Volume 08 (1864) (474 pages)

The Biining and Seientitie Press. The Lady Bryan Mine, The “Lady Bryan” is one of the earliest of the locations near Virginia City apart from the Comstock lode. he mine appears upon the surface like a vast pile of qnartz and porphyry about 150 feet in width and rising toa hight which would make a prominent land mark in a levcl eountry for many miles around. ‘I'his miue has had its frequent “ups aud downs,” the chief of which, however, is its present movement. Within about a week after the late “strike” this stock advanced from $8 to $70 per foot—nearly 900 per cent. It has since receded and is now quoted at $40. We condense the following particulars with regard to the preseut discovery, from the local column of the Virginia Euderprise : Having heard that a rich mass of ore had been struck in the mine—we were anxions to see it for onrsclf and examine its quality and, so far as possible, its extent. It was expressly for this purpose that we visited the mine. On arriving at the mouth of the tnnnel we found ten or twelve gentlemen from this city examining a quantity of ore that had been brought out of the mine and was now deposited at the mouth of the tunnel. Among these gentlemen we recognized some of the shrewdest operators in mining stocks and two or three men whose knowledge of ores aud tines, both scientific and practical, is not snrpassed by that of any person in the Territory. All were well pleased with the ores before them—in fact no person having any knowledge at all of silver ores eould doubt its richness. Altogether some tweuty tons ol ore have been bronght out of the mine. ‘The best of this has been sacked up, yet there is a large amount of excellent ore heaped up on the dump. We picked ont several lumps of black sulphnret ore that were as fine as any that can be found in the best of the mines in this city on the Comstock lead. In company with halfa-dozen gentlemen who wished to see the spot frem which all tbis rich ore was taken, we entered the mouth of the tunnel 354 feet in length, but we did not follow it to the end. After proceeding the distance of 264 feet we came to a shaft 57 feet in depth, which it was necessary for us to descend. We were lowered to the bottom —here we found a drift about 18 feet in iength, following whieh to its end we came to a cross-cut, and bere it is the ore was fonnd. ‘I'he opening from which the ore we saw above was taken is 19 feet long, some six feet high, and on the average seven feet in width. Here, on both sides of the drift, in the end and overhead, we found ore of the same quality as that we had seen above in sacks and heaps. A mining engineer, whose name we did not learn, was with onr party in the drift. He and others of the party, with pieks and sledges, broke down the ore from all yarts of the opening in which we stood, and after thus examining the sides and top, we shoveled away the loose dirt and rock in two or three pluces. and thoroughly examined the bottom by digging out Inmps of the ore. We think every person present was perfectly satisfied with the evidences of wealth visible ou every side ; and we have no right to suspect any one of the dissimnlation who saw these things, and seeing them, acknowledged a belief in them. We can say no more of the extent of the deposit of ore we have been describing than we have already said. ‘There may be a thonsand tons in this Spot, or there may not-be over a hundred or two. But it is qnite certain that having found what they hnye the eompany will find other deposits below it, or at other points along the lead. On coming out of the mine, we took a look at the hoisting works. The building is 60 by 24 feet in size and is substantial in every respect. ‘The engine is of 30 horse power. ‘Lhe pnmp ts of S-inch hore and five-foot stroke. A good deal of water is coming into the main extraction shalt which is now 180 feet in depth. About 100 gallons per minute. These hoisting and pumping works, with buildings andall complete cost the company $20,000. The machinery is all in perfeet. condition and well put. up. The machinery was first started about 70 days ago. At the house of the Superintendent we were shown a fine collection of specimens from the mine. In one of these uative gold was visible and two or three small bits of wire silver. In another we saw a number of scales of pure leaf silyer—precisely similar to what we have seen in rock iu the Gould & Curry. The mine is under the superintendence of Mr. James 11. Owens, who erected the machinery and brought the whole mine to its present promising ae nssisted by his efficient foreman, Mr. James pie. A fine stream of water runs from the mine— . Pos® county. amply sufficient for the mill, Wood may be floated down the Carson to a point but a few miles distant from the mill. In short, we like the prospects of the company. As for the salting, we are ready to answer that all the salting that has been done in the mine is the work of the Almiglity. Tue largest clean-up ever made from one day’s run of the Gould & Curry mill, was on the 23d instant. The weight of nnretorted amalgam taken out was 3,555 pounds. This will make about one-fifth that weight in bars, and is worth in the neighborhood of $20,000. on This company is making another of its characteristic “improvements.” The eompany is bnilding a large, stone culvert, below the mill, whicb is to be several bundred leet in length, and some immense blocks of ranite are being used in its construction. These are hoisted aud lowered into their places by ineans of two hnge derricks. A large nnmber of men are engaged on this wall, which is some six to eight feet high by four in thickness. ‘he drain is several feet in width and will carry all the water of the ravine. Go ro Work.