The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-01-02

| gravel is not rounded, water was an
agent in the formation of the deposit.
| Even with water present there may
still have been the blowout of which
| indications have been seen. The placer
| may occupy the site of a lake that once
| filled an old cratur, as do many lakes
| in the Sierras and other places in this
| region. A great quartz blowout may
| have occurred and filed up the lake,
| thus forming the strange gold deposit
/ now being prospected. AT all events,
| there is found to be beneath the placer
| ground an astonishingly deep hole, and
the presence of petrified wood would
| seem to show that this hole was once
| filled with water.
Instead of hydraulic mine, as they
| supposed, the San Francisco people
| may find that they have drift diggings.
| 1t may be that an old lake basin has
here been found that will throw the
South African basin in the shade. Only
| small stratum at the bottom of the
South African basin pays, whereas the
deposit in the Buckeye basin all pays
from the surface down. AS all the ma
terial through which prospecting shafts
are being sunk is rich, some of the eX-
perts are figuring that the placer con-
| tains hundreds of millions of dollars in
gold. This deep and extensive basin in
| a place where no sign of anything of
| the kind was visible on the surface is
certainly worthy of place among the
many wonders of the Great Basin re-
gion; then the fact of the great sink
being filled to depth of several hun
dred feet with material rich in gold
from top to bottom adds to the interest.
To think of the San Francisco people
getting thousands OF acres in the heart
| Of this basin for the trihn -
Barney Barnato
| many millions
AT
Pine Nut is a
and gold-bearin
single low ridg,
| Buckeye basin,
way feeder New and rich veins of
| gold quartz continue to be found at
| Pine Nut. Much placer ground has
| also been located Little but holding
work is being done this winter. Next
| spring the district will be very active.
Some claims are changing hands. Pete
| Anderson recently sold his placer
| ground for $4,000
| GOLD PRODUCTION.
Though work is not active in the
placers, some gold is all the time COM
ing to the Mint at Carson. Bodie
| shipped more gold last month than for
any other one month in over a year.
Shipments were made at four different
times during the month.
| Recently j. Grant brought in 200
ounces of retorted gold from Patterson
district in Mono county, just on the
Nevada and California line.
Last week the La Grande Ora hy-
draulic company of Lyon county de-
posted at the Mint forty-one ounces of
placer gold, and the Ninety-four COM
pany of the same county eleven ounces
of the same kind of gold.
The Silver City people are shipping
gold regularly every week, as they
| have been doing for nearly forty years
but they seldom report their sales of
gold. 1t is only when a wonderfully
big strike is made that we hear any
thing about their operations.
EASTERN NEVADA GOLD.
The gold mined at De Lamar and the
other eastern Nevada camps all goes
| east to Salt Lake. We get no part of
it at the Carson Mint. Most Of the
gold taken out in camps in the central
parts of the State also goes to Salt
| Lake.
| De Lamar Is now the liveliest mining
| town in Nevada Trade is good and all
the roads leading to the town are lined
| with freight teams When the capacity
| OF the De Lamar mill is doubled the
number of wage-earners in the town
| VIII be doubled. When the April Fool
mil goes into operation there will be
room i'm it and in the mine for many
| more men. The April Fool company
| expect to have their pipeline finished
| and water at the mine by February
LIST. There is a good deal of building
in the town, and the citizens are put
| ting up a public hall 45x75 feet in size.
| The Catholics are contemplating the
| erection of a church.
| CONfSTOCK MINES.
| About the usual quantity and quality
/ of ore Is being extracted at the pro-
ducing mines along the line oq the
! Comstock lode. Among these mines
no new developments of special import
ance have recently been made The
| Ophir people are about to have worked
at the Mexican mill 120 tons of ore av-
eraging $39,5S ton. This is the first
| lot OF ore from the $50 level of the old
mine They also ship 1876 tons from
| other parts of the mine that will go
1895 a ton, This shows that the old
| est and first discovered mine Of the
Comstock is still alive.
The Kinkead mill for working the
rock of the G. & G. waste dump is
completed and about ready to be start
ed up The rock is pulveriZed by means
of two novel grinders invented by Mr..
kinkead. This plant is experimental;
In case 1t proves a success big works
and many of them will go up at the
Comstock waste dumps. Mr.. Kinkead
feels quite sure of success.
All Is going on well at the Bruins
wick lode. Although no prosecuting
has yet been done, some fair prospects
have been obtained A telephone line
has been run out to the works on the
lode II Is found to be a great con.
Ivenience. A contract has been let In
San Francisco for a mile and a quar-.
ter of wire cable tramway to be sci
up between the Mexican and Morgan
mills. on the Carson river for the
transportation of tailings
PERSONAL JOTTINGS.
L Patrick Ward n Comstock nionaa,.