The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-07-06
HILLSIDE FUNACE AND MINE.

Last Tuesday we paid visit to the
Hillside NJ. &. M. Compsny's furnace at
Bristol and to the mine. AT Bristol we
found the furnace in full blast. running
spendidly. and keeping three shifts Of
workmen busy attending to it. Hillside
ore is found to be just the kind to run
through nicely; the only addition that
is requisite to make it work is quartz.
Each shift OF workmen turn out about 60
bars, making $50 bars in a twenty.four
hours run. These bars weigh over rs
pounds each and the average assay OF the
bullion is $455 per ton. Up to the time
We were there the furnace had been rum
ming successfully eight days. averaging
from $4,000 to $4,000 per day. Mr.. Nc.
Gee, Manager, statedsto us that if he
could keep the furnace running for five
or six days longer that the company
would be enabled to pay for everything,
including the money advanced by HIN to
purchase the National mine and furnace.
Fast freight teams had arrived there
Sunday night with goods for Mills & Co.
and had loaded up with 30 900 pounds
of bullion from the furnace; several
Mormon teams, destined for York, Utah.
had conveyed away 20. 900 pounds, maxi
ing 25 tons shipped. The day we were
there charcoal was coming in from all
directions and it looked as If there would
be enough to keep the furnace running
several days. The town of Bristol IL
now composed of the furnace. black
smith.shop, store, boarding. house. two
saloons, butcher-shop and several resi-
dences. Four springs supply the place
with water OF good quality, and plenty o.
it, At the furnace is q pump connected
with the tanks and springs by which the
entire furnace could be flooded in case
OF Are. Having seen all that was to be
seen at Bristol. in company with Eugene
Blair. Superintendent, we visited the
Hillside mine, about five miles up the
canyon. A good wagon road has been
constructed to the mine by the COMPANY
at a cost of 81. 093; an immense amount
Of work for such sum. On descending
into the mine, W. found at the depth OF
so feet, the ledge appears to separate
and inclines have been sunk in the two
SEPARATIONS; one incline is almost verti.
cal, and running to depth of 80 feet
Will the other runs at an angle of AZ
degrees to depth Of 1875 feet from the
surface. Alta depth Of 60 feet on this
incline drift has been run west dis.
tancs Of rs feet, and from six to nine
feet wide, all in ore-top, bottom and
sides. The work OF raising on this body
Of ore and knocking it down has been
commenced and the drift is being con.
tinued westward to see how for it OK.
tends. No footlor banging wall has ye,
been found, and whether this is an i'm.
mense chamber OF ore. and how long il
will hold. cannot yet be told. The or.
holds to depth of 1876 feet, with ever,
indication OF it being permanent. Three
hundred tons of ore are on the dump q
the mine. 1t is being hauled to thu
furnace as rapidly as teams can do it
where there are over 200 tons OH hand
Ore has been brought from Highland Il
Bristol and sold to the company, the,
paying so per cent. of the assay value
less the price OF working. The pros
poets of the company look very brigh
for the future.