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Show WESTERN MINING GAZETTEER. Tkeasukk Hill. Treasure Hill, just west of the city, is There are several promissure to develop a great mine yet. ing prospects on it, which the owners are consolidating into an A tunnel can bo run which will cut two or incorporation. As these prospects all more veins at a depth of 500 feet. show pay ore on the surface, the probabilities for a mine are Ophir The joint California east cross-cu- t, 50 feet north of the California line, has been advanced 13 feet, passing through 10 feet of ore chat assays from $21 to $138. A drift was started to explore the vein lengthwise to the north, but it is said at headquarters that the work has been discontinued tn that direction. The vein is the same one that was cut in California ground to the southward some time ago, and it may prove to great. Tough Nut. E. E. Brim sold the Tough Nut, on Treasure be the south end of an ore body extending through Mexican Hill, to L. Simon, this week. It is one of the most promising ground to the Union. Even if it should not widen into a bonanza, it will be of great assistance to the Ophir. The jofnt Assays way up in the hunprospects we have seen lately. dreds have been obtained, and the ore body is four feet wide. California raise has progressed 13 feet and may eventually run into the vein. The south drift on the 2500 level has advanced This and the Carbonate will soon bring Treasure Hill into no20 feet during the week, and the northeast drift to connect toriety. cross-cuon this level, 25 feet, through Union. Affairs in the Union tunnel and Henrietta shaft with the joint Mexican Humors of a compromise between the a promising, heavy vein material. The diamond drill has remain unchanged. been run from the incline on the 1000 level to the bottom of conflicting heads, who have been in San Francisco for some the We cannot get at the bottom of off sump on the vertical shaft, a distance of 128 feet, to drain time, is rife on the streets. the water. A portion of the water was drained and the the report, and take but little stock in it. hole then plugged. It will not be of permanent service until is in Glencoe. The tunnel the Glencoe finished, making a the north branch of the tunnel connects with the Union and straight cut from the surface in on the vein. It will now be the tanks are reset. pushed into the hill. California The north drift, to connect with the drift comis the The water surface at tunnel IIawkeye. IIawkeye ing south from the Ophir, on the 2300 level, is making good on the 2000 level, nearing completion. Sinking will be resumed as soon as it is progress. In the joint Ophir east cross-cu- t, iinished. a ten foot vein of milling ore has been found. The usual Oxtakio. The Ontario mill started up last Saturday, after ainout of ore is being extracted from the 1050 level. a stoppage of three days for repairs. Con. Virginia The joint Best & Belcher winze on the 2000 level is makin good progress. At the end of cross-cu- t KJEVADA. No. 1, on this level, a chamber is being cut out for a winze, Comfttock. which will meet an upraise from the 2300 level. Ore is being The following report is taken frem the Virginia Chronicle stoped as usual. of. the ISth: B. & B. and G. & C. Shaft Sinking and timbering the Sierra Nevada. The incline raise to connect the 2300-levewith the vertical shaft is up 9G feet and in soft material. shaft at the rate of 25 feet per w'cek ; total depth to date, 1,598 feet. Crosscuts No. 2 and No. 1, on the 2300 level, will be conlevel is 98 feet nected soon. The east crosscut on the Savage The 1300 station is being repaired, and the northin length and is in promising quartz. On the 2500 level a east drift on this level is passing through good hcaviy vein crosscut has been started west from the north drift to connect material. The northwesterly drift on the same level has been with the winze sunk in the ore body below the 2400 level. driven through 05 feet of porphyry, carrying very tine stringThis connection will be made in a day or two. There have ers of puartz which promise well. been no important changes during the week in the material Bay State. The Bay State Silver Mining Company, of encountered, but the drifts are closely skirting the ore veins, Newark, is a Boston company, incoqjorated under and the plan of operations appears to surround the ore body the laws Nevada, of Nevada, in August, 1878; capital, 50,000 shares, with workings that will give plenty of air and facilities for value, $10. The property, comprising six claims, is lopar show to deemed advisable be whenever rock it out may taking cated on the eastern slope of Diamond Mountain, in Chihuain mine. is the there what up hua Canyon, Newark Valley, White Pine County, fifteen mill with Union Con. On the 2500 level the north drift from the miles from Eureka, and consists of a twenty-stam- p Ophir has connected with winze No. 2 and has been extended engine and boilers; also a smelting furnace and G23 acres of 23 feet beyond. The south drift from winze No. 1 has been land, on which are situated the mill, furnace and other buildextended 21 feet, and the two will be connected next ings. The trustees of the company are as follows: G. S. Wednesday. Winze No. 1 has been sunk 14 feet during the Curtis, Alauson Dong, E. F. Hagar, H. J. Boardman, Orray A. week and is rapidly nearing the 2000 level. It is passing Taft, Jr., Henry Sawyer, Ethan R. Cheney, and James II. through a gradually increasing amount of quartz giving low Freeman, all of Boston, and Thomas Robinson of Eureka. G. S. Curtis is President and E. F. Hagar Secretary and assays. The south drift from the shaft cut into promising vein material early in the week, and work in the face was disand Treasurer. Active operations were commenced in April, 1879, under continued; the drift timbered up and two crosscuts started to explore the ledge to fhe west. One of them has been pushed the management of Thomas Robinson, who is considered one 21 feet and the other 22 feet, but no improvement in the maof the best practical miners on the Pacific Coast. A shaft lias terial is reported. Work was resumed in the face of the drift been sunk 200 feet, and drifts run from the bottom of iho last night, and since the last weekly report has been extended same about 500 feet in each direction, following the north and 14 feet. The material is fair, but will probably assay a little from these south Chihuahua claim; also several cross-cut- s to fifty feet each, and a under 20 in the best streaks. Crosscut No. 1, east from the drifts have been run from twenty-fiv- e south drift has been extended 45 feet, making a total length of winze has been driven for air, connecting with the 200-fo173 feet up to last night, and is supposed to be near the ore level, making a chimney from this point at least 450 feet j vein The streaks of quartz are widening, which may be rolhigh, giving aline circulation of air. l For months sufficient ore has been taken out, while doing garded as a favorable indication. Crosscut No. 2 is 114 in 0 length and shows little improvement, being still in broken the dead work, to pay all expenses, amounting to about ) material, consisting of porphyry, clay and quartz. The tank per month. The company has not as yet started its own e j at the 2500 station of the Union shaft is completed, and a mill or furnace, prefering to select some of the ore drift is being run west to take up the water. When the water and have it worked at the Richmond furnaces, using proceeds has been in this way secured the sinking of the shaft will be for payment of expenses. The ore sent there for reduction resumed and continued to the 2000 level. Work is progress-- t has assayed from $150 to $325 per ton, and a large quantity of ore that will work about $80 per ton is being piled on the iug in the fourth compartment as usual. The veins now being Mexican. The east crosscut on the 2300 level has been dump for future use at their own mill. worked are from one to six feet wide. advanced 17 feet through a mixture of quartz and porphyry. t, l 2-10- 0 ) ot ; I $4,-00- high-grad- I f ! |