San Andreas independent., 1857-10-03
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Mining News.

a few days ago we took n stroll round to
examine mining claims, and the prospecting
going on upon the old river channel which
passes through q Dog Point" and the north
side of town. The first claim we visited was
Crowly < Cos. This claim was originally ta-
ken up gulc claim, in ii. and has been
worked every year since. Finding no ledge,
rs in other places in the gulch, they continued
to work deeper each year; and the clains
below them were worked out, they ena-
bled to drain it by means Of tal-race, till
finally they worked down to a bed of lava
Last spring they prepared to work it properly
and thoroughly, by expending money and Ia
Dor in making a cart road, and stripping off
twelve or fifteen feet of talings and lava,
which laid bare the gravel and boulders in
the river channel. They are now working
everything clear before them, having sonic ten
or twelve feet of pay dirt, which they cart out
on the hill side and pile on sluices. prepared
for washing in the winter This company
works five hands, and are getting out a large
pile of dirt. which will amply repay them for
the time and money expended. They are we'll
deserving for the energy and enterprise they
have displayed in going TO work in proper
and sytematic manner.
The next claim above this is the old Dun
ning claim, which was worked three years by
drifting ont the best dirt. In the spring of 90
it changed hands, and the purchasers prepared
10 work it in different manner They COM
mcnced in the gnlch by removing piles of tail
fngs, that would have deferred many men,
stripping off heavy layer of lava, and sink
ing pump, to be worked by horse power, to
the bottom of the channel, when they were
prepared to work it with but little difficulty
Last year they carted out space of about
forty feet in length the whole width of the
channel, which is about sixty feet wide, and
the pay dirt ranging from six to fourteen feet
in depth This season, by working six hands
and running two carts, they have worked
about one hundred and fifty feet in length the
full width of the channel This is one of the
best worked claims, considering the difficult
ties encountered, that we have noticed any
where in the mines. They now have two
washing ten or twelve thousand dollars the
coming winter. This company will, this week.
clean up all the ground they have stripped
cn they will Suspend operations for this
Season. Where they are now at work, they
have to strip some twenty feet of top dirt
We then visited the claim of Marlette Cole
Il Co., higher up on the hill, aud on the same
lode. This is shaft claim. prospected last
summer The shaft is one hundred feet deep
At the depth of seventy feet the water came in
in such quantities that they were unable to
keep it out with the common windlass, and
were on the point of abandoning it, as others
had done, in the same vicinity. But having
faith, aud withal perseverance-one of the
best qualities for a miner to possess, next to
induStry-they rugged horse power, and the
best apparatus we have anywhere seen, for
hosting water and dirt. They sunk another
shaft near the former, to answer as water
shaft and by drifting around the first on the
rim, conveyed all the water into the second
shaft, leaving the first entirely dry. Shch en-
terprisng energy deserves to be rewarded. and
they have received it BY obtaining clainfh
will last several years, and from which they
have taken as high as three ounces to the pan
The ground next above Marlettc & Co. is
claimed by the Union Tunnel owned by Latz.
Attinclli, Marshall & CO. This tunnel was
started over two years ago, and the proprie-
tors have carried it on at heavy expense,
working almost necessarily, and portion Of
the time night and day. They have gone ii
on perfectly straight Inc, about four hundred
and fifty feet, through ledge, having to blast
nearly the whole distance. Last week they
struck through the ledge and cut into an old
shaft, which caved on them, filed up the back
part of the tunnel, and delayed them week
in clearing ont, They expect to have TO go
about one hundred feet further, when they are
almost certain Of striking rich nss dirt They