Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-12-09

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 ch practical turn of 4hin1 hd has been for years pre- lI(Iy y. xu6r Tight man in the right
 ect. The history of the RichA1G k under MT. Probert's charge has beST one of uninterrupted sue cess and constant progress in the adoption of economical processes of working and in the application of such metallurgical Improvements as have not only cheapened the cost of bullion production, but have at the same time materially increased the capacity of both the smelling and refining | departments of the Richmond works. In smelling silver lead ores and in the refining of silver-lead bullion and the converting of the noble metals into dore | bars, he has placed the Richmond works | second to none on this continent, and probably not inferior in efficiency to many fthose of the old world.
 THE RICHMOND MINE
 Is situated to the north of and adjoining the series comprising the Eureka Con- property on Ruby hill, Nevada. Although the Eureka mining district was first pres pected in 1864, it attained no notoriety of account until 1869, when the marvellous mineral wealth for ages underlying the rock-ribbcd sides of Ruby hill was first uncovered by the adventurous prospectors whom in that memorable year from White Pine fiocked 10 sectlon of country which, even at that time, was noted on the map as "unexplored territory" but which has since contributed about S75,000,oO0 to the wealth of the world derived from its gold, silver and lead products. Some months after its discovery its owners, six in num- bcr, whom many old Eurekans now living here reme nbsr, wisely united their in- terest with Ogden Dnnne 6 Co.,, who had about that time 1S7O completed the erec. tion of smelling furnace at Eureka on the site now occupied by the Richmond works, and organized the Richmond Min ing and Smelling company of the sage brush state.
 FROM THAT TIME
 until 1871, that incipicnt organization con- tinued to work in crude way this now famous mine. In that year, however, the owners bonded the property to MT. J. M '. English of San Francisco, for $325, 5,000 who, in five months from date of bond, succeeded in placing it in London for $1, 100000, and only got back from there with the money, on the very day on which his bond was to expire. I remember the oc- casion well, and if he had not made des- perate effort to be on the ground, to pay l over the SS25, 1000, his efforts would have been without avail, as the owners, who continued to develop the mine, had, in the interim, opened up vast ore bodies, which largely enhanced its value, and had he not been on time, they would have held the property; in which case 1t would not have proved so great factor as it has, in not only promoting the sale of other American properties in London, but in no immaterial sense promoting the prosperity of Eureka, in conjunction with that other marvel of the mineral world of Nevada it's neighbor, the Eureka Consolidated, whose bullion output must equal, if it does not mere than parallel the aggregat, metallic product of the former. In six years after the consum- nation of its sale to the Richmond Con- solidated mining company Qimited), of London, the property, for reasons of policy, was conveyed by its London owners, 10 the Richmond Mining company, of Nevada,' a corporation formed in consonance with the laws of the state of Nevada, and by whom it is still owned, and worked in the interest of the parent corporation; whose quarters are in London.
 THIS NEVADA COMPANY
 has, since 1876, the date of its formation acquired, by purchase and location, Tn al twenty locations, which, added to the Richmond, the Tip Top and the Lookout makes twenty. three locations in all, owned and managed on Ruby hill by this com pany. Eight of them are patented, anC for the Tip Top and the Lookout they paiC S750O0 and S85,000 respectively, and it Ina been we'll for them that they did, in viev of the fact that within the areas covered by these two locations have been discovered the richest and biggest ore bodies of thei property.
 , TIP TOP AND RICHMOND.
 These two locations partly cover tn l northwestern and northern slopes of Rub !, hill, whose axial lines, like those of Pre-! 3 pect mountain, of which it is direC |. northern spur, trends almost due north an n 1 south. On inc northwestern flank Ot th