Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-05-28

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THE EUREKA CONSOLIDATED
BONANZA.
We q few days ago accepted an in.
vitation kindly extended by Superin-
tendent Shaw to visit and inspect the
great mine under his control. Arriv-
ed at the works, we stepped on the
cage and were dropped down to the
seventh level, which is a trifie short Of
seven hundred feet from the surface.
Being provided with candles at this
point, we commenced the work of ex-
ploration, led by Mr.. Condor, the very
efficient foreman. The big bonanza
was of course the chief point of inter-
est, and we made for it without delay.
The bonanza lies, or rather was tapped
about one hundred and eighty feet
northwest of the main shaft at present
in use. 1t is in what is called the Luz
pita ground, a claim purchased by the
Eureka Consolidated in early days,
from q man named Pritchard, who
shortly thereafter departed for the City
Of Mexico. where he married a daugh-
ter of President Jaurez. lThis scrap
of history has nothing to do with the
bonanza, but considering it worthy of
mention, we throw it in as we go
along.1 The bonanza is reached by a
tunnel from the seventh station, which
runs for q greater portion of the dis
tance-1SO feet-along the westerly
wall of the ledge, or ore channel. It
runs, in fact, almost parallel with the
bonanza, the general course of which
seems to be from the northwest to the
southeast. Once into the very heart of
the great ore deposit, we confess that
we were utterly dazzled at the immense
wealth surrounding us on every hand.
The pen Of no mortal man is adequate
to convey the faintest idea of its beauty
and magnitude. Nothing like it was
ever discovered before, must be the
universal verdict Of all who examine
1t critically. We candidly admit that
we have no hope of doing the subject
justice. We car only give the dimen-
sions Of this huge mountain of wealth
and then allow our readers to judge for
themselves of its probable value. In
but one place did we see anything re-
sembling q limit beyond which the ore
did not 60. That was at a point far off
to the eastward, where q drift had PEN
etrated the limestone for q few feet.
Turning a little to the right, however,
the great deposit appeared intact, with
every indication of being as strong and
valuable as at any other point in the
mine. The full scope Of the bonanza
Is not yet known, and will not be
known perhaps for months to come.
So far as explored, its size may be
given in round numbers as follows:
Length, $50 feet; width, 100 feet; depth,
100 feet. This vast body is almost
solid ore, there being but little waste
at any point. How many thousand
tons of ore that wonderful cube is ca
pable of producing we can not even
approximate, but certain it is that
there is already q sufficient amour in
sight to drive all OF the furnaces of the
company to their fullest capacity for
the next two years, if not longer. Nor
should the reader lose sight of the fact
that the end is not yet. In all direc-
tons the slopes, drifts, tunnels and
cross-cus are still in ore. The winze
from the seventh level is now down
sixty feet, every inch in good ore, with
nothing whatever to warrant the be-
lief that it may not continue in ore to
Is great q depth as has been reached
by some of the most noted mines on
the Comstock. The length of the de-
post is still undetermined. AS stated
above, 1t Is known to extend for a dis
tance OF $50 feet, and at both ends the
drifts are still in ore. How much
longer and wider and deeper it will
prove is of course beyond the scope OF
human ken. We should not be at all
surprised, however, If it turned out to
be twenty times greater than is shown
by present Developments. 1t Is SIM
ply impossible to estimate it, and spec
ulations are idle. The sixth level,
where the bonanza has again been cut
by a tunnel from the main shaft, is
looking full as we'll as the seventh.
The ore goes up, and the prospects ap-
pear Hattering that it will extend very
near to the surface. In that case the
proportions of the bonanza would
be increased to an extent that
would make it the wonder OF
the mining world. For our part,
We haven't the slightest doubt that II
extends In the direction Of the
surface several stations at least. We
have already spoken Of its tendency
downward. The main shaft Is al
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