, 1879-03-15

house 10 be established in Nevada, til
first question he woula have asked worl
have been aS to who was to take chars
of it, If he had found that the party $,
lected WAS without experience III business
had spent his life at something else, bee
GENERALLY unfortunate and successful :
nothing, and that his only cialm to TIL
place was that he WAS good fellow, I
.he nephew of somebody wife s slste
he would have certainly declined to hay
anything t. do with the enterprise. MI
ewart would have pointed ont that III
'ess was, above all, the result OF h
,ro lose supervision of business wit
na,n he WAS personally familiar. III
ubi,t of this practical sort of comm"
J;orol lie organization of mining eI
gene -; professor pointed out
W rg the causes of failure.
chief one .mo >. not infreqnently, Wa
A,o., ling, by which ''Si,lted
J,un ~. pau> Dosed upon men VIII
min ~ s"fhu | faith Men vii
LonoLt .If Ill re business shou
des;r, =. ia goo very start, OF tn
avail thenselv, $. at the -
services at Il well Known MI th.
pert, taking for granted ,,;n;,,
rue, That all men are rascsa, r;sk am
are Known to he otherwise n
I;,l;I;. SunJcc Ia some tIo
I" disappointment o. 1r
''i haiin' The ,clianees for ren,uner,
i.'HoiN E'r4t and tempting, if ordin
It,s'yhcc Is legaru ,.,l in the S
''''''i' ~ the -piUpeIty 10. investment,
"u iii Tie methods ii developing the
same, .
Anothor nlfst.;sc freiu emily made :. thi
that dti'Ac'Irring.iaree eN ,enditr res with evt
mt hfsS ha,llsr ascs,rta ned WI ether the NY
rnppiy ri orc rs suihcls atty alb lndamt, or h'
''en niaas Its chtrae er Is. There are th'
meltlng ores and th' re are ,illina ore,, bu
md these require Ell tircly di ierent meth ale
"s "t: t:tfea'menf The SHE ting ores are u,
Ire.a.3 y fra, an require large q"anti- an
ties ii iuae WI lie milh' ores require hi
compar,a'l'oi' little fuel, nut considerable
macnrerv In some ca es men nave pun -,
up ext' ,,siye and costl mills, and then u
fS,ir they had only melting ores, 1id Ia "a
" mills were accordi IgIy worthless. u
The question of apply Of ore was aa :" %
.'r,.nt one. and I here are some ihdi- II
TONS perfectly Gle ar tn an expert whleH q
III ,,n far in lesse ming danger OF being II
SanairoI on this p,int The Emma, Mil
uasl.r and some other Utah mlhes, Il
H., tLo Eureka of Nevada, d ti'r widely v
=. those on the Comstock lode In
.ho former. the ore deposits are In cham
h.rs formed by the action oi water on
Lnsstune rock 7 Iere is great w'''' oi
certainty in min OF TINS ci''i "o'ei
They NAV he pouring out rch treasures
,o.day and nive ont Tomorrow; anu lheh
,,,,, brsak into another chamber the
-. dav. ar YOU may work on months
,nJ years without reward. True assure
wins a,e liable to pinchlng out ana eN=
uarsiop. hut the deposit is practically III.
axhaustible. The Comstock lode Is III /
tins latter character. But these insure
VEINS h..s their limits of Practicaoie
working. which are fixed by tle int''r''"'
heat As the miner follows them mo
the depths, the temperature finally be-
,,,,,,ss 9, HI ish as To render work utterly
;unoss;hle Inventors should know all
,f these facts, and take them INTO ae-
count. -,
The professor, in illustrating the peril.
o,,s e>trayaoauce of some operations, and
,La manner IN wach Stockholders fail to
.sa, returns from even good mine, re
,-rred L, one. which ie failed t" name,
though he said IL Was near Em2Aa~ Is
nra IS Il, A true liSSure VEN, and t'ie
PROPERTY has in II apparently all the eie-
fne,ts ~ success 1t Is III excellent shape,
has fine works. a good looking superln-
tendent and superintendent 5 house, ele-
rantly fitted up with inlaid furniture, a
store where everybody vino brings sup
plies of any kind to the mine, or who la
bors in it must trade. In short, It's bnsl-
hess is run in a ring. The manager
have erected useless and sApspsl;,
mill but everything about 1t looks pros
rerous; and vet the discoverer, witt
OWNS one-thir,i of the stock, is a poo
man, and recently offered his entire in
terest at p cents per share, to rals
money to enable him r. start again wit
pick and spade, to prospect for a new lo
cation.
At the close OF his lecture, Professo
Newberry exhibited several specimens {
variegated marble. brought from th
mountains Of Nevada, which he had CT
out and polished so 10 develop the
extraordinary variety and beauty. II
further exhibited specimens of ore, pr
senting evidence that gold is deposited
a state of solution another specime
showing the saturation OF sands tone vii
sulphide of silver. and specimens of mi
eral wax, or native parafine, which h
been found in small quantities in Gallo
and other points Of southeastern Eurup
while in southern Utah and nurthe
Arizona there is an area many miles saua
abounding in this natural product in
posts sometimes twenty feet thick, rea.
TO be melted down and made into cand
at once. and worth s25 per ton for use
making illumina'ed sas.