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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DAILY HERALD.]
Present and Prospective Value of the Virginia Mines—The Occidental—Early Failures—Present Success—Total Yield $700,000—Fifty-six men Employed in the Mine—Immense Quantities of Eighteen-Dollar Ore—A New Mill to be Built at the Mouth of the Mine—Profits from Five to Eight Dollars per Ton—Bright Prospects for the Future.
VIRGINIA, March 20th, 1869.
Now that White Pine is looming up in all the vastness that distance and consequent vagueness give; when the East and the West are pouring into that new El Dorado their thousands of... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA CITY
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
Big Blast of the Sierra Nevada—Prospects of the Mine—The Ophir Mine—The Gould and Curry Mine—The Drama—White Pine Excitement Decreasing—Unfavorable Reports.
VIRGINIA, April 2, 1869.
The big blast at the Sierra Nevada mine was let off at 10 A. M. to-day and did splendid execution, throwing down and loosening hundreds of tons of rich ore in which free gold is seen quite plentifully besprinkled. The bullion from the last clean-up is retorted and at Wells, Fargo & Co.'s for shipment to San Francisco to-night. There are two... |
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LETTER FROM GOLD HILL.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
The Gold Hill Mining Calamity.
GOLD HILL, April 7th—8 P. M.
The fire which was discovered in the Yellow Jacket mine at 7 o'clock this morning, and of which you have received a full telegraphic account, is not by any means quenched. It is still burning, and will most probably continue to do so to-night at least. The extent of it, however, is not great as yet. Firemen just out of the mine, and who have stopped down there during the past hour in the 800-foot level, where the fire is, say that it is about 250 feet south of the shaft,... |
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LETTER FROM GOLD HILL.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
GOLD HILL, (Nev.,) April 11th.—7 P. M.
The Great Mining Calamity.
I have just returned from a short round of inspection at the scene of the disaster. The boilers of the hoisting works are still sending heavy volumes of steam down the shafts of the Yellow jacket, Kentuck and Crown Point, each one of which is as tightly closed as possible, yet considerable of the hot vapors from below escape through the surface timbering and chinks not easily got at or stopped. That from the Yellow Jacket is strongly impregnated with gas and light... |
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LETTER FROM GOLD HILL.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD]
GOLD HILL (Nev.,) April 18th—8 P. M.
The Situation.
The Yellow Jacket, Kentuck and Crown Point shafts remained closed, in order to smother out the fire if possible, from last Monday night until yesterday forenoon, when the Yellow Jacket shaft was reopened and preparations made for going down into the mine once more. The Kentuck shaft was kept closed until 3 P. M. to-day, when it also was reopened. The Crown Point shaft is still tightly closed, although full preparations are made for reopening it, and steam is up in the hoisting... |
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LETTER FROM GOLD HILL.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DAILY HERALD.]
GOLD HILL (Nev.), April 23d—8 P. M.
Still Burning.
In spite of the most active and strenuous means adopted to extinguish that obstinate fire which has existed in our mines for over two weeks, it is still burning, and in reality the prospects for getting entirely rid of it immediately are not especially encouraging, even now. Water and steam have been alternatively used to as good effect as possible, but the grand difficulty still is to get a fair rake at the enemy. It has been extinguished in several places where found, but... |
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LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DAILY HERALD.]
VIRGINIA, April 27, 1869.
All About Imagination.
In the Gold Hill News of last evening the local editor refers to the statement contained in my letter of April 12th, that sixty kegs of blasting powder were sent down the Yellow Jacket shaft and placed in the Kentuck magazine the day before the late terrible disaster, characterizing it as "wildly imaginative." The principal editor of the News had previously alluded to my telegram of the same fact, but in language so indecent that I did not feel called upon to notice it.
As the... |
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LETTER FROM GOLD HILL.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DAILY HERALD.]
GOLD HILL (Nev.), April 29th—8 P. M.
Running Again.
I am happy to be able to state that work is again commenced in the three recently disabled mines of Gold Hill—the three principal bullion producing mines. A temporary drift connection was yesterday made through the caved debris in the east ledge, at the 700-foot level, allowing a free draft of air from the Yellow Jacket mine, through the Kentuck and out of the Crown Point shaft, just as it used to be before the great disaster. This directly had the expected effect to free... |
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LETTER FROM GOLD HILL.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
GOLD HILL (Nev.), May 7, 1869
To-Morrow.
All Gold Hill and Virginia are agog with high-flown patriotic anticipations relative to what the morrow is supposed to bring forth. The great silver spike of Nevada—which, together with the golden spike of California, are supposed to fasten the last two ends of the last two rail to the last tie, and thus complete the great Continental railroad connection—was hammered out and forwarded to the front yesterday, and Liberty Engine Company, No. 1, of Gold Hill, and Washoe Engine Company, No. 4,... |
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LETTER FROM GOLD HILL.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.]
GOLD HILL, (Nev.) May 16—8 P. M.
Sunday.
It is Sunday here at Gold Hill, same as in other portions of the Christian world, and we observe the day just as faithfully as any community where love—of God and love of the almighty dollar are ever contending with each other for the supremacy. A great many Gold Hillers go to church Sundays, and a great many more don't. We haven't got civilized up to the point, yet, of "shutting down" all the whiskey mills, any more than we do the quartz mills, but we keep on drinking and pounding away... |
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