Show revival of mining on the famous comstock Corn stock lodo wo 0 the recent starling starting at virginia city nevada of a huge modern gold mill that with the attendant min development cost 4 marke marks the beginning of a new era in the history of the famous old comstock Come tock lode from tho the marvelous marve loua mines on the lode grow the fortunes that built the central pacific railroad that completed the connection between the east and the golden gate and that built the business metropolis of the pacific coast beautiful san francisco the early days of the lode half a century ago have been immortalized by no tio lose less a pen than that of mark twain but says the engineering and mining journal press of new now york virginia city has been practically dead for many a year cidro JH dro electric power the hydraulic elevator and the Ill riedler edler pumps revived it tor for a abort short time charles butters gave the gamo game a whirl but lost and retired to less difficult fields ore discoveries in the north end resulted in the construction of a mexican mill a small ton plant leaser leasers worked here and there several coin corn canles tried the yellow jacket but eventually retired al thought a ton concentrating mill worked tor for a ime upon the old waste dumps many of the efforts made since 1898 were upon a small scale excepting only the drainage work and the at tempt to reopen the ward bhatt shaft the ward shaft was lost deep drainage was stopped it would be difficult to find a similar series of efforts resulting in such scanty success but in spite of this a modest stream of gold sliver silver bullion went out year by year in the light of the many failures it t required real courage and nerre nerve to investigate the tradition ot the existence of large bodies of low grade ores nevertheless to the credit of the mining industry men man appeared who had the nerve and who had the confidence of financiers and were therefore able to command the capital first to investigate and finally to put a princely sum into the necessary equipment to mine and mill over 2 tona tons of low ow grade ore per day the plant li Is starting equipped with every device to make economical mining and milling possible whether the dreg dregs of the glorious days of the seventies can be made to pay remains to be seen |