Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1878-10-16
HINT TO THE BONANZA
FIRM.

FIRM.
Winter is approaching, the strin
gency of the past two years has de
prived the majority of our popula
ton of their small accumulation o.
savings, and hundreds of laborine
men who are anxiously looking fol
employment are unable to obtain it
If they should not succeed in getting
work shortly, they will become ut.
terly destitute aud the suffering Of
those dependent upon them for q
livelihood will be very great. Al
people cannot be allowed to starve
where others possess great surplus
not only of the necessaries but of the
luxuries of life, the rich will be ap-
piled to for contributions to relieve
the wants of the needy, and those
who are thus applied to will be COM
PEELED by that higher law which
was not enacted by man, to give
substantial aid to their destitute fell
low-beings. This will have to be
done, but it will have a bad effect.
If no other harm accrues therefrom,
it will cause the recipients of the
bounty to lose their self-respect,
and, in after-life, they will never
again be the proud, self-reliant indi-
viduals which they were before they
begged for something they had not
earned. In view of this state Of
affairs, would it not be better to pro-
vide work for the unemployed, if it
can be done conveniently There
are doubtless many mines along the
Comstock where a few more men
could be worked to advantage than
are now employed there. Why not
employ themG In the Sierra Nevada,
Union Consolidated, Mexican and
Ophir, for instance, there are many
points where more men could be put
than are now working there. To be
sure, if the force were materially in
creased, better or more powerful me-
chanical appliances would be re-
quired, but these could be procured
in few weeks, at furthest, if the
companies were SO disposed. As
some difficulty is experienced in col.
lecting assessments, it would per-
haps be best to increase the work
ing force only in such mines as
promise a speedy return for the
money expended, and in that case
the four mines specially referred to
above would be those selected for
this extraordinary expenditure. But
it might not be necessary to increase
the working force at even 50 many
mines. In the Ophir mine alone
there is large quantity of good ore
in sight. On the 1900-level, in what
is known as the Hardy crosscut,
there is width Of nine or ten feet
of ore that will mill $50 or $50;
there is also very rich ore in the
drift south from that point, and in
crosscut No. 2, on the same level,
and 80 feet south of the Hardy cross
cut, there is rich ore. The winze
started in this crosscut passed
through ore all the way to the 1000
level, and at the bottom of the Wine,
on that level, there are twenty feet
of ore the average assay of which
exceeds $50 per ton. In crosscut
No. 2, on the 2000-level, 100 feet
north of tho winze, there is also some
good ore. Were this ore to be
stopped, extracted and milled, fully
10 men who are now idle would be
given employment, and the money
brought into circulation by this
means would have beneficial effect
on the entire Comstock. Mining
stocks would be enhanced in price,
money would be plentier, the desti-
tuition which now threatens to over
come hundreds would disappear, and
the employers would be hailed as
bencfactors OF their fellow-beings.
Is not this subject worthy of consid-
Grafton by the bonanza firm, who
hold the control of the majority Of
the mines named2