Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-08-03
LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
An outside Opinion Of she Great
Mining Case = The Theory Of
Professor Raymond severely
Criticised.

"o"htaihs nave come uOWn 10 tnt
great seasbore and made something o
a stir in the quiet waters. The Judges
the lawyers, and most of the expert.
who are here to try the great Eureks
and Richmond lawsuit, are S0-ton guns
Heavy firing has been going on for .
week and l fear some Of the ordnance
used in diminishing will be badly
cracked ere the engagement is over,
The vein VAIN builders, bald headed
specialized and wise beyond anything
that has been written, are here in
mighty power. They have an i'm
mense piece of work on hand. and are
cutting up the Ruby Hill lode just as
a tailor cuts out a pair of u~nspeaka-
bles for his full Joined customers.
On the side of the Eureka CONSOLIDATE
ed Company are Messrs. Rossiter w.
Raymond and Sterry Hunt. of New
York, charged, capped and fully
cooked by Mr.. X X Reyes and some
others who have dreamt of and invent.
ed theories that will explain the orr
gin, shape and character OF the great
Ruby Hill ore bodies until they think
themselves justified in saying that
they know all hat can be known.
What a pity il is that the grand army
of ledge builders now exhibiting their
versatile powers in this suit, and who
are willing for a moderate considers
ton to go to the ends of the earth and
create any sort of lode that may be re.
CURED TO win a case in the courts.
could not possibly have been present
during all the ages OF the worlds
growth when mineral veins were be-
ing formed! Then, indeed, they might
have been wonderfully wise, and yet
l hardly suppose that they could have
looked any wiser then than they look
now, as they declare what they have
decreed to be and not to be.
The day that Mr.. Raymond fired of
his big.horse, double bottomed, patent.
expansion ledge theory, as relating to
the Ruby Hill mines, was a memora-
BILE one in the history of San Francisco.
For some days there had been an un-
easy feeling, both among the lower
classes and the Chinese, and a $500 900
incendiary fire had spent its power in
the vicinity of the Pacific Mail docks.
Troops and Safety Committee men
were patrolling the streets by night,
and timid people did not dare to repose
in the bosom of their families for fear
that something unusual was going to
happen. But just AS the thunderbolt
was about to strike, Mr.. Raymond
went on the witness stand, and long
before his testimony was finished the
hoodlums had skulked off to their
dens in terror OF something they knew
not what, and now peace reigns SUI
preme on the whole Pacific coast. 1t
was sound and not shot, however.
and no man knows better than our
zero does how to waken the echoes.
Here is a sketch of Mr.. Raymond's
theory of the Ruby Hill mines. He
ordains one great lode to pass through
the hill from a point north of the
Richmond, southeasterly, towards the
Jackson mine; thence, ~southerly, to-
wards Prospect mountain. The loot
wall of this lode is quartzite. which he
says is impervious to water; though
water poured into it at once disappears,
say other people. His next effort was
to bring forth a hanging wall, and 10!
il rose up before him at the Jack
son claim, in the form of a ledge Of
clay, which came very near the foot
wall. This clayey vein he followed
past the X X mine on to the Utah To-
W. ~ III cioDCo VI lkuOJ
Hill, and thence AS it cropped out on
the surface northwesierly towards the
Lizette tunnel. Here was undoubtedly
the northerly wall of the great Ruby
Hill lode, and Raymond and Reyes
rejoiced-and the people of Eureka
must rejoice, for have they not got a
hanging wall, when the Comstock has
got nothing of the kind? Outside Of
this clay wall, Mr.. Raymond says
there is no ore, and of curse there
must be none, but he says that all the
rock southeast of this clay selvage,
until the quariZite is reached. is vein
matter, being a mineral lode in place
such as the act of Congress is bound
to recognize. 1t does seem a little too
much To require poor, ignorant people
to believe that there can be an actual
ore bearing ledge extending from the
Lizette tunnel across to the quartZite,
"a distance of 100 to l.400 feet. This
a huge ledge, aud II anybody
but MIR. Raymond had invented il, he
would have been laughed at as a SIM
pleton. Common ~prOspectors who
have walked over hat groand knew
that except for a little space next the
quartzite, near to the old Richmond
works, there is no mineral rock in
pl ace in sight, and yet that is certainly
a part of the Richmond ledge. II any
immigrant had made a location on the
limestone bluff above the Lizette lun-
mel before the Richmond was located,
he must have held that lode, or Mr..
Rsymond's theory is not worth a
small potato. If it is a part of a ledge,
a location on one place is as good as il
it we're on another, ore or 10
ore. II this l,200-foot vein theory
is good for anything WI must
be prepared to hear of intervening
"horses" of great size. Indeed Mr..
Raymond and his coadjutors think
nothing of a solid limestone horse
from 700 to | 900 feet long by as many
feet wide. On the Comsiock this would
be a good sized "country"-brute, but,
pshaw! on Ruby Hill it is only an or
binary "horse." If it is to be posi-
BILE in time to come, to locate lodges
/ 900 feet wide, the laws will have to
be altered to meet the case. When !
spoke to a gentleman the other day,
who takes much interest in this suit,
about the absurdity of Raymond's
ledge theory, be at once answered that
if Nature had given us a hanging wall