Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-06-18
THE ALBION NINE.
A Letter from the superintendent
Clear Account of the Workings
of the Lower Levels.

Clear Account of IA Workings
of the Lower Levels.
EUREKA, June 9.-In company with
Foreman Williams l made a careful exam
ination Of our underground workings yes
terday. There has been considerable
prospecting work done in connection with
the cave during the last month. The
winze at the south end of same has been
carried down on a slip 50 feet, and as this
slip is met with on the main level it was
deemed advisable to connect the level with
the winze by an upraise, which has been
started, and is now up 25 feet. This con-
nectlon will allow us to prospect & large
extent of promising ground south of the
cave, and also a large block Of virgin
ground under the cave. A seam Uf ore
was followed in sinking the Wine from the
cave for a distance of 40 feet, where it
gave out at q point where a large creyice
and open ground was encountered, ON the
footwall side, making under the cave. 1t
being desirable to prospect at this point,
and as considerable waste rock would have
to be handled, the requirement of
a connection with the main level
became apparent at once, and
hence the abandonment of the Wine and
the transfer of the men to the upraise.
When this connection is completed the en-
tire south end of the cave can be worked
to great advantage. An incline upraise
has also been started going east from near
the south upper end of the cave, it being
thought that a body of ore exists in that
vicinity, and above the cave indications are
certainly very flattering at this point. At
the lower end Of cave a slip was met with
running east and west. This has been
followed west 40 feet, and at various places
along the south line of the same punches
of ore are to be seen. The drift along this
slip will be continued for some distance
further, and the crosscuts started south at
the points where the ore is to be seen.
This part of the mine I consider exceed
ingly favorable, and we have every belief
that this slip will carry us into an ore
body over the Uncle Sam drift. We are
encouraged in this belief from the fact of
having found rich punches of ore in two
upraises made during our early workings
of mine over and west of Uncle Sam drift.
l shall press this drift forward as fast as
possible. The Uncle Sam drift has been
filed with ore from cave, and it must re-
main there until the injunction matter is
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level is now in 800 feet and / can detect no
change in the character of the ground. 1t
is the same white limestone with seams of
spar and iron. We can look for no better
ground unless it is the ore itself. The
drift will be continued 60 feet further to
the Uncle Sam line and there it will end
for the present. / shall then drift west
along the south line Of the Uncle Sam.
When we first started this drift, and about
80 feet from the shaft, we cut across d
seam carrying small punches of galena.
We have lately started a drift in the same,
running west. 1t is now extended o dis
lance of SO feet. For the past few days
we have again encountered the galena and
small punches of molybdate Of lead. We
of course consider these favorable indica-
lions for ore. The west drift from the
shaft is now in $50 feet and still in lime
stone. The southeast drift is in 2S5 feet,
with no change to note in the yellow lime
stone face. The east drift, from the bottom
Of the Price & Davis shaft, has been col
tinued for $50 feet in stratiied limestone.
We are in hopes to get out of this as we
approach the body OF Adams Hill. The
west drift is in black limestone and spar
showing iron stains. All Of our machinery
is in perfect order and working to our en-
tire satisfaction. E. N. ROBINSON, Supt.