Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-12-19

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before We arrived at Gold Hill and
Virginia City. AT the latter place L
expected to find my brother-in-law,F +.
Yurkamp, but he had sold out and
left there four months before. Took
a stroll through the works Of the Con-
solidated Virginia Mining Co., and
started back next morning for Carson
City.
After engaging the services of Mr..
w. F. Stewart, one of the best, If not
the best expert in Nevada, to accom-
pany me to inspect the NJ. A. mine.
L hired a team tC drive out there to
be ready on Friday morning ut seven
o'clock, and at half past seven we
started. We had an excellent team
and good easy running buggy, and
we made the trip of 81 miles without
firing the team very much. We had
been advised at Carson City to go on
two miles beyond Coleville, to Or.
Goodnow's home, as we would find
better accommodations there than at
Coleyille, but l stopped a few min
utcs at Mr.. Todkill's store to ask him
about the mine, as Mr.. Allen has Of
ten mentioned him to us, as speaking
very highly of the pros pect. After
introducing myself to him and telling
him my business, he told me he vas
glad l had come to see the mine, but
did not think there vas any thing
there. We drove on then to the
doctors, and after attending to the
team and letting him know our uusi-
ness he told us that he did not think
there was anything in the mine, for
he had located the claim soune years
before but did not think enough of it
to work it. We started off next NOR
ming to see for ourselves, and alter
going two miles up the Little Ante
Iope valley found the shaft house OF
the mine perched up on the southeast
side of the spur of a mountain OF
granite. We hitched our team and
proceeded to look for some trace offs
ledge, but found that what Allen
had taken for a ledge cropping was
nothing more than a chimney of rose
or barren quartz. There were three
of these chimneys, some 1900 or per-
haps 1900 feet apart, with no connec-
ton whatever between them. After
satisfying ourselves with the top of
the mountain we went down into the
shaft after measuring the depth OF the
same, which we found to be las feet
deep. Arriving at the bottom we
found two drifts, IN running west
twenty feet, the eastern one running
nine and one-half feet. Here We
found no indication of a ledge or
ledge matter, and the ''hOrse' that
Mr. Allen had spoken Of was only
two small seams that happened to run
in an easterly direction, and in the
shape of a roof of a house, and he
had blasted out the solid granite from
between these two seams, leaving a
very good roof to the drift. There
was no Indication of all upheaval here
at all. We then assembled to the
drift, where Mr.. Allen claimed to
have found the ledge. Here we
found a hole in the west side of the
shaft, ten feet in length and about
five feet in width and six feet IN
heighth. Looking around for the
ledge we discovered a seam of rotten
rusty colored quartz, shout ten inch
es in thickness, and pitching off to
, the south at an augle of about 20 de-
, prees. The drifts al the bottom were
running in the wrong direction to in
~tersect it if it had been a ledge, as
they were running east and west, but
it was evidently nothing but what mi
ners call a ''gash'' run. Mr.. Stew
art told me when we first arrived al
the mountain that he knew from the
formation that there vas no minera
there /; but he had come to examine
= the prospect, and o. course should dc
:, so. but said that he would not give
ffty cents for the whole thing. Wher
we came out of the shaft we examined
the debris that had been taken out o
Il the shaft, and then at the urgent re
ouest of Mr.. Allen went down to tn
foot of the mountain to look at som
boulders that he had SO often told u
L of. One of these boulders had bee
le broken, and Mr.. Stewart had to &C
knowledge that he did not kno'
what It was, but said that it locke
like tin. Mr.. Allen contended tina
is the same kind of boulders had com
le out of the mine, but we could not Sc
them and Mr.. Stewart offered him
,e dollar to show him a piece, which
to course he could not do. His theor
was that the boulder had bee
Id brought there during some glacial p'
Rod from some distant place by