Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-01-27

Bullion has always presented q prob.
lem In mining. involving several powers
OF the unknown quantity and resulting
In an equation Very difficult Of reduo-
ton. The solution seems. however.
now to be in q fair way Of being out.
wrought by drills and picks and spades
and the result bids fair to DO q positive
instead Of a negative quantity.
As long ago as when John W. Mackay
was running the mine some good quartz
was encountered on the 1900 level, II
memory serves rightly. and this was
thoroughly prospected both north and
along the incline from level to level, but
It never made into an ore body. The
most OF the way the incline followed the
western boundary Of this quartz body,
sometimes penetrating'a little into It
and showing better prospects. but never
finding ore OF sufficient value to pay for
extraction and reduction.
Yesterday with Superintendent Hum.
bert and Samuel Osbiston, q News re-
porter visited the mine, and in the work.
ings south Of the incline saw the lower
edge OF this quartz body on the 2l6O
level where 1t gave entirely out. The
ledge itself, however. continues broad
and Is wsll.deaned. the gangue being vein
porphyry. The giving out Of the quartz
body above referred to Is not, therefore,
the giving out Of tho prospects OF the
mine. It Is rather the reverse; for when
one body Of quartz lying In the vein
gives out and another comes In. the
second is very likely to carry ore With 1t.
The second body Of quartz has been
found in the Bullion. 1t lies east OF the
old body and lower down, and has been
indicated for q long distance In the In.
cline. as this working has been pushed
from the also to the 1850 level, BY the
frequent stringers Of bright, lively
quartz which are to be seen running
through the porphyry cut BY the incline
as il has been continued on down.
These have increased in strength and
frequency as tho 1850 level has been
neared. So promising were they that
Superintendent Schultz could not resist
the temptation some Ito feet, on the
slope, above the 1850 level Of trying Q
diamond drill. This was run down ct
an angle Of Sc degrees. the mako OF the
holo being east Of north. yet west Of the
plane Of the incline. just what Mr..
Schultz found there, aside from the flow
of hot water mentioned in bis official let
tiers has never been made public further
than that he cut O black clay, then white
clay, then quartz, and finally q second
clay, In which the bit Of the drill stuck
and was Lost, ans,
level, struck this same black clay. III
o very hard. dry clay. In many OF its
characteristics resembling slate. and In
its consistency approaching black dyke.
It has q pitch to the east OF IS degrees,
aud the incline has been changed In its
dip from Al degrees TO SO to follow Il.
This clay Is certainly the eastern Dor.
der OF the new body Of quartz. 1t was
encountered a little south OF the incline
on the 2l0O Imperial level In the work
inss north from the Con. Imperial shalt.
and was there found bounding the
quartz on the east. Its fat pitch to the
east above the 1850 Bullion level 10 .
good indication. since 1t forms the hang.
ing and not the footwall OF the vein. 1t
shows q widening and q making Of the
quartz which would naturally cause It to
bulge in that direction. since the sysnits
Of the west country lies u~nyieldingly BE-
hind IL.
What lies under this black clay and
IT. accompanying layer Of regular clay 10
soon to be ascsrtained on the 1850 level,
since the station set for that level II In
place and today will complete the sump