Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-12-13
MINING NOTES.
natter. or I.ssrsss All Ais.s the
Lode.

Union Works tuio motuin8 w. Va
verso Of sacred song hymnsd BY the
Covenanters and BY the Puritans
eye whales and monsters Of the deep.
Your Makers praises spout;
Forth from the sands, 70 codlinN peep.
And wsg your tails about"
There Il was, in outward appearance
very like . sulphur.bottom whale. with
trunuion.holss for eyes and shafts for
iins-a tribe too csly by reason OF bolt.
heads to bs in keeping. but very like .
whale after all and 50 feet long. Six
feet Of its tail had been out OF and stood
near BY on the tail end. In weight IL
wan immense. kicking the beam Of
SO tons. A railroad track had been laid
from the sids-trsck TO where the mon.
star lay. and II looked ~ II about to b
broilsd ON Q gridiron. Some blocks and
ropes were attached to 10 and Q windlass
wss worked by half . dozen men. and
thus they hAnled Il along. II making
progress BY aiding the blocks Of Ito
support along the rails Of the car track.
It l. the chord Of the walking beam Of
the big pumping engine. and 10
made Of q and q wrought
iron plates and doubled and treblsd
and quadru slsd in places. according
to necessity, and al boltsd together
into . compact and strengthened mass.
Its width is 8 feet 4 inches and perpen.
dicular depth 3 feet. OF courss IL Ii
hollow, and men inside seemed playing
Jonah In the whales bslly. but were in
reality restoring to place the main shaft.
which had 10 be shiftsd to run the thing
into the building. Notwithstanding Its
enormous weight 10 II to have - much
more added 10 IL In the shape Of braces
and struts and the tail-pisce and such.
like prstties. II measures 10 feet from
the center Of the shait TO the osnter OF
the pin in the king.Post and the same
underneath. The trunnion 10 rs inches
In diameter and 81 inches in its bearings.
Yet all this, with al It's filings, II but
the pumphandle to be used soon In
raising the water out Of the north end
mines.
Tho Union hosting works r i'm.
mense structures - they now stand. the
engine house being completed. They
are in the form OF . cross and reach
$40 feet from east to west and 237 feet
from north to south. Along the east
dde. under the engine house. 10 an Toe
house. and also Q pipe shop whore bend.
inRs and cuttings and fittings are made.
The road to the Union shaft has been
heavily gravslsd all the way from the
0phir yard.
The Ophir pumps are running and
now all danger OF flooding that part OF
the lode IL over. The pumps were
started last evening for . trial and after
fixing Q few things were found first rate.
Today they work we'll to all Appearances
on the surface.
The New York incline II below the
1000 level.
At the Union Consolidated they are
now brsssting out In the ore cut BY the
east drift. Al there II Q width OF about
eighty feet OF ore d this point sufficient
ore will soon Be raised to make 1t lively
for the mills. There are dividends
ahead. Notwithstanding the Costly ma
ohinery going In.
About the usual quantity Of ore IL be.
ing taken out at the Sierra Nevada, and
explorations are In progress at two or
three points above the 2400 level.
At the 0phir . drift has been started
north on the 2500 level.
There 10 . report today that Savage
has got II. The report could not b
confirmed or denied - Superintendent
Kelly 10 below.
The west crosscut from the 2400 sta
don Of the GINS. shaft In making
good progress In very soft ground.
The Yellow Jacket folks are pushing
q crosscut east on their 2700 level, run.
nins north. and sinking the main shaft.
Alta and Benton folks are down to tho
point whore will be put their 1850 sta
ton.
Softer rock in Scorpion and some
vstsr there. too.
Connection has BEEN made between
the south drift. 2l50 level Of the Con.
Virginia, and that north from the bot
tom Of the joint Best 4 Bslcher WINE,
giving a good circulation Of air and In
various ways facilitating operations. A
Joint orosscut east will nov b made on
this level, and . winzs sunk to the next
level and then the promising vein mat
ter encountered In the south drift above
mentioned will be prospsoted at o
greater depth.
Two Of the bob stations are done in
the Union shaft and dmbersd and the
pillow block timbsrs are In. The bobs
will Be lowered soon.