Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-02
the EASE RANGE MINES.
All Work Not Entirely Suspended
ON Ruby Hill-The Principal
Mines Moving ms Usual. with
No startling Developments
to Report.

A ramble abont the shafts and prospect
holes on Ruby Hill is not what it was a
couple Of weeks ago men who were then
| doing assessment work at hundreds Of the
locations Whereabouts are now hobnobbing
with their ~favorite on some ticket, and are
scheming for the success Of that particular
invividual. They have stopped work and
are to be found seated upon the fiat lime
beautiful panorama at their feet, and talk
knowingly Of the political issues at stake.
The regular routine . continued, how
| ever, in those mines where tho hosting
works are in operation also at the Price d
Davis, where they are getting ready for the
erection Of hosting works.
JACKSON.
We stepped into the Jackson works first,
and were just in time to meet Su~perintend-
ent Shaw as he emerged from the drifts of
that noble little mine; and it is not so
little" after all, when we realize that
every shaft, drift or tunnel ever run to-
ward its groupings has encountered ore;
| and that ore is there in quantity, no one
can doubt who will stop to glance at the
Jackson bins, which are made to contain
some 450 tons. There they are, as full as
it is possible to make them, and. il We mis-
take not, it is a fair average Of ore that in
| richness will astonish the miners along the
Base Range when it is run through the
furnaces. As we have mentioned before,
l traunI, fto columns M the SFNTINEI. no
! work is being lone in this mine other than
prosp Getting. and nearly all of that is car
| ried on in drifts tending south from the
main shaft. In speaking of the amount Of
ore on band, we should have said that out
side OF the quantity in bins, the same
quantity is stacked in piles aud windrows
on the waste rock dump, and Mr.. Shaw in
formed us that aconsidcraDle amount was
| already lsosened and rounded up in diff
ferent drifts, ready to be hoisted, as soon
NJ room can be found for it on top.
The old workings of the Jackson, which
lie directly above and to tie west Of the
new shaft. were once the scene Of active
and profitable mining operations. but the
work was rushed too much, not even taxi
ing time to timber, and the old tunnel Of
100 feet in length. ending in a shaft which
dropped down some 40 or so feet, and then
took a shoot off to the cast in the form of
q winze-this is all gone to ruin Bat the
bonanza is still there, at the end Of the old
coyote" hole, aud it will be reached when
the proper time comes, by stopping from
the end of the west drift, which is now up
ward of 800 feet into the mountain, and
10 in ore. Mr.. Shaw INFORMED us that he
was employing only twenty-five men at
present in tae prospecting work, while he
wal ell on the Richmond furnaces to treat
-. - - Ill txr..1aliA 1r 3
hat the Metamoras furnace will make a
run on Jackson ore.
The Phenix works, from top to bottom,
were moving like a chsrm-thc machinery
in full motion, making but little more
racket than an old-fasliioned clock. As
nearly all the sinking, drifting. cross
cutting. etc., is done by contract, the
surveys only are followed, and there is no
occasion for deviating until those contracts
| are finished. TIL men who attend to the
timbering were sitting around. as though
the miners were blasting in hard rock.
The waste is being dumped on the south
side Of the main building.
EUREKA CONSOLIDATED.
At the Elreaa Con. mine. the ore cars
are run ont with the same old regularity,
notwithstanding a rnmor we heard about
the vein Of ore in this mine having pinched
down 10 IL feet in width at a depth Of
200 feet. There we're no signs of de-
moralization about the short, steep branch
railroad, wherein the accident Of a car
breaking loose and smashing up occurred
last Monday. All is Strengthened up and
| tho o.ef,.1. - r~noJ ~ ,.f,t,.x a., n. thoxr
are needed. The spur-wlleel which was
broken is being removed, and arrange
ments are perfecting for the reception Of
the new one.
The X X folks are prospecting aud draw
| ing water. We noticed Mr.. Harrub laying
| pipes to secure this water, which now runs
to waste down the canyon. Since the
Richmond got 10 working those Burleigh's
the water supply has proved insufficient,
and they are now laying water-pipes from
the L X 10 the Richmond tanks.
ALBION.
The Albion Company, having bought out
Mr.. Roses claim, the Uncle Sam, now have
a clear field for extensive operations. As
| our readers know, from the bottom Of the
| main shaft, which il down 1886 feet, the
main drift east is run towards the Rich
mond bonanza some $50 feet. bat a cross
| cut, starting from a point SO feet nearer
the shaft, is now being worked south in
rock that prospects" We saw some Of
the ore from the IL foot streak, in tbs main
drift, and there were some rich specimens
In the dump OF that quality encountered.
Mr.. Potts will soan attend to the erection
Of the main building, or that portion
which is 10 enclose the shaft and hoisting
| works proper. 1t would not be surprising
If they we're compelled to erect ore bins
before long. The compressor works salts
factorily.
PRICE 4 DAVIS.
Over at the Price 4 Davis the c~ontrac-
tors for the erection OF the hosting works
have not made mach of a start, as yet, but
the lumber will be on hand within three or
four days and then, time will tell. They
are to have a heavier gallows-frame at this
mine than that in use at the Albion. Men
were busy trenching for the water pipes,
which are to conduct that article into the
Price \ Davis tanks.
They were making good progre5s in the
Charter Tunnel. as the rock encountered
was mach easier blasted than any before
met with.
Hotel Arrivals.
Jackson House-W. II. Mitchell and
wife, Hon. VIM. Woodburn and wife, Vir-