The hydraulic press., 1859-07-16
THE MINES.

up recently. The Eureka Company lately
commenced washing through their tunnel
and took up the encouraging sum of 1881.
The Knickerbocker Company recently took
out 81, l,22l; the Britannia Company $1,000
the Sailor Company S2,O4s; and the Bloom
er Company $3,ol4. The claims of the last
mentioned company affords specimens OF
very rich looking bedrock. The Winham
Bros. have sold their interest in the lower
end of the hill amounting to about four
claims in all, with tunnel interest ETC., for
$16,5OO.
At Junction Bluff McKeeby & Co. are still
making their usual weekly average of 81 900
or ST, 200. Two pans of their bottom dirt last
week prospected the handsome amount OF
Sic. The Badger Company, adjoining took
out at their last clean up 1923.
At Grizzly Hill, some parties who were
running drift in the Philadelphia claims,
for the purpose of bank-blastlng, struck dirt
in which they could see gold. The owners
of these claims have been to heavy ex-
pense in opening them for washing, and this
indication of rich ground is very cheering.
The strike of the Columbia Hill miners for
a reduction of the price of water to fifteen
cents, still continues, and several who held
aloof from participation in it have lately
quit work Claims are held over, without
liability to dumping, until such time as
the object of the strike is achieved. It has
now lasted about three months
From every part of the Ridge, especially
from Cherokee to French Corral, we hear
the most fattering reports of the gold dig
gings. All companies that are washing are
making money, or soon will be. 1t is impos-
sible to procure regular statistics of the
weekly yields, and even such as we have
presented from time to time, do not convey
an adequate idea of what is really going on
in the profile and populous section which
comprises Bridgeport township, not to men
ton adjoing districts. Within circuit of
eight or ten miles about North San Juan,
there are eight or ten mining towns, each
the centre of productive diggings and con-
tanning in the aggregate an actual working
population of probably not less than fifteen
hundred or two thousand, divided, perhaps,
into not less than five hundred mining COM
panies. Now if only half of these are wash
ing, the. task of collecting regular statements
of their receipts, singly or in groups, would
be impossible of accomplishment, even to a
person making that his only business. Be-
sides this, there are many who do not like
they are not large and more because they
are. Consequently, the statistics which a
newspaper is enabled to give, must be rather
meager and inadequate The diggings naer 81
est the place ofits publication will, ofcourse,
be most fully and truthfully represented, be-
cause information concerning them is more
accessible.
These remarks are made by way of ex-
planation, not only to contemporaries who
copy our mining items, but to our readers in
adjoining towns. We will gladly publish all
the information we can obtain, and the more
the better, and wish to do full justice to the
resources of every locality; but can not do
this unaded. IF some competent person in
every district would take the trouble to for
ward occasionally brief, clear statements
relative to the mining interests thereabouts,
the publication of such statements would be
exceedingly advantageous both to the mer-
chant and miner The market value of
claims would be enhanced, and capital
would be attracted to eur midst in search
of permanent and profitable investment.