Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-12
EUREKA MINING DISTRICT.
Some Comments by n London
Mining journal.


Mining journal.
The London Mining Journal Of October
23d has the following: Very pertinent to
this and other mining districts where all
prospecting is done by comparatively poor
individuals, or small parties of miners, are
the following remarks, culled from the
New York Mining News of September 10th:
"Why is it, asks a correspondent, 90 that
persons who pretend to have really valua-
BILE mines are SO anxious to sell them at
mere nominal figures 2" This question is
easily answered without going beyond the
realm Of any mans understanding. The
prospector is always q poor man. As soon
as he has discovered a valuable claim and
uncovered it a few feet, the expensive part
Of the work begins. Few shafts will turn
out ore enough to pay the expense of sink
ing and timbering, and no miner who
knows his business will undertake to drift
or stope before he has reached a depth of
from SO to 100 feet. Being destitute Of
money, and knowing that unless the ore is
OF more than ordinary richness. and the
vein very wide, he will not be able to sink
the shaft without assistance, the discoverer
offers his prospect, or a large interest in it,
for sale to the first man who will take it at
a reasonable price. Unless the purchaser
is familiar with mining, he never thinks of
the fact that the shaft must be timbered
from top to bottom at a heavy expense. At
the depth of 100 feet, or less, hosting
works OF some description must be erected,
and something more than man-power used
In hosting out the earth or rock. All these
improvements cost money, and until the
mine is well opened. which will not be be-
fore a depth of 300 feet has been attained,
no large profits need be looked for. Every
prospector knows these facts, and for this
reason, If destitute OF means, he proceeds
to sell his claim. By this means capital
comes into possession Of all the best mines
in the country, simply because it has the
power, which the prospector has not, and
without which few mines can be put upon
a paying basis.
In the Eureka District, until lately with
out railway communication the state of
things depicted above was particularly ap-
plicable. Now, however, a railway is open
from Palisade to Eureka. giving direct
communication with San Francisco on the
west, and Salt Lake and other cities to the
east, much attention is being Directed by
enterprising mining Adventures in Ameri-
ca to the resources of Eureka, and the at
tention of English and Continental CAPT.
talists should also be called to the perma-
Dence Of the ore resources, as shown by
the work in all the mines there which have
been practically worked by business men
for an essentially business object-the
making of money, steadily and surely.
Among recent developments made in this
direction attention is called to the Titus
mine. for which the largest within ever con-
structed in this district has just been
completed. This mine is worked by pri-
vate residents Of Eureka, many of whom
are said to be employees of the Richmond
Company. This within is estimated to be
sufficient to work to a depth of 400 feet,
and the work of sinking on this mine will
be vigorously proceeded with. The presi-
dent of g Chicago bank has just acquired
abe mining deeds of six locations in An
telope District, Eureka county. the con-
sideration for each deed being $50, 900.
The new shaft of the Eureka Consolidated
Company was down 425 feet, and the two
furnaces continue running smoothly with
an ample supply Of ore. The Albion Com
pany were just about to sink their shaft
an additional 100 feet, to get under the
large body of ore recently discovered, and
about which there has been q legal fight
between that company and the Richmond
Company. The Silver Conner hosting
works, not far from the Dunderberg and
the Eagle mines, we're being repaired, and
the Eureka SENTINEL Of Sept. 81, remarks
that ''there was a lively application for
patents on the mineral lands il Eureka
and Prospect Mountain districts" One
Of the Ruby Company's furnaces (says the
same paper was being set in order under
the superintendent of Mr.. Dowlan,
the company's smelter, preparatory to
starting up, and from all accounts this
company will have large ore supplies in
November, when the drift from the 600
foot station is completed to run under the
ore body already reported. The Eagle
mines, sold to the Eureka NEVADA Silver
Mining Company, are in just such a
position described in the New York Min
ing World. The prospectors are not rich
men, and require capital to develop the
mine, which they have, however, sunk to
a depth of 300 feet. Abundant evidence is
given Of the ore producing capabilities of
the mine, and even more can be said of the
Williamsburg, from which ore was being
taken and work going on at last dates.
The Eureka District is one which de-
serves greater attention than it has re-
ceived. That such has only been delayed
by the unfortunate preliminary experience
Of both the Richmond and Ruby Compa-
niles is the firm conviction of the most
stable Eureka residents and merchants.
These see the unfortunate results Of the
action of those who assume to themselves
the property of others, and the buyers of
mines need only take the usual business
like precautions to investigate the titles of
their purchases to be certain of an undis-
turbed possession. The courts of Eureka
and the merchants will see justice done to
those coming among them.