Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1884-08-13

The following items are taken from
the Homer Mining Under OF last Satur-
day
Deer are plentiful down about Dead.
mans Greek and up about the Minarets.
Rattlesnakes are unusually numerous
aud active in Mono Lake Valley this
season.
The May Lundy is running full.
handed and the bullion shipments are
regular and of the usual value. The
new tunnel will tap the vein in the
Lake View within a short time, when
a rich development may be expected
The Bryant mine continues to turn
out very rich ore, with tan abundance
"of the same sort" still in sight, and
from this high grade ore the little two
stamp Butierfield mill is turning out
almost as much bullion weekly as
more pretentious reduction works. As
yet we are not at liberty to state the
yield per ton, nor the aggregate yield
for the season or per month; but hope
soon to get permission to give both, us
the former would seem almost incred-
| IDLE without the latter,
The Gorilla mine has been steadily
| improving in appearance and value
| for the past four or five weeks, until
now ii stands rs one of the best mines
in the district. The only draw back Is
the lack of facilities for the reduction
of ore in quantity, the capacity of the
present reduction works being but five
or SIX tons per day. One of Hills
Triumph ore mills, with capacity of
twelve tons per day, has been ordered,
and will be shipped next week. This
will hip out; but, with few add
| tional men, the mine could furnish
| fifty to sixty tons of ore per day for an
indefinite period of time.
Checks and drafts, though worth their
face at the desks of those upon whom
they are drawn, have become drug
in this market, where nearly all pay
ments are made in this kind Of paper.
Even the Chinese, who can read
neither written nor printed English
take checks as readily as they would
greenbacks. The other day an inebri
ated individual passed off his So poll
tax receipt upon Celestial for a
check, got what he contracted for and
81 in change besides. When the ma
ture of the paper was discovered, some
hours afterwards, the there WAS tire.
mendous excitement in upper China
town, and the man has been arrested
for obtaining money and goods >
under false pretenses.
The Virginia Creek Hydraulic Min.
ing Company is sluicing out placer
gold by the pound from its dIggings
near old Monoville. This is undoubt
eddy the richest hydraulic diggings
ever opened in the State. The present
breast is very broad, the pay gravel
being about five feet in thickness,
with from fifteen to twenty inches
next the bedrock that is literally
LOUSY" with coarse gold. Water is
abundant, and when the bedrock is
cleared of gravel and earth it is found
to be yellow with gold. The whole
width of the tunnel being driven in
the ledge in the Olsen claim, ut the
head OF Calliban Greek, is still in fine
ore, giving assays 0f about $3.50 in
| gold and from SO to 81 ia silver per
ton. Near by is the Olsen No. 2, com
monty called the Silver Ledge, with a
low grade ore vein fully eight feet in
thickness, gold and silver being about
equally divided in value. Nothing yet
is definitely known rs to The intentions.
of the Detroit Copper Company.