Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-12-09
e Contention at the led rock price

leg6od luck of his stock being carried for I him by W. E. Dean, present president of that company, at time when the Con- stock had nearly beggarcd him. At the old openings on the Richmond ground the | orc, in the form of inc rich gray and yellow carbonates of lead, cropped out from amidst the heavy lime capping, and from there it has since been followed about nineteen hundred feet on the dip to the northeast on the opposite flank of the hill, where now | stand the
 MAGNIFICENT HOSTING WORKS,
 of which the Grand Central's, of this place, are exact models. The lowest workings in 1879, in which year the writer left Eureka, passed below the crest of the hill at a depth of 1000 feet, and now they extend to a depth of 1900 and 1,400 feet The ore bodies worked up to the latter date had been found to preserve nearly the same course and pitch, or dip, at the deepest part then reached as they seemed to have possessed at the starting points on the north side of the hill. The Ruby hill lore bodies, or ore shutes, until very recent period, were technically defined, by Professor Clayton and others, as pipe veins." but they are in reality made up of a series of bonanzas, ellipst idal in form, and having their longer axis pointed in the d. rection of thelr dlp. Recently, however, Justice Field, of the United States supreme court, defined the Eureka ore zones as comprising vein or lode held in lime, confined on the west by quartzite and on the east by shale, and this definition of the learned judge upset the theory of the pipe veins, or segregated ore shutes, upon which the Richmond company predicated their defense In the celebrated case of the Flu reka Con. against the Richmond Mining company, ol Nevada.
 THE HANGING-WALL
 of the limestone zone (shale) is in places very much broken up from what appears internal disturbances, while the foot-wall (quartzite) appears quite compact, and sometimes is found running nearly flat for couple or three hundred feet and then pitching away at all angle of seventy de- grees, to again become stationary and form another vast bonanza resting on a gently sloping plain, ,and 50 on ad minimum as far as present developments extend to the deep. The ores of this mine, and the hill where on located, consist of an argentiterouS carbonate of lead, carrying nodules of ga lena as we'll as no small amount of decon- posed arsenical pyrltes carrying gold. Great masses of oxide of iron alternate with the richer vein matter, forming what may be termed the "gangue," that imparts to the orc the ferruginous or red-ochre. ish appearance for which the ores ef Ruby hill are famous. This oxide of iron, which has been found to amount to above forty per cent of the contents of the lode, is more or less rich in gold and silver and forms, with the other material of the vein, the line tluxing mixture which makes the Eureka ores so easy of reduction.
 THE FIRST FURNACE
 was erected in 1871, and when the con- pany acquired the property two additional furnaces were built, and it was about that time that Mr. Probert, then new from England, put In his first appearance ill Eureka. The capacity of these furnaces was from thirty-iye to fifty tons each. In 1875, under Probert's direction, the new hydrocycle furnaces (water jackets) were erectcd,of capacity of forty tons each In September, 1878, the company's works, and its coal bins, containing 1J5,000 bushels ot charcoal, then in charge of the writer, were entirely reduced to ashes, and for many nights afterward the blaze from the burning coal illuminated the heavens, and lent strange weird appearance to the midnight landscape for radius of many hundred yards around. Soon afler upon the site of the demolished furnaces, two new ones, having an average of 90 tons each daily, one 70 and one of 50 tons daily, were erec and all of them are of the hydrocycle pattern, which is, by far, the most economical of any style of fur mace in construction and operation
 BULLION PRODUCT.
 The silver lead yield from 1871 10 De- cember 31, 1880, aggregated 50,564 tons, whose assay value in gold and silver footed up SEQ, ,425,600 and the value of the 50O00 and odd tons of refined lead, produced at the refinery up to the latter date, produced in round numbers, S4, 400, ,000, which, added to the precious metal values, gives the grand total sum of $24 S25, 500. Out of this vast product the company have dis bursed nearly $4,000,9O0 in quarterly divi- dends, besides paying vast sums for litiga- tion and for the purchase and construction of the magnificent refinery plant, and for the purchase of the additional locations enumerated elsewhere in the fore going. Of the refinery and the process employed there, will have something to say in the next issue ot the EPITAPH, and until then, too, must, owing to the great length of this article, defer my concluding remarks -----4.p---
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