Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-06-20
THE MINING SITUATION.

what Some of the Mines of Eureks
District Have Yielded During tht
Past Week-DulI Work o.
All Kinds Being Done ON Bedrock
PrfncipIes-An Opportune Time
for Those Seeking Safe Mining In
vestments.
The Adams Hill mines, during the past
week, have made some very good ore ship
ments. The Silver Lick shipped to the
Richmond reduction works A tons and
the Lone Pine 50. To the same works
were shipped from the General Lee 5 tons
and from the Oriental and Belmont 4 tons.
The Lord Byron mine on Prospect Mount
ain sent DOWN 81 tons, the Eldorsdo No. 2
q tom and the Dunderberg Is tons. The
Williamsburg, though, did the best of any,
and shipped 80 tons. To the Richmond
works the following shipments were also
made: Bowman, 8 tons; Maria, 6 tons;
Rescue, s tons; Featherstone, 8 tons and
the Typo 8 tons. The Jackson mine on
Ruby Hill shipped to the Eureka Con.
works 60 tons, and Tom Kinney sent in
from his properties south of own 81 ton
Of a good quality Of ore. From his Min
eral Hill properties q. F. Tyler shipped to
the same works 3 tons. and Schusten d
~Stranburg also made a shipment. To the
Eureka Con. works q very good shipment
Of ore was made from the Crutchly mine,
in Hunters's District, some 20 miles north
Of Cherry Creek.
Altogether, the mining situation here
abouts looks encouraging. Most Of the
mines mentioned above are being worked
on q limited scale, and consequently i'm
mense results cannot be reasonably ex-
pected. In the Lord Byron mine several
men are employed on days pay, but they
are engaged in sinking the main shaft to a
certain depth 80 al to better facilitate the
mining and handling Of some ore which is
known to exist in Q natural cave, and
which has heretofore been reached through
the cave. The Richmond mine is said to
be looking we'll, and good sized shipments
OF ore are being made from the property to
the company's furnaces. The Eureka Con.
mine is looking decidedly we'll. Some so
men are at work in the property, and from
it daily ore shipments Of As, so and So tons
are being made TO the company's works.
Most of this ore comes from the Williams
pitch on the seventh level, although q
number Of the other pitches in the mine
COutluu6 W lUOh duu uOlu Oub NoIy WOLF
Notwithstanding all these producing
properties, and Notwithstanding the favor
able appearance the situation bears. yet
times in Eureka continue very dull. Work
Of all kinds is being done on bedrock prin-
ciples. Nine-tenths Of the miners at work
in the district are tributers, leasers and
owners. and the other probable tenth are
working for wages considerably less than
was ever before paid In this section. At
the Eureka Con. reduction works but one
furnace is running, but that is employed
day and night, and has a daily working
capacity Of upwards Of 60 tons. The same
can be said of the two furnaces in full blast
st the Richmond works.
We venture to say that no district on
the Pacific Coast offers better advantages
to-day to men seeking safe mining invest
ments than does Eureka. But, strange as
it appears. such men are in many cases
like stock dabblers who won't buy until
stocks advance from so to 500 per cent,
and then. naturally enough. many Of them
get nipped. Remember the advice OF
Uncle Jimmy Fair: Buy them when
| they're low, my son. and sell them when
they're high" The same rule holds good
with mining properties.