Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-10

feet thick, one side being in heavy
galena, and the other in quartz. The
ASSAYS run uniformly high at this
point in comparison with other
places on the vein. Two new tunnels
are being run one on the Pursell NINE,
which is in about 100 feet, intended to
tap the vein at a depth OF l0Ofeet below
the main tunnel level, and another on
the Pursell No. 2 mine, in about %
feet, intended to tap the vein
at a depth of 800 feet. A
large ore bin has been con-
| structed Just below the mouth OF the
main tunnel TO receive the ore previous
to loading it into the tram buckets.
| At the foot of the ore bin a station is
being cut out of the solid rock Tor the
head station. Here are found small
| stringers OF galena ore, rs are also in
the tunnel being driven into the
mountain q short distance below 1t.
| The stanchions for the tramway are
in place, and it will he completed at
an early day.
THE MILL
| Structure is completed, and the con-
centrating machinery is being placed
as rapidly as the force OF mechanics
| employed can do the work. The
| building, seven stories high, looms up
| against the grand looking mountain,
| plain but substantial, and perfect in its
| requirements. Hy f.. Sharp, who
lately arrived at Seligman, after hav-
ing had charge OF the construction OF
the concentrating machinery under ).
II. Krom, in New York, will remain
| at Seligman to see the concentrators
in satisfactory running order. The
mill, when completed, will have a
! capacity to treat 100 tons Of ore per
| day.
The assaying department has been
extended, and is assuming the
shape of q laboratory. From 20 to 30
| trial ASSAYS are made daily, besides
which, samples OF from 200 to 800
| pounds Of ore are often taken from the
mine, and concentrated in order to
ascertain working results. Analysis
| of these concentrates demonstrate the
absolute success OF the enterprise.
The concentrates will be marketed
at Eureka, Salt Lake City, or Denver,
and will prove a valuable product to
the smelters at either place. Super
intendent Alex Muir is very assidu-
GUS in his attention to the work oil
development in the mines at Selig-
man, and is efficient in his place, but
the man who projects the plans, and
sees TO their execution is Eugene N.
Robinson. He has had ten years ex'
perience in handling and developing
mining properties, and owns or con-
trolls, probably not less than 1900
acres of some Of the best mining lands
in White Pine county, included in
which are the Pursell series.
The payroll at present shows about
100 men, who are generally efficient
in their respective places, having beer
selected from a large number who
have drifted into the camp, or who
have been especially engaged from
other places in the State. Thirty
more competent miners will be added
to the list, and pressed into service as
fast as they reach the camp.
Weather permitting, it is expected
to start the mill on ore some time in
the month of April. Work THU
Winter has been prosecuted with nm
usual vigor, regardless of the elements
as not a day has witnessed the cessa,
ton of work.
Seligman is the embodiment o.
pluck, hard work, and good judgment,
backed by an equal requisite in min
ing-hard cash.