Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-01-07

The Mine and the reduction WORKS
The scntinel's Quid Nunc
Gathers All the Information ON
This Important subject-Caught
in the storm Lots Of Trouble and
Lots of Fun.
Those who get up in the morning know
how beautiful and bright the day opened
yesterday. Never was the air more tempt
ing for q ride to the hills. When Mr.. Abe
Kaye drove up to the SENTINEL Office,
sporting the ribbons Of Sweeney's splendid
brace Of blacks, Flood and O'Brien, and
invited our guild nunc to take o seat with
him for Secret Canyon, he struck o very
responsive chord in that quid nunc's
breast. Nor was the prospect Of the ride
clouded by the presence Of
TWO AMIABLE t
Seated on the back seat, the pleasant re-
sponsibility for whose comfort was equit-
ably divided between quid nunc aforesaid
and Jehu. When Mr.. Flood sold those
sable steeds to citizen Sweeney he must
have been hard up and wanted to raise a
stake. They are as muscular and as hand
some q pair Of carriage horses as ever put
hoof to sagebrush soil. While gentle as
kittens, they are full Of life and love to go.
They are no part OF the Geddes d Bertrand
leeching works, however, nor are they re-
sponsible for the long looked for storm.
But whoever forgets his horses makes o
bad composition, nor has he profted by
his esthetic studies if he does not know
in what order to name the noble animal,
that is, next after the
NoBLEsT CREATURES OF ALL,
The fair ladies. II any reader Of this OK
cellent family paper $50 cents q week, de-
livered by carrier at your residence or
%office). does not know this he is respect
fully referred to "Kane's Elements OF
Criticism" or any other sound work or
the subject.
THE STORM.
The travellers above referred to and &C.
curately described had hardly been taken
out Of the town limits, and had not fairly
put the brewery behind their backs, when
the long expected storm burst-our re-
porter never could understand why this
word is SO ill treated and misused, but 1t
will be understood by burst" that it be-
gan to snow and it showed with a VEN
geance-a term that attributes retribu-
ton to the beautiful" and hence ia IN
esthetic, hurtful to Oscar Wilde, and bad;
by which, however. il will be clearly
enough understood that it showed heavy
and hard. rhe party who had started
out for q Spring drive thought 30. And
the wind whistled-which is literal. The
eight miles Travelled, the ladies slowed
away carefully in charge Of Mrs. Dough-
erty, who placed
SEDUCTIVE TEA
And fresh boiled ranch eggs before them
for their refreshments, the horses blanket
ed and tied to hangers stuffed with hay,
the driver and his left bower called in to
see Bonner Bitten. the opulent tavern
keeper OF the village. From deep in his
cellar he brought forth a flask many years
old and rich with cobwebs. The cobwebs
were allowed to stand and SO was the bot
tie for q moment. Before 1t could be in
verted
A STRANGE APPARITroN
Passed by the door. 1t was our empty car
riage, without horses, moving away at an
lick on the road that leads
to Pinto. 1t was brought to by O
lasso in the hands OF q Mexicano, some 100
yards from where 1t had left. This freak
OF the empty vehicle was set down as an
omen and understood to intimate that we
should not retrace our steps, but return
home via Pinto. The contents Of the an
Gent and cobwebbed bottle we're taken in
to a toast to the departed spirit (wind)
that had animated the migratory buggy.
THE WORKS.
When the gentlemen of the party re-
paired to Mrs. D~ougherty's hospitable
home they found there Mr.. Blaine Walker,
who kindly volunteered to show them the
Geddes d Bertrand works /; and they
with regret, which the community
at large will share with them, that Mrs.
o. J. Salisbury is still seriously indisposed.
In the binding o storm Mr.. Walker,
Mr.. Kaye, and u reporter fought their
way against wind and snow to the Com
paays oaaoe, where they found Jack Gil
mer, Mr.. J. r. Strong and Judge Lam
sing. showed In" but contented and
PUTTING THEIR
Luxuriously. After a little Of the ''same"
party tackled the raging elements
again, and crossed over to the mill on the
opposite side of the canyon. A good deal
has been said about the extent of these
works; still 1t will be a surprise to many
to be told that they cover more ground
than any other reduction works on the
Pacific Coast. This statement 10 made
without qualification. The area included
engine-house apart--is $50 by 18S
feet. From the comb of the roof to the
level (the interior Is arranged in
terraces) Is 1876 feet. 1t is all. fortunately.
under cover, 1t having required $40. 900
shingles to complete the covering. Taking
/ /, 900 shingles to the square OF 10 feet, it
can be readily calculated that the whole
roof surface is
$4,000 souARE EEr
A description Of the interior structure Of
the building, at present, cannot be made
or complete, and ia reserved
for the time when the machinery shall have
been put In place. II Ia enough to say
that the six floors, or terraces, for their
various uses have been
HEwx OUT OF soLID sHALE
And are fronted and f1anked with walls Of
solid masonry three feet wide at the base
and two feet on top. The grading neces-
sary has been done at heavy expense. The
company have on the premises 260. 900
brick for early use in the construction Of
chimneys and furnaces. They have 800
tons Of salt on hand and upwards OF
10000 CORDS OF MAHOGANY
Wood ready for use when work begins.
Yesterday the two boilers for the engine
Q5O-horse power were being put in posi-
ton. The machinery, manufactured
mostly in San Francisco, is due here on
contract the first week in February. By
the first week In March the works will be
started up. Only eight men will be en-
ployed on a shift, including engineer and
everybody else. This may appear singu-
lar, but Il IL accounted for by the fact that
very little will be done by manual labor.
the machinery being SO constructed Is to
be to the
GREATEST EXTENT AUTOMATIC.
A tunnel 5x6 feet has been started from
the level Of the ore bins to the mine, to
strike 1t at a distance Of between HOO and
1900 feet on the $50 level though it is not
calculated to use the tunnel for 3 year, as
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