Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-31

The Profitable Working of Lead
Ores-Other Interesting Items.

Ahc FFohtaDlc WOrkInS Oh l4e'su
Ores-Other Interesting Items.
MINERAL HILL, New, July %, 1885.
EDITOR SENTINEL: The local item in a
recent number Of the SENTINEL, in which
it was stated that parties from Utah were
on the Base Range for the purpose Of
purchasing iron and lead ores for
the Salt Lake smelters, was hailed with
special satisfaction by mineowners through
out this vicinity, where we have such large
quantities of lead ores. The owners OF
this class Of mines look upon any new ar
rangeme6t which will give them encour-
agement to work their mines with the
prospect of getting a fair deal with marked
approval. Sixty-two per cent of the assay
value, and nothing for lead under 20 per
cent, has obviously had q tendency to re-
tard developments in mining property
throughout Eureka county, and it is safe
to sssume that where one outside " mine
is working to-day there would be half q
dozen II the owners thought they would
receive a fair margin for their ore. 1t
cannot, of course, be said that ores can be
reduced as cheaply here as in Colorado,
where ten-ounce ore pays a profit; but 1t IS
very unreasonable to suppose that any fur
mace company claiming to work their W
ores up to 80 per cent of the assay value,
cannot afford to pay over 81 per cent OF
the assay value for custom ores after
charging full rates for reduction. The
mineowners know this as we'll as furnace
managers, and will, of course, welcome
and encourage any innovation on the old
established schedule tending to give them
better rates for their ores.
Two gentlemen sat quietly conversing
about crops and kindred subjects the other
evening, when, quite unexpectedly, and
without any apparen3 cause, q lady stepped
into the arena and made a speech. The
advent Of the lady in question evoked a
sudden tendency to stop the learned dis
QUESTION IN the subject of the propaga-
zion of spuds for the time being, and they
we're necessarily forced to listen to a ha-
rangue quite foreign to the subject in
hand. The especial object which prompt
ed the intrusion is quite undetermined,
but is supposed to be due to a slight mis-
understanding of q trivial nature, which
has been maturing for some time past.
Such inharmonious Genes are generally
irritable and distressing to all parties con-
eerned, and can usually be avoided by a
little calm reasoning and a plain under
standing Of facts ON both sides of a ques-
ton. Much bitterness and i'll feeling, not
to say scandal, can often be averted in
this way, and, obviously, should be.
A mule stood at a hitching-post asleep;
at least thec casual observer would have so
pronounced him from his lowered head
and general somnolent appearance. The
owner, q cadaverous individual bearing
the unenviable sobriquet of whisky
JIM" being about as booty as it is posi-
Bile for one to get and still have the power
of ~locomotion, took him by surprise by
stepping up behind and planting a sledge-
hammer blow on the rump of
the sleeping beast. He walked him. A
bystander observed that Jim had a most
woe-begone expression as he gyrated
through the air. Three involuntary sum-
mersaults in mid air, a fractured diaphram,
with sundry and divers bruises was evil
IDENTIFY too much for Jim at one and the
same time. and he left for the railroad az
soon as his injuries would permit, firmly
convinced that the boys had put up q Job
on him by getting him drunk and running
him through the quartz mill.
The Sheriffs deputies have been in town
for the last day or two, and it is said sew
eral attachments nave been levied on the
creditors OF P. N. Hansen.
The mill is running along about as
usual and turning out the Usual amount Of
bullion, and the mines are looking ex-
ceedingly we'll.
A new prospect two miles south of town,
owned by b. Berg and the Jones brothers,
bids fair TO become a veritable bonanza in
the near future. ToMAso.