—The idea of “respectable employment” is the rock upon which thousands split, and shipwreck themsclves and all who depend on them. All employments are respeciable that bring honest gaius. ‘I‘he laborer who is willing to turn his hands to anything ig as respectable as the clerk or dapper store tender. Indeed the man who is ready to work whenever work offers, whatever it may be, rather than lie idle and beg, is a far more respectable man than one who turns up his nose at hard labor, wearies his friends with his eomplaints because he can get nothing respectable to do, pockets their benefactions without thankfulness, and goes on from day to day, a useless, lazy grumbler. Corsiso Mixers in Rovurr ror Lake Surrrior.— The Detroit Commercial Adveitiser of September 5th, says : “Seventy miners, just from Cornwall, England, left this city last Saturday for Lake Superior. About the same number passed up on the Saturday previons. They will no doubt be followed by others. The demand for labor is so great in the Upper Peninsula that all who migrate thither will be sure of ciuployment.” A Locomotive Exarnk will carry two hundred tonsn at acost of fwel scarcely excceding the cost of corn. and hay which a pack mule consnmed before the locomotive was invented, in conveying a load of three hundred weight an equal distance. ‘The saine difference of eost womld be saved the community by using steam engines upon city railroads instead of horses, aod every saving of cost is so much capital set free to enploy more labor, and add to the general accumulation of wealth. Extexpise tak Arsenais.—The Boston Hera‘d says that Governmeut is considering a project to extend the area of the Watertown (Muass.) Arsenal, now one of the most important Government works in the country, 81 as to inelnde a fonndry for the casting of cannon, etc. Within the past few months carriages for field-pieces, made altogether of iron, have been manulactared at the arsenal. =" Crrosrs Ir.—The Imboldt Register opposes the ratification of the Constitution, on the ground of its conrpelling the taxation of possessory rights to mines in the Territory. Ayorner Warriquakn.—There was another vigorous earlhqnake at a quarter of three on ‘Puesday morning. A wasoy at. Harrisburg, Penn., while dressing a block of stone, found a larg: petrified rattlesnake iuside. Prorto-scunrturs is a recent fashion of Paris. Statuetts in plaster, execnted to tbe life, are becomiug as eommonas photographs. Narure, foresecing that her children would be tampering with minerals, hid them in the earth, and covered them with herbs and plants, as fitter for their nse. Quartz Mru1.—A fine twenty-stamp mill, constructed in Stockton, was shipped from that city a few days siuce, en voule for the Crown Lead, Maticently been found in the mines. Hone Fire.—An attempt was made on the 29th of November to lannch the iron-clad Dictatur, at New York, bnt without success. A large eoncourse of spectators was present, when, at 11 o’clock the workmen commenced to wedge out the blocks and clear ont the iron-clad for launching. In fifteen minutes the ship began to move slowly down the ways under the influence of a powerful hydraulic ram, bnt she soon ceased to move. Steam iugs were then cmployed, but failed to move her. ‘The failure is attributed to tbe settling of the ground, the undulation ol the launching-ways, and the defective compositiou of the tallow used for lubrieating the ways. The meu had worked most of the night cutting away the shores, but when they knocked away the props in the morning the obstinate Dictator only moved a few inches, and then settled down again. A powerful hydraulic purher of 425 tons power, and a swinging ram handled by 50 men, were applied to the bows and launch-ways without producing the least effect. Astrong manilla hawser was next made fast to the eye-balls and bits on the stern, and run out a couple of steam tugs on the river, but the team of steamers could not budge the iron ship. A third, fourth, filth, sixth, seventh and eighth were fastened to the towline, and they pulled and puffed, and strained and jerked, to Ilttle purpose, and after two hours’ hard work it was fonnd that the state of the tide, which had fallen, niade it necessary to postpone any further attempts nntil mre power could be applied. ‘The Dictaloy was the next day started some four feet by the aid of several tngs, and stopped. ‘The launch was finally accomplished on the 26th of December. Tue Laxr Suverion Swver Mines.