706 GEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE LEAD REGION. 



Richard Eustice & Co. These parties were working in a new locality, and had, at 

 the time they were visited, one of the handsomest displays of ore ever seen in the 

 grounds. The bottom of the shaft had penetrated an opening filled with soft earth. 

 The sides of the opening were lined with a body of ore which presented an unbroken 

 mass of cubic crystals of various sizes, some of them being as much as six inches on a 

 side, and of very perfect shape, affording very handsome cabinet specimens. There 

 was not less than 10,000 pounds of lead ore in sight, in a place about ten feet long. 

 This body of ore is known to continue several feet deeper to the drift below. These 

 diggings were worked until the fall of 1875, and produced in all 120,000 pounds. 



Rowe & Rowe. This is a new range, and was discovered in March, 1874. It is an 

 east and west sheet, in which the ore occurs in a crevice three or four inches wide, at a 

 depth of about 60 feet below the surface, and about 35 feet above the flint opening. 

 Work was suspended here in September, 1876. The total amount produced to that 

 time was 50,000 pounds. 



Richard Eustice' Diggings. Situated on the Phelps r,ange, shafts are 90 feet deep, 

 down to the clay openings. Length of drifts about 150 feet. The ore here occurs in a 

 sheet about an inch thick. The diggings were worked from June, 1872, to June, 1875, 

 and produced about 40,000 pounds. Near these diggings, and about ten feet deeper, is 

 an east and west sheet dipping to the north, carrying bunches of blende, which affords 

 quite handsome crystals. 



Manwaring and Madison Range. This is an east and west range, and is some- 

 times known as the Hinch range, from the name of a party who formerly worked it, and 

 by whom it was abandoned in 1858. Since the level has been run, the water has fallen 

 about 50 feet in this ground, and in December, 1873, work was resumed on it by Craw- 

 ford, Mills & Co., since which time it has produced 40,000 pounds of lead ore. The 

 shaft is down about fifty-five feet, or within six feet of the flint opening. Work was 

 suspended on it in June, 1875. 



John Edwards' Diggings. Situated a short distance further west on the same 

 range. A flat sheet of blende is found here in the second opening, at a depth of 80 feet 

 below the surface. The order of deposition here is : 1st, pyrite; 2d, galemte; 3d, blende. 

 During the winter of 1875-6, the product was blende, 10 tons; lead ore, 1,400 pounds. 



Bull Pump Range. This range was worked by Jackson & Co. during the years 

 1873-4-5, producing 90,000 pounds. Work was suspended here in the fall of 1875. 



Bininger Range. This range has Ijeen worked at intervals since May, 1874. It is 

 now worked by Stephens, Nankivel & Rowe; four men are employed, working -,vith a 

 horse pump in the second opening. During the present year the product has been 

 30,000 pounds. 



Big Pump Range. This range has been worked since October 1, 1876, by Rich- 

 ard Eustice & Co. A small amount of ore has been produced from the first opening. 



McCoy Water- Wheel Range. Work was recommenced here about August 1st, 

 1876, by Rowe & Son, in the first opening. 



Gates and Eustice. This party has been working during the last year and a half 

 on a range 200 feet north of the west branch of the level. The lead ore is found in a 

 flat sheet in the second opening. The opening is seven feet high and averages seven 

 feet in width. The sheet is about one foot thick. The product to the pr?sent time has 

 been 150,000 pounds. 



Clark's Diggings. Two men have been working during the last year in the range 

 next north of the McCoy Water- Wheel range. The ore is found as " chunk mineral " 

 in the second opening, which is here six feet wide. The product has been 30.000 

 pounds. 



Tregenza & Son. Work was commenced by this party in the fall of 1874, on the 

 Drybone range, south of the Badger lot. The works are in the second opening, which 



