Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-10-19
THE CoMsToCK ORE pRoDUCr.
The Old Lode sim Turning ont
Hundreds of Tons Every Day
Where IL All Comes FrOm-Etc.

Virginia Cttq Chronicle.
The idea that ''the Comstock is ex-
hausted" has gained such Roadway among
outside barbarians-even in San Fran
cisco, where the people ought TO be better
posted-that the Chronicle has taken some
pains to collect reliable information in
disproof of that error. The result of a re-
porter's researches are appended:
THE FAT cHoLLAR GROUPINGS.
The daily shipment of ore from the
Chollar groupings to the mills on the Car
son river, it is understood, averages Is
carloads, or 100 tons. This ore is OBJ
tanned at a depth of 200 feet from the sur
face. These so-called groupings have been
worked for 10 years, and the amount Of ore
taken from the ledge in that period would
be sufficient to build up a good mining
camp without any other developments.
Notwithstanding which, the mine seems
inexhaustible, and the daily output is
steadily increasing. 1t is a BON we'll
worth fighting for. No wonder that OK
Senator Sharon dislikes the idea of drop
ping it, or that Messrs. Hayward and
Hobart are quite willing to pick it up as
quickly as possible.
YELLow CKE
1&Obl nv uPpCi nOlhlhSo VI thO a
Jacket mine, 20 carloads, ~aggregating 1870
tons, are daily sent to the mills on the
Carson. Jacket has been piling out
bullion for a great many years, but the in
creased rate of 50 per ton charged by the
Union Mill Company does not leave much,
if any, profit for the miners.
CROWN POINT AND BELCHER.
: These mines are producing daily 20 car
loads Of ore, or $50 tons, which is also
shipped to the river mills. Both of these
mines are worked through the Crown
Point shaft. A new ropehouse, 80 feet in
length, has been put up at the Grown
Point.
THE
At the Overman they are shipping daily
six carloads or so tons Of ore. The V. at.
Railroad have had a force of men for the
past two months employed in repairing
the side-track running to the ore-dump,
the side-track being two rails in length.
A force Of 40 miners are employed at the
mine.
I'll oPHIR
The Ophir Company, which. for the past
three years, has been making daily ship
ments of 10 tons of ore obtained from the
groupings on the Rowe find, had to quit
work last week. There is considerable
dead work to be done before they com-
mence extracting ore again.
THE KENTUcK MINE,
Owned and operated by G. G. Stevenson,
is producing daily 80 tons of milling ore
which is worked at the Rock Point mill,
near Dayton. There has been considera-
BILE anxiety among sundry Blaine patriots
to find out whether Mr.. Stevenson hasn't
made enough out Of his ore contracts to
cast a good gilt-edged anchor to windward
for the United States Senatorship-heavy
enough to make Senator Jones crowd on a
little more sail if called upon to drag the
| anchor; but the details are not o~btainable.
THE CURRY GROUPINGS.
The Gould & Curry groupings are being
prospected through a tunnel south OF the
Corporation house. and are yielding sew
| eral tons of good ore w~eekly-just how
much the reporter could not learn to-day.
THE NoRoRoss WASTE DUMP.
Mike Kennedy is getting out a large
| quantity OF good ore from the old waste
dump OF the Hale & Norcross, on Howard
street, and working it at Turner's mill in
Six-mile Canyon.
THE CANYON MINES.
The Monte Cristo, in Six-mile Canyon,
is being worked by Mr.. Strother with a
force Of six men, who are extracting 10
tons of ore per day, and keep IL stamps
running in the canyon to crush the yield.
Thomas HUXLEY is taking out several
tons of milling ore daily from the Lady
Bryan ~waste-dump.
E. Hunley has about 80 tons of high
| grade ore, assaying 500 per ton, on the
| dump Of the Rogers mine, adjoining the
Lady Bryan on the northwest.
THE PROFITS, ETC.
About 600 tons of slow grade ore" is the
average daily production from the mines
on the Comstock and elsewhere in Storey
county. OF this. about 500 tons are daily
| shipped by the V. & T. Railroad to the
mills on the Carson river. The Union
| Mill & Mining Company do nearly all the
| crushing and charge 50 per ton. giving a
| gross income of about $4, 500 per day to
the mill-owners. The cost of reduction is
| estimated to be in the neighborhood of SIS
per ton. leaving a net profit of say So, 500
per day. Upon this income several good
| and true men in San Francisco manage to
keep body and soul together, even when
| p~orter-house steaks rise to two bits a
| pound and the butchers insist upon
| charging for liver and soup-bones.