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Show jji - westemt gazetteer. imxntiin a- SHARES ON THE LONDON MARKET The London Mining Journal of the 15th has the following: Emilia 2)4 to 4. Mr. MacDougall forwards report made by Mr. George Collins, the Supt., and transmitted to 15aron Grant at the request of Mr. 0. A. Gager. On Nov. 20, in the mornmg. while drilling in bottom of shaft, the drill broke through inlo v hat appeared to be a large cavity of soft matcri 1, filled with water, which came in with such force that it knocked one of the men down, gaining on the pump fully 30ft in an hour. I aimed iatcly put another pump in, and ran up to the full capacity of the machinery for ton days. In the mean time, I succeeded in lowering the water and put a blast in, when the water increased again to an aggregate of about 20,000 gallons per hour, after which time it was impossible (v ith our present machinery) to keep the water down. This great increase was wholly unexpected at our present depth. We believed vc had power enough to lave sunk more then iooo feet from the surface, and can onlv conclude that we are nearer an ore body ban I expected. We arc running now a cross cut from the easl dy face of drift from Bay City Tunnel toward the hanging wall. We have explored the mine between 500 and 600 feet easterly from said Bay City Tunnel, and have proved a complete ore connection with the old ore bodies of the mine and the present workings, and shown that from the starting point of Bay City Tunnel the course of the vein for the whole distance explored easterly in the direction of the Emma Patent, and at the lower working throughout arc within the ground, and upon the dip of the vein as held by the said Emma patent. m THE BLACK HILLS. - first to fill up the great fissures, and second to cap it all with a covering, the filling of the fissures and the cap both bearing the precious metals in paying quantities, and growing richer as depth is attained, which may be accounted for because of the greater gravity of the mineral. Th;s ceijicnt is entirely unlike the cemented gravels of the California blue lead. Jt is a generally conceded fact here that it would take aU the stamps of the Ilills (nineteen hundred) a century or more to exhaust these cement beds, without touching the fissures. Where the fissure veins are known to exist under the cement covering all energies are devoted to opening up the true vein and the covering is neglected. THE SUTRO TUNNEL The south header of the Sutro Tunnel will before many weeks p:.ss be connected with the d ills coming northward from the Yellow Jacket shaft. There remains between Goo and 700 feet to run, and the Yellow Jacket men are driving south at the rate of with which the tunnel is at nine feet per day. The drain-bo- x present supplied is kept running nearly full with the water com-inn- r Nevada and other north end mines, and as o from the Sierra the volume from the south end, after connection shall have been made, will probably more than double the present quantity flowing through the Sutro Tunnel, the question naturally arises, what are they going to do with it ? If the drain box wont hold it and that may be regarded as a certainty the surplus water will of the tunnel and necessitate the substitution ffood the track-be- d steamers for the railroad cars now in use. Thu:; of stern-whefar we have heard of no movement on the part of the tunnel company looking to the enlargement of its draining facilities, ;md there would appear to be very little time for them to lose in digging another drain or doubling the capacity of the one they el have. Tiie Tybo Mining Company, Nevada, is shipping ore regu- larly. Tiie Gold Tree, Santa Ritas, Arizona, was recently sold for The following extracts arc from a letter written by Colonel E. 25,000. McMurdy to the Hon. Richard Kelly, president of the Fifth National Bank, New York : Three tons of Barcelona, Nevada, ore shipped to Eureka, Consider that Dakota contains 148,932 square miles, and New worked $150 per ton. ork 47,000 square mill's ; that there is practically no waste A telephone line will be established between the Eureka land, the bad land rcaIy covering but a small fraction ; that the Con. and Albion offices. coal beds anil coal oil fields are vast in extent, and in equal quality to those of Pcmnsy I vania the oil is now used without being The .Phcmv, Nevada, is is being worked under lease; and refined, for lubricating, that the salt wells have no impurities, so the b;g itppcs go. and mark Go degrees by the salometer; that the bect of iron ore in abundance is found adjacent to the coal mines ; that the Black The hoVJng woiks for the three compaitmcnt shaft of the of country about 100 miles long bv 60 miles wide, Tough Nut, 's on toe way to Arizona. Hills, a district , T he last monthly statement showed that the Contention, Tombstone, Arizona, ht d $204,800 on hand. st quartz mill was erected, and that now there are over 1900 Col. E. N: Robinson, supcnnb'nduit of the Albion, is aho manager of the Sliver Peak Tunnel, Eureka, Nevada. so-call- ed c and more stamps at work, and that the yield of 1881 is estimated A report on the Rcpublicana and Columbia mince, Sonora, Me:'icD, stamps them as wenderfi lly rich and extensive pro- 1 e J :s. Within a radius of fifty miles of Laramie City there more mines fields, in August 1S81, which will enable 4.000 or 5,000 additional than can be found in the same scope of country anywhere whhin the tons of ore, of the character not called free milling, to be re- limits of Wyoming. duced and the gold and silver both saved, and that this ore is of Last month the Mint at San Francisco coined 88, c 30 eagles, much higher grade than the gold ores. These ores cannot be reduced in the Ilills because of the scarcity of water, 198,000 half eagles and 1,000,000 Standard dollars; in all, 1,286,000 and must remain idle and unworked until the railroad is finished. pieces, of the value of $2,870,000. When this is accomplished and the mills in connection Denver can beat any city in the United States for incorporation--With several other developments that are being pushed forward At least half a dozen articles of corporation are filed daily, most of will make the products of the Hills not less than $20,000,000 an- them being cither for rai roads or mining prospects. nually. There is now sufficient ore developed to ensure this The importance of the gold and silver product of the United State, yield for many years. "I no question but what these. are true fijsuijc veins, can readily be judged from the fact that during the year just closed . it has amounted to about one and a half million dollars per week. five-milli- is ng c-ec- ted, . . the coming boom in mining matters will unquestionably be in Mexico, then in Arizona, and alter that in New Mexico and Colorado, but in each case it will be owing to actual developments. The New York Conservative thinks rial that shows no no! ion of fire, but apparently is a sediment or setthng from some sea, which held in solution in its pro-histor- ic waters gold and silver and other minerals, which deposited itself, |