Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-04
Totals 500 S41. 500, 900

I'VE give these figures as they occur in the
Exchange. The aggregate is no doubt correct,
but there is a mistake somewhere in the items,
which we are not able to detect. Ed. sENrINEL.l
From the foregoing exhibit a peculiar
result is developed, which is: AS this zone
OF mineral-beariug limestone increases in
width between its wall rocks of quartzite
and shale the yield per lineal foot has been
increased in proportion to its width. At
the Jackson and Phenix, where the zone
is quite narrow, the yield varied from
$4,000 to $4,000 per foot. At the X X,
where the zone commences to widen, the
Weld increased to SO. 500 per foot. At the
Eureka, where the zon is quite wide, say
400 to 600 feet, the yield has been SIS 600
per foot. At the Richmond, where the
ledge or zone is some 500 feet wide, the
yield has been SIG, 500 per foot. These
facts demonstrate, absolutely, that as the
cubical capacity Of the zone increases, so
does the yield, showing that the width of
the zone regulates its yield. This vast
yield has continued with an average result
of &c., $50 per foot for $500 from the jack
son on the east to the Albion line on the
west, and yet the counsel of the Richmond
Company, through the columns of the
Stock Report, as its special Geographic
correspondent, would have the community
believe, through his bold assertions, that
this great average yield per foot of this
mineral zone must stop, because that COM
pany's ownership under the decision of the
Supreme Court of Nevada stops at the line
A @, although the largest ore bodies ever
discovered or worked on that zone are de-
veloped up to that line, and extend along
it for a long distance, as well as over that
line into the Albion ground, as far as the
Richmond Company could work before
they were stopped by injunction.
The testimony has developed the fact
that this mineral bearing zone of lime
stone which has contained so much wealth,
extends unbroken into the Albion ground
as far as it has been prospected-some 700
feet beyond the Richmond-Albion line.
1t has also been thoroughly established by
thet testimony of both sides, that so far as
is known this mineral zone in the Albion
ground is wider than any other portion of
it heretofore explored. In the Albion
ground but a small amount Of prospecting
has been done compared with the extent
and cubical contents. As the testimony
has developed the fact that of this ground
for some 500 or 600 feet only, adjoining
the Richmond, the prospecting works oc-
cupy but one-fifth of one per cen of its
cubical quantity, down to the second level,
and of this one-ffth of one per cent, So
per cent has encountered ore.
The Albion Company own absolutely
4,500 lineal feet of this mineral zone from
the Richmond line westerly, and, so far as
it is known, it is wider than at any other
portion or section of this zone, and there
is no reason why it should not contain as
much wealth per lineal foot as the $500
feet from the Jackson to the Albion line.
Should such be the fact, it would give a
gross value of $i1 800, 900. If it should
equal the yield per foot of the Richmond
section of this zone, 1t would give a gross
yield of nearly double that sum-. If it
should give the same yield as the narrow
est portion of the zone (the Jackson, it
would still give a gross value of 80, 900, 900.