Mohave County miner., 1900-11-24

strike IN big ore body had leaked OUT,
they only succeeded in picking up a
few shares. There are some twelve
claims in the group, about 23O acres in
all.-Globe Times.
A Deadwood, S. d. dispatch says:
The Homestake company is eXpending
pumping station, One of the greatest
piece of engineering in the west is be-
ing accomplished by the company.
| The headquarters of Spearfish creek
are being tapped and the water con.
Quoted to a mammoth reservoir that
| has been built at the rear of the Eli
son hoist, with a capacity of million
and a quarter gallons of water. This
! ditch is 10 be ten and a half miles in
! length. 1t is built over mountains and
across gulches. and through noun
tains. A wagon road runs alongside
! of the ditch. the uniform width being
! fifteen feet. In several places the pip
!
being 1000 feet of tunneling. There
are ten miles of 2S-inch pipe and one
half mile of 80 inch. 1t required 6 0
standard gauge carloads Of piping and
100 carloads of machinery. To lay a
mile of pipe required l,7SO pieces. At
one place the water has TO be pumped
over high mountain. The 100 car
loads of machinery has been placed
mostly in the mammoth pumping sta
tion. which is one of the largest in the
world. There are two Riedler pumps,
each with capacity of $3.50 gallons
per minute. The machinery used L.
the largest ever brought into the Black
Hills. The Burlington com pany con.
structed eleven miles of road from
Dumont, in order TO get the pipes and
machinery near their destination. The
Home-take company has been working
- men night and day on the ditch
aud it is to be completed, ready for
water by the middle of this month,
The company has been short Of water
for several years II will now be able
to keep all the stamps in the old mills
in steady operation and besides, two
old mills that have been idle for sev
eral years, located on the north side
of the lead hill, are being repaired aud
by January lst they will be dropping
on ore. This will give the company
about 800 stamps. The company will
in all probability increase the amount
will be increased 10y at least one-third
when the l.2O0.ton cyanide plant and
the two old stamp mill. are in opera
tion. The new cyanide plant, which
will be the largest ia the world, will bt
ready for ore by January l.
r Among the mining exhibits in the
2 mining department of the Worlds Faif
at Chicago was nugget of pure golc
, found in Alpine county by woman
> The history of the discovery of thi,
1 chunk is cherished by every woman il
California. Harry f. Ellis and hi,
3 wife went to the state in 1874, from
- Philadelphia because of Ellir'S serious
r lung trouble. They went to live up il
- the mountains of Alpine county, miles
from any neighbor. They got theil
D Hliying by hunting and cultivating a few
! acres of land about their lonely cabin
. Grizzled old miners, with their jack'
Z laden with grimy camp outfits anc
' blankets, came by the Ellis cabin FIRE
[ quently. One Of the men lay i'll there
D for several weeks, while he was uursed
to health and vigor by the Ellises. Tn,
3 miner told them how they might find
, recreation and profit in hunting
, through the canyons and foothills Of
that region for pay dirt aud showed
them where he believed there was in
' dications of gold bearing gravel. Fol
} days at a time the young husband and
wife tramped up and down the gulches
{ in Alpine county, looking for speck:
> of gold, but all without avail. They
, abandoned seeking riches in the plac
J ers and confined their attention &c
their little ranch. One afternoon as
> Mrs. Ellis was driving home the family
, COW she was seeking stones to throw
, for the amusement of the dog She
saw in the coarse gravel dark, dull
yellow stone and picked it up. 81 knew
} from the moment | picked it up" she
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