Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-06-05
THE HOPE OF THE comsroCK.
The Heated Belt Being Passed Through
AID Cooler Levels Encountered.

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and Cooler Levels Encountered.
There are many practical mining ex
perts who firmly believe that the barrier
belt of the COmstock has been passed
through, and that another bonanza-bear
ing belt is about to be encountered
When John Mackay was asked If he ex.
pected to find ore in the 1900 level Of
the Sierra Nevada, he replied:
off we don't find it there, we will on
the three thousand"
off that fails, what thenT'
"The four thousand" was the quick
response"
Two barren belts of the ledge were
passed through, and between these belts
was found 1.-The big paying ore bodies.
There is every reason to believe that a
productive belt is about to be encoun-
tered. On this subject the Eureka
Leader has the following:
Almost from the surface to the 1000
foot level there was heavy influx of
water. Below the 1000 foot level for
about another thousand feet the lode is
as dry as powder house. In this por-
ton of the ledge between the 1000 and
1000 levels have been found the i'm
mensely rich bonanzas in the Crown
Point, Belcher, Con. Virginia and Cali
fornia. In the neighborhood of the
1000 level another water belt began to
be encountered, and both the water and
the temperature of the levels COM
menced increasing in heat. This in
crease in heat grew as greater depth
was attained, until it was almost i'm
possible to do any effective work in the
lower levels. It took four men to do
one mans work, and it is becoming evil
dent that if with depth the heat in
creases, it is only question of very
short time before the Comstock will
have to be abandoned. There is a ray |
of hope, however, in this particular at |
least, breaking on the Comstock horizon.
In the Ophlr they have attained a depth
Of $500, and on this level the tempera-
ture is cooling decidedly, the flow of
water is diminishing, and what there
IS, instead of being of scalding heat, is
about luke warm. In other words, while
he water encountered from the 1900
@ the $500 levels of the Ophir stands at
rom 100 to 40 degrees Farenheit, on
he $500 level it stands at but 80 de-
frees. So far this change in the tenn
,erature of the levels and the flow and
leat of the water has only been encOun-
cred at the one point in the Ophir
nine. Should it be found to obtain in
he other mines when the same depth
S attained, it would prove conclusively
hat the second water belt Of the Com
teck had been passed through. Not
My that, it would show that the for
nation, where by the chemical action of
he rock the metal was held in solution,
o to speak, and the temperature and
water was brought to an intense heat,
lad been passed through, and that there
3 a reasonable show of encOuntering
aging deposits of ore in the next ] 900
eet in depth. The reason for this be-
ief is because in the heated levels, from 4.
he 1000 down, the metal appears to be
distributed for the whole width of the
Elm, from SOC to 500 feet. The por-
hyry, the clay castings, in fact, the
.angue Of the vein give about the same
ssays as any portion of the vein itself.
n the dry levels above, where the I
onanzas were found, the gangue of the
Elm was entirely barren, and the metal
7as concentrated in the ledge matter to
width of from % to 100 feet, instead
f permeating the whole width of the
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