The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-04-26

CilenUS, IN my leUJ6rS, ana i nope
never will. With this happy under
standing between us, hope to main
tain a cordial and friendly relation
with my readers, very many of whom
have personally acknowledged to me
their pleasure over reading my letters.
This is ''patting myself on the back, "
but If | don't do 1t, it may never be
done.
The mining outlook in Western Ne
vada has never looked brighter to me
since the seventies. We are on the
eve of mining revival. can see it.
The value of property in this section
will never be lower.
Colonel e. ID. Boyle is at work at
Como building a mill and prospecting
the North Rapidan group of mines.
The ledge at Como is practically mex
haustible. The mountain is steep and
it can be reached by short tunnels,
comparatively. The first tunnel will
reach the ledge at a depth of 500 or
600 feet, giving back slopes of 700 or
800 feet, with a width of hundreds of
feet. The ore is low grade, carrying
probably As per cent gold and 55 per
cent silver. Colonel Boyle will DEM
onstrate that he can make this ore pay,
and then it will be an easy matter for
him to raise money to drive a longer
tunnel of about mile and half, and
tap the ledge at a depth of about LOO
feet, giving back slopes of about 1 400
feet, with hundreds of feet in width,
and make room for the employment of
thousand men. This will bring the
mouth of the tunnel far down the
mountain side, below the snow line
Mills will be constructed there and
power will be aggregated from the
East and West forks of the Carson
river in Alpine county to the mills and
mines. This is neither chimerical nor
fanciful. The ore is there and known
to be there, and it has been thoroughly
tested and worked. 1t is not a stock
jobbing enterprise. The ore will be
worked for the gold and silver that is
contained in it, just the same as any
farmer cultivates his farm. Colonel
Boyle has been endeavoring to raise
the funds to make his beginning for
several years, with full confidence of
success, if he could only get starter.
He has raised enough to build mill
and to run a short tunnel, and he can
be depended on to stay with it.
There is probably quarter of mil
lion dollars of idle money in Douglas
county, and from 20, 900 to 10000 tons
of hay can be raised in the valley each
year more than there is any market
for. The investment of one-quarter of
the idle money in Douglas county
alone towards the development of the
Como mines would create market,
right at home, for all the surplus prod
ucts of the county. 1t is better than
oil.
Franklin Leonard, superintendent of
the Comstock Tunnel Company, has
recently built ten-stamp mill, with
capacity of over 90 tons per day, at the
mouth of the tunnel. This mill is now
running steadily on waste rock hauled
out of the Comstock mines. This rock
Is worth less than SO per ton, and it has
been demonstrated that it will pay.
There are millions upon millions of
tons of better rock left in the Com
stock mines, all of which will be
worked, affording employment to
thousands of men, the moment stock
gambling is dead. Power will be
eventually furnished by the several
forks of the Carson river and by noun
tain streams to run thousand stamps
on Comstock ore. Mr.. Leonard pro-
poses to eventually extend the Sutro
tunnel to the Silver City mines. The
ore of these mines run up TO about rs
per cent in gold, and the supply is un-
limited The tunnel would tap the
Silver City mines at a depth of about
300 feet, giving back Slopes of over a
thousand feet, and the entire surface
OF the ground is covered with loca-
tions for over mile in width, nearly
every one of which affords living to
It's workers, and many of which have
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