Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-09-20
MINING OUTLOOK IN BRISTOL
DISTRICT,
Condition of the Hillside Property
Extensive Deve1opments-Ore i'm
Abundance.

Extensive DeveIopments-Ore Ia
Abundance.
bristol Correspondence of the Stock Report.
BRISTOL, Lincoln County. Nevada, !
September is, 1878. I
Believing that q few mining items from
SO distant and newly organized a section a
Is this, will be read with pleasure by you
numerous readers, l have taken the trouble
to personally collate for the Stock Repor
q few facts in relation to such matters Al
have come under my personal observation
while in the district. Distant some IL Of
20 miles from Pioche, tie
BRISTOL DISTRICT
Stands conspicuous as one Of the most
promising mining sections in southeastern
Nevada. Though not long in existence,
its mines are to-day as full OF promise
as those Of the most favored localities.
This is particularly the case as regards the
Hillside property, consisting OF q series OF
four locations, comprising the H'iiside,
Tiger, Dexter, and Red Cloud, All moor
porated under the general title OF the
HILLSIDE MINING AND MILLING
Company Of Nevada. The property, which
lies contiguous to the excellent, but l re-
greet to say heretofore sadly mismanaged
Day property, was originally placed upon
the market by Messrs. Blair and MCGEE,
the latter of whom is now here assiduously
engaged in prosecuting extensive develop
ments, which l am prepared to affirm will,
in the near future, place the Hillside fore
most among the high priced and best pay
ing mining ventures operating in the Great
East, say this much without disparage-
mept to other properties, and with no view
10 detract from the merits Of its famous
neighbor, the Day mine, which if lifted
out OF its present plight, would, / am sat
isied, prove a formidable rival to its more
fortunate companion the Hillside. OF the
four locations enumerated above the former
or Hillside, is the most extensively devel-
oped.
EXPLORATIONS.
1t is opened by IN incline shaft to the
depth Of $50 feet or more. From the in
cline two levels have been run, one at q
depth of 100 feet, which at this writing,
mas penetrated 80 feet in high grade ore,
which at is innermost point exhibits a lat
,ral extent Of 16 feet of like quality Of min
,ral, while the bottom level or drift, so
'eet lower down, has attained a linear trend
II 60 feet through ore of ever a higher
yrade thar what has been uncovered in the
lppermost level. No prosecuting, how
,ver, has been yet accomplished in the
drift, consequently l am unable to
tate the exact width of the ore body,
which it is to be presumed equals, if il does
lot outrank in thickness the point at
which it was cut above. Notwithstanding
he necessarily restricted character of these
openings, there was extracted from them
two drifts and crosscut Of extent
lamcd-above
N THOUSAND IONS
ore, whose average assay value is $50
per ton in gold and silver, irrespective Of
The lead, which, besides being a great
actor in the matter of facilitating and ex-
smelling operations, will make,
sven at Its present low price, NJ mean item
the aggregate footings up at the end of
each month. There are at present laying
on dump at furnace, something over 500
of the above quality of ore, as much
more mined out OIL dump at the mine,
and from my own knowledge l am able to
that actual measurements have demon
strated that there are more than
FfyE THOUSAND TONS
More developed in the mine ready to ex-
now that all preparatory matters
have been completed. From this showing,
plain and destitute as it is Of rhetorical
your readers, and such others as
ire interested in this property, can, with
'ut entailing any very great stretch of the
and with almost mathemat-
cal precision, picture to themselves the
value Of the Hillside property, to
'ay nothing at all of its prospective merits;
md what these are to be, may without diff
be judged by the foregoing state
nents. One thing, however, is evident, as
to my sense while inspecting the
property, and that Is that the Hillside
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STEAM HOSTING WORKS.
lnese arc new ana suos'ans'ai having
'een quite recently erected at considerable
Expense. This last item is, however, .
mere bagatelle when the prosperous condi-
ION OF 'ne MINES ana the pr'sn' in1hre
'elore are 'Aaen 'n'o account .nes
Deen piaoed over 'no WorAns in'.
mo Workins ~ smoosn's ana ~ aesola %
NJ NOISE o. iric'on, as Is possible 'nes