—The miners in the vicinity of Marquette, Lake Superior, are wild over the ricb deposits of silver in their neighborhood. In one locality it was believed that filty tous of ore could be got out ina week. ‘The veins are said to be generally well defined, and of a character to be easily mined. The latest advices from these miues appear to fully contirm previous acconnts of the richness of the newly discovered veins. A letter, dated October 26 from S. H. Douglass, Professor of Chemistry in the Michigan University of Aun Arbor, who had receiyed some of the ore for assay, concludes as follows :— “It contains 3.26 pcr cent. of pnre silver, or upward of sixty five pounds of silver to the ton of ore. [suppose that I took anaverage of the specimen, yet the yield is very large. I send you the result witha sample of the silver extraeted. Lhave worked nights to complete the analysis inorder to send it early. IT will make a second aualysis. Rien Rock.—The Nevada Transcript of December 26th has the following notiee of sulphuret rock : We saw yesterday some fine specimens of salphuret rock trom the Fellowes lead, on German bar. The rock was nearly all sulpbnrets, and is said to be extremly rich. Free gold was sticking ont in many places, but the sulplurets are what are relied on. The rock yields but moderately under the stamps. The lead, we learn, has reached one of its thin places where it is mostly of the character of the speelinens we saw and is far richer than it is in the thicker parts. This lead is well known for its almost fabnlons pock ts, from one of which George Fellowes took more than a hundred thonsand dollars two years ago. All the rock will pay for crushing and in some places the lead is fifteen feet thick. When it ig taken into consideration that now and then a rich pocket is struck, and that the snlphnrets whieh exist in the rock iu large qnantities are worth from fifty to as many thousand dollars per ton, it will be generally snpposed that snch a lead ought to be ainong the payiug ones of the land. Larcr Hamner Castinc.—At the Onseburn En-. giue Works there has been cast a large frame for a stean-hammer, on Mr. Robert Morrison’s patent. The pit forthe same was 45 feet long, 24 feet wide, aud 12 feet deep, and required about 55 tons of metal, 28 tons of which were held in a large air-furnace erected for the purpose, and the remainder in two ladles. The running of the metal occupied five minutes and nine secouds. ‘fhe whole of the opcrations -were under theable management of Mr. J. Tnrnbull. and were snecessfully carried out. A number of ladies and gentlemen were present during the casting.—Neweastie Daily Journal, about Nov. 1st, 1863. A Sydney paper states that two diamonds have res

The Biining and Seientitie Press. The Lady Bryan Mine, The “Lady Bryan” is one of the earliest of the locations near Virginia City apart from the Comstock lode. he mine appears upon the surface like a vast pile of qnartz and porphyry about 150 feet in width and rising toa hight which would make a prominent land mark in a levcl eountry for many miles around. ‘I'his miue has had its frequent “ups aud downs,” the chief of which, however, is its present movement. Within about a week after the late “strike” this stock advanced from $8 to $70 per foot—nearly 900 per cent. It has since receded and is now quoted at $40. We condense the following particulars with regard to the preseut discovery, from the local column of the Virginia Euderprise : Having heard that a rich mass of ore had been struck in the mine—we were anxions to see it for onrsclf and examine its quality and, so far as possible, its extent. It was expressly for this purpose that we visited the mine. On arriving at the mouth of the tnnnel we found ten or twelve gentlemen from this city examining a quantity of ore that had been brought out of the mine and was now deposited at the mouth of the tunnel. Among these gentlemen we recognized some of the shrewdest operators in mining stocks and two or three men whose knowledge of ores aud tines, both scientific and practical, is not snrpassed by that of any person in the Territory. All were well pleased with the ores before them—in fact no person having any knowledge at all of silver ores eould doubt its richness. Altogether some tweuty tons ol ore have been bronght out of the mine. ‘The best of this has been sacked up, yet there is a large amount of excellent ore heaped up on the dump. We picked ont several lumps of black sulphnret ore that were as fine as any that can be found in the best of the mines in this city on the Comstock lead. In company with halfa-dozen gentlemen who wished to see the spot frem which all tbis rich ore was taken, we entered the mouth of the tunnel 354 feet in length, but we did not follow it to the end. After proceeding the distance of 264 feet we came to a shaft 57 feet in depth, which it was necessary for us to descend. We were lowered to the bottom —here we found a drift about 18 feet in iength, following whieh to its end we came to a cross-cut, and bere it is the ore was fonnd. ‘I'he opening from which the ore we saw above was taken is 19 feet long, some six feet high, and on the average seven feet in width. Here, on both sides of the drift, in the end and overhead, we found ore of the same quality as that we