The Dead Broke,The Fool Hardy,
The Rip Snorter,The Ousel Owl,
The Love's Despair,The Grab Game,
The Ragged End,The Riff-Raff.

"The titles to all these claims are perfect, and the purchaser of any claim will have no difficulty whatever in holding on to it."

I hope it will not be inferred from the desponding tone of my narrative that I deny the existence of silver in Washoe, for certainly nothing is farther from my intention. That there is silver in the Comstock Lead, and in great quantities, is a well-established fact. How many thousands of tons may be there it is impossible for me to say, but there must be an immense quantity—beyond all calculation in fact, as the ore is scattered all around the mines in great heaps, and every heap is said to be worth a fortune if it would only bear transportation to San Francisco at an expense of $600 per ton. The best of it is sorted out and packed off on mules every day or two, partly to get the silver out of it, and partly to show the speculators in San Francisco that the mines have not yet given out. The yield per ton is estimated at from $1200 to $2500. During the time of my visit to the mines but little work could be done on account of the number of speculators who were engaged in trying to sell out, few of them being disposed to engage in the slow operation of mining. Some said it was on account of the weather, but I suspect the weather had very little to do with it. The following is a rough estimate of the companies who claim to hold in the Comstock vein:

Billy Choller1820feet California250feet
Hill and Norcross250" Welch and Bryan50"
Goold and Curry300" Central (again)150"
Savage800" Ophir200"
Washoe1200" Mexican10"
Belcher and Best223" Continuation of Ophir1200"
Sides Ground500" Newman, Scott, & Co.300"
Murphy100" Miller Co.3000"
Kinney60" Bob Allen and others900"
Central100"

MOUNT OPHIR.