| Show late and Inte interesting intelligence froin the avash IVas lioe ae mine mr F J hughes arrived in tin this s city icet oct from the new mining region in in washoe valley he lef left t virinia virginia town last saturday morning A mr r huo hushes h es furnished us a full and interesting description c of f the new diggings operations now in p progress r 0 r there stere His account is tin tinged with enthusiasm but after making mailing all due allowance for the excited state of feeling prevalent in the mines and in which lie he probably participates his narrative nara tive is well calculated to excite the attention and wonder of our readers mr Hughe went to virginia town the locality of the richest discoveries in june last and remained there until khz the close of last week so that his opportunities of observation have been ample the existence of silver in that region was discovered by three men who were Nv working a good claim in six ix mile kangani mjune of the present year following their surface diggings digging they at jeri length th st struck ruck the gold lead coristin coni consisting stin ofa loa black soil without lustre so ri rich ell that portions of it yielded esoto the pan pofi they found a pocket as it is there called lulled from which they made per day with a rocker A num number berof of mexican miners from sanora examine dihe tailings or refuse dirt and in informed formea the ml miners ners that they were throwing a way away two dollars of silver for each one 0 ne of gold that they collected A company of erfour or four mexicans commenced working those these tailing s for the eib silver er and for some tire time collected from to per lay day about tn 0 month ago ago judge walsh took ono one ton toil of the black metal in in which the silver occurred to san ban francisco in in order to procure a reliable assay I 1 ahe he result was nas fron from 1900 to sa S per ton accordi according nr to the ports parts of the fie mine from which the eDS we taken it is is a re mat nial kalle kable property of this bh ck metal that it decorti decompose poses arid and be 1 comes toft soft from exposure to such al a I 1 degree tint that it can even be crushed between beaw een the fingers the claim had in the meantime mi antime been beeh divided into in 0 b ix shares two to each of tile the original parties comstock Coni k sold his big for 85 and mclaughlin his portion lor for riley is is now nov the only one of ther the 0 or r g gmal inal par martiel interested in in tl the aei lead e a ol 01 a and i ahe he has refused so mr Hug hessa says s for his share hare judge walsh owns two sixtus sixths arid and is is said aiato to said to have been offered abo for half his interest mr hughes has with him a mass 0 of f silver ened with gold weighing vei g 47 ounces arid and valued at 1 2 per ounce this bar w was is obtained from one arroba or 25 pounds of the tailings before spoken of could thisbe this be makenas as a fair sample of the whole it would indicate the astonishing result of a mass c of f refuse dirt from which the gold had been extracted by the ordinary process worth four dollars to the pound the ledge in in the Comsto cic chini has two leads of gold and one of ail silver er ore the therold gold rock has ban proved by the ordina nary test to be worth w orth from to per ton the silver lead consists of the black metal which aich is is stated sated to produce 5 io to the ton in in the proportion of 46 of silver to 4 of gold the rhe gold leads area are from five to nine ne feet thick and the dip of the gold bearin bearing gr rock is is about 80 60 degrees pr or nearly perpendicular the entire ledge is between 15 and 20 feet wide the silver I 1 vein v ein is is from 6 to 24 inches nv bed be d ara at ftc mia town w which aich LS is twenty miles frota from carson valley 15 from carson city and about ibo from cron sacramento there isa is a ledge of gold rock near washoe lake i aich is is said to have yielded fielded 2100 in gold t h n besides the principal deposit of silver sl iver referred to in in mr hughes he relates that more tha than n twenty other veins have been opened in ill the vicin efty and tire are now in in the process of development dev it is thought that they extend nil rille the wa from honey bake lake to alker river the prospect tings ings generally genen ll reveal gold on the surface the silver appear s eight 0 or ten feet below the mot most wag n ag aeri ent n deposit of gold ever discovered in in this continent or in in the world is represented to have hav e been opened at gold hill in in a kanyon or rather gleyon valle one e and a half miles from vir binin amm town the hill bill is is isolated from the mountain mou etain spurs to which it probably once belonged and is is pro properly perl a moun mound about fao feet high aih 5 feet ion long b by 2000 feet wi wide pd e i it I 1 is is traversed traversed by veins veins of auriferous quartz partly decomposed yielding from to sa to the ton this enormous mass of wealth was a discovered by a aking character from f rom virgina in in honor bonor of whom the nei neighboring hoorin hb orin village has been named it it is is computed that this fortunate person has expended within two months eight or orten ten thousand dollars in in the pur purchase thase of b bis Is favorite flu d for the consumption of himself and his fi lends friends this T his fact is considered interesting as tending to prove the w wealth bilth of the country and the thirst of the inhabitants there are wf IS 18 ar astras in in operation at virginia avirginia town and 8 or 9 at gold hll hill many more are in in course of erection enic tion lumber is is scarce in in the washoe regin on account of the distance over which it must be drawn and the incapacity of the nulls mills to supply the demand suddenly increased as it has been by the rush rush of population caused by the opening of the mines minis the nearest aimbez timber suitable for lumber lumbering in PuI purposes POses Is fifteen miles mile from the mines mines and the mills which cabi can be reli relied upon for a supply are twenty the five milles distant the price of lumber lurn beir at t virginia town is is 50 per thousand the habits of the people are sarly nomadic and sporadic po they live ine in in tents aa as many of them as can becu secure re that accommodation those nv who ho cannot sleep in in haystacks when meals can be hid had they are re furnished at tho the reasonable price of 75 cents each about SO tons of silver siber has already been sent seat to san francisdo Fran Franci ciSLO geo or is on the way a hither and mr hughes passed almost yearns teams gling out i outa with rc visions a and nol general supplies the price of freight fi eight has been raised to 10 cents beho per pound or per ton from Pla ceville but the silver ore is is thought blought this way vay for half that rate the rush to the mi lies is so great that a daily line has been arranged for on the day on oil ii aich ho he arrived at placerville erville six si full stage stage loads load of passengers had been engaged for the next trip mr M hughes states stales that ten en feet claims ar are selling at from lo 10 each lie ile states that the favorite doi nicil is is the wagon agon all sleep iw in these nho inho can get get them arid and the rest manage as already stated to sleep in board ha haystacks touts etc |
