Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1888-02-19
The msNaNG AxC,-EHENT.
What is Being Done at the
North Carson Kill.

an average OF Il dOZeH iocatOTS u
day 90 out TO the hill North of this
city to make locations. The ground
from the Sugar Loaf to the railroad
track for mile and half is COW
cred with monuments and location
stakes. These 10 atoms are most
numerous near the Sugar Loaf
mountain, where the Groupings OF
dips and spurs of the ledge are
plainly visible. Some locators have
gone beyond the Sugar Loaf and
are tracing the ledge toward Vir-
ginia City from that point.
The mountain seems to have
been thrown up by convulsIon of
nature and cut the ledge squarely
in two. A wall OF slate cuts off the
groupings of the South West side,
and another on the Northeast.
The late Prof. Stewart always in
sisted that the Comstock, after be-
ing lost and scattered at the South
end, continued again ward Car
son and ran into Is. nj i1tains.
| He wrote and talked j; rin> leory
years ago. and publish.i . TIA. ; in
the papers IN support OF III lea.
As the rock so far produced from
the newly discovered ledge is iden-
teal in character W Tomstock,
this theory now ha support
ers, although tins ii the
ledge is not the s.. 'raphic-
ally as the Coms.ocf
The rock first struck in ne we'll
was lrec milling ore with sulphurets
of silver. The rock now being
taken out of Chedic and Biglow's
claim near Sugar Loaf mountain is
yellow rock, honey-combed and de-
composed like Chollar ore, with
free gold plainly to be seen. Their
shaft is now down on the ledge Is !
feet, and the assays which began at |
81 ton on the groupings have in
creased to $50 ton, with the ledge |
increasing from about ten inches to
two feet Wilde.
The Bray claim Southwest of this,
produces a similar rock, in which |
the free gold can be plainly seen
and picked out. No assay has yet |
been made, Bray contenting him
self with pounding up the rock and
hornlng out the gold. Over dozen
locations have been made on the
groupings of lodges, all of which
give assays of more or less value,
and the geological indications are
that these spurs all unite in main
ledge at greater depth.
Mclaughlin & Hawkins are now
down over a hundred feet with the
boring machine, and working to
reach the ledge, which Norrie es-
estimates will be reached in the
of 225 feet. The
first strike, 500 feet Southwest was
ct 26O feet.
The men who own locations along
the ledge are anxiously watching
the results of the second boring,
and yesterday offered to run the
boring machine all night by build
ing sagebrush fires to work by. The
offer was refused, as it takes con.
experience to run the ma
thine SO as to avoid breakage.
At present the ground is soft and
,asy to sink in after the hard pan
s penetrated, but at about two hum
lred feet the old we'll encountered ;
! harder formation, and not over >
en- feet day were made, and the :
lay formation before the ledge was
cached was more like rubber than
lay. causing the drill to rebound
everal inches. :,
Many of the old prospectors pin
heir faith on the existence of a g
edge beyond the railroad cut, as
everal line prospects have been
,und there, and free gold has been
lany times washed out of the ra- Ii
ines Northwest of the city. IL
Several parties have already be- IL
IN to give false value to their I"
aims by doctoring the assays. One u