San Andreas independent., 1857-06-06
Mining News.

cinity, furnishes US the following items
FREScH GULcH-This district is abundantly
supplied with water from the Table Mountain
Ditch From the road-crossing of the Gulch.
to the head, there are twenty-fonr claims which
pay more than wages each, to the hand emplov-
ed The claims of Messrs Bacon l. Co. Allen
& Co., and Bennett Co., are among the hest
The claim next to Frank Bacon 4 Co.'s (below.) J
is yielding more gold than any other in the
Gulch; three men ground-sluiced out twenty
ounces OF gold in three days. Rumor has it
that Bennett Il Co.'s claim yields pound of
gold per day. Mr.. Jackson's claim of the
jackson Ditch is paying handsome return
Mr. Dunbar, (who had his leg broke some time
ago by the caving in of bank, has an excel
lent claim; Henry Sheltons claim is not quite
so good but pays an ounce a-day to the hand
As general thing all the claims on the Gulch
pays wages-not claim of the twenty-four but
will average over half an ounce per day to the
hand employed. On the ridge that divides
O'Neil's Creek from French Gulch, are several
rich claims. They are in the south bank of
French Gulch, and the slope gives sufficient fall
to use the hydraulic process which has been
taken advantage Of
OLD GULcH.-This Gulch has been constant
ly and successfully worked every year since 40,
and yet pays good return to the discreet and
industrious miner The claim about-a hundred
yards below Osborn's store, which was long
abandoned, is now yielding over six dollars per
day to the hand. Up Old Gulch, from the
Camp clear to the head, miners are at work
and all doing well as far as Washington ranch.
The claims above the Table Mountain reservoir,
on the ranch, also pay wages; these claims
have free water which makes quite an item
added to the daily yield. On the ridge a little
below the reservoir, are several claims, which
use Table Mountain water, and as they are
worked with the hydraulic process are no
doubt doing WELL
CIsNA HnL.-This is newly discovered dis
trict, but as rich as any other in the county
The first claim is that of Messrs. Spencer &
Co., who are still prospecting and have taken
out only about 5000. Messrs Cornelius Smith
~ w., \llCA1 SIftlHiJ nlV plOcPOO1ihS III a. ouoiO
drifting, but as the water troubles them, their
claim cannot be worked without horsepower
pump, and that is too expensive for the yield of
the gold. They have sunk five holes which
will average 60 feet-the deepest is LOG feet
The hill will never pay much, unless tunnelled.
The tunnel would have to be run 1900 feet, at
an expense of $4,000, before gold would be
struck. Smith & Co. commenced tunnel, but
Spencer & Co. sunk shaft, when it was dis
covered that the tunnel was fifteen feet too
high to drain the mine, so they abandoned it.
The next claim is owned by the Cisna boys,
(Sirlisle Joseph and Enoch,) who originally dis
covered gold by sinking shaft l04 feet; the
gold is regular " lead gold" They then run in
a tunnel 80 feet-400 feet east of the shaft
and struck the gold. A Railroad track is laid
on the bottom of the tunnel, and all the dirt is
carried out on cars. From the tunnel runs
living stream of water, which is caught in
reservoir, where it is used for washing the dirt ;
further down there is another reservoir, to which
the railroad also extends, that admits of the
same water being used again, so that they have
sufficient water to wash all the dirt taken from
their claim. They have been getting out pay
dirt-an ounce to the car load-since last Feb
ruary. The tunnel is too high-on account of
fall in the ledge-by several feet; and they are
now engaged in sinking it two feet deeper
Smith Co. expect to drain their claim through
this tunnel, as soon as the Cisna boys get to
the line. The next claim is owned by Messrs
Osborne Edmonds & Williams, who took up
the claim on the strength of the prospect of the
Cisna claim. They run their tunnel into the
hill over two hundred feet, and struck pay-dirt
at the end of the first one hundred feet They
have drifted in every direction which pays
throughout about three ounces to four car
loads; the dirt is carried out at an elevation of
twenty feet, and cast into dumping box, where
it is washed from water out of the reservoir,
with the same facilities as the Cisna claim.
SPRING GULcH.-The New York Company are
doing first rate; what they are making we could
not learn-but all the claims down to O'Neil's
Greek are paying well.
SMITH GULcH.-On the east of Spring Gulch,
White h Co.'s claim has paid well, averaging
$40 per day to the hand Jerry Dill Co.'s
claim has averaged about the same and in fact
all the claims on the gulch, from the head claim
down to O'Neirs Bar, has averaged $40 per day
to the hand, during the winter Innumerable
small blind gulches, extend eastward from
Smith Gulch, where the claims are paying even
better than the above. One claim, worked by
an Italian Company, is averaging from Sl2 to
SIS per day to the hand.
Another gulch, running parallel with the
above has four valuable claims. The first claim
is worked by Mexicans who are ground-sluic-
ing and panning up the ledge. The next, below
is the claim of Messrs. Smith Co., (h-l roar
ing Smith, which is the best on the gulch, ex-
oant tba o,a od;o;n;n, ou-nod hy some French