Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1881-03-12
THE BOOM" STARTED.

Charcoal, ETC.
Mr.. Birdsall, President of the Ly-
on Mill & Mining Company, arrived
in Dayton last Saturday, and has
since been busily engaged in censid-
ering the ACCESSIBILITY of erecting
smelling furnaces in Dayton. His
Investigations have been so satisfac-
tory that he has about concluded to
erect an experimental furnace with
out unnecessary delay. He is of the
opinion that his company can work
to better advantage if they prepare
all their own supplies-or at least
such of them as are 20 be procured
in Nevada. These include brick,
clay, lime, charcoal. etc. Within a
day or two men will be set at work
near the river bank making brick.
As soon as 100000 are ready kiln
will be burned, and the work kept
on until half million are ready for
use. The smelling furnace will then
be constructed, and all ores brought
to this place will be purchased ac-
cOrding to schedules which will be
published in the TINES, and of which
there will be at least three-one for
free milling, one for rebellious, and
one for free smelling ores. The
company is of course as ready
to purchase free or refractory mill
ing or roasting ores now as it has
been for years past, but the publica-
ton of the schedules for smelling
ores AS well, will doubtless give a
greater impetus to prospecting in
this section of country than anything
else which could possibly be done.
And this impetus will not be con
fined to Como and the country south
Of layton. For in the hills to the
east and west of Silver City, Gold
Hill and Virginia there are many
small but rich veins of argentifer-
Gus gslens ore, which have lain I'M
disturbed since the discovery of tie
Comstock because of the enormous
expense of getting them to market.
Veins of this kind are found in Flow
cry and the districts Immediately
north and east of there, on the west
ern slopes of Mounts Butler and
Davidson, in the OLD upper levels OF
the Ophir, Mexican and Belcler, and
in the lower levels Of the Savage,
Alta. etc.-in fact, smelling ore has
been found pretty much all through
the Comstock mineral be!t-and
there Can be no reasonable doubt
that it home market j.. tnce ere
atcd for that class of ore, important
discoveries will ensue.
The furnace which the Lyon Mill
& Mining Company propose erecting
will be of daily capacity of ten
tons. 1t is proposed to run it in
campaigns Of not less than two
weeks, as the cost of preparing and
heating it up properly at the outset
OF campaign will be so great as to
preclude the profitable making of
briefer "runs" or "campaigns."
As above stated, the company in-
tend to, as much MS possible, pre-
pare, produce, or manufacture all the
supplies that they can procure in
Nevada. To this end the company
will have to put brick m akers, char
coal. burners, lime burners, etc., at
work. The lime must he procured
in Eldorado Canyon lat the old
Blanchard kilns), the charcoal in
the Como Hills, and the brick in
Dayton. All these operations will
require quite a number Of employees,
who will either be actually employ
ed in Dayton or brought here nearly
every day-to the consequent benefit
of all our local husinpsSeS
The prosperous boom" for
which we have been looking for
months is evidently about to start
at least so far as Dayton and the
rest of Lyon county is concerned.
Reduced to Sixty.
After considerable pulling and