Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1876-12-28


The following extracts are from an in
tsrsstisg letter by George younis. an old
Comstock miner. We are kindly permit
ted TO copy them by Mr.. John Z. Jones.
oac ef our citizens. 10 whom the letter IL
addressed:
T~rscAloRA. Elko county. Nevada.
Dec. ~. 1876.
rarrxp JONES: The Town u Tuscarora
/. situated about IS miles from CArlin. On
the Central Pacific Railroad IL . ~northsrly
direction. aud Is connected with that place
BY . tri-weekiy stage lins-fare 81. Tus-
carorA is not . new place. A. many sup
nose. but has been . Considerable placer
mining camp for about nine years. The
placsrs are said To have paid very we'll In
years gone by. but at present u Is In .
rather languishing condition. and mainly
worked BY Cinnamon. The quartz era
may 30 said 10 date from the Fall OF 1865,
n which time the mine called /" Young
America was discovered. Its shaft Ia now
dswn about $50 feet. and 10 was running
vhsn I arrived here. but WAS shut down
about two week. age. They have about
400 tons 81 ore hespsd up around the
works, which they all say Is immensely
rich, but In my opinion IL 10 about the
drolisst looking truck to have money In IL
that anybody sver saw. The superintend-
sut sAid that the company were tired Of
paving assessments. and thought II advis-
All. 10 shut down for the Winter and
build . mill the first thing In the Spring.
and get money enough out Of the Aforesaid
funny pile of stuff 10 run the mine on.
The rock looks like chunks Of tough. rcd
clay which had been dried at the firs. and
10 not unlike brickbats In fact. all. or
nost all the rock In the camp looks like
brickbat. and some OF II Is undoubtedly
rich.
NeIt TO the Young America comes the
"Grand Prixr" company and the suly siher
mine that has In the camp hosting works.
They are down with . small shaft about
IT'S iest. and according to all csouuts Il
IL really agsod mine. They sent about 10
tons ef rock to Whine mucca and had II
crushed. and they say 10 went about $500
10 tho ton. They ars hosting with .
ANAL donkey ct present. Mt the rate Of one
bucket Of rock to az Of water. All the
mines here arc on . big s~ascbrush hat.
and between that and the rolling foot
hills. and not far from = branch OF the
Owyhss river. None Of them will have
any dump worth speaking OF. unless
they catch IL BY building mp their shafts,
and by reason Of the country being % nat.
their minss will be . perfect see Of water;
and What the Savage 10 at 1000 feet these
mines will probably bs at 200 feet. and II
svsr they 80 down any distance they will
probably rfft>bpEe pappln9 machinery,
and Where the fuel ID 10 coms LSSem 70 run
sAid machinery is . mystery. TN country
being almost destitute Of timber. >-Ihc
'' Young America" donkey ran ON sage
brush. which can he had In considsrable
quantity about three miles OIL. aud the
supply would perhaps hold out q year or
two. The Grand Prize runs on quak-
Ing asp. . Kind % scrubby timber found
from eight TO twelve Mills from here In
some of the gulehes. bat the supply they
say In nearly exhausted. They might. u IL
true. build . narrow -guags railroad FROM
tho Central Pscidc and bring their timber
that way. aud which will perhaps be done
should the minss 10 found 10 Justify H.
All the timbcrs and sawed lumber used
here have to be hauled from Elko and costs
SIS per thousand feet laid down here.
TIE Grand Prixs arc now putttng up
heavy maehiney and have got about every