Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-09
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the Enterprise a series of interesting
sketches entitled, "What l saw in the
Great East" No. 10 of the series is
devoted to Typo and Reveille districts,
and both being outlying precincts of
Eureka, though in Nye county, the
Professors remarks are considered of
local interest. Following is what he has
to say:
TybOs
Twenty miles to the south of Hot
Creek, in the Hot Creek range OF mount
ans, in a deep mountain gorge lie the
famous Typo mines. At the entrance
to the gorge, the prospect is not propi-
tious, for the reason that the everlast-
ing limestone forms the basis of min
eral deposition. At intervals, silver
lodges crop out in the limestone all the
way along the canyon, but volcanic
action has twisted and corrugated the
everything rocks TO such a degree that
any attempts at ledge develop
ments must necessarily prove abor-
tive. The village of Typo is liter
ally d "string town." In other words,
it II a town of au average width of two
hundred feet, and a length of five
miles. The only point at Typo where
the everlasting limestone ceases, and
where a more propitious geological
feature appears, is at the lower town,
or at the point where the smelling
works and reduction works have been
erected. At the point designated there
is q wide belt CT quartZite and por-
phyritic matter, in the center of which
is the celebrated Two G mine. This
mine has been developed to the depth
of about three hundred feet. 1t has a
good dip toward the northeast, has a
northwe terly and southe ,sterly strike,
and is Iruly a well defined assure vein,
of from three to nine feet in diameter.
Like the South Prussian, at Jefferson,
the Two G. contains well-detined strata
of free ore, with a~lternatingR layers of
galena and other base minerals. For
this reason the -mine-owners have
wisely concluded to work the ores by
the dual process of smelling and mill
ing. At Typo there is now in COM
plete running order a twenty-stamp
mill and a first class smelling furnace.
With such complete reduction appli-
ances the mines at Typo can not fail to
prove successful, for the ore is rich by
assay, and practically inexhaustible.
ReveiiIe.
Thirty miles to the southeast of Typo,
and on the eastern slope of the Rev
ellie range OF mountains, we find the
now famous Reveille mines. The
Reyeille range seems to be a sort of
dwindled adjunct to the great chain
which forms the eastern barrier of Rail
road valley. Anyhow, Reveille dis
trict Is, at this juncture, one of the most
notable in Central Nevada, and it he
ONE necessary, in this veracious his
tory. TO give a full account of its sur
roundings. Reveille district is a geo
logical phenomenon. 1t is composed
of gneisoidal rocks, decomposed por-
phyry. beds Of alum shale, beds of
iron, seams OF rotten granite, lodges OF
barren quartz, vast masses of dolomite.
and the richest deposits of free silver
ore, in the heart OF a grand zone of
quartzite and porphyry.
The principal minenow being worked
at Reveille is the ella. The ore il
shipped twelve miles away to a twelve-
stamp mill, which, / have been told,
works the mineral satisfactorily. The
ore u uHuNuallN rlcH, yIeiulHg iIoni GLOW
to $500 per ton by assay; and yet the
mine managers of the ella have, in
their supreme ignorance, run three
tunnels into the hill, and were last
Summer. at their third level, only fiji
tv eight feet below the ontcrop. Being
in the heart of a great zone of quartzite
and porphyry, and having, a it does,
the true strike and dip OF tirst-class
quartz lodes. the ella ought to be n of
the best mines on the coast; and, if ii
does not proveto be so, the fault will
be with the managers.