Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-09
MINING NOTES.

Thirty miners are at work at Rich Bar,
Plumas county
The Mt. Auburn mine, Nevada City, has
| made rich strike.
New York Flat miners, Yuba county,
are making large clean-ups.
The New Merrifeld COLONIZATION works,
/ Nevada City, are now being built.
The strike in the Bell mine, Plumas
county, is said to continue to improve.
Mining prospectors are exploring the
Southern Sierra region in Kern, Tulare and
Fresno
Five tons of French. Gulch Shasta coun-
/ ty) quartz, crushed last week, yielded 63s
ounces of gold.
The Plumas Ditch and Water Company
has already cleaned up over $50, 900 from
their gravel mine.
Much mining property at Mosquito, Cal
averas county, has changed hands recently,
and active operations are expected.
At West Point, Calaveras county, g.
Hines and w. Marshall, lately struck a
rich quartz lode on Valentine Hill, which
prospects $50 per ton at a depth of forty
feet.
A very promising quartz ledge has lately
been discovered near the Mokelumne, in
Amador county, opposite the old Foot &
Thompson mine. The discoverer is mi
ner named Miner.
Minaret district is the last one organized
in Mono county. This district Immediately
joins Lake ON the north, and North Fork
and Mountain View on the south. Fresno
county men own many of the claims.
The Blue Tent Hydraulic mine, Nevada
county, is employing 100 men and using
8, 500 inches of water. The daily cleanup
is $1,000. This season they have bought
10000 pounds of powder and 600 pounds
of giant.
| / The old Casineau lode, West Point, Cal
averas county, has been giving good ac-
count OF itself. Carey & Derie have lately
struck good quartz under the old workings.
They have crushed about fifteen tons, which
paid $50 per ton.
The Daily Mining Meas says the recent
strike in the Empire mine of Utah is one
of the most important events of the sea-
son. 1t predicts that this mine will turn
out to be second Ontario. and thinks it
would be grand thing for Utah.
Two assays of ore from near Grindstone
Colusa county, have been made, the first
giving Sc 2S silver, from near the surface
and the last from one lower down, 50 gold
and IS cents in silver. Old miners who have
examined the vein are of the opinion that
rich developments will soon be made.
n A piece of ore weighing about fifty or
sixty pounds was recently taken from the
Excelsior mine, near Angels, Calaveras
county. 1t is composed almost wholly of
sulphurets of iron. No gold is visible on
the surface, but when exposed to the heat
for few hours, gold is plainly seen. Small
pieces broken off Of this huge specimen
have been assayed, with first-rate results.
Says the Trinity Journal. Red Hill is
one of the best mining regions on the coast,
but the limited supply of water keeps it
back and prevents much mining which
would otherwise be done in the district at
an immense profit. The claims now being
worked, all for which any water at all can
be obtained, are paying largely, and the
present season bids fair to prove a most
profitable one for the owners.
Much attention is at present being at
tracted by the Union quartz ledge, situated
about a quarter of mile from Forbes
town, Butte county. The main shaft is
down ninety feet and the management now
have gang of six men engaged in stopping
There are over fifty tons of rock on the
dump. Assays show the roc: to be quite
rich, going from $50 to $50 to the ton
Arrangements are pending for the erection
of ten-stamp mill.
| {. There are now number of very strong
companies being organized, which will
make vast developments within a few
months, says the Park City tUtah) Record.
These companies are not depending upon
Utah capital to back them, but have it
within themselves. They will not need to
sacrifice one-third or one-fourth of their
stock in order to obtain means to open up
their property. Hence little stir is made,
but their influence is felt all the same. I
4 TIE Beleher Consolidated mine is stu
ated On Deer Flat, one mile from Grove
land, Tuolumne county, and is one of the
early discovered mines in that district. 1t
is as promising as any in the county, iudg-
ing from the present showing vein of
good milling ore, averaging five feet wide
slate wall. A tunnel is on the vein several
hundred feet. 1t is more than probable
that new mill will be built the coming
summer to replace the one burned last year
1t is estimated that among the dead riv-
ers of California lying up 1000 or s, 600
feet above the sea, there lies treasure of
more than $500, 900, coo, the annual pro-
duct being uniformly about IS, 600, 600.
In one little spot in Nevada county there
has been taken out about Sl00 600, 600.
Some of these dead rivers have fall OF so
Feet to the mile, afording good opportuni-
ties for drainage, under currents, and all
the various modern appliances for saving
fine gold.
Says the Cotton (San Bernardiho county,
Semi 1ropic. Until lately the general sup
position ON the outside was that our min.
eral wealth was not large enough to ever
amount to very much. Ivanpah seemed
to be the only camp that promised promi.
nence. But within a few months prospect.
ing has been given grand impetus by the
discovery of several leads that promise to
be large and permanent. So far as pros
pecting has gone these expectations have
been fulfilled.
Speaking of the old Taylor mine, the
| Placer Herald says: This mine, located
little more than half mile south of Au-
burn, on the old Sacramento wagon road.
has fallen into new hands, who propose to
work it for all it is worth. VIM Foulks,
capitalist of New York, as we understand
it, is the party who is at present back of
the mine, and his son, ]. w. Foulks, is
personally experimenting operations at the
mine. New hosting machinery has al
ready been put up and is in operation. A
ten-stamp quartz mill has been purchased,
and will soon be put near the mine, when
business will be pushed forward earnestly
and systematically. After the mill is up,
stopping enough will be done to keep the
ten stamps in operation, but in the mean
time the main shaft, now something over
eighty feet deep, will be put down under
contract until the mine is thoroughly de-
veloped.
WONDERFUL EscAPE.-Professor Glen.
ent, ex-Superintendent of Public Schools
at Oakland, whose adventure with buck
was mentioned in the RECORD UNIONS
coast dispatches recently. has arrived at
his home, and is fast recovering from his
| injuries. In answer to the oft propounded
inquiry, How did you manage to fall
eighty feet and live % the Professor replies
as follows 1.-The few minutes was fall
ing seemed an age. / had review of my