Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-12
AURORA's
An Idea of what the New English
Mining Company There Propose


Doing.
Says the Aurora Star of last Monday
The advent of men with capital to worl
the mineral treasure imbedded in these
hills is an epoch. in the history Of Aurora
just at this moment it is impossible to ap'
peal to the records to show how much the
mines of Esmeralda county, and especially
Of this little camp, have produced in the
past; but every old resident OF the town
knows that they have yielded millions
upon millions, with millions still aggre'
gated on top of the vast pile. The propo-
sition of the Con. Esmeralda Mining Com
pany, 90 far as it can be understood by the
| close observer on the outside, Is not to
hunt up the driblets that may have been
| overlooked or passed by when the enormous
quantities of bullion were being extracted,
but to go farther, to dig deeper, to cross
cut to walls, to start upraises, to sink
wines, to survey carefully, to lay off the
workings Of their mines with system and
| precision, and TO work their properties,
not on the reputation of WHAT hoy have
been, but for what they are to-day really
worth. That the proposition Is a stupen-
dous one all must freely admit; that it
| will in the end result in fabulous riches
no old practical miner familiar with the
Aurora mines can for a moment doubt.
In those early days Of the prosperity OF
the mining industry in this camp the ys-
tenn was in its infancy; and especially were
the processes infantile practically. 1t was
the rule then that mills would produce
more in the tailings than in the ~retorts, so
to speak. And yet, under the old and
II -An,,a Nha wilma, Nrol-anI -
velously in bullion. The company took
hold of their properties here, and found
themselves possessed of a mill considerably
the worse for wear, with none of the mod
ern improvements and appliances for
working ore up to q high percentage-not
even q respectable percentage.
The management Of the Con. Esmeralda
Mining Company. as at present organized,
is: W. G.. Tiffany, General Manager; II. K.
CoIcord, Consulting Engineer; G. F.. Mills,
Superintendent; H. Newton, Foreman; -
Ryan, Machinist; Sam McCurdy, Chief En-
gineer; and all the subordinate positions
are filled by men Of acknowledged practi-
cal qualifications. The first thing the
management did was to instruct Mr..
Ryan, who is certainly an accomplished
m%achinist, 10 place the mill in perfect run
ming order. This he at once did, and the
mill was started up and run a short time
on test with more than satisfactory results.
II performed far better work than ever il
did before. 1t is now again closed down
to undergo still further improvements,
after which it will be started up and run
to its full capacity Indefinitely. There ia
one thing the public do not perhaps fully
understand: This mill is not intended as
a bullion producer at all; it is simply in-
tended to assay ores by mill process on q
large and comprehensive scale, as the COM
pany from time to time opens up its var
ious mines.
The managers have already commenced
prospecting in some ten or twelve differ
ent places, and which might properly be
claimed 10 be in as many different mines;
but the Humboldt is really the only mine
OF the entire series that can be said to be
opened for systematic working, Early
10 the week they were down in this over
so feet below the 100 level; and this mine
is probably destined to take the lead and
become the one most rapidly to be devel-
oped.
But the entire proposition Is understood
to DO this: The Directors held a meeting
in London on the 25th Of last month.
They may not hold another for Is months
20 come. There is money enough in the
Treasury to run it's affairs for a year. The
mill will be put in thorough repair with
the latest improvements for prospecting
purposes. The mines will all be laid off
under careful survey for effective working,
and whenever a miners labor can be used
to advantage it will be utilized; and as
soon as the dumps become plethoric with
good milling ore d mill of 100 stamps will
so up.