Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-16
MINING NOTES.

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Ten miles of the new Miocene ditch,
Butte county, are completed.
Bowers Flat, FL Dorado county, is be-
coming lively mining camp.
The Butte tMontana) Miner reports the
collapse OF the lago mining excitement
\ large quartz nugget, rich in gold, was
recently picked up near Capay valley.
Yolo.
The rich copper mines of Railroad dis
trict, Eastern Nevada. are being pros
pected.
d. F. Lea has located silver mine ON
Putah creek, which averages from 800 to
$500 ton.
The Orc mine of Mono county has been
assessed 50 cents per share, delinquent
August 10th.
The Mono Mining Company have levied
an assessment OF 81 per share, delinquent
August 18th.
The new town in Mule pass, near Tomb
stone, Arizona, is called Bisbee. The mines
there are copper.
The Mexican Mining Company have
levied an assessment of 81 per share. de
linquent August 10th.
On Scott and Klamath rivers the water
is slowly receding, and the river miners
anticipate getting into their river claims
shortly.
One hundred and eighty men are en-
ployed ON the McMorris, Silver Nugget
and Richmond mines, in Richmond basin.
Arizona.
Assays made from samples brought in
from the new discovery in Ruby Hill dis
trict, Nevada, showed its value to be over
81, GOO per ton.
The Express has been shown some speci-
mems of silver ore, obtained about sixty
miles east of Steilacoom, W. II. A party
is going to prospect the lead
Almy, Wyoming, is an important coal
mining district. Several hundred men are
employed. The Central and Union Pacific
Railroad Companies own most of The
mines in this region.
The workmen in the Centennial Com
pany have succeeded in getting into the
claim at Centennial Bar, Klamath river.
and will soon be taking out pay gravel
from the rich channel struck last fall when
obliged to quit work on account of high
water.
The Portuguese miners ON Cherry creek.
Siskiyou county, are still doing very good
business at mining, notwithstanding the
water is getting short. They have several
large tight reservoirs, and save every drop
coming down from the mountain tops ON
each eide and at the head OF the creek.
At the head of the Animas river, lin Col
orado, there is smooth, bare slope of
bright yellow rock, the summit of which is
l3, 200 feet high. This is California mount
ain, and on the crowning ridge stands the
Nevada cabin, house above the clouds,
built of the yellow rock of the mountain.
II was built in 1876. Numbers of mines
are now located clear to the summit of this
mountain.
At Greenwood, El Dorado county, dur
ing last week, Lewis Sites struck a rich
ish Dry Diggings from which he has oh
tanned $40 to $50 to the pan. with goc-
hopes of continuance, and il the Call
CHER quartz mine, between Greenwood and
Georgetown, about $500 was obtained in
few hours. 1t remains to be determined
whether this pocket is of any extent.
The San Francisco Copper Mining Com
pany recently SHIPPED to the Bag l,072
bars of copper from their mine and reduc-
tion works at Spenceville, says the Nevads
City Transcript. The copper is OF com
mercial fineness, isput up in Lake Superior
shape, about eighteen pounds to the bar.
The company has the right TO claim the
! first production OF commercial copper on
the Pacific coast direct from the ore.
| a mine has been discovered somewhere
near the head OF White river, distance
of about thirty-five miles from Delano..
Kern county, out Of which a sufficient
quantity of gold and silver ore has been
extracted to give good general idea of it's
merits, the result being as follows Gold.
per ton, So silver, S235, and copper, u
per cent. Besides this, the vein is three
feet in BREADTH runs north and south, an0
pitches at an angle of 40 degrees west.
The New York Ninjpg Journal reno,ts
474 mining companies Of these 400 are
recent interpretations. The amount of
capital is represented by the colossal
figures Of SLIGO. 600, 900. Of this vast
picture-for it is nothing else-about
$500, 600, 600 is embraced by the Bonanza
and one or two other Nevada mines, and
some foreign companies. The remaining
81, 400, 600, 600, or thereabouts, has for its
basis about so, 900, 900 of real capital in
vested, and about az much more in actual
mines, land, machinery and ore in sight.
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