Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-03-14
THE FRISCO DISTRICT.
Its Location, Cost Of Living. Mines,
Etc.

Its Location. Cosf of Living, Mines,
Etc.
Says the Cherry Creek Independent F.:
From Messrs. Pete Weber and William
Armstrong. who returned from Frisco,
Utah, a few days ago, we ascertain the fol-
lowing facts concerning that camp The
distance from here is ITO miles, and the
direction a little south Of east. The road
from here there is by C~leveland's,
Gregorie's, Heckman's, and thence for As
miles across a desert to Wah Wah Springs.
From this place it is Is miles to Frisco.
The place contains at present from 400 to
500 inhabitants. and also, three stores, five
saloons, two blacksmith hops, one bakery,
two butcher shops, one brewery. a beer
jerker saloon, four livery and feed stables,
and two or three corals. Meals are four
bits, aud board can be had for 81 and So
per week. Butter is worth 20 cents per
pound, eggs from Is to 20 cents per dozen,
lou "a cents per pound. barley "a cents,
potatoes IL cents, chickens 80 cents each,
beef-choice cuts-12ls cents, and fresh
pork sells for 20 cents. Common laborers
get 50 so per day, miners So SO, smelters
81, and carpenters 81 per day. Water is
hauled from Wah Wah Springs, Is miles
distant, though at the own a little water
is had by sinking, but it is filed with ar
senic and sulphur, and is unfit for use.
Rigging is now up for the purpose OF sink
ing an a~rtesian we'll, which they expect to
put down 1000 feet before giving up. The
town is nicely situated on a summit be-
tween two valleys, and is considerably
above some parts OF tie surrounding
country.
At the Bonanza mine, the only II in
the camp, are employed some Is or 20 men,
and at each of the two furnaces some Is to
% more. Our informants were down in
the Bonanza mine, situated about a mile
and a quarter from town, and they say it
is the biggest thing of the kind they have
ever seen. The main shaft is neal 800 feet
deep, still in solid ore at the bottom, and
at different levels the ore body has been
developed for 800 feet in length and width,
and not o limit has yet been found to its
dimensions horizontally. There is not a
pound of waste rock, the whole immense
body, a cube 800 feet each way. being solid
ore.
The ore is reduced by smelling, but be-
fore this can be lon it must go through a
process OF exclamation, whereby the sulphur
is removed. To do this, the ore is placed
in small cribs of wood and roasted. The
cost Of mining and preparing the ore for
smelling is SIT a ton. The mine is worked
very cheaply, and the only expense OF
hosting the ore is hat necessary to run o
within and a bucket--hoisting in that man.
ner about SO tons q day. To supply the
| furnaces there are five coal kilns handy,
and all at one end Of the town. Wood,
which is worth from S2is to "a per cord,
is handy, but some of it is hauled as much
as five miles. Lumber, worth $35 per
thousand, and mining timbers are hauled
Is miles.
The place is from 90 to 100 miles north
of Silver Reef, and ITO miles from the
railroad. A telegraph Office is one Of the
luxuries of the place. The Bonanza COM
| pany ut present own and control everything
in the way Of business and people in and
about the place. They control the black
smithing, mercantile and livery trades,
and have even gone into the saloon bust
ness. No outsider can go there and do a
thing, as the place is at present monopo-
lized, though they say it cannot always be
so controlled should the camp ever come
up. The place is at present very dull and
overstocked with labor.