Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-08-14

Gloomy Mining PrOspects-What Is
Needed to Develop the Camp.

AUSTIN, August 10, 1879.
EDIroR SENTINEL: The mines Of Lam
der Hill have not for some time been
s'panning OUT as well as might have been
expected. In fact, the mining outlook Of
this camp, at present, is rather gloomy,
and in all probability will so continue as
long as the present crude system Of mining
is carried on. One well planned and well
timbercd deep working shaft is what Ian
der Hill needs to make mining profitable
in the future. II, however, no mining
company undertakes, in the near future,
the sinking of a working shaft on Lander
Hill, then Austin, as a mining camp, may
already be numbered among the rich
camps that were and is not. The Manhat-
tan mill is being run on half time, mostly,
it is said, on tribute and custom ore. OF
course, this does not speak we'll for the
daily yield Of the Manhattan mines. How
ever, there is yet much to expect fGom the
rich mines OF Lander Hill. Deeper work.
ings, no doubt, will reveal richer and
much better defined mines than were those
already worked out. With an improved
system of mining, viz q good deep work.
ing shaft, the Manhattan Company, in the
place Of declaring "Irish dividends" will,
in all probability, be paying out monthly
dividends right along. 1t is really anus
ing to hear the so-called merchants of
Austin continually fretting about the Man
haitian Company declaring so many Irish
dividends" when in fact-to their dis
credit may it be said there is scarcely a
merchant in Austin who holds Manhattan
stock. They dabble in "outside" stocks,
however, and get cinched every time.
Shrewd business men, who make money
in a mining camp, will try, if possible,
and help the local mining interests out of
difficulty.
The Hon. John Smyth's
sAFEIi AGE Law
Seems to be dead letter, at least so far as
the vertical (?) shafts of Lander Hill are
concerned by it. Captain J. Melee, a rich
mine owner Of this place, swears ''by the
suffering Moses that he will not observe
the provisions of the Safety Cage law;
that it is stupid and meaningless, and was
gotten up and passed, no doubt, for the sake
Of buncombe. Many people think that a law
W pioNlhC buOIC fCi ttCdl budlto WOuid OC
more beneficial to the mining interest Of
Lander Hill.
II GOLD MINES
OF Silver Creek, which for some time
caused no little excitement in Austin, par
ticnlarly in the saloons, are either worked
out or perhaps the fortunate owners have
wisely shut down till the Austin and Battle
Mountain railroad % is completed.
1t now seems that there was no truth in
the report that Mark Musgrove was about
to start a paper in Silver Creek, to be
called the Silver Creek "Clarion."
OUR CHURCHES.
For some time there has been a great
rivalry existing between the two leading
churches of this city. namely, the Metho-
dist and the Episcopal churches. The
"Reveille' sends an artist to both of
the above-named churches on Sundays for
the purpose of making pulpit sketches.
But as the ''Reveille" artist is a pious and
deeply read evangelist, he may possibly
give the church sermons a little varnish so
as to make them read animated. By far
the larger congregation in this city worship
in the Methodist Church, composed chiefly
Va IA UNlhASo
pious and truly Christian worshippers flock
to the Methodist Church three times on
Sunday.
Go to the Episcopal Church and there
you find all the arrogance Of the city-the
gay, the wit, the beauty OF Austin is right
there, for Sally and /" are there, semi-oc-
casionally, in ali our beauty and youthful
loneliness. The Episcopal Church is GER
tainly one of the prettiest little church
buildings in this State. This neat little
house Of prayer was built and furnished
and paid for out Of the pockets Of three or
four rich men of this place who, no doubt,
fully realized that they were great sinners,
and therefore feared that
Death would catch 'em in a lurch;
And to pray away their many sins,
They built "St. Aliens Church."
One sinner gave the altar, or reading desk;
Another gave the bell;
Another, like Solomon, built the temple,
SO that in it the Lord might dwell;
But whether the Lord dwelleth there. sat all
at ALL"
"Be gob." I'm loath to say,
"For sure, - the vilest sinners
Go on Sundays there to pray.
Lu3AN BRowN.