Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-01-27
FROM HOMER DISTRICT.

For the benefit of Carssnites who are inter
ested in Homer District, We publish the fol
lowing letter from the Bodie Standard:
| RDIToR Standard: Siuce my last letter t.
your valuable paper concerning the progress
and promise of this favored mining district,
note an increased activity among the settlers
and in mining operations-the former prepar-
! ing to reap harvest from the incoming tide
| of immigration that is destined to populate
these hills and valleys in the Spring, and the
latter pushing ahead their developments to In
crease their ore reserves to supply the mills
| to be constructed as soon as the snow shall
| have disappeared The roads are kept open
| and teaps are going back and forth, and to
| and from Bodie. The sleighing Is good, and
the transportation of freight by sleighs Is fully
! ~s cheap as by wagons in the Summer The
lake at Lundys Is frozen over, and fle GIT
| teams can now haul their loads to the mines
located Oh Mill creek The winter has thus
far been of unusual severity ali through this
| section of country, and has proven that mill
ing and mining Can be Carried ON the whole
year round, with as little Inconvenience from
snow and storms as the most favored locality
in the State The Homer III. l. M Co. are
putting in an additional stock Of supplies, and
ais, lumber to add another building at the
mine to accommodate an additional force Of
miners soon to be put to wsrk. Their main
tunnel is now in 80 feet, and is being rapidly
advanced with day and night shifts, and wnen
advanced a short distance further CT esseut
Will Be run east to Wasatch and west to Mo
ma, while the tunnel will be continued on for
further explorations. Some developments
made on the Wasatch have shown continuity
OF rich groupings, shipment from which vii
no, do 70, Sor IT,, f.arS H,uS f,r
the purt ose of making mil ing test of the ore.
Mr.. F. T. Fuller, present forelaan of the Con,
PAeltic has been engaged to take charge of the
works Of this mine, and with his enterprise
and energy, will leave nothing undone that
will tend to advance the work and carry for
ward the rapid development Of those mines
The May Lundy mining company Is also send
ing forward from Bodle an additional stock OF
mining supplies, and when surface improve
nents are completed will commence work In
good earnest to open up promising Plsee OF
mining ground whose outcrop shows an album
dance of good milling ore and with develop
ment will give large returns to the stockhold
eds. A large number Of interested parties IN
the district, living 1t Bodie and ad accent min
ing towns, are preparing to open their mining
claims here early in the Spring, and In few
weeks more, n general activity will be wit
messed in mining and prospecting the large
number of rich mines known to exist III this
mineral belt, that will not be surpassed by any
other district in Mono County. The facilities
for wood and water, the magnificent opportu-
mites for opening these mines with tunnels,
for long time the necessity Of expen-
slve hosting machinery, the easy anu accessa-
bic grades to reach the mines by wagon road,
in few miles with the main thor
on. hfaces passing through this section of the
State and in close proximity to large and fer
tile tracts of agricultural lands are few of
he many reasons why this district will receive
he special attention of mining capital and an
mining population at an early
late. MINER.