Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-22
MINING NOTES.

A silver mine has recently been found
which assays S27, 600 to the ton It is in
the town OF Galena, Dakota.
The present fine weather is making a
stampede from Salt Lake to the mining
camps.
At Phillipsburg, Montana, May Stb, the
miners seized possession of the Trout mine,
so as to secure payment of their wages.
1t is said that quartz belt has been dis
covered near the Ute Reservation, from
which gold quartz has been taken assaying
as high as 1000 per ton.
The banks of Helena, Montana. are buy
ing quite freely of gold dust from the
placers adjacent. From 81, eco to SIS, eco in
the aggregate has come IN during the past
week.
A rich discovery has just been made at
Tinjas, forty five miles south of Silver City,
New Mexico, by prospectors who, it is
said, are staked by Chaffee of Colorado
Assays as high as 2, 700 ounces are reported
from the find.
Quartz prospecting along the Yuba river
is the order OF the day, says the Nevada
City transcript. There are within five
miles of Washington not less than fifty
large, well developed quartz lodges that
have never been prospected.
The deepest mine now being worked in
the world is said to be the Adalbert mine,
in Australia, which is worked with a per-
pendicular shaft $3.50 feet deep. This is a
lead silver mine, and has been worked with
profit for many years.
According to reports an effort is being
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duce miners wages. The pretext for the
reduction is that large quantities of low
grade ore, said to have been found above
the level of the Sutro tunnel, cannot be ex-
tracted without loss while wages are So a
day.
Cheering reports are coming in from
every mining camp and district in Utah,
says the Salt Lake Tribune With the
| biggest mines, the most extensive lodges,
there is nothing to prevent the Territory
from walking right ahead of Colorado and
taking the front rank among the great
mineral producers on the continent.
A resident of Napa, says the Register,
who recently visited the Great Western
! Quicksilver Mine, says that considerable
/ ore, nearly pure cinnabar, is berg taken
out. Enough is in sight to keep the furnaces
in operation fer two years. Some two or
three hundred men are employed, most of
them being Cinnamon.
Owners of mines in Meadow Lake Town
ship are very sanguine concerning their
prospects, says the Grass Valley Union, and
it is thought some valuable mines will be
developed in that section of the county
the coming summer. 1t is well known
that rich deposits exist in that district, and
if one-half the gold in the rock can be
saved it will pay handsomely.
So great has been the destruction of the
forests about Leadville, Col, that the fu-
ture supply for mining timber is becoming
serious subject. Already that obtained
has to be hauled long distances, and the
cost is becoming great drawback. A
Leadville paper says that good timber
ranch will soon be as valuable as mine.
A ton of gold or silver contains 30, I66 &c
ounces. A ton of gold is worth S602, SIS. |
A ton of silver, at the present rate per
ounce, is worth about $50, 000 A cubic |
foot of gold weighs eco pounds, and is
worth nearly $500, 600. A cubic foot of
silver weighs 600 pounds, and is worth
about $4,000. The value of gold coin,
bars and bullion in circulation in the world |
is estimated at So, 500, 100000. This
would make in a mass 25-foot cube.
The new smelling works of the San
Francisco Copper Mining Company at
Spencerville, Nevada county, are nearly !
completed. Mr.. Meyer, the President of
the company, visited the mine last week,
and expressed himself as more than salts
fed with the prospects. Within a short
time that section has attained much prom
inence because of the success met with by
the copper producing enterprises here.
The miners at Iowa Hill, Placer county,
are now all busily at work. The Hobson
recently cleaned up $4,000 to So, coo !
after three weeks run, using about 600
inches of water. The Homeward Bound !
had a cleanup about ten days ago, with |
but partial success. owing to the hard ma
ture of the ground and the consequent |
difficulty of saving all of the gold. They
got 81, 900. They expect to run until
about June LIST, when more satisfactory |
results are confidently looked for.
1t is being discovered that the Superior |
gold belt in the Wasatch is as extensive as
the great belt in Bingham, says the Salt |
Lake Tribune. 1t has been traced dis. |
lance of five miles and the groupings aver
age from five to twenty feet in width When
Brigham said he could stand in his harem |
doors and see more gold than the world |
could produce, people thought it an idle |
boast of bogus prophet, but the honest |
prespector is verifying the words of Brig |
and Salt Lake county is destined to be the |
largest gold field ever discovered
A few days ago man named Roy, EN-.
ployed on the old Ophir farm, near Bowers /
Mansion, says the Carson Appeal, plowed /
up quantity OF amalgam. 1t was found |
in canvas bag and weighed seventeen /
pounds. 1t probably came from some mill |
on the Comstock, at time when things
were managed rather loosely and men were
in the habit of proving about the place at
night, helping themselves to what stray
analgam they could find, and burying it
for safe keeping. 1t had the appearance of
having been buried for some time, and the
canvas was badly rotted. 1t was sent to
Virginia City to be retorted.
The Carson (Nev.) Tribune has the fol-
lowing in regard to Bodie Imagine Sacra-
mento city in lS50l-2; think, ye pioneers
of San Francisco, before and after the fires
of 1901, and go to those cities and see
them as they now appear, and some faint
idea you can form of Bodie as it is and
what in the future it must become
From what have seen of this wonderful
town | conclude that before another year
shall have passed away it will as far sur.
pass Virginia City in wealth and popula-
ton as does Virginia the town of DAYTON
at this time. The area of mining ground.
as far as developed, is at least mile
and half in length by nearly a mile
in width, and bids fair to far outstrip that
of the Comstock in dimensions and richness
of the mineral product.
The big lead pile at the Richmond Re-
inery is fast increasing in size, says the
Eureka New Leader, and now contains.
approximately, $500 tons of marketable
lead, which, at the price of 5 cents per
pound, would bring 1880, 600. 1t is prob
able, however, that the company will not
dispose of it for less than 8 cents, at which
figure 1t would return 1896, 600. With