Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-03-30

Sunday a representative Of the News
visited Sierra Nevada and saved ga
Sabbath days journey into the wilder
ness" by being dropped down tho Union
shaft.
Now that the starting OF the Union
pumps is about to remove the handicap
Of water from the mine. and prospecting
can DO carried on without the constant
fear OF flooding the lower levels, a new
interest attaches to the workings and
prospectinRs on. above and below the
1900 aud 2400 levels.
The lateral drift on the 2400 level has
been pushed 47i feet north from the
incline aud has cut vein matter contain.
ing stripgers Of quartz all the way. the
whole being more or less mineralized.
At q point 430 feet north OF the incline
q station has been chambered out and q
raise started to connect with the east
shaft. Some go~od.looking quartz is
found at this point, but assays are low.
It will be remembered that on this
level 1876 feet north from the incline .
crosscut was run west 81 feet and. after
passing through Is feet Of ore, car sam.
pies Of the whole Of which assayed $40,
the crosscut entered quartz OF low grade
and was discontinued. a. indications OF
water were encountered. Sixty feet
further north another crosscut wal run
west also so feet. but found NO ore.
The west wall was not reached in either
OF these crosscuts.
From q point in the lateral drift l45
feet north OF the incline and ten feet
beyond tbs irst crosscut above men.
toned q winze was then started for the
$500 level. At the depth Of 80 feet this
winze passed into ore. 1t continued in
ore IL feet further when 1t was turned
into an incline with q pitch OF SO degrees
east and has been in good ore ever since;
total depth Sunday, 81 feet. The ore in
the bottox is not OF uniform richness.
While all is OF excellent milling quality.
there. are strssks running through 1t Of AZ
fine sulphurets a. can DO seen anywhere.
The entire formation is certainly improv.
ing with depth. the ore being Of greater
uniformity aud showing more OF the
characteristics Of q regular ore body.
The swelling ground in the incline
having Saturday night crushed in some
Of the timbers 30 that the giraffe could
not be operated. the $500 level was
reached by the stairs. Repairs to the
incline were. however. nearly com.
plstsd.
The main points OF interest on the
$500 level are north OF the east shaft.
Opposite the east shaft a crosscut east
found good vein matter. nothing more.
From q point 400 feet north OF this shaft,
it will be remembered. q crosscut was
run east which developed l2 feet OF mill.
ing ore, ~ feet oil which was exceed.
ingly rich. yielding a very large proper
ton OF gold. One hundred feet further
north-500 feet from the shaft-two
narrow streaks OF ore were encountered,
and next the clay five feet Of good mill.
ing ore, in which silver predominated
largely. The gold Of the former cross
cut has in this 100 feet been disssmi-
mated throughout the vein. The north
drift 10 now 632 feet from that shaft,
and FROM u point GOO feet from the shaft
crosscuts have just been started both
east and west.
The vein in which the ore was found
in the second crosscut above mentioned
was encountered some 80 feet east Of the
main lateral drift. and the ore lay sou'
60 feet east Of that. The west clay u
| this vein il seen bordering this nortl
| drift on the east where the last crosscu!
has Just been started. and it was cut 10
| the extension Of the lateral DRIFT = liitlo
| further north. This Is important, 10 "a.
the least. us 1t indicates that the vein Is
| swinging around to the west or ID widen.
| ing. The fact that 1t has increased its
| strength and multiplied its favorable In.
| dications very considerably within this
hundred feet. aud has q very heavy clay
wall to the east which did not attend 1t
before, indicates q widening OF the vein
at least; but whether that widening is
attended with a swinging also. there are
at present no means Of determining.
1t is the current opinion that the vein
10 enlarging as 1t goes north. 1t was
found to do so on levels above worked
| north, and to improve. also. Should
the general make OF the vein there
encountered extend to the $500 level,
the widening and improving OF the
formation which IN so promising on the
1900 level will continue some 200 feet
further north before 1t gets to its best.
The locality OF the outcrop OF ore
| OF the old Sacramento and Meredith Is
familiar to all. II need therefore only
be stated that the formation above men,
| toned lies Just about where the contin.
uatiou OF that chimney Of ore ought to
be found at the depth OF the present
| workings in Sierra Nevada. II there is
anything in indications, there IL an ore
| body somewhere near that locality.
The new crosscut west, GOO feet north
OF the east shaft, 10 on the line OF the
main shaft Of the mine and is being run
with q view Of ultimately connecting
with il by q raise. The crosscut sast
will be run for Developments and will
do much to solve the problem OF the
widening or swinging Of the vein. It's
Developments GO feet or 80 further on
will be matters Of intense interest to oil
interested in or familiar with the situ.
alton.
The remaining point Of the Sierra
Nevada OF especial interest 10 the slopes
back Of Me incline above the $500 level.
These are in good, milling ore and have
| been opened on the seventh floor above
I the $500 level. Their yield is from 20
to 30 carloads per day. The formation
has been developed from the Union side
and followed north oyer the line about III
feet. The Slopes are two sets OF timbers
iu width. the ore extending beyond on
both sides. The formation Is making
into Sierra Nevada and pitches to the
east. A car track has been laid from
the Union ore chute into these slopes
and the ore is sampled by the car. tai
lied, dumped and milled with Union ore.
FROM the foregoing it will be seen
that the Sierra Nevada was never a.
interesting a. pow 1t has ore next to
IA. -. than