Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-13
MINING NOTES.

Pierce & McDow's fve-stamp mill near
Susanville is in running order.
Butte creek mines, Butte county, are
preparing for work on an enlarged scale.
The Bay State mine, Bristol District, Ne
vada, has about 1000 tons of ore in sight.
Rich ore is being taken from the Com.
promise mine, Mill creek, Mariposa county.
The Boston hydraulic mine, Moore's Flat,
Nevada county, shipped S2l, 600 of gold re-
Gently.
Moore's mine, near Nevada City, has a
l0-inch ledge of ore assaying SlS9 in gold
and silver.
There is mine in Tombstone, Arizona,
called the Bloodsucker. Ithas been bondt d
for $40, 600.
DIR. Storms and G. L, Neatly, of Chico,
are prospecting ledge near Lovelock's,
Butte county, and have found rich ore.
Larry Hoge, an old Bodie prospector,
has discovered fve-foot ledge of high.
grade smelling ore on Mill creek, Mono
county.
Klamath river next year will give en-
ployment to several hundred miners, who
are certain of sure thing in gold finding
ON an extensive scale if the river is prop
erly wing damned and improved machin-
cry is employed to raise the gravel
About one and a half miles northeast of
Aurora, Nevada, ten claims have been loca-
ted aud recorded, and company formed
called the New Esmeralda Consolidation.
Several assays have been made of ore taken
from almost at the surface, ranging from
$40 up to as high as $40 per ton.
Sixteen men are employed at the Deer
Creek silver mine, Tulare county. The
owners have recently incorporated under
the name aud style of the Delano Gold
and Silver Mining Company. Pumping
machinery is being erected. The ore now
raised is worth about $500 per ton.
The Grass Valley Union says Since the
settling of the surface at the Spencerville
copper mine, several months ago, no more
ore has been extracted, but the manufact-
ure of cement copper has been going on.
The vein is very wide on No | level, which
is only so feet from the surface, and shows
width of over 100 feet in ore.
There is swelling clay in the Sutro tun.
mel south header. The men on one shift a
day or two since worked like Trojans, TAX.
ing out 40 ear leads of dirt, and az the end
of the shift the tunnel was not as long by
is inches as it was when they started.
The earth-which is an admixture OF clay
and bowlders-came out of the face of the
drift like pith from an alder.
Bonanza City promises to be the liveliest
camp in Idaho next year. Five mills will
be erected next spring, in addition to the
one now going up. The Custer Company
will put up 20stsmp mill to do custom
work. The Lucky Boy and Badger Com.
panies will each put up mill, and stamps
will take the place of the arastra at the
Charles Dickens. The fifth will go up
either on the Anna or Summit mines.
The fact of the coarse gold and nuggets
being found SO extensively in the bed of
the Klamath river, says the Yreka Sentinel,
also indicates that the various tributaries
between Scott river and Cottonwood must
also be exceedingly rich, as these rich de.
posits no doubt came originally from
Beaver creek, Barkhouse and other streams
heading into the Siskiyou, and from Shasta
river, Humbug creek and other streams
running down into the Klamath from the
Humbug range and the mountains west of
Yreka.
At Dryton, Amador county, the Cali
fornia Potosi mine is looking well, ard the
ledge continues to grow wider. Every
thing is lively about the Bunker HILL The
new shaft is down to the level of the old
one, $50 feet, and connection has been
made between the two. Twenty stamps
are running on good rock. The company
are rebuilding their old mill, and are pre-
pairing to add twenty more stamps also,
erecting a building for COLONIZATION works.
The sulphurets are to be worked according
to the Mear's process.