Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-15
MINING NOTES.

The Eureka New Sentinel says that
there is more work being done in the mines
ON Prospect Mountain to-day .han at any
former period since the discovery of the
district.
The contract to complete {; sixty stamp
mill at the Great Mountain mine, Plumas
county, has just been let. The castings
are to be furnished by July 18th, and will
cost so, 500.
The Eureka Lesder has private letter
from Phoebe stating that all the works of
| the Raymond & Ely have been shut down.
The idea conveyed by the writer was that
it had been determined to abandon work
on the property altogether.
The North Bloomfield hydraulic mine,
Nevada county, is making regular ship
ments. which go to Nevada City under
armed guard. The mine yielded over
$300,00 last year, but this year the
weather was SO bad that the yield will not
be quite as heavy.
1t is rumorcd that a rich quartz ledge
has been discovered about % miles east of
the town of Union, says the Salem Or
Statesman, in the neighborhood of the cop
per ledge. If what we have been told is
true, it is by far the richest mine that has
ever been found in Eastern Oregon, and
will prove fortune to its discoveries. It
is reported that there are already over 100
men on the ground, all anxious to secure
claims. The stone is said to contain gold,
silver and cinnabar.
Report comes to the Quincy (Plumas
county, National that splendid strike of
blue gravel was made in the Spanish Peak
tunnel, now being run by the Chicago
Company, one day this week. The gravel
looks well, and what is better, prospects at
the rate of five cents to the pan. The man
ayers are highly pleased, as they have every
indication of monster blue gravel mine,
and if their anticipations are realized, their
| Chicago stockholders will be receiving
dividends before the season is over. They
are working force of about twenty men
and are pushing the work along rapidly.
A short time since, says the Austin
New Reucale, F. S. Stokes, of New York,
purchased the property Of the Victorine
| Mining Company at Kingston canyon,
about twenty-eight miles south from this
city. on the Smoky valley side of the
range, and set force of men to work at
once to develop the property. Last week
| G. N. FELTON,, of San Francisco, and John
| Kelly, of Comstock notoriety, visited the
property in company with Mr.. Stokes and
| thoroughly examined the mine But little
could be ascertained of their opinion, but
the fact that they offered large sum of
money for controlling interest therein is
sufficient evidence that they place high
estimate on its value. 1t is reported that
the offer made was $500, ZOO, but Mr..
Stokes declined to state what the offer
was, further than that he declined to &C.
cept it.
The term "Tenderfoot" originated in
Montana, and was applied by Californians
to immigrants from the States east of the
Rocky Mountains, who were generally
pilgrims who had followed an OK team into
the country. In return, the Tenderfeet
called Pacific coast people ''Other Siders ="
The same terms OF distinction are in use
in Leadville now. The Tenderfeet got a
foothold in soma camps in Montana, and
as they hated the Other Siders cordially,
one OF the latter had a poor show in a camp
occupied by a majority of the former. The
| Missouri Tendcrfeet were mostly the leav.
ings OF Prices army, long haired, wicked
looking citizens, and they were very
wicked hen there were about twenty of
them to one Californian. Ii they were first
in gulch they would not allow Califor-
mans to prospect in it, if they could help
| it, and at the entrance of such gulches it
was quite common to see the sign: "No
luther siders aloud to prospeck in this
Gulche.
d. Il. jackson, who returned day or
two since from his copper mine in the
Walker river region, informs the Virginia
| (Nev.) Enterprise that through that region
they find all manner of minerals, some of
which are strange to them. Among the
new metals reported is tin. The tin was
found by Cornish miner, who has had
ten years experience in the tin mines OF
Cornwall. This man says the ore IS no.
only tin, but also ore of excellent quality.
In another place they have found vein Of
quartz which shows gold and silver and
some other metal unknown to the miners.
In the same nei ghborhood IS small copper
vein, in parts Of which are streaks and
pockets Of pure sulphur. This sulphur is
so free from extraneous matter tHat when
lighted with match lump of it burns
until entirely CONSUMED. Altogether this
region would seem to DC a regular pros
pector's paradise. Though copper is the
predominant metal, there are, in addition
to the metals mentioned above, nickel,
cobalt, lead, zine, iron and several others.