Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-15
MINING NOTES.

A new quartz ledge, sixteen feet wide,
has been found on Sycamore creek, Fresno
county.
a 81 ounce nugget was recently washed
out OF the Iowaville hydraulic mine, Ell
Dorado.
A strike recently made in Hunters val
ley, Mariposa county, yielded $4,000 in a
few days
A quartz mill is soon to be erected on
the McCreight mine, near Albany Flat,
Calaveras.
The Sam Davis gravel mine, Forbes
town, Butte county, pays SIS so per day
to the man.
r Rock from the Orc Plata, Calaveras
county, averages S75 per ton by the chic
rine process.
Seam diggings are attracting much atten-
ton in the neighborhood of Spanish Flat,
Ell Dorado county.
A Chinaman, while mining at point on
the San Gabriel river, Los Angeles county,
washed out nugget worth S75.
Mountain Meadows placers, Lassen
county, are clearing up from Sl4 to SIG
per day for each man employed.
The Black Jack of Sierra has started a
new tunnel, and will put up another ten
stamp mill. They viii use concentrators
to save the sulphurets.
The Olsen mine, Tuolumne county. has
800 tons of ore on the dump. The Ala
bama is building a 40 stamp mill. Low
grade ore, but plenty of it.
The Ringoid, Placerville, has at last
been drained, and the old drifts are being
cleared out. But 3, 800 tons of ore has
ever been extracted, and it yielded $780,
600.
In Butte county, near 0roville, the Mi
nerva mine is thoroughly opened, and can
pat thirty tons of rock on the dumps daily.
Rock assays at least $50, and can be taken
out for 81.
At the Wisconsin, Yuba county, the
miners profess to be guided by spirit di-
recticns They cut the ledge at 80 feet,
and are now in barren rock, at depth of
l05 feet. and still going down.
Fred Diener of Deadwood district,
Trinity county, recently crushed pound
and half of rock from the Monte Cristo
mine, and obtained two ounces of gold, or
at the rate of s45, coo per ton.
The Deep-blue Gravel mine at Dogtown,
Calaveras county, will soon be in opera
ton. Several hundred inches of water are
already turned into the ditch, and every
thing is now in readiness for active opera
tions.
A rich gravel strike has recently been
made by two miners named Williams and
Knox in Burdette canyon, near Texas Hill,
in Placer county. As high as six ounces
of gold to the pan is taken from the bed
rock. 1t is new channel, containing
coarse gold.
At Sampson Flat, Fresno county, the
two new mines are the Shoot .the-cat,
ledge eight feet, low grade, and the EXPOSE
tor, ledge ten inches, high grade. The
miners are building road to Kings river.
The Monitor Company expects to build
three more araseras.
Richer than ever is the report from
the Prospect Flat mine, Ell Dorado county.
The ground now being worked is as rich
as the famous Bald Mountain of Sierra
county. 1t has long been the belief OF COM
petent judges that there is a large area of
fine gravel in that portion of the old chan
mel.
The placer claims at the east side of the
ridge are making good returns, says the
Bo;iie Free Press. A few days ago two
men with patent concentration cleaned
up about $780, and another party in a lit
tie longer time secured about $500. This is
very good wages, and if the water was
plentiful the amount OF gold secured would
be much larger.