Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-10-20
A BUSY SCENE.
Important Work Being Pushed on
the Albion Ground.

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Our reporter slipped out of town yester-
day and went up to the Albion works.
Not having been on the premises for some
time before, he was surprised to note the
improvements made there since his last
visit. Going up the grade the first new
thing that greeted his sight was the frame
of Mr.. Leyshon's hotel, which is spoken of
particularly elsewhere. At the hosting
works he found the machinery all apart
and being overhauled preparatory to start
ing up again soon in full force and on a
grand scale. A new and powerful engine
is being put in place, in experimenting
the nice work of which Engineer Griffith
seemed as happy as an engineer can be.
All the ore cars that needed repairs have
been put in condition and new ones need
ed have been substantially manufactured
on the ground. There was an air of thor
ough business and confidence visible in
the work being vigorously pushed ahead
at every point.
Passing south out of the hosting works,
our reporter saw looming up a massive
coal bin with a capacity to hold 100 900
bushels. This structure is 65 feet in
length and so in width by 40 feet deep. 1t
sits on the hill as firmly as one of the
native rocks, being secured everywhere by
heavy bolts and iron bindings. With all
its great surface exposed to the recent gale,
it did not shake or give an inch.
Running by the holes through which
the coal is discharged is a road graded to
a level with the floor of the hosting works.
On the west side of this road going down
hill begins a tier of covered chambers,
how many flights we are not prepared to
swear to at this distance, set with brand
new and the latest improved sorts Of re-
duction machinery, all perfectly fitted and
admirable as so many parts comprising a
perfect system. There is nothing cheap
about it. Every piece of material is of the
best, substantially made and put in to
last. Mr.. Williams, a master machinist
from the San Francisco Foundry, was on
hand supervising the construction closely.
The grading about the works is already
very extensive and is still being carried
forward. All the roads for the ingress
and egress of quarts and coal teams have
been made or are being finished at great
expense. The bed for the Spring Valley
Railroad-extension of the E. & Pts
being graded without stop and stay. A
reservoir of 10000 gallons capacity is, also,
nearly completed from which the smelters
will be supplied with water.
1t is q pleasant scene for itself and for
what it means besides, that Of a hundred
men and upwards briskly at work upon a
great enterprise like that under considera-
ton. 1t is gratifying to know that so
mlny laborers who need work have it, and
to feel confident that they are doing sur
face work which precedes and is prepara-
tory to the development of q bonanza be-
meath, the benefits of which will accrue
directly or indirectly to everybody in Eu-
reka and in the State.
The prospects in the Albion have i'm
proved steadily for some months past.
Strike has followed strike in rapid success
sion until the outlook has grown almost
into a positive assurance that the Albion,
when explored with all the appliances
now being put in readiness, will prove to
be another Richmond or Eureka Con.
L.. l.. Robinson, the Superintendent of
the Albion Company, gives his whole
time and attention to the extensive
work of improvement that is going on
and enjoys it as a recreation. Doubtless
he will resume Office work in San Fran
cisco reluctantly. He enjoys the sage
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the important work that is now under his
immediate supervision as President of tho
Company. Colonel Robinson, Superin-
tendent, is on the ground also, and
nothing escapes his scrutiny. Much of the
thoroughness and substantialness and eX-
%cellent taste with which the work is planned
and executed is due to his fine Judgment.
Our next Senator, John n. Williams, dig
nifed and quiet as he appears, is full of
business and holds up his end without
noise or talk. Without osten tation he dis
charges his responsible duties faithfully,
and is always to be found at his post. A
happy faculty that which Mr.. Williams
has, to be independent always, yet never
suffer in the esteem of his employers or to
lose aught of the respect of those whom
he employs.
We congratulate the Albion Mining
Company and the community hardly more
on having the Albion mine than on having
such people in charge of the property.
We can't have too many men like the Rob-
insons. Without mon of their timber
mining languishes. They are good men
for any camp.