Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-11-15
Copy OF a letter Forwarded 10 the
London "NInlng Journal"

below we give acopy oil Q letter forward
cd by Mr.. j. D. Power to the London
Mining Journal. Mr.. Power has our
thanks for the same
With two brief exceptions-one since
last weeks writing-the weather has been
remarkably fine since the occurrence Of
the late fire. This has been very wisely
turned to nccoun in hurrying forward
building operations, so that the furnaces
and machinery might be snugly housed
before the winter storms OF Nevada should
set in in earnest. With the works covered
in, as they will be in q brief while, we can
afford to laugh at the Northern Ice King,
and set at defiance his iercest blasts.
The new works, which are now being
fast crystalized into shape and tangible
proportions, continue to grow apace under
the vigorous manner in which they arc
being pushed forward; and the anxiety to
get them in early readiness, is so apparent
on the part Of our worthy manager, that l
experience little doubt that a
RESUMPTION OF OPERATIONS
Will have taken place, probably before
these jottings are cditorially considered.
Will not this announcement remove all
anxiety, and wreath with happy smiles the
countenances OF those wise ones who still
hold Richmonds? Many Of those honest
gentlemen (ladies too, perhaps, (?) as with
US free and easy folks Of this COAST, no
doubt have been for some time past seated
on the ragged edge" wearing a clouded
brow and a dissatisfied air" hanging "like
Mahomed's worn-out old coffin" between
the upper and the neither worlds, between
hope and doubt. worrying and fuming
through the winter of their discomfort. BE
patient, gentlemen. Rome was not built
in q day; neither were those grand pyra-
midal monuments Of the Egyptian deserts
fashioned in an hour. Time completes all
things, and in time, too, the
RICHMOND WORKS
Will stand completed, a fitting evidence
OF the zeal, the untiring energy, experience
and executive ability Of the man who so
successfully planned and directed their
construction. 1t is IN old proverb, that it
IL an Ill wilma t1dt DioNs uoDouy boous
There will not a little good arise from the
Richmond fire, and apart from the
material benefits which will follow, Eureka
will have something to be proud of, works
which will be, by long odds, the most COM
plete, convenient and best constructed Of
the kind to be found not only within the
great corrugated basin of Nevada, but
within the limits Of the Coast as we'll.
Besides, the saving to the Company in the
matter Of labor alone, will have all ap-
preciable influence in c%hcapening the cost
Of smelling by at least $50 per diem, which
in the aggregate Is not TO be sneezed at.
1t is all well enough to
PREACH PATIENCE,
Somebody will say, just as II it were in
stead of as it is, the most absolutely hard
thin in the world to get English mining
spectators in American properties to be
patient. The fact is, they always expect
toe much, and, like Oliver Twist, keep con-
t~inually calling for more. Patience, now
ever. ia much more frequently preached
than practiced. However, the assumption
Of a virtue which one has not, and with
which he is rarely troubled, seems so much
like appropria,ing the livery of heaven to
tCIft llft uCNil II tl2ty hh0 SAINT VI ~
mainly, we hope it is rarely practicei even
by our modern sanctimoiiiocs ones. The
latter-day stock sharp and speculator have,
however, too great a regard for their fair
flames to do such things; their virtues are
never peraded, and the good they do, like
o light under q bushcl. is generally hid
from the world. How is it across the blue
expsnse with you? Are the ursine and
taurine forces OF your stock exchanges, rs
STEPPED in well-in virtue as are these OF
our own located in the gay metropolis OF
st. Francis, down by the sad sea waves?"
II they are. and to wind up this unprofit-
able homily, it Is not unlikely that they are
more frequently troubled with Panurge's
disease chronic need OF money-than
they are with any aralted ~longings to be-
come %virtuous.
Good sometimes flows from evil in the
same manner hat success sometimes fol-
lows disaster. The Richmond fire was q
great, an unexpected disaster, but those
who at first believed ii to be such, as did
the writer. nov think differently, believing
that it will eventually prove an unmixed
blessing to the company. Paradoxical as
this may appear, it will, / am convinced,
be substantially verified by future results.
To illustrate: According to original
Didfis. Lle uluaCcSl aipcu AZ tiSht ahBieo
to each other, the water jackets and n.y.
drosicle furnaces northwsrd, and the stone
furnaces westward, from the original in
itial point Of location. the site Of furnace
No. /. This arrangement, though far from
satisfactory, had, the same as have a good
many things in this world, TO be patiently
borne with, on account Of matters which
will readily enough suggest themselves to
your readers. Tit transformation is
now, however, completed, and thanks to
the fire fend, tho judgment and the
genius Of
MANAGER RICHARD,
1t will for all time exercise an apprcci-
able influence in both promoting and
c%hcapening all succeeding operations in
smelling. As now being built, the fur
naces all range northward, one after the
other, from said initial starting point. BY
this wise arrangement both charcoal and
ore can be supplied them much more ex-
peditiously and economically than was for
merly the case, and, besides, the ma
chinery, as now in place, cannot fail, ow-
ing to location and room, to act more eff
fectively than when in its old subjacent po-
sition.
But while We extol the present state Of
things and speculate upon the advantages
that are likely to result from them, let us
be magnanimous and do justice to another
state Of things, which, though no longer
existing, are still worthy of remembrance.
Conditions have lately undergone a ma
terial change, and all for the good Of those
who shall in tho future dabble in Rich
mond. But, however tinged with rainbow
hues may be the metamorphoses which has
been lately effected in the Richmond works
we should not allow ourselves to overlook
the credit due the old furnaces, whose I'M
exampled bullion record for the past two
years, at least, ought to be remembered in
connection with the management OF the
past four years, TO which is largely due
much OF the present prosperity of the com
pany. II to labor zealonsly and indefati-
| gably BIO worthy Of praise and thanks, then
| the present management is worthy Of both.
| But, exclaims some