Show ON THE COMSTOCK LODE strike in the belcher causes satisfaction among many stockholders A great deal of interest is being taken in the recent strike in the belcher mine inthe gold hill section of virginia city nevada in making mention of this new disclosure and in reviewing conditions on the of the engineering correspondent lodge a special gi and mining journal says the new discovery recently reported in the belcher has excited a good deal of interest special correspondent in the t says a mining and engineering journal the water formerly stood in the belcher mine a little below the 1400 level since the water has been lowered the sturges management has driven one crosscut on the 1500 foot level and another on the 1600 in each case a width of sixty or seventy feet of ore that will assay between 8 and 15 per ton has been exposed its average is probably nearer to the lower figure this ore is the so called white rock or gold ore of gold hill large quantities of it were milled at the close of the bonanza period and after the lower levels in gold hill were flooded the water came up slowly and did not reach the 1400 level until the pumps in the comstock shaft in virginia city were shut down in 1886 during the time when the gold hill mines were flooded in 1881 and the time when the water reached the 1400 the sutro tunnel level a large quantity of this low grade ore was taken out from the yellow jacket crown point and belcher mines the ore occurs in lenses parallel with the old bonanza slopes and to the west of them toward the no considerable quantity of the new ore in the belcher has yet been blocked out however the manager is quoted as saying that he is now able to make expenses out of the production and that as soon as a direct connection with one of the shafts is made he will be able to increase largely the production and earn considerable profit the ore is very soft crushing almost to a powder and therefore mines and mills very easily the gold rock in gold hill has a reputation of concentrating about 1001 the pyrites crystals in the ore are so small and fine as to be scarcely visible to the naked eye in 15 rock not more than 50 cents will be in silver nobody can say as yet how much ore is likely to be developed in the Rel belcher cher or how much profit the company is likely to earn such things depend largely upon the management the present managed management i ent is economical but its efficiency is now to be demonstrated the prospect in the mine now that they are below the water level and below the ground which has been mined over and raked back and forth a dozen times appears to be favorable for further development anyway the new belcher di discovery is very promising and many a mine operator would like to have one that looks as good in regard to the comstock in general it i is s c considerably upset along with the rest of the world the fight between whitman symmes and the san francisco brokers was finally adjusted out of court symmes himself was anxious to see the thing through but there were all kinds of opinions and when one man is fighting an entrenched organization with its many ramifications ficat ions there are many tunings to be considered si some of the stockholders and directors of the mexican thought that the fight ought to be settled as it appeared that that could be done and get back to work again this was finally done by mexican paying the attorneys fees of everybody concerned the mexican and union companies began work at opening up another level the 2650 without waiting for action by the pumping association which was holding the water a little below the 2500 level just as it was getting started the european war broke out and the stock exchange was closed with the consequence that assessments we were re not collectible mexican and union were able to continue worx work and did so but the other three north end companies pa nies did nothing the pumping association ati 1 on however has been keeping the pumps running con virginia is doing a little work but ophir and sierra nevada are doing nothing union is crosscutting on the 2 level and mexican is beginning to cut for the 2650 station and soon will be driving a crosscut there |