Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-08-04

ated 10 miles north Of Ely; VIM. Ia
sett has fine place, 500 or 600 acr,
IN extent, on which he has a numb,
OF brood mares and a high bred sta
lion, raising a splendid lot of youn
colts; Ole Hanson has an exceller
place ON which he is raising stock an
farming a little; Mr.. Mollison has
fine ranch and range, on which he
dairying and raising horses and cattle
VIM. Campbell has about / 900 acre
under fence, one Of the finest rancho
IN the county, raising horses and cat
tie and making butter and cheese. II
IS the only cheese maker in the valley
Mr.. Sheppard has a number of acres
raising stock and cutting hay. Thes,
farms are all on the west side of th,
valley, north Of Ely. On the east sid,
OF the valley w. n. McGill has ) .OO(
or 5000 acres OF fine meadow ant
farming land under good fencing and
q handsome residence that cost hin
$4,000 or $4,000. There is ten
stamp
QUARTZ MILL,
Owned by Messrs. w. G.. Lyons, w
n. McGill, Arthur Underhil and
James McComie, situated on Murray
Creek, within the town limits of Ely.
These gentlemen are running their
mill on gold bearing rock from the
Altman mine, which they have leased
from the Canton Company of Ohio for
a term OF six years, working profta-
bly, and paying their bills regularly on
the LIST of every month.
Messrs. Reynolds Il Featherstone
are the fortunate owners Of the Key
stone mine, which combines three To-
cations, each 600 feet in width and
! 800 feet in length. These claims are
situated end TO end, occupy $500 lin
car feet on a mineral belt OF limestone,
and are known as the Keystone, Alle-
CLANCY and East keystone. The
principal work has been done on the
Keystone, and consists Of about a
dozen openings sunk through the cap
rock. The ore has formed in blanket
deposits from two and half TO five
feet thick, and in no place has the
hanging-wall been found more than
six feet below the surface. In one
place the ore shows a tendency to dip
downwards. This is i'm what is called
the cave, an opening 10 feet wide and
35 to 40 feet long. On the east side Of
it stands well defined vertical wall
OF limestone, and on the west side "a
mixture Of low grade ore, composed
OF magnetic iron and black oxides OF
manganese; the ends, north and
south, have the appearance OF fis-
sure and the bottom is in ore, which
remains in the natural condition that
il was deposited. Eastward from the
cave, where the hill gently slopes, an
open cut has penetrated to a deposit
OF ore which lies nearly fiat, but has a
slight inclination northward towards a
dyke Of porphyry. Here four men are
employed in stoping out ore. One OF
them is Sam Rutledge, the foreman
of the mine. He is also the Mining
Recorder of the district, and to him
we are indebted for kind courtesies ex-
tended TO our reporter during his visit
to this valuable property. There are
about II vertical and incline shafts on
this mine, from five TO twenty feet
deep, having ore in each of them.
Hitherto the richest OF the ore has
been selected and shipped TO the fur
naces in Eureka for reduction, and as
the cost of hauling is Sl5 per ton,
nothing has been sent here unless il
would run up into the hundreds OF
dollars per ton in working value.
There are now from 200 to ! 800 tons
of ore on the dumps at the mine ready
for treatment, from which a number
of samples have been taken and an
alyzed. The results obtained are as
follow Forty parts silica, 20 tf lime,
II of magnetic iron, of black oxides
of manganese, 5 Of sulphur, 8 OF lead,
aud | of copper, the residue being
about 10 per cent. The average guam
tity of silver contained in the ore is
about so ounces and the gold value
runs from 81 to $l5 per ton. Messrs.
Reynolds x Featherstone are contem-
plating the erection of teaching mill
with capacity to treat 10 tons OF ore
per day.
There is probably not mining To-
cality in the State OF Nevada that
shows more mineral on top OF the
ground or better prospects for the dis
covery OF large mines awaiting deyel
opment than Robinson District. Be
sides the gold and silver there are alsC
argentiferous lead and
COPPER MINES
In great number. Within the distric
is a strip of country, a veritable cop
per belt, being eight or ten miles loni
/ and from two to four miles wide,
part OF which is designated as Wes
Camp. Some of the copper ores ar
very rich and occur in various miner
illogical forms.
A group of copper mines on thi
belt known as the Star, Grand Cen
tral and Star of the West, owned by \
X. Watson, a resident OF the distric
and Mr.. Walcot of San Francisco
Cal, look very well in places wher
the lode has been stripped and eS
posed, blue and green copper carbon
ates being very conspicuous in TIA
cleaveage of the rocks, and red an
gray copper, sulphides, oxichloriie
and other forms OF copper ore show
ing up in different places. 1t appear
like big slice OF this country is a
unbroken bed of copper ore. Messr
Watson and Walcot own other mine
that give ample evidence OF grei
value. The Pilot Knob mine has in
mense groupings of hematite whic
assay 65 per cent OF iron and $ll
cold. Three hundred tons OF this va
shipped to Ward and was there pr
nounced bv the smelter, F. +. Thoma
the best flux on the Pacific Coas
Whenever railroad communication
made to Salt Lake this material wi
be valuable TO ship there. A yertici
shaft on the Brooks mine which a