Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-10-26
BoDIE, Cal, October %, 1877.

believe remarked that Bodie was "away
up" or words to that effect. If your royal
majesty had arisen, as your correspondent did
this morning, in all his beauty and innocence,
you would have pronounced him latitudinally
correct, for the majestic hills and lowly val
leys, the Chinese restaurant and all the corner
lots were covered with the soft mantle of the
beautiful snow, (see poem), We have visited
few of the mines here and find the outlook,
or rather the under look, away beyond our
expectations The Red Cloud mine owned
by Gov. Blasdel and son is really rich pros
pect. We looked down the shaft, sampled
the ore and found it all that the Governors
classic description had painted it. By the
courtesy of the Superintendent of the Stand
ard Mining Company, Mr. VIM. Irwin, we
were kindly furnished with pass to visit the
mine. We were rather surprised at the kind
ness, as We were accompanied by that perfect
longitudinal Adonis, Nichols, of Huntingdon
Hopkins & Co., and Frank B. Hessel, the &C
commodating and irresistible managing direc
tor of the firm of ellison & Barber, (whom we
incidentally mentioned keep the best store in
Bodie and sell cheaper and have larger stock
and more effectual assistants than any firm in
the State) We were furnished with docile
mustangs and to the surprise and delight of
the unemployed, created sensation as We
left camp. By the courtesy of Mr.. G. Con-
way, Foreman of the mine we were conducted
through the entire underground workings.
We beheld sight which would make an old
gold hunter wild. The rock, it can hardly be
called rock, it is so soft and easily milled, is
just gorgeous in'gold We fell over one pile
which we were informed, (and you could al
most smell the metaD, was worth $4,000.
There was a calm, placid satisfaction in sitting
down on that amount and supreme indiffer
ence in the contented feeling that we did not
need it as long as our expenses were paid by
the APPEAL. The Standard is the chief and
if it were on the Board we would put our
months salary in it without a moments hest
tation, provided always, we could keep up |
running account at the Ormsby. We have
only one thing to say against the Standard
mine, to wit, that is to say, willy: the pleas
ant walk along the drifts in the lower levels.
At some points there is no bottom, as near as
you can see with candle, and the passage is
made over round timbers, situated at very
inconvenient distances apart. Your corres-
pondent being short and unable to reach from
one to the other, and our friend Nichols being
long, it became necessary to tie our feet to-
gether and haul us across, after the manner
of the button hole stitch sewing machine, in
this intermidual fashion. Thus we were long
enough in the drifts and were pulled through
without accident, although it can hardly be
said without design. By some unexpected (O
circumstance the engine became out of order
the foot rests are irregular and the passage
narrow, but by dint of remarkable exertion
and much exhaustion we reached terra hrma
There, safely arrived, our friend Nichols was
of his nervous system, to apply himself to a
small portion of ellison & BARRIERS best, and
from the evident gusto with which he landed i
the furniture, it seemed to an Impractical eye v
that it took at least forty minutes to reach S
he 2OO-foot level. The Bulwer mine is pre- t
enting an excellent showing. The products l
re far above the expectations of the owners. P
Nm. Gill, the Foreman, showed us some fine S
pecimens of ore. The Bodie mine is looking b
YELL Our old friend of Eureka, Jno. Gilday il
the foreman and is doing first rate work, as o
e always does and always has. We not only A
Ike the looks of Bodie, but think it good a
lace to camp. The Syndicate, which occu il
les what is known as lower Bodie, is one of O.
he best and most productive mines in the
District. They have tunnel which reaches o.
yerything and most superb showing. The "
unnel we learn was commenced last June.
t runs full 700 feet and strikes porphyry and al
Fhite quartz all the way. This company m
marks seven well defined lodges, viz, Osceola f.
ioga, Rockaway, New Mexico, Isabella, re
anita Anna, and Orient. Patents are filed HI
o all of these. Work has been accomplished nj
n most Of these lodges and the ore runs up %
more than 500 per ton. The Beehtel ar
line is one of the most promising in the Dis ~
let 1t is situated between the Syndicate II
nd the Standard in an excellent location sa
hey have run a shaft $50 feet with good
lowing of ore. In the north drift the run
axes 80 feet and in the south 80. The ledge &c