The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1878-04-13
MASSACHUSETTS, SILVER MINES
IFrom the Boston Globe.l

The silver mines in Essex county are
chiefly located in Nrwbury. but have not
attracted much attention Of late, owing
more to depressed finances than any
failure in the ore. Still, some 300 men
are constantly employed at half dozen
diff rent points. and discoveries are
made tha. keep up the hope of the
miners, some OF whom have made life
business in mining in the Pacific and
Rocky Mountain States. The Merrimac
is the oldest and the original mine.
Work on it began some three years ago.
Its shaft has baen sunk 230 feet. and
levels have bsen run in various dlrec-
tions, for longer or shorter distances at
so. 100, $50 and 200 feet down. It's
dividends have been per cent. monthly
for the last seventeen months. and in the
total it has distributed $S5. 900. There
is sn im mense quantity of ore in sight.
more than can b. raised with the usual
force in two years, should tn y proceed
no fnrt her.
Bat in the head of lpve extending
300 fet they are now working a chin
ney of the richest material yet reached
II glirters in the light OF the miners
lamp with solid roof of argentif+rou4
gal-na, and the prospect is constantly
improv ne. This ore is very difficult 10
work, and that has caused the erection
Of new concentrating works, inst COM
pl"ted, at n cost of S25, 900. Mr. Shaw,
veteran miner, who superintends tn.
work, has Just purchased an adjoining
lot of land, on which he will at once
alnk two shafts 1t is the Luther Noyes
property, and has brilliant indications
A specimen of SIX ounces recently yield
Ell iv ounces of bullion, the larger part
s'iv r. Ths rock is abundant in gray
cp'+r
Near there is the China mine, with a
shaft eighty-ive feet deep. and leve
is beng worked for fifty feet. This is
chiefly owned by W. althy men in Sale N
and LYNN and ia worked by E F. Couch
The vein, which is some four feet thick
has been beld from the grass roots down
constantly widening. The ore is rlche
and more easily rked than that of tn,
Msrrlmac Its ASSAYS have been all tn
way from 10 to 600 ounces of silver t.
the ton. Its stock has never been oil
the market, the original proprietors be
ing content to own and work it,
The German mine is chiefly owned b,
Pennsylvania men, who make little dis
play in talk but work on. They ar
all old miners. Their shaft is ninet
feet deep, and they are cutting leve
down to the ore vein, which lies som
300 feet distant. There is no means c
knowing what is realized; but thei
property is not in the market. Th
Newhall mine is in another s-ction, it
worked moderately, and, SO far, he
yielded gold, though it is doubtful if
can be worked at a profit. The lat
assay showed $26 in gold to ST. in silve
The walls Of this mine are we'll defined
and one of them has curious and bri
liant appearance from the arsenical iro
that attaches. as though it hnd bee
pressed upon the vein bed 80 hard ss
give the PARTICLES the brightness of raj
road rails when they are pressed by gre
weight.
There are other properties in Newbul
and Salisbury that attract attention, ar
upon which some considerable work b.
been done; and much more land b.
been purchased or bonded, and is he
Tor better times, when capital will
more ready for investments.