Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-28
OUR
What is Heard Of Some of Them
Abroad.

What is Heard of Some of Them
Abroad.
The Eureka correspondent of the Min
ing and Scientific Press, San Francisco,
writes a long mining letter to his paper
from which we take the following notes:
THE EUREKA CON.
Since a change has been made in the
Albion management, a feeling of greater
security has taken the place of distrust,
and people here believe that under T. j..
Reads management the mine will be made
to work out its own salvation.
The shaft is being carried down with
usual regularity, and when it reaches the
depth of 200 feet, q station will be cut,
and a new level run out under the old
works; then 1 believe that the Eureka
Con. will take a new lease of life.
THE RICHMOND.
I saw some spiendid-looking ore on Fri
day last, and was told that it would work
over $500 per ton, three-fourths of that
amount being gold. There are no large
bodies of this quality Of ore, but they are
often encountered.
Large quantities of secretions from the
Richmond furnaces, that in years past
have been thrown over the Stag dump, are
now being resmelted at a good profit to the
company. Large masses of this have the
appearance Of raw ore from the mines.
Smelling operations at the Richmond
furnaces we're never conducted with such
intelligence and economy as at the present
time. The feed floors, which were COM
paratively bare 18 months ago, are not
alone covered from one end to the other
with custom ores, but the yard is so
nrnU1o1 NTH %ha ~, no 70 ooaroa1u al
low room for The haulers to pass. I should
not be surprised to hear that the company
will start an additional furnace at an early
date.
THE "sILvER CoNNoR" MINE,
still looking we'll. This is q property that
in the hands of a wealthy company would
be made to pay good dividends. There is
a neat little hosting engine at the main
shaft, which is down $50 feet. 1t is Of a
capacity to prospect the mine to a depth
600 feet. From the bottom of the main
shaft is a drift run to connect with the
main ledge, which was followed down As
feet to where it makes a break. Above the
break is a chamber about Is feet high and
10 or 10 feet wide, already worked out. In
approaching this there still remains a fine
looking body Of quartz four feet in thick
ness, that will work at the rate Of 5000 per
ton. Above and all around this are several
holes, worked through in ore, and feeders
appear to be going off in every direction
from it. From this level the winze is con-
tinued down Is feet in ledge lime rock,
and from the bottom of it a drift has been
u in a southwesterly direction several
feet to where the ore is again coming in
on a we'll defined wall. Here, also, ap-
pears the best possible signs of rich ore
iron and copper stains. Northward from
here is also good evidence of the ledge
making downward, a winze down about
eight feet being full of spots containing
rich, soft, yellow carbonate ore. On the
200 foot level is a fine body of low grade
ore, 25 feet wide by 80 thick, which rises,
as shown by an incline Wine, some rs or
80 feet toward the surface. This will work
$50 to $40 per ton, and throughout the
mass appear small pockets of very rich
ore, showing in places free gold, which is
not Of frequent occurrence in this district.
There is exceedingly little lead in the Sill
yer Conner mine, the ore being somewhat
OF a milling nature. 1t carries three
fourths of its metallic value in gold.
H WILLIAMS MINE,
Which adjoins the Silver Conner, is a
property fully its equal in value, and has
exceeded it in point of production. At
present there are only four men at work in
it. They are employed cleaning up an old
stope at the 1870 level, the last shipment of
ore from which worked at the furnaces $50
per ton. The ore from the mine usually
works from. 1914 up to $3.50 per ton, its
principal value being in gold. The mine
has been opened to a depth of $50 feet,
and has paid expenses from top to bottom.
The tissure in places is 80 feet thick be-
tween the walls.