had seen above in sacks and heaps. A mining engineer, whose name we did not learn, was with onr party in the drift. He and others of the party, with pieks and sledges, broke down the ore from all yarts of the opening in which we stood, and after thus examining the sides and top, we shoveled away the loose dirt and rock in two or three pluces. and thoroughly examined the bottom by digging out Inmps of the ore. We think every person present was perfectly satisfied with the evidences of wealth visible ou every side ; and we have no right to suspect any one of the dissimnlation who saw these things, and seeing them, acknowledged a belief in them. We can say no more of the extent of the deposit of ore we have been describing than we have already said. ‘There may be a thonsand tons in this Spot, or there may not-be over a hundred or two. But it is qnite certain that having found what they hnye the eompany will find other deposits below it, or at other points along the lead. On coming out of the mine, we took a look at the hoisting works. The building is 60 by 24 feet in size and is substantial in every respect. ‘The engine is of 30 horse power. ‘Lhe pnmp ts of S-inch hore and five-foot stroke. A good deal of water is coming into the main extraction shalt which is now 180 feet in depth. About 100 gallons per minute. These hoisting and pumping works, with buildings andall complete cost the company $20,000. The machinery is all in perfeet. condition and well put. up. The machinery was first started about 70 days ago. At the house of the Superintendent we were shown a fine collection of specimens from the mine. In one of these uative gold was visible and two or three small bits of wire silver. In another we saw a number of scales of pure leaf silyer—precisely similar to what we have seen in rock iu the Gould & Curry. The mine is under the superintendence of Mr. James 11. Owens, who erected the machinery and brought the whole mine to its present promising ae nssisted by his efficient foreman, Mr. James pie. A fine stream of water runs from the mine— . Pos® county. amply sufficient for the mill, Wood may be floated down the Carson to a point but a few miles distant from the mill. In short, we like the prospects of the company. As for the salting, we are ready to answer that all the salting that has been done in the mine is the work of the Almiglity. Tue largest clean-up ever made from one day’s run of the Gould & Curry mill, was on the 23d instant. The weight of nnretorted amalgam taken out was 3,555 pounds. This will make about one-fifth that weight in bars, and is worth in the neighborhood of $20,000. on This company is making another of its characteristic “improvements.” The eompany is bnilding a large, stone culvert, below the mill, whicb is to be several bundred leet in length, and some immense blocks of ranite are being used in its construction. These are hoisted aud lowered into their places by ineans of two hnge derricks. A large nnmber of men are engaged on this wall, which is some six to eight feet high by four in thickness. ‘he drain is several feet in width and will carry all the water of the ravine. Go ro Work.—The idea of “respectable employment” is the rock upon which thousands split, and shipwreck themsclves and all who depend on them. All employments are respeciable that bring honest gaius. ‘I‘he laborer who is willing to turn his hands to anything ig as respectable as the clerk or dapper

store tender. Indeed the man who is ready to work whenever work offers, whatever it may be, rather than lie idle and beg, is a far more respectable man than one who turns up his nose at hard labor, wearies his friends with his eomplaints because he can get nothing respectable to do, pockets their benefactions without thankfulness, and goes on from day to day, a useless, lazy grumbler. Corsiso Mixers in Rovurr ror Lake Surrrior.— The Detroit Commercial Adveitiser of September 5th, says : “Seventy miners, just from Cornwall, England, left this city last Saturday for Lake Superior. About the same number passed up on the Saturday previons. They will no doubt be followed by others. The demand for labor is so great in the Upper Peninsula that all who migrate thither will be sure of ciuployment.” A Locomotive Exarnk will carry two hundred tonsn at acost of fwel scarcely excceding the cost of corn. and hay which a pack mule consnmed before the locomotive was invented, in conveying a load of three hundred weight an equal distance. ‘The saine difference of eost womld be saved the community by using steam engines upon city railroads instead of horses, aod every saving of cost is so much capital set free to enploy more labor, and add to the general accumulation of wealth. Extexpise tak Arsenais.—The Boston Hera‘d says that Governmeut is considering a project to extend the area of the Watertown (Muass.) Arsenal, now one of the most important Government works in the country, 81 as to inelnde a fonndry for the casting of cannon, etc. Within the past few months carriages for field-pieces, made altogether of iron, have been manulactared at the arsenal. =" Crrosrs Ir.