Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-06-11
A BoNAnz, OF facrs.
An Eastern Correspondent Obtains Them.


e 10 tie Conlstock has alread
One comes along nearl
en-. and they have ordel
begun. 'nus papers to fn
every gay rat ID going o
rom tneir VA. {" to renal
Dus eve'y.rs'u ~, " i,.u who al
in the city week. One
rived In the city yesterday
met by Chronicle reporter on T.
street this morning.
The correspondent talked very
freely about his mission. and was
confident that the country was q
big thing.
"Have you been down In the
mlnes?" asked the reporter.
"Oh, yes; one, and I learned
much which never knew before
1 came here yesterday morning an
absolute ignoramus, SO to speak, on
the subject OF mining, and now I
have 1t at my fingers ends. The
Superintendent, Mr.. Taylor, was
very kind and showed me every
thing about the place. We went
down the California shaft"
"The California has no shaft"
II mean we visited the double G
mine, and went through all the
north and south cross-cuts. / don't
suppose there was foot OF the
mine I didn't inspect thoroughly.
Its wonderful"
you will have excellent mate
rial for a course of lectures when
you return East"
"Ah, yes; I intend to lecture.
shall lay the Comstock bare when
get to New York. 1 am satisfls I'd
that the Comstock has never been
thoroughly understood, but will,
my explanations and diagrams ]
shall make all these wonderful
things as simple as A B c."
"Have you seen the South Lady
Bryau2"
"Ah, indeed, recollect visiting
q man named Kelly, the Captain
Of the Sarsield Guard. He In.
formed me that he had a shaft Ia
the South Lady Bryan which could
not be burned. I think it q fine
idea to make shafts fire proof. Such
a plan insures safety. I shall pur-
chase some Of the stock before re.
turn. My proprietor, the owner OF
the Boston Adverb, told me IL
could invest a few thousand advan.
tageously to do SO. AS the South
Lady Bryan is fire.proof, think
money put in there Is safer than II
1t were invested in some mine liz.
BILE to be destroyed by an unex-
pected and perhaps unavoidable
conflagration. You see, we East
ern investors give these things q
good deal Of thought, and do not
invest In the wild hap-hazard style
so charac teristic of Nevada.
(NOTE.-The South Lady Bryan
has no shaft, and 1t Is q favorite
joke OF Captain Kelly to say that
his shaft can never burn, being alb.
solutely fire-proof.-REP.1
"Do you think" continued the
Bostonian, "thst Mr.. Kelly would
allow an Eastern man and nom
resident to invest to any considera-
BILE extent in his mining proper
typ
ut is just possible, II the man
came well recon mended from some
good Eastern men and had the cash
to invest, that he would let him iu
for a few thousand shares. There
are plenty of men here who, like
Mr.. Kelly, own outside mining
properties which they do not care
TO cast into the filthy pool of Pacific
Coast speculation, but would prefer
to have the securities held by good,
substantial Eastern men, or, like
yourself, the representative of some
reliable aud influential newspa-
per-"
"l like to see men OF that type.
I also saw Mr.. Canavan, and se.
cured q good deal Of interesting
matter about his big ball in the
New York mine. He says his ball.
room Is capable Of accommodating
two hundred couples thousand
feet underground"
"Qulte likely; and 1t is the resort
of the wealth aud fashion OF the
ledge. The cages are fitted up with
plush velvet aud mirrors like those
in the Palace Hotel. The wine.
cellar Is the finest on the coast, and
they sink two thousand feet belo "
the ground to get a cool pIace.u
II thought the lower they got
the hotter 1t became"
"Such Is the case only in the
northern mines. At the south enc
it gets cooler until, at a depth Of
two thousand feet, the men veal
ulster overcoats, and there Is stove
Ia every drift"
"How astonishing; and Is it moi
curious that not one of the Eastern
correspondents ever mentioned the
fact ~
ut was studiously kept from
them, because q knowledge of the
fact would cause such a rush for the
stock that the mines at that enc
would pass beyond the control oil
the COmstockers. A good many
shares are out and they propose tt
get them in before the deal. Thii
cold atmosphere indicates rich de-
posits of horn silver. For heaven.
sake don't mention this in the Bos
ton papers. would be assassinht
ed II 1t got out through me-"
"Ab, my dear boy, I can't helT
that. I must report all know anC
hide nothing. The great draw bach
to this country has be.,n the lament
able disposition on the part of cor
respondents to hide the facts.
will never be party to anything
of such q nature,n Here the Bos
ton man rushed off to write IN thf