Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-09-16
the STRIKE IN opHIa.
Add the Help % Is Likely 20 DO In
seivisg she Mysteries OF sns
North End.

The strike in Ophir is the topic oil
general conversation among mining men
on the Csm<ock just now. But one
opinion prevails as to the development.
and that 10 q favorable one. People are
Of the opinion that the ten to twelve feet
Of ore there encountered belong to an
ore body. and that that ore body will be
found. though II may take q long time
to uncover 1t. Yet II should not DO so
very long before more 10 known Of 1t,
for workings have been carried on lower
levels to the east OF this vein. and the
incline 10 down to the $500 level and q
drift from the station on that level ia
running toward the c. 4 G. shaft. All
these explorations. and the workings on
the $500 level are 20 much already &C.
complished toward the general result.
Then men make much. in their esti-
mate Of the value OF this strike. OF the
fact that the vein Is o. lively and the
quartz a bright on lower levels as
above, and the ores are Is free. Mr..
Mackay does not hesitate to put full
confidence in the lode at all possible
working depths. and says hs believes the
present development will prove OF es.
sential value in tracing the fertile por.
ton Of the vein to another bonanza and
in restoring confidence in the lode.
The fact that California has already
found in and stopped from this vein con.
siderable ore 10 another favorable cir.
cumstance. That 1t makes to the north
is proved by its having been struck In
Opbir; and that II goes down 10 indiea-
ted by the further fact that IL has double
the width where now encountered to
what it had above 10 California.
There 10 much still needed to give q
clew to the veins northeast and down
from the big bonanza. The west wall
OF that ore body itself when opened up
on the 1900 level had q course north
more than nfty degrees east. Clay walls
took strange departures from the east OF
the ore body in similar directions and
were finally lost In the range OF their
wanderiugs. The heavy vein material
encountered on the $500 level Of Ophir
while running east from the incline took
q very familiar trend in that direction
and puysuit Of It is now urged accord.
inely, and 0 general desire 10 manifested
to know what all these pointers v
mean. The fact is. just enough has
been done along the north end OF the
lode to show how much there is about II
that is not known and what an ocean
lies there awaiting the advent OF the
pick. tho shovel and the drill. Nor dc
explorations in Union and Sierra Ne
vada help to solve the mystery. They
rather deepen it. These workings hav.
''poiutsrs" to. but they run south and
east, and should ''pointers" from both
directions come together their lines oil
intersection would cross at nearly righl
angles, at least 500 or COO feet east oil
the parallel Of the Union shalt.
Yet IL must not be forgotten that wes'
| OF all these lines there 10 Q promising
vein hugging west country rock. AMI
complicsting calculations until q rseur
renee Is necessitated to the previous
proposition, and We ind We know OF the
whole north end positively less ever
than We thought. Therefore there IL
| wisdom in the remark Of Mr.. Mackay
although We may not get these bonan'
zas in the next i've years. still they vii
DO found"