The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1882-06-17

Bristol District, is a fair and impartial
description of the Day mine of Jackrabbit
District. The CORRESPONDENT makes a
mistake in stating that the furnace will
be "run for two months this fall" The
furnace is now running:
BRISTOL, June 6.
This morning we drove back toward
Phoebe seven miles to Jackrabbit DAY.
mine John McNally is the Superintend-
ent, now, Mr.. Grayson having brought
him down from Idaho to supersede A. s.
Gould, who Gould, not McNally) has
since died. Gould used to be in Salt
Lake and was dashing, genial, enter
prising fellow. His work at the mine
here, so far as | can see, was well pro-
jected and executed. Mr.. McNally, as
we came up, was pctting horse upon
which he said he once rode 200 miles in
little less that twenty-four hours in
Idaho to sell mine to Warren Hussey.
He sold it. After rest in the airy
rooms of the Superintendent, McNally
took us (Mr. Gilmer and myself through
the mine. He showed us assay certifi-
Gates of nine samples taken three weeks
ago from the $40 and 700 levels by
gentlemen from below (San Francisco)
which average $3.50 in silver and 80 per
cent. lead. ! took general sample of
all the fine ore in the mine, on all the
levels, pinch from hundred different
places, which assayed lis ounces silver
and 10 lead. Mr.. McNally intends to
run the furnace at Bristol, two or three
months in the fall, and if it works well
and the ore bodies continue to come in as
they have for months, build two furnaces
at the mine, and pipe in water six miles
from Fairview Springs. 1t is thought a
hundred thousand gallons day can be
got that way, at cost Of $4,000. In
stead of this, they may, upon further
consideration, build the furnaces in Dry
Valley, three or four miles east of and
below the mine, where plenty of water
may be had form wells.
The hosting works at the Jackrabbit
are 300 feet below the surface in tun-
mel 900 feet long. The shaft stands
without timbering, and is $50 feet deep.
On the upper levels there was consider
able ore of fair grade, and some very
rich. The present ore bodies were struck
by driving off from the shaft on the GO
foot level, The ore is in chimneys,
sometimes twelve to twenty or thirty
feet across, sometimes the size of we'll,
irregular in dimensions, as they are in
strike and dip. 1t seems to occur ON the
$40 level for more than 100 feet in
length, and there is good deal of ore
thrown down in the drifts and other
workings. On the 700 level the
same chimney as on the $40 has
been struck, but it has not yet been
SO much developed. On the $50 it is
struck nearer the shaft, lies somewhat
flat, grows thicker going downward, and
presents the same general features as
above. We had no compass and made nc
measurements, and couldn't tell whether
the chimneys on the different levels were
the same, and don't know that it makes
any difference. They were missed by
the shaft; there were only general in.
dications, as example, high mineraliza.
ton of the lime, black spar, etc., of Their
existence; and so there may be a sue.
cession of these ore bodies or chimneys
clear through the mountain. One can
have little doubt that there is, having in
view the appearance of the ground in
this mine, and also the fact that
they occur on the top and west side Of
the mountain, in the Hillside, Tempest
Mayhower,, etc. They are found at ir
regular intervals, apparently, wherever
the country rock 1ime is loose, and
show, crevices or caves, large or small
They run every way, and SO far as l car
see, there is no telling how much ore
they will yield faster than it is taken out
Fixed as this mine is, with good hosting
works, shaft $50 feet deep, at the base o.
the mountain, no water to pump, level,
run of once in eighty feet, there is vast
country open to exploration with very
little dead work. For the whole founda
ton of the mountain clear through to tn,
Hillside ground and from the bottom O
the shaft to the top of the mountain i
must be 1000 feet there is nothing to d.
but extend the levels already started
wherever high naturalization or loos,
ground invites. Following the ole where
ever it leads between the levels, ther,
need be no dead work, and there will
from the nature of the ground, need bu
little timbering. | should think it SAT,
! to guarantee prosperous future for tn,
mine, assuming that it will be well man
aged. The ground reminded me of tn,
Cave Mountain east of milford. Tn
difference is that the ore ia richer in th