Year: 1877

backer--StOnewalI Jackson Mine

 Better than Ever--The R. E. Lee,

 HannibeI and Henry Clay Mines.

 EDITOR CITIZEN Having learned by letter from different parties in San Francisco that it is currently reported and in some quarters believed that, the Stonewall Jackson Mine has pinched, or in other words, played out and of no value whatever, and that the name of the individual who gave rise to the report is one Pushbacker, an old grey headed villain from San Francisco. Why he should state that the Stonewall has pinched, is beyond my comprehen- sion, unless it be to publish himself as an unmitigated falsifier. He certainly had no foundation upon which to base such report, and in his advanced age it would be more becoming in him to stick to the truth. Pushbacker never saw the inside of the Stonewall, con- he is not competent to judge of the merits of the mine, in fact he is no miner, and did not come here for the purpose of mining but to get a bond or two on our mines, and failing in his object he returned as he came, lsore-headed, soured and disgusted with himself. His report in San Francisco does not astonfsh any of us here We Iexpect nothing else at the hands of such scum as Pushbacker and hls kind. What do his statements amount to when compared with those of Messrs. McMastus, Taylor, Pettigrew and others. All of whom are ex- perienced miners and do not come here endeavoring to make a scratch and cheat somebody, but on the con trary they come here to invest in our mines and pay cash for what they pur- chase, and 1 am pleased to know that each of the last three named gentle men have purchased from one to two mines and intend to return here next month and make further purchases. will now push Pushbacker to one side and give you my opinion regarding the Slonewall Jackson and other mines adjacent thereto:

 The Stonewall Jackson never looked better than it does at the present time, notwithstanding the reports to the con- trary. The main shaft is ninety two feet deep and a drift is being run on the vein easterly from the bottom of the shaft, from which drift the owners are extracting as good ore as eyer came from any other portion of the mine, besides the drift there is a shaft being sunk in the tunnel which yields the same precious metal, with every indi- cation that it is gong to continue do- ing so. There is boxed and sacked at the store-rOOm of the company, thirty five hundred pounds of orc worth SlO per pound, and the amount is added to daily by from one to three hundred pounds, besides there is from twenty to thirty tons of what is termed scond- class ore, sacked on the dump ready to be taken to the mill. This milling ore Is worth from one 10 two thousand dollars per ton. There is more ore in sight at the present time than ever be- fore and no evidence whatever of its pinching

 On the 14th instant Superintendent Scott of the Robert E. Lee, which is the first Southwest extension of the Stonewall, invited me up to the mine, and after a careful examination of the shaft and cross-cut feel satisfied that within the next thirty days the Lee will be a self-sustaining mine. The shaft is eighty feet deep, and the cross cut forty-tiYe feet long. In runningl the crOss-cut several stratas of silver ore have been cut, and it is not only my opinion but that of ever honest miner Pushbacker eXcluded) that Scott will be rewarded for hls energy and perseverance.

 The Hannible Mine, which is theI first northeast extension of the Stone wall, Is being rapidly developed under the management of Charley McMillen, the diScoverer of the Stonewall, A far as developed, the vein is three and one-half feet wide and gaining inl width every foot sunk. The ore ex- tracted averages S200 to the ton. Char ley IS willing to bet that the Hannible in thirty days hence will be second to none in the district and he knowsI he speaks.

 The Henry Clay, joining the R. E. Lee on the southwest, iSanother valua- ble mIne, owned by company in San who are preparing to con- mence developing immediately. The first northeast extension of the Hanni-I ble is about to be purchased and who ever the purchasers may be, they will receive valuable proper ty, as the owner, MT. Akins, has with in a few days past discovered a rich { strata on the location. The discovery was made since he agreed to sell

 There are other valuable mines in | the vicinity of which 1 will write next week, so that for the tune l will Push back-er my pen and subscribe myself

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