Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1894-08-11
THE NINETY.FnUR COMPANY.
An Incorporation Which Will Soon
Begin Quite Extensive Operations
at This Place.


The Ninety Four Gold Gravel
Mining and Tunnel Company,
which incorporated here last week,
is making preparations to do some
extensive work in the way of placer
mining from the mouth of Gold
Canyon down to the river. The
Company is composed of Messrs.
Lidel and Williams, of Chicago,
and A. w. and A. T. Brann, Of
Yerington, and F. w. and A. r.
Drann, J. Swanson and E. J. Ruby,
of this place; and following are
the officers of the Company: A.
w. Brann, President; P. c. Lidel,
Vice President; Sain. Williams,
Secretary; F. w, Brann, Managing
Agent; A. T.. Brann, Superintend-
ent. The Company has acquired
title to about ninety acres of placer
ground, which EN- braces that tract
of land lying northwest of the
town of Dayton and extending
from short distance up Gold Can
yon to the Carson river.
Gold Canyon, from Gold Hill to
the river, is about nine miles in
length, and the bills OH both sides
of it contain innumerable small
gold lodges, from which, no doubt.
considerable of the gold that has
in years past been mined from the
gulch has been washed. In early
days, placer mining was carried on
quite extensively in the canyon,
and hundreds of thousands of dol.
lars worth of gold have been taken
out by sluicing and panning. No
very systematic or thorough work
has been done, however, and there
must still he great quantity OF
gold in this ground.
On the ground owned by the
Company numerous shafts have
been sunk to depth of from &c
to 60 feet. and the ground has
yielded from five to forty cents to
the pan. With the crude and old
fashioned way of hosting the dirt
by windlass and sluicing it with
a small head Of water, those now
working on this ground are taking
out from 81 to ~ per day to the
man.
The intention of the Ninety Four
Company is to run tunnel from
the river to the uppermost portion
of its ground, distance of proba-
bly, 1900 feet. This will drain the
ground Of water, which has been a
great b 'ther after a depth of 30 or
40 feet has been reached. The
ground will all be carried in cars
to the river, where there is plenty
OF water to treat the dirt and sepa-
rate the gold from it. This work
Transporting the dirt-wil proba-
bly, be carried on by the aid of an
electric plant.
1t seems strange that this mode
Of working this ground has not
been thought of before, hut up to
within a few years past wages have
been good in this section, and while
it has been generally known that
gold existed in this ground, men
were not going to leave a S3-a day
Job for the sake of working the
ground and taking the chances of
making only $3.50 or 50 day.
If the Company succeeds in ar
ranging to work a large quantity
of ground at nominal cost-and
we do not see why this cannot be
done if the present plans are car
ried ont-there is bound to be mon
ey in the scheme, for there is gold
in every shuvel-full OF dirt on the
fiat, townsite and all, from the foot
of the canyon to the river bank.
The Company estimates that it
will take about $4,000 to rig up
and carry out its plans, and this
amount it expects to raise by the
18th OF next month, when opera
tons will b. begun.
We wish the enterprise success.