THE COMSTOCK MINES. 



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of ore-bearing quartz, whose peculiar features have been ah'eady described 

 and the extraction of which is the object of the miner. 



The extent to which the vein has been clearly traced, and on which min- 

 ing claims have been located, is about four miles. At either extremity of this 

 ground, however, and particularly on the north, the vein has been but little 

 explored and has not been thus far proved to be very valuable. Its developed, 

 and, so far, productive portions, are included within about two miles, and within 

 these last named limits the ore-bodies have been found to occur in disconnected 

 groups, separated from each other by long intervals of barren ground. 



Mining Claims. — The following is a list of the mining claims located on 

 the course of the lode as far as its continuity has been traced with any 

 certainty. It gives the length of ground claimed by each company or indi- 

 vidual owner, beginning at the north and proceeding towards the south: 



List of Muling' Claims on the Comstock Lode.'^ 



Name of company. 



Length of 

 claim in feet. 



Name of company. 



Length of 

 claim in feet. 



Utah 



Allen . 



Sierra Nevada .... 



Union 



Ophir, (North mine) . . . 



Mexican 



Ophir, (South mine) . . . 



Central'^ 



California^ 



Central No. 2^ . . . . 



Kinney 2 



White and Murphy ^ . . . 



Sides^ 



Best and Belcher .... 

 Gould and Curry .... 



Savage 



Hale and Norcross . . . 

 Chollar-Potosi .... 



Bullion 



Exchequer 



Alpha 



Apple and Bates .... 

 Imperial, (Alta) .... 



1,000 



925 



1.959 



500 

 1,200 



100 



200 



150 



300 



100 

 50 



210 



500 



250 

 1,200 



771 

 400 



1,434 

 940 

 400 



278K 

 31K 



118 



Bacon 



Empire, (North min^ .... 



Eclipse 



Trench 



Empire, (South mine) .... 



Plato 



Bowers 



Piute 



45 



55 



30 



20 



20 



10 



20 



20 

 * 



30 



21' 



65rs 



50 



130 



40 



943 



93K 



540 



940 



160 



1,200 



2,000 



2,000 



Winters and Kustel .... 



Consolidated 



Rice Ground 



Imperial, (South mine) .... 



Challenge 



Confidence 



Burke and Hamilton .... 



Yellow Jacket 



Kentuck 



Crown Point 



Belcher 



Segregated Belcher 



Overman 



North American 



Baltimore American .... 



Report of R. H. Stretch, State Mineralogist of Nevada, 1866. " Virginia Consolidated. 



