Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-04-20


QuARTz.-On Monday last we visited the
quartz claim of Hnrchner, Grimm, Mayer s.
Co., located in the Middle Bar District. Not
withstanding the bad weather We have expe-
rienced during the Winter, this enterprising
company have pushed forward labor unre-
mittingly, and are rapidly developing what
bids fair to prove one of the richest and most
extensive claims in the district. The lead
which is sixteen feet IN width and clearly
defined between its walls of slate, prospects
remarkably we'll, and a sufficient quantity of
paying rock has already been uncovered to
warrant the company in the erection of the
mill which they intend putting up the COM
ing Summer. A tunnel one hundred feet in
length has been run directly on the lead, and
good judges inform US that the rock extract
ed will average $50 per ton. As the work
progresses and the tunnel is driven further
into the hill the rock increases in richness
and the lead in size, and the proprietors are
fully confident that they will be amply re-
warded for their expenditure and toll. In
addition to free gold. the rock is full of sui
phurets, which tests, both by assay and ac-
tual working process, have demonstrated to
be immensely rich. The energy and deter
mination which this company have exhibited
in surmounting the difficulties which present.
ed themselves in the prospecting of their
claim, fully entities them to the good fortune
with which their laNors have been rewarded.
Wesson & Co., whose claim is located in
the same district, have again resumed opera
tions. As their lead is worked through a
shaft, they were compelled to suspend labor
during the Winter. They have reached a
depth of fifty feet. and are taking out some
fine looking rock. As they go down, the
lead increases in width, and the indications
are fattering that their mine will prove to be
good one. The owners inform us that it
is their intention to continue their labors un-
til the value of the lode is fully determined.
If perseverance and determination meet their
just reward, this company will surely be
successful in their endeavors to procure
good claim.
Alexander, Seaver & Co, who for some
time past have been engaged in erecting a
mill on their claim in Rich Gulch, have COM
pleted it, and will commence crushing next
week. Their battery, which consists of ten
stamps, will be run by a "hurdy -gurdy'
water wheel, seven feet in diameter, and it is
calculated that the mill possesses a capacity
for working twenty tons per day. The lead,
which is known to the most of our citizens
as the "Old Rich Gulch lead" was worked
several years since by a company which then
owned it; but owing to defective machinery
and the ignorance of those who had it in
charge in relation TO quartz mining, it did
not pay and had to be abandoned The
gentlemen who now own it are thoroughly
practical quartz miners, and the machinery
which they have erected is of the latest and
most approved style, and possesses all the
modern appliances for saving the gold, and
there is no doubt but that under their SUI
pervision the mine will be made to pay
largely. As the weather may now be con-
sidered fairly settled and Spring opened
operations will shortly be resumed on all the
claims in this section. and greater progress
will be made, this season, in the development
of our mineral resources, than ever before.
CENTRAL COMMITTEES County Cen
tral Committee meets to-day, in San An
dreas, to determine when and where the
County Convention shall be held, and to
transact such other business as may come
before it. The calling of the State Conven-
ton at so early a date as the 18th of June,
necessitates immediate action on the part Of
County Committees. The County Conven-
ton must be held previous TO that of the
State, in order to choose delegates, and no
time should be lost by our Committee in
making apportionment and designating the
the time for holding the primaries. The
canvass will be long one, certainly but
sui early nominations will not be without
their advantages. The nominees will have
plenty OF time, and undoubtedly take inter-
est enough in their own election, to see that
every Union man in the county is registered.
If the nominations are not made bv the Con.
vention which will convene to elect delegates
to the State Convention, we shall he nut to
the expense and trouble of holding another
one. We do not know what action the Co,n-
mitree will take in the matter, but we can
see no good reason why all the business can.