are
hard granite and perfectly defined. On
the first or foot wall is seam of pay ore
| from twelve to sixteen inches in width.
plainly exposed in an upraise for twenty.
six feet in hight, thence south through
the shaft about thirty feet to the original
discovery in the shaft On the west side
or hanging wall there is another streak
OF rich ore, the thickness and quality al
most like the first. This has been dug
out to the depth of about eight feet be-
low the level of the tunnel, being the
lowest working in the mine. and for
abont twelve feet along the wall toward
the shaft, the objective point Of the
present workings. The ore is of the ar
| senical silver class. and runs from two to
three hundred dollars per ton. 1t is not
difficult, 80 far as we can Judge, to sort
considerable quantities that will run