Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-03-15
A NEWsY LETTER.
Mostly About Mines that We want
TO Hear AbOut

20 Hear About.
Through the courtesy Of II. H. Kirch-
ner {" Pere Hyacinthe y we are allowed
to publish the following interesting epistle
from his friend in Aurora, Charley May
March II, 1882.
MY DEAR father: Business Of all
kinds is duller here than for q long time.
The New York company (the Cortez) from
which we expected 80 much has shut down
all its works, and nothing is said Of its
ever starting up again. This has been q
much worse blow than the shutting down
Of the Real del Monte,f for the Cortez Com
pany was extracting large quantities Of ore,
while the Real del Monte took out nothing
but water-of which it seemed to have an
unlimited supply.
The railroad Is now at Candelaria, and.
from all appearances, that will be q good
camp next Summer, but business of every
kind will be overdone there, as we'll as at
all the other mining camps.
I have just returned from q weeks visit
to our neigbboring camp-Bodie. BUSH
ness is dull there, too but the mines are
good, in fact, in my opinion they are look
ing better now than ever before.
The Standard has struck it on the 1000
foot level, east crosscut. This Of itself is
sufficient to keep the camp alive for years.
The Bodie mine has got it on the 300 as
good as they had it two years ago. The
stock does not go up as it did then for the
reason that the insiders have not got
enough of it yet to make q deal. All the
washerwomen and woodchoppers in the
country hold from Eve to fifty shares
each. Until these little holders are
cinched out there will be no rise in the
stock.
The adjoining mine, the Mono, has not
struck anything yet but water and as
sessments; yet / think il q person could
get q few hundred shares OF it and
pay assessments on them there is no doubt
he could make a profitable turn before
Christmasi / do not propose to advise
anybody to buy any stocks. Ii your ad-
vice turns out good, you get no thanks; If
bad, you catch HI, only fguratively
speaking, you know, for people have quit
being superstitious to such an extent.
Sweetwater is claiming some attention
now. Jessie Simmons has 9 mine there
and has erected a five-stamp mill on the
the property, with one pan. He is taking
out considerable ore. The ledge is large
and his ore works from $50 to 500. He
will increase his milling capacity in the
Spring. Garrard, formerly State Senator
from Esmeralda. has laid out a town there,
and has sold a good many lots at from S25
to $50 apiece. 1t boasts OF W stores and
three saloons, and 100 more OF the latter
are projected for the Spring opening.
Climate all the same as at the mouth OF
the Lena River, where the Arctic explorers
are freezing up with the country. Tn
mines are in the mountains back of Sweet
water Mono County,. and are upwards OF
IL, 900 feet above the level Of the sea.
II something. now unlocked for, does
not turn up before the meeting of the next
Legislature, the county seat will be re-
moved from here to Candelaria. II so the
brick buildings in Aurora, souvenirs OF the
flush and exciting times OF the past, all
together will not be worth a sleek quarter.
Thine as ever. CHARLIE MAY.