Year: 1878

This mill has been finished and ready ts

 run ever since the senth of December, wait

 ing only for supplies, which, had the own

 CTS not gof into wrangle among themselves

 would, no doubt, have been promptly fur

 ished, and everything now booming.

 We have talked with Mr. James Nee, who

 Superintended the erection of the mill, and

 who is thoroughly familiar with the mine in every phase of it's development, and he assures us that in all his mining experience, which has extended to nearly every quartz mining camp on the Coast, he never before saw half 30 good a prospect anywhere, as the Peck mine and mill present at this mo- ment. Had the parties interested expended the money, which it must have cost them to law each other in court, in chemicals and other supplies, and started the mill when she was ready to run, it is his conviction that enough bullion wonld have been pro- duced by this time to pay for the mill and ali the expenses of putting it up and start itg it to running.

 His experience in mining has enabled him to judge pretty closely, and it is his belief that there are many tons of ore in the dumps designated "second class" especially that which has recently been taken out, since the shutting down of the Aztlan, and there was no demand on the mines for first-class to pack to that mill, which will closely crowd thousand dollars to the ton, besides the dump of first-class ore is dmIy increasing rapidly, and he believes it is in the business to easily produce a hundred thousand dol lars worth of bullion, the first fifteen days after the mill starts Of course it would not be policy to do that, as the miII being entirely new should be practiced, say ten days, at least, on low grade ore, until every thing is regulated, all the cracks filled up. etc, but these are the possibilities of tine case

 The main shaft is now down hundred feet or more below the water level, or be- tween four and five hundred feet from the surface, sixty or seventy feet below the bed of War Eagle Gulch, and still the rock con- tinues to be free milling chloride ore; the freeest, perhaps, ever found anywhere out side of White Pine. This is contrary to all former experience in mining. Miners al- ways look for sulphurets, and provide for roasting and cbloridizing when they ap- proach the water-level, and in every instance, except this, SO far as we have any knowl- edge, they have found use for these applian- ces.

 lt is true that even in this mine there is a streak of galena ore, rich enough in lead to run freely ia smeiter, but it is entirely separate from the main pay shute, and can easily be kept to itself or mixed with car bonate or other ores and chloridized in a roaster

 Mir. Nee thinks that regular hoisting works at the South end of the claim, and a donkey engine on the north with a winze in the middle would enable the Company to sink and run shafts and levels that would explore and put in sight ore enough, by the lime the present dumps arc worked mp, to insure continuous run of the mill for the greater part of the coming year. The low est grade of their second class ore would be called iirst-class in any other Country, which with the immense body of very high grade already in sight, and which the system of work indicated would expose, would neces- Iarily produce an immense sum of money. We have but a vague idea of how much a million is, but cannot think ofany less figure | o express what we anticipate in this connec- ion.