Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-04-17
A CAMP.

What - Miner Just fn from COrtez
Has 10 Say of that Sectfon-Mfne-
Owners There Happy and Pros
perOus-Their Properties Not for
Saie-An Idea of Some Of the
Mines.
From a miner just in from Cortez we
learn that that camp is booming in a quiet
way. He claims to have seen more bodies
OF high grade ore on Bullion Hill than he
ever saw in the same space Of ground else
where in the State of Nevada. He says the
reason he left was because all the country
OF value thereabouts is located, and that
there is no show TO get in any. 1t wal the
first camp he ever struck where tho miners
did not talk OF selling out.
The principal mine is that worked by
Gillian Bros. and Tex. They are stopping
down ore from o fve.foot body that our in.
formant took samples from, the whole face
Of which, he claims, averages 81 500 q ton.
The old pioneers OF Cortez say it is the
finest body OF ore of such richness ever
struck in the camp. 1t is a contact vein
between granite and stratified lime.
Billy Earls ia working an adjoining
claim. which is rapidly turning out ore
averaging $500 a ton. II is another con-
tact vein.
Hank Smith has q 16.inch ledge in the
Aurora mine at q depth of ESQ feet. He
has stripped it for a distance OF 40 feet in
length and 10 feet high, and he now has
q winze started down from the tunnel
level. The ore produced 80 far assays
5 ,450 a ton. These are the deepest work
ings on the hill.
s. e. Ducemmon, Of the Silver Fleece,
has ore in two places, which he is sacking
for shipment to Salt Lake.
W. R. Lewis has opened three bodies OF
fine looking ore in the Maid Queen.
De We're Il Bowdoin are driving q tunnel
along the ledge OF the Sweepstake mine,
and are extracting q fine quality Of sui
phurets and antimonial ore.
W~anted-TO Form a Colony of Ladies'
Some days ago Governor Stoneman, of
California, received q letter from q lady in
Brooklyn. New York, of which the follow
ing are extracts:
/ desire 70 ask you in regard to the loca-
ton Of 8 colony, designed mainly to afford
work for ladies, reduced from former
a~fiuence, as well as families and others
more rugged to endure life's arduous
tasks. I have for years longed to live in
California, and have e~ndesvored in vain to
find q place within my means, and desira-
BILE as q permanent residence, and large
enough to form a social standpoint and
attraction for c%ongenial spirits des.rous of
enhancing their health and happiness by
drawing from the bounteous bosom Of old
mother earth her precious stores in the
culture Of fruit, fowl. bees, silkworms,
cattle, vegetables etc. In despair at
being unable to obtain such a place as
l desired, / bought Q farm OF 20 acres
near Jacksonville, in Florida. at the
earnest. solicitation OF q supposed friend;
paid for fencing, building a house, plant
ing 800 orange trees and clearing ten acres
Of pine land. The floods and the frosts
came and killed them, and what escaped
their ravages was destroyed by forest fires,
which also took all my fence. The most
deadly of snakes and reptiles built their
nests under my porch, and I was obliged
to abandon the premises. I have my ex-
perience for my expense. and presume my
agent has the profit. The place is now q
ruin, and will likely ever remain so. I
should like to see an agricultural institute
started in California, where women can be
taught how TO do better than make shirts
for the "lords of creation 4" at az cents
each.