Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-06-20

Extraordinary Recent Develop.
ments in the Albion.

Our people, and many others on the
coast, are interested in the condition OF the
Albion mine. SO much has been said
aboutit, pro and con, that there are, no
doubt, some persons who may have been
induced to believe that there is really not
more than two or three hatfuls Of ore in
the disputed ground, or elsewhere in the
property. The SENTINEL has from time to
time spoken of the condition and prospects
in the Albion and other mines whenever
anything new occurred which we have
deemed of sufficient importance to report.
| We have always done 30 con%scientiously,
and have always stated things as they
seemed to us to exist. That excellent
prospects should not pan out and prove
every time to be bonanzas is not the fault
of our reporter. Mining is speculative
always, and if anybody has ever been de-
ceived by the reports of the SENTINEL in
regard to mining properties, it has been
| his own fault. 1t is our province to state
facts and not to give points in stocks.
Yesterday our reporter accompanied
Col. E. N. Robinson, Superintend-
ent of the Albion. and with him and
Foreman John N. Williams and Mr.. Frank
Robbins vent on q tou of investigation
through the mine. The party descended
to the main (325-foot) level. Thence they
went up 60 feet to the cave. There they
saw a breast of ore making north. This
breast of ore is from 10 to Is feet wide
and from 10 to Is feet high. South of
this exists the original cave body of ore,
which has never been touched since the
injunction. This body Of ore has been
accommodated L., t--o ,,,ra.na1 fhrOT1ph II nnn
90 and the other 80 feet, all in ore. The
ore body exposed north is of high grade.
They then assembled an upraise 10 feet
above the cave to what is known as the
June drift, where ore has been encoun-
tered in the last ten days in several places.
Upon one of these streaks of ore an upraise
was started four days ago, and at a dis
lance vertically of about rs feet, all in ore
of high grade, the ore body "B" was pen
etrated. Ore body "B'' has been opened
in a northwesterly direction by a drift
about 100 feet in length. This drift is in
high-grade ore, consisting OF yellow car
Donates, grey carbonates, galena, black
sulphurets and red carbonates. The whole
on top and bottom, and on both sides is a
mass of the richest ore for the entire eX-
tent of the drift that has been uncovered
in the district, with every evidence Of its
| Soip AL - "SobS1iy Aho
country west of this body Of ore, at its
present depth from the surface, and for
100 feet below, has never been prospected
a foot bv either the Albion or Richmond
companies; and it is in this particular
ground that the Albion people have always
claimed that the trend of the great ore
bodies found by the Richmond Company
up to the A G line extended. From OBJ
servations made by the party this SCENE
to be the unavoidable inference. This ex-
pose of ore alone assures several months
run of the Eureka Consolidated furnaces
if they continue to reduce the ore as they
are now doing and utilize all their fur
naces. This will simply verify the state
ments made by Messrs. Williams, Harris
and Richard, old employees Of the Rich
mond Company, before Judge Leonard, at
the recent hearing in Carson, that there
was enough ore in the disputed ground to
run the Richmond furnaces to their full
capacity for six months.
Then the party descended an east up
raise from the south end of the cave about
$50 feet south of the last mentioned ore
body, and about 80 feet below the same.
Here was exhibited a body of ore, meas
uring upon the roof of a drift or excava-
ton, IL by s feet, which by careful assays
shows an average Of about GO per cent
lead. This is believed to connect with an
ore body that is known to exist 80 feet
above and about so feet south OF the same,
where ore of high grade has lately been en-
countered. 1t is the belief Of Mr.. Williams
and other miners familiar with the ore
bodies of Ruby Hill, that the two latter
ore bodies mentioned are connected and
continuous. This being 80, there is an ore
body extending along the A G line
along the Albion side, approximately $50
feet long by an indefinite width and depth.
Whether this has any connection with the
ore body in the cave 80 feet below, of
course, only future explorations can de-
termine.
The ore bins, holding about 800 tons,
are kept full from the north end Of the
cave without any apparent effort on the
part of the miners, but very little ore hav-
ing been taken from the bonanza above
named as yet.
Active preparations are being made in
the way of building chutes to the large ore
bodies mentioned, so that in a short period
of time the full capacity Of the teams now
hauling ore to the furnaces will be utilized.
Col. Robinson, the Superintendent, says
that the mine is open to visitors, and all
who wish to see the bonanza may have
permission granted them to do so.
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