The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-06-14
HIGHLAND.
a Big Mine and Pretty Country,

Big Mine and Pretty Country,
The surroundings out at Highland are
indeed picturesque now, and many spots
there and at Stampede Gap, that have
been barren for the last four years, with
nothing ON it but here and there a bunch
of dried grass and half-dead sagebrush.
But how different it is now. The wet
Spring has transformed the barren coun.
try into a beautiful garden. The bare
places are covered with vegetation, the
withered bunchgrass has disappeared
and the new grass is springing forth out
of the ground in all direction and bidding
welcome to the warm greeting from the
rays sent down by old Sol. The ashen.
colored sagebrush has been banished by
Dame Nature and in its stead is a brush
of greenish hue, while, scattered in great
profusion over the beautiful carpet that
has been spread over the ground, are
the various varieties of wldhowers,
whose delicates and brilliant hues far sur.
passes in beauty the colors painted on
the bend OF his bow by the the Rain God
in the skies.
After ride of about nine miles, via the
Gap, we arrived at the
MENDOZA NINE,
which is rapidly advancing to the front
as a liberal producer of high-grade ore.
Through invitation, and in company with
Foreman Archy McQuaig and Alex.
Veitch, we went down in the mine to
see what was there to be seen. At the
ll4-foot station, a drift has be run in
westerly distance of about l60 feet.
On this drift, about 20 feet from the
shaft, on the left side of the drift, was
the first place where we saw men extract
ing ore. At this place an ore.breast of,
we should judge, twelve feet in width
and nine in hight, presented itself. This
ore Is quartz and galena. 1t is all hard
rock and has to be drilled. No person
can tell the extent of the ore. This part
OF the mine looks hattering, to say the
least. From this point for about 80 to 60
feet along the drift, there was extracted
vast amount of ore, for the hollow space
Is about seven by ten feet. At the end
of this drift the lime rock was encoun.
tered. The lime was run into for tea
feet, when ore was found again, proving
the lime met to be merely horse. The
ore here was appraised on As feet, to the
upper level. The drift above had been
run just over the ore. Had the bottom
OF the drift been ten inches deeper it
would have hit the ore. Here, on the
west side OF the horse, is large cham.
Der of about 20x30 feet and from IL to Is
feet in hight, made by extracting ore.
The west end of this chamber is all in
first-class ore, the south side of the cham.
Der is ore, and the bottom and top is ore.
The ore pitches little to the south, and
the chamber is due west from the shaft.
AS to the extent OF the ore, the present
showing leads one to the belief that it
will eventually prove great, and there is
no telling but what the big ore deposit of
Highland District has been found, though
the search for it had been abandoned
many times. Three sample assays of this
ore went as follows, and the figures
speak for themselves, viz: SlSS.5O,
sl2S.79, and Sl94.7S. The Mendha, in
our opinion, is the
BEST PIECE OF MINING PROPERTY
the Day Company owns, and by great
odds at that. The ore on the level above
ll4,level has all been extracted, except
on the left side OF the shaft. Here
large .quanty of ore has been taken out,
but the walls still remain lined with it.
ms 10 the Chamber OF Death " in the
Mendha mine. The miners are unable to
, work in it a week without getting loaded.
there are Is men working at the Mendha
and SIX in the Hamburg. Only sufficient
ore is being extracted to keep the furnace
ont at Bristol going.
From the Mendha mine we started over
to Highland, where we met host from
town who were indulging in sort of pic.
MIC with their children, and Herr Frank
bungues stood in the brewery door and
babe us fatherly welcome. Abont FIVE
o'clock the whole band left for Phoebe.
The best road in going to the Mendha
IS by way of Highland, this road being
much better than the one by way Of
stampede Gap, even though it may be
mile longer. And another very great
linducement to 60 by way of Highland,
besides the best road, is that person has
an opportunity of watering his poor,
thirsty. horses at the brewery spring,
which is no small item. If the driver
is thirsty, he can join in with the horses
and dring water too