—The Imboldt Register opposes the ratification of the Constitution, on the ground of its conrpelling the taxation of possessory rights to mines in the Territory. Ayorner Warriquakn.—There was another vigorous earlhqnake at a quarter of three on ‘Puesday morning. A wasoy at. Harrisburg, Penn., while dressing a block of stone, found a larg: petrified rattlesnake iuside. Prorto-scunrturs is a recent fashion of Paris. Statuetts in plaster, execnted to tbe life, are becomiug as eommonas photographs. Narure, foresecing that her children would be tampering with minerals, hid them in the earth, and covered them with herbs and plants, as fitter for their nse. Quartz Mru1.—A fine twenty-stamp mill, constructed in Stockton, was shipped from that city a few days siuce, en voule for the Crown Lead, Maticently been found in the mines. Hone Fire.—An attempt was made on the 29th of November to lannch the iron-clad Dictatur, at New York, bnt without success. A large eoncourse of spectators was present, when, at 11 o’clock the workmen commenced to wedge out the blocks and clear ont the iron-clad for launching. In fifteen minutes the ship began to move slowly down the ways under the influence of a powerful hydraulic ram, bnt she soon ceased to move. Steam iugs were then cmployed, but failed to move her. ‘The failure is attributed to tbe settling of the ground, the undulation ol the launching-ways, and the defective compositiou of the tallow used for lubrieating the ways. The meu had worked most of the night cutting away the shores, but when they knocked away the props in the morning the obstinate Dictator only moved a few inches, and then settled down again. A powerful hydraulic purher of 425 tons power, and a swinging ram handled by 50 men, were applied to the bows and launch-ways without producing the least effect. Astrong manilla hawser was next made fast to the eye-balls and bits on the stern, and run out a couple of steam tugs on the river, but the team of steamers could not budge the iron ship. A third, fourth, filth, sixth, seventh and eighth were fastened to the towline, and they pulled and puffed, and strained and jerked, to Ilttle purpose, and after two hours’ hard work it was fonnd that the state of the tide, which had fallen, niade it necessary to postpone any further attempts nntil mre power could be applied. ‘The Dictaloy was the next day started some four feet by the aid of several tngs, and stopped. ‘The launch was finally accomplished on the 26th of December. Tue Laxr Suverion Swver Mines.—The miners in the vicinity of Marquette, Lake Superior, are wild over the ricb deposits of silver in their neighborhood. In one locality it was believed that filty tous of ore could be got out ina week. ‘The veins are said to be generally well defined, and of a character to be easily mined. The latest advices from these miues appear to fully contirm previous acconnts of the richness of the newly discovered veins. A letter, dated October 26 from S. H. Douglass, Professor of Chemistry in the Michigan University of Aun Arbor, who had receiyed some of the ore for assay, concludes as follows :— “It contains 3.26 pcr cent. of pnre silver, or upward of sixty five pounds of silver to the ton of ore. [suppose that I took anaverage of the specimen, yet the yield is very large. I send you the result witha sample of the silver extraeted. Lhave worked nights to complete the analysis inorder to send it early. IT will make a second aualysis. Rien Rock.—The Nevada Transcript of December 26th has the following notiee of sulphuret rock : We saw yesterday some fine specimens of salphuret rock trom the Fellowes lead, on German bar. The rock was nearly all sulpbnrets, and is said to be extremly rich. Free gold was sticking ont in many places, but the sulplurets are what are relied on. The rock yields but moderately under the stamps. The lead, we learn, has reached one of its thin places where it is mostly of the character of the speelinens we saw and is far richer than it is in the thicker parts. This lead is well known for its almost fabnlons pock ts, from one of which George Fellowes took more than a hundred thonsand dollars two years ago. All the rock will pay for crushing and in some places the lead is fifteen feet thick. When it ig taken into consideration that now and then a rich pocket is struck, and that the snlphnrets whieh exist in the rock iu large qnantities are worth from fifty to as many thousand dollars per ton, it will be generally snpposed that snch a lead ought to be ainong the payiug ones of the land. Larcr Hamner Castinc.—At the Onseburn En-. giue Works there has been cast a large frame for a stean-hammer, on Mr. Robert Morrison’s patent. The pit forthe same was 45 feet long, 24 feet wide, aud 12 feet deep, and required about 55 tons of metal, 28 tons of which were held in a large air-furnace erected for the purpose, and the remainder in two ladles. The running of the metal occupied five minutes and nine secouds. ‘fhe whole of the opcrations -were under theable management of Mr. J. Tnrnbull. and were snecessfully carried out. A number of ladies and gentlemen were present during the casting.—Neweastie Daily Journal, about Nov. 1st, 1863. A Sydney paper states that two diamonds have res