Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-12-17
hARR0W-GAUGE ROADS.
WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO
BUILD UP THE STATE.

Road-The Mt. Corey Mine-S2,
100000 in Sight-Thriying Towns
Etc.
A representative Of the SENTINEL took
trip recently on the Carson & Colorado
Railroa HA:el4 rdfs from tbs -Mount
House halfway between Carson and Vir
ginia) down to Candelaria and Benton
The ride was made on one of those days o.
beautiful weather, such as is experienced
nowhere else under the sun but in this lat
itude. The road is thoroughly equipped
with all that goes to make a road complete
and a comfortable means of travel. The
cars are little gems Of mechanical work
They are wider than those on the Eurek'
u Pallsade, and have two rows of double
seats. There is a separate car attached tc
the train for smokers, which is furnished
with wicker chairs that are as nice seats a.
could be devised. Blu the mere comfort
and elegance of the roads equipment fol
tho qualification of travellers is nothing in
comparison with the great material value
it is to the country. 1t has generally beer
uhAOi oboou bidp lub oUutHtIu pOI tlOu vi
Nevada, which is tapped directly and in.
directly by the G. & G. road, is one of great
mining %esourc but to develop them
Just such a road as the @. & G. was needed.
The building of the road has infused the
life into the country necessary to bring il
out. One instance,
II MT. NINE.
Some prospectors had been wearing
their lives away over what is now known
and being celebrated as the Mt. Corey
mine, located IL miles away in the hills
southwest of Hawthorne, 100 miles south
of the Mound House. IL would nave been
years in their hands. and have been value
less probably for an indefinite period, but
for the g. q G. road, which opened up
immediate communication between it and
the outside mining world. To make a
long story short, it vas bought by A. G..
Mckenzie, the Superintendent of the Com.
stock bonanza mines, G. Il. Wells and j.
l.. Flood for Sic, 900. They have expended
some S25, 900 on the property. They began
a road several days ago from Hawthorne
to the mine, which will cost about SD, 900.
HOW HI NINE WAS FOUND.
The SENTINEL reporter referred to had
a conversation with Mr.. Mckenzie about
the mine, in which he learned that it is
without groupings. The ~prospectors found
d huge boulder of quartz on the sur
face, which was found to carry silver in
paying quantities. They ran q tunnel into
the mill, and at a depth of IA feet struck a
two-foot vein of $3.50 ore. Four other
tunnels have been run subsequently, the
last striking the vein at a depth Of
about 700 feet. The vein body at this
depth has an almost vertical pitch and is
from 3S feet to over 100 feet wide, and
mineralized all the way across. In this
vein there are two lodges of three feet each,
which carry ore assaying from $50 to $3.50
per ton. The ore is mostly chlorldes snd
silver bearing galena, II will have to be
roasted. Furnaces will be built as soon as
the road to the mine IL completed, if not
sooner. The kind of furnaces to be
chosen is yet undetermined. The Stede-
feldt are preferred, but the royalty Isl per
ton upon all ore reduced in them) is pro-
digious, and the owners of the mines will
select some other sort if they can do so to
advantage. Mr.. Mckenzie says that they
nave now opened in the Mt. Cory mine
900, 900 worth Of ore, and for his one
third interest he would not take one-third
of that much money. The impression is
that the bonanza firm owns the mine; but
this, Mr.. Mckenzie says, is not so, the
owners being only the three persons
named. Mr.. Wells, however, is u we'll
known bonanza legal adviser, James Flood
is old man Floods son, and Mr.. Mckenzie
is the bonanza Superintendent.
THRIVING OWNS.
Luning and other places along the G. &
c.. road are made thriving places by it.
The road builds them up, and they in turn
make up the business Of the road by which
1t is maintained and enabled to push
ahead and develop the country further.
The road is paying expenses SO far, and
also interest Of its bonds. Such roads as
the @. 81 @. deserve to be lostered and
cherished. In them, it may be said,
rests the salvation OF this State. Mining
is coming down TO legitimate business, and
must, in order to pay, be conducted on Il
rational basis of expense, as manufactures
aud farming arc. Mining will pay when
connected ~ other businesses are, but it
will not, in the average, stand the high
pressure system of early days, nor will the
outside world allow themselves to be
robbed any more to pay fast Superintend-
ents and Secretaries sor doing nothing but
spending money dishonesty. Nevada is
1'ibS w ~ o'' "a tAS SAh oi tta'A
DIAL States in the Union, but it is going to
become SO gradually. That contamination
will be reached when our chief industry
becomes d legitimate business.
CHEAP FREIaHTs COMING.
The foremost means to that end is the
reduction Of expenses for mining supplies
by means of cheap frights. These cheap
sreights a network Of narrow-gauge roads
will supply, and none others. 1t would
be new life for Eureka to have its road
completed from Salt Lake hither. Ulti-
mately it will be built. The Eureka and
Palisade, and Carson y Colorado and
Battle Mountain Narrow-gauge roads have
helped the country greatly. aud we need
more roads like them, especially il CAPT
talists will construct them with their own
money and not ask an already impover-
ished community to contribute more of its
own blood for the purpose.