The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-06-23

The Outside. Betz, who left
here some six weeks ago to hunt for q
new locality to locate, returned on
Saturday last. During his absence he
took trip over the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad and visited number of
the mining towns Of Southwest Colorado,
and with the exception of Gunnison City,
he seen none that showed the least signs
of stability. At this place there are iron
mines, and wealthy companies are erect
ing large iron and steel works. Slverton
he reports as being nothing but hurrah
whisky drinking railroad town, over-run
with thieves and cut-throats. 1t has no
foundation whatever, that he could see,
ON which to build. At Onray they are
working twenty men in one mine, and
these are all the men working There
are no reduction works at Ouray, and
what little ore extracted is shipped to
Pueblo for reduction. The people Of Gu
ray are living on the expectations of a
boom visiting them this summer. He
also visited the Red Hills" about
which there are such great tales in regard
to the richness of the mines floating
through the country. While there he
saw no mines. There were from three to
six feet of snow on the ground. The
mining locations are made ON top of the
snow, the stakes driven in the snow, and
no person knows what is beneath the
snow. 1t is the opinion of many who
visited the Red Hills that when the snow
melts away so will the rich mines.
MEADOW VALLEY.-On Wednesday We
were up at the Meadow Valley mine
taking a look at what is called the "new
strike" and in company with Supt.
Duff we entered the mine. The strike
was made in the old Fitzhugh tunnel,
and is in distance of GOO feet from the
entrance of the tunnel on Meadow Valley
street. The ledge has been sunk on
about six feet from the bottom of the
tunnel, and is nearly four feet in width
from wall to wall at the place where
work was then being done. Some five
tons of this ore was sent to the Dry VAL
ley mill, and the pulp assay went S44 in
silver and Sc in gold, the total pulp
:
nothing new. The workings of the
mine shows this. The ore above this
point was all extracted years ago. The
ore had all been extracted down to the
tunnel level in early days, then it becom-
ing of low grade, it was abandoned, very
probably because in those days SO ore
would not pay. 1t is simply the continu-
alton of the ledge, where work had been
left off. In the tunnel level, on the
ledge, several wines have been sunk by
chloriders, who finally abandoned them.
In some of these wines the ore is said to
go from $50 10 $50. at the bottom. At
the present time $50 ore will pay COM
pany handsome profit.
Ell DoRADo.-From Ben Thomas, who
has been engaged in missionary work
among the heathens of Ell Dorado Canyon
for the past six months, and who arrived
Monday evening, we obtained the follow
ing news in regard to affairs at that point:
The l5-stamp mill of the Southwestern
Mining Company is running to its full
capacity. None but company ore is being
work, as they have large quantity of it
on hand. The company is working about
forty-6ve men ar both mine and mill
Jim Cronin has been engaged in running
the Fife mill on chloriders' ore, and hav-
ing completed this job, the mill is closed
down for the present. Most of the
chloriders at that place appear to be do
ing pretty well. Thomas and his part
ners, who leased a prospect from Cronin
and worked it for the last three months,
each cleared 81, 1873 as their share, above
expenses, including provisions.
DAY MINE-The lower levels of this
mine has greatly improved during the
week. The large cave of ore recently
struck has been sunk on to the depth of
twenty feet, and how much further it ex.
tends downward, work alone will de-
termine. The drift on the 7th level has
touched the assure, and large boulders of
exceedingly rich ore were found. Many
of the boulders will weigh over go
pounds and are filled with silver. The
ore recently struck is different from any
heretofore encountered in the mine, and
goes high in lead as well as silver. Work
is being pushed ahead throughout the
mines, and the lower drifts are being
showed rapidly ahead toward the assure
a number of handsome, large and very
rich specimens have been brought to
town the past few days.
CALICO BALL. The calico party given
Wednesday evening for the benefit of the
public schools was the most pleasant at.
fair Of the kind that has been held in
Phoebe for many day. The attendance
was large and the ladies looked very hand.
some in Their pretty calico dresses. We
will state, for the benefit Of married men.
that if their wives were aware of how
sweet and charming they looked in calico
dresses, they would forever wear dresses
made of that material. The pleasure Of
evening was greatly enhanced by the
the presence of number of ladies and
gentlemen from Bristol, Panaca and Bull.
lionville. The dance broke up about 4
o'clock Wednesday morning.
KIscr1snER.-As work progresses on
the promising and really wonderful pres.