Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-07-11
MINING NOTES.
Matters or lassrsss All Aisss shs
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The heat is so great that the workmsn
have not 70. been able to reach the joint
Alpha-Impsrial winzs. The winzs was
doubtless uuinjured BY the fire. and as
soon as proper ventilation can be Sc
cured work will be resumed ct the bot
tom to connect with the $500 drift run
ming north.
To-day ore from the Alta and Benton
is being shipped to the Briggs mill. be-
Low Silver City, and Monday the stamps
will bs set to work. They have sui.
fcisnt ore in sight and stripped to en-.
able them to keep the mill running
right along. Owing to the great amount
Of gold in the ore they will amalgsmats
In the batteries a. we'll 40 In the pans
sIr. Briggs has made tests Of the ore and
will bs able to give satisfactory results.
A new and substantial ors-house 10 to DO
erected at once. the old q being full
and crushed down. Excellent orc Is
now being obtained on the 1850 level,
and the drifts running north and south
ON the 1850 level are being curved In
toward the ledge at both ends, which
will amount to the same thing - two
crosscuts.
Things at the Forman shaft are at boil
ing heat. With tho building going on
and the preparations being made for the
big pumping machinery OF the Over
man, the place II Q busy one.
A food Of 400. 900 gallons Of water
Der day has been struck In the Ward
mine. It il handled, but makes lively
work.
To-day the water Of the Comstock a.
far northward ~ the Ophir has been
turned into the pipes leading to the
Sutro Tunnel. This 10 the beginning OF
the new era in mining among the old
Coustock mines. The Sierra Nevada
water will soon follow.
At the Julia mine they will by next
Monday morning reach the face OF the
northwest DRIFT on the 1000 level, Q point
they have not seen since about the
lst Of January last. The face OF the
drift was left in vein matter which
yielded very fair assays. The level 10
still very hot.
Assays as high u $50 we're yesterday
shown on the street a. coming from the
$500 level OF the 0phir, whore q station
Is being cut out and where some other
preliminary work ia being done.
The water in the flooded mines 10 still
held below the 1000 level. The @. N.
9. shaft will aid the pumps the frat OF
next week. when donkeys will DO set at
work by the Savage and Hale x Nor.
cross to throw the water up to the 1000
level and the lightning DRIFT.
The How Of water from the old south
crosscut. 1900 level, Sierra Nevada 10
decreasing. "They say" that 1t was
encountered while pushing that crosscut
on to the west. and after 20 feet Of vein
porphyry. containing lunches OF good
ore, had been passed through. and that
the blast which broke through . clay
wall and got the water brought out some
fns, black sulphuret ore also. "Hsad-
quarters " say that the $500 station is
fast advancing to completion. and cross
cutting will follow in due course; that
there is no work being done In the bot.
tom Of the incline because OF operations
in progress ct the $500 station; that 1t
may take six months TO put the Union
shaft down to the 2400 level. set up the
big new pumping engines now building
and get oil the heavy pumps in place
down to the bottom Of the shaft, but 1t
will not DO necessary to delay crosscut.
ting until oil this Is done. There is but
little water in the ore body. and all that
will DO encountered in prosecuting may
readily be handled n DON a. they begin
sending 1t through to the Sutro tunnel.
which will be in . few days.