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scribed in the foregoing pages. The ore-bearing quartz is from two feet to 

 two inches in width, sometimes pinching out altogether, leaving only a small 

 clay-seam between the walls of the fissure. The ore-seam, though generally 

 narrow, is composed of rich silver-bearing minerals, associated with less base 

 metal than is found further to the northwest. Thus far the productive por- 

 tion of the ground has been altogether westward of the incline, that is, be- 

 tween the incline and the northwest boundary. Some exploring levels have 

 been driven to the southeastward, but, so far as the writer is informed, they 

 were quite unproductive, the vein being pinched up and barren. 



West of the incline the ground has been almost entirely stoped out from 

 the 350-foot level up to the surface ; the average value of its milling ore is 

 said to have been about $175 per ton. At 350 feet depth in the incline, the 

 vein was cut ofi" abruptly by a "slide" or cross-vein, having nearly a north and 

 south course and dipping to the westward. As the continuation of the vein 

 in depth was supposed to be in the ground above, the incline was driven on, 

 but at an angle approaching more to the horizontal, dipping about 15 degrees, 

 and at a distance of 40 or 50 feet from the slide the ledge was recovered, and 

 followed thence for 30 or 40 feet further, when it was again cut ofi", and had 

 not, when last visited by the writer, been found again, although the incline 

 had been carried down 30 or 40 feet in its search. The vein between these 

 two faults had been explored somewhat, and found to be ore-bearing, but not 

 so productive as it had been above the shde first encountered. 



The operations at the incline were conducted with but a small outlay for 

 machinery or buildings. A small engine, eight-inch cylinder and sixteen-inch 

 stroke, performed the whole of the hoisting, being set up at the mouth of the 

 incline and driving by friction-gear a small winding reel. The water, of 

 which there was considerable, was removed by a tight box-car, fitted with a 

 valve in the bottom in such manner as to allow the car to fill when lowered 

 into the sump and bring its load to the surface. According to the quarterly 

 returns of the assessor of Lander County, the product of this mine from July 

 1, 1865, to September 30, 1868, had been about 975 tons of ore, averaging 

 nearly $175 per ton in coin, or a product of about $170,000. 



The statements of the superintendent show that the mine, though small, 

 has returned profits to its owners very liberally in proportion to the amount 



