The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-02
THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS.

THREE HUNDRED @LL1oNs.
Tremendous Discoveries of On i'm IN.
| Great Comstock Ledse.-SharoA Est,-
| mates the Value of the Buige at
Three Hundred Millions-A MeuntaA~
of Silver
At last the great "bulge," the true
heart of the wcrld-famous Comstock
silver lodge, Would SEEN to have been
reached. As far as explored, it lies In
the Consolidated Virginia, California
and Ophir claims. In all three of these
mines have been developed marvelously
rich bodies-wonderful masses of sui
phuret and chloride ores. We have
said "bodies," but there is in reality
but one body-one immense bonanza,
chimney, or whatever else we may
choose to call it-one huge mass of ore
extending all the way from the, Consol-
idated Virginia through the California
into the Ophir, and no one knows how
much of its height or width, and moth
ing at all of its depth. As to its length
we know something definite namely,
Consolidated Virginia, and undoubtedly
traverses the entire length 10000 feet
of the California, as it has been discov-
cred in the Ophir mine, which adjoins
the California on the north. How far
it extends into tho Ophir ground time
and the honest miner can only determine.
It is conceded, however, that the ore
body cannot be less than 1900 feet in
length.
The great fssure In which this huge
bonanza of ore rests, appears to have
expanded at this particular point in the
course of the vein In order to form for
it cradle suited to it's giant proper
tions. Measuring across from the true
I" west cotintfy rock to the true east
country" rock, the distance is from
], 900 to 1900 feet. The space between
the east and west country rocks is the
assure in which lies the body of ore,
which, of late, has startled and bewil-
dered all the "experts and the whole
mining world of the Pacific coast.
The great fssure is filed with what our
mining men call "vein matter -
gangue-a mixture of Quartz, clay and
porphyry. Here, in the midst of this
vein matter or gangue, which fills the
vast fssure from side to side, has
of ore which runs through the three
mines mentioned above. f. produce
body of such gredt size, an immense
bed of vein matter was required-you
cannot rear q whale in q trout brook.
For several months the Consolidated
Virginia company have been ct work
in the crest of this subterranean silver
mountain, and the Ophir company have
been gouginY into it for shorter period
of time, while the California folks have
but just begun to feel their way into its
western slope at two or three points.
Never until lately have the Oonsoli-
dated Virginia company seemed to get
fairly into the ridge of the MOUNTAIN
to penetrate point where they could
begin to see what they were working
upon, although in their upper levees
they have opened great breadths of
wonderfully rich ore.
There can be no doubt that the body
of ore now just being opened in the
three mines under consideration is IN
doubleday the largest and richest the
world ever saw. In the California the
width will doubtless prove to be inn
mense just how wide it may be found
no one can say, and the experts them
selves fear to risk an opinion, but they
hint at all the way from 200 to 400 feet.
The length, as we all know, is 600 feet.
From the developments now being
made at each end of the mine, we, up
here, are beginning to fear that some
whare near tha aantsA- it will -hafeaad
to be but a solid mountain mass of
pure silver.
A Chronicle reporter called upon Mr..
Sharon last evening. In reply to
!, aiding question, Mr.. Sharon said !:
"Of course it is not possible for any
one to look into the bowels of the earth,
and consequently can't pretend to ex-
actness the best judges, However, say
that its value is fabulous. Superin-
tendent Requa, of the Chollar, and
superintendent Smith, OF the Belcher,
set down the bonanza at double the size
of that found in the Grown Point and
Belcher and three times as rlch."
Reporter-Have you any notion what
the lead will pan out?
Mr.. Surroundings place the gross
at $500. 900. 900 and the profits at from
$3.50, 600. 600 to 5000, 900, 600.
In general conversation, Mr.. Sharon
said that he considered the discovery
the most important event in the history
of the coast. sc Its influence upon the
commercial interests of the state" he
observed, twill be of untold value.
The mines are owned in San Francisco,
and an amount of capital equal to the
present assessed value of the whole
city, will be brought here. Such wealth
must bring immigration, and stimulate
every department of trade. "-Saga
francisco Chronicle.