Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-10-16

fmouu Dftiss Escs noeE 0s0
stons Considered.
Yesterday the superintendent OF the
Sierra Nevada mine sIemplihsd the
Comstock idea Of . visiting day. This
idea Is not that . mine il to be thrown
open to the public and work therein
hindsrsd whsthsr there il anything to
DO seen thors or not but rather, that
when there IL . development OF interest
to the public that development should
be shown up Voluntarily BY the manage
msnt in such q mannsr and at such q
time as to them should seem best.
Yesterday some forty Of Q hundred
invited guests presented themselves at
the Sierra Nevada works at IL n. and
dounsd their miners suits. The route
to the new development on the $500
level Is the same taken by visitors in the
famous but unfortunate legal visiting
days. The company yesterday was com.
posed Of mining supsrintsndsnts. rock
sharps, capitalists. spectators and rep.
reseutatives OF the press. In point OF
general intelligence. mining experience
aud individual reliability Of character.
they were such a. to command the con.
fdsnce Of the Comstock public in their
reports.
From the station on the 1900 level OF
the incline Q drift has been started south
and then swung round till its general
direction il now south 80 degrees west.
Soon after leaving the station the right
side OF the drift cut through q thin
selvedgs OF clay lying under the cap
rock Of the vein and entered the ore
body. The trend Of this clay slip is
south 8 degrees east, leaving the angle
between 1t and the make OF the drift 80
| degrees. Further on the left side Of the
drift cut the clay also and entered into
ore. Yesterday the drift had penetrated
| the ore body Is feet on the right hand
side and 16 feet OF the left.
The ore body struck as above Ia abso.
lutely an sstonisher. II Is Q mass OF
sulphuret and chloride ore Of surprising
value, richer than could have been
found by any DRIFT which could have
been run an equal distance into any OF
the ore bodies yet discovered on the
lode. The ore Is mostly very fine and
soft, but this ins ore is the richest OF
the whole. running high in gold.
Through the body run stresks OF black
sulphurets which come as near stephan.
ito as it is possible for sulphuret ore to
DO. Mingled with the fine ore are pieces
OF quartz, which, in addition to the
black sulphuret and chloride ore. carry
free gold. mostly in fne particles. In
soms instances this &c pervades the
quartz Us to give II u yellow cast.
Yesterday the party IN the immediate
vicinity Of the News representative. in
taking average samples OF the ore,
struck q hard piece Of rock which sent
the frs rolling from the pick. II was
taken out and was q boulder Of quartz
about 40 pounds in weight. 1t was
broken open and found 10 contain rich
ore Of ali the classes mentioned above.
An assay Of q piece Of this rock gave
S426 so in gold and S5l4 IL in silver;
total, S940 81. An assay OF the fine
rock gave u total OF Sl.436 "a. But the
best idea Of the actual value Of the whole
formation will be gained from the grand
average OF l6 average assays, taken
clear around the sides and face. This
average was S424 50. An average OF
ak average assays from the face gave
S6GS 20.
Many higher assays were shown, but
the averages are the best test OF the ore
body. The assay which runs highest
10 that made some days ago and which
was doubted when telesraphed below.
Il was made for President Skae and
went 81, ZOO. Others have since
reached SO, 900 and $1,000.
The foregoing Is sufficient as to the
richness OF the ore and sustains the as
sertion made above that there was never
ON the Comstock such an opening made
into an ore body. The prevalence OF
gold in the ore Is another promising fea-
ture. Old Comstockers like to see 1t.
Il indicates to them q strong, durable
ledge and Q big body Of ore.
As to the extent Of the ore body In the
direction followed. OF course nothing is
absolutely known. There are probabil.
tiles, however. founded on what was
seen yesterday and on official reports oil
what was done by the diamond drill. 1t
may be worth while to briefly SUN the
probabilities thus indicated:
The trend OF the clay rs cut Is south
8 degrees east. ..
The direction OF the diamond drill
was south As degrees west. This struck
ore for % feet, o horse for le feet and
ore 80 feet further. The diamond drill
was also run south and west and found
ore.
Il win be seen, therefore. that this
drift il running at an angle OF 80 degrees
from the trend Of the clay and 10 de.
grees from the line Of the diamond drill
hole. 1t ought to iud ore right along
for 6 long distance Of least. il is posi-.
BILE that the grade may lower. II not, a
run Of 50 feet further by the drift-and
il is likely to find ore much further than
that-would make the stock intrinsieally
very valuable.
Everyoooy WIZ s's'se sae -. ="
we'll pleased With the situation. 1t was
all that had been officially said Of IL and
more too. Unfortunately some who
went into the mine had sold their stock
beforehand. They were 30 chagrined
at this and 80 satisfied with the outlook
that they went out aud made every pos.
sibls ststeuent which they could invent
which would have q tendency to belittle
the showing and break the market so
that they could get their stock back at
reduced rates.
Some Of the devices OF these men were
exceedingly plausible, and we'll intended
to deceive those not familiar With the
situation. One assertion was that the
drift had been crooked to follow Q mar
row vein OF ore. and that 1t was o streak
like the Hardy vein OF the 0phir. The
trend Of the sslvedse Of clay and the di.
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