Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-07
THE NEW COMsrOCK.

THE NEW IONS OCK.
The following interesting article about
the Comstocks is from the pen Of c. G..
Goodwin, of the Salt Lake Tribune, who
is as we'll posted as any man III Nevada:
The new bonanza in the Con. Cal. q
Virginia mine is not, as many have been
led to suppose, west OF where the old
bonanza lay. The mistake people have
made has been in confusing the two
shafts. The old Con. Virginia shaft Is
several rods~twenty.ive perhaps-west
and a little south of the e. &. c. shaft.
The old bonanza lay under and to the
east and north Of the old Con. Virginia
shaft. The reports gave the impression
that the new bonanza was found by
drifting west and north from the 1900
level of the Con. Virginia shaft, when in
fac. the drifting was from the c. 4 c.
shaft, and the new bonanza is east and
north of the old one. So far as has been
explored, it is $50 feet in length and to
within sixty.fivo feet of the Ophir south
line, and has been exposed from the 1900
foot level to the 1850 foot level, and has
been crosscut in one place, showing good
ore for sixty-6vc feet in the crosscut.
The hight or depth OF the body is not
yet known. 1t is reasonably clear,
though, that there is enough ore exposed
to insure 1000 tons Of ore per day for a
year or more to come. The ore worked
last week averaged SAT per ton 1--WE pre-.
sumo by pulp assay, and that it worked
about $37). The bullion runs 60 per
cent silver and 40 per cent gold, which
shows that the ore comes from the top OF
the deposit, for as depth on the Com
stock bonanza is reached the proportion
of gold increases to about As per cent.
The proximity of the deposit to the
Ophir line is what gives that mine its
backbone on the stock market. When
the old ore body was found it was
through a drift from the 1900 level Of
the Gould & Curry driven north through
the north end of the G. & C. through the
entire length of the Best & Belcher, and
300 or 400 feet into the Con. Virginia.
Recently they have gone back in that
drift and run a crosscut east and have
opened q new body of ore. How ex.
tensive this is has not yet been ascer.
tanned, but it is in the air that it is o
large body and its proximity to the Best
& Belcher north line is what is the mat.
ter with that stock. The old bonanza
lay between the 1900 and the lG5O.foot
levels. Out of that SIG, O00, 900 was
taken and sos, 600, 600 was paid in divi.
dends. When that was worked out the
managers went ON down some 500 feet
and in the Union shaft further north
some 800 feet deeper but found moth.
ing. That they passed by q body which
may be as great as the old bonanza, lying
almost side by side with it, only further
down the hill, is not strange, for the ore
channel is a mighty one and sometimes
it is hard to trace the particulr vine
which leads to q water melon. The
wonderful feature is that there should be
two such ore bodies lying side by side.
aud possibly q third one between the
same levels a little farther south. Some,
even, now think that the two apparent
deposits are but one and that it will
prove to be 1000 feet long. 1t is said
that Messrs. Mackay and Flood of the
old Bonanza firm held 100. 900 out of the
zig, 900 shares in the mine. If this is
true it puts them IS. 600, 900 ahead on
this deal, and it is reasonable to suppose
that they are not Indifferent to either
Ophir or Best & Belcher stocks. OF
course Virginia City is ringing again and
80 is the San Francisco Stock Board, and
the old Comstock is once more vindicat.
ing that when she opens her treasure boxes
all other mines are only babies. 1t is
expected that the new ore body will
yield 500. 900 or $500, 600 during the
present month.