San Andreas independent., 1857-11-14

the road, ana has SpieiClIu appearance
with its large painted-red water-wheel
of 3tj feet in diameter, revolving like th,
wheel of fortune in the MONDAY sun )
the buckets of the wheel are sheet-iron-
and the machinery works as regular as i
clock. The mill, when finished, will have
II stampers, of 500fbs each, and will
cost, with fixtures, $4,000. Twenty tons
of rock, per day, will be put through
under the stampers.
I No. 5-Is a steam-mill, now running
owned by Messrs. Brcdie, Cameron, Light
ner & Co.; engine Is horsepower, bu
only use seven horsepower at present
The mill, with building, cost $4,000, and
has been very successful in its operations
Mr.. Brodie, the superintendent and ma
chinest, very politely showed us all the
mill and mine, and new Improvements.
The quaatz vein is ten feet, average, in
width, and the claim is $50 feet in length,
on the ledge, and 800 feet wide. The
mill has ] , stampers aud crushes from
fifteen to sixteen tons of rock per day
8 stampers running at a time, of 500fbs.
EACH This is the first mill that intro
duced the roasting proccss-to burn
out the sulphurets. The plan has been
abandoned, as too intricate and expensive.
The rock is taken from the mine on a
car, drawn up an inclined plane by the
mill machinery
No. 6-Is Il steam mill, belonging to
Mr.. A. p. Bouton, and is now running
8 stampers out of r. The engine is ten
horsepower only using six horse
power force. The mill cost SO 900, and
the rock is very rich and convenient to
the mill.
+ No. The Crystal claim is on the
south side of the gulch. We did not
note the extent or machinery of the claim
or mill, but will copy an account written
by the editor Of the Sonora Herutd, which
we are assured is true, in detail
"But the most remarkable feature about
Angers-a feature which makes it dissimilar
to all other towns in the Southern Mines-is
the existence of so many Quartz Mills in its i'm
mediate neighborhood. The putting of the en-
/ gines and the clatter of the machinery remind
one of the manufacturing towns of the Eastern
States. We were told that there are eleven
mills In and around Angels, some of which are
driven by steam power, Others by water wheels.
The most perfect of these mills is the one owned
by Benjamin CO., proprietors OF the Crystal
claim. This mill drives twelve stampers-
The machinery is all new, works admirably.
/ and everything about the establishment de-
notes perfect order. Revolving blankets are
used to catch all the fine particles of tailings
I as they flow out from beneath the stampers.-
At each revolution of these blankets the parti-
cleS adhering to them are washed into box
underneath, by the suction of the water in the
box, which is kept in constant movement. Mr..
Wentworth the superintendent of the mill, very
politely took us over the premises, showing
us specimens of the rock, and explaining many
things appertaining to the operations Of the
company. They are getting out rock from
shafts on the premises, some of which are al
ready sunk to Il depth of about one hundred
feet. Several different kinds ofauriterouS rock
are found in the same shaft, running in veins
close together. Sulphurets of iron are abun-
dainty intermixed in most of the rock, and gold
is found in connection with these suphurets.
Much of the rock shown us by Mr.. Wentworth
had gold in it visible to the naked eye. The
mill is worked night and day, keeping about
thirty hands employed, and crushing about fif-
teen tons of rock per day"
No. S.-Arastras, worked on the Mex
lean plan, by Messrs. Raspberry 4 CO., are
crushing rock from two different leads,
located on the south hill. They are now
working over old tailings, discarded in
their first operations, with sanguine hopes
of iemunerative pay. There are many
arastras running which we do not note,
and quartz claims unimproved, of vast
richness; one in particular, owned by Mr.
b. r. Coon, was shown us, just above
the mill of Lightner & Co., but it is not
our purpose, at this time, to speak of
! quartz rock and quartz claims in connec-
ton with the mills.
No. 9.-Below the town, on Angels
Creek, is the Specimen Hill Quartz Co. s
mill, now going up. The company has
twenty-four shares, with a cash capital of
$4,000, besides labor All the machinery
and castings are making in the Camp,
and the enterprise bids fair to be the most
useful and remunerative of any in that
region. The mill machinery is about half
finished-the building up and the mine
sufficiently opened to prove fair pros
pect IN business point of view. On the
facing of the excavation at the mill. we
noticed some very rich looking rock, full
of sulphurets, in ledge of thirty feet
wide, all of which will pay to work, and
ten feet OF which prospects 800 to the ton.
The company have $500 feet of ledge, in
length, and the usual width, to operate
on. The mill, &C., will cost SS, 900; the
water wheel is 30 feet in diameter and
8 feet breast, with over-shot power, Gall
the water-mills use oyer-shot wheels D
their wheel has about three times the
breast of any wheel in the Camp. The
wheel lifts 20 stamps of 500fbs. each,
and works all the other machinery of the
mill. The President of the company is
Mr.. Charles Scofeld, Mr.. A. A. Pollard,
Secretary.
No. los Nightingale, Davis & Co IS
mill, now going up; it is large mill, but
time did not allow us to visit it. 1t is
on the same ledge as the "Specimen
Claim 1t was incidentally told us that
this quartz ledge had been traced by a