Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-10
MINING NOTES.

! More mining patents have been granted
during the past six months in Utah than
In the entire preceding year.
1t is expected that quite an important
copper mining industry will spring up in
the Walker river region on the completion
| of the Bodie branch of the Virginia and
Truckee Railroad.
There is great excitement at present in
Lincoln county, New Mexico, over the re.
cent discovery of very rich mines of what
is known as wire field, and miners are
pouring in from every direction.
The new gold mine discovered about six
miles from Baker City, about month ago,
says the Oregon Statesman, has been pros.
pected off and on since 1864. It's richness
is now declared to be immense, while its
extent is as yet unknown.
The total shipments from Bodie District
from the period of its revival, in 1877, to
the present time are as follows 1877,
S797, ,022 so: 1878, 81, l29, 732 IS; 1879,
81, $50, S47 IS; and four months in 1880,
SS44, ll6 81. Total product to date, Sc,
1927, 1895.
The foothills of Ell Dorado, Nevada,
Tuolumne and other counties are now being
more actively prospected for gold-bearing
quartz than ever before. Many promising
mining locations have already been made,
and investments by Eastern capitalists are
of frequent occurrence.
Several of the leading mines in Amador
county, through their Superintendent,
have notified miners who belong to the
Miners League, that they will not give
employment to such men hereafter, and
that those of the League who are now en-
ployed will be discharged unless they with
draw from the organization by the 10th in
stant.
Anyone visiting Folsom, says the Tele-
graph will at once form an idea of the
extensive mining operations that have been
entered into here, and that they have been
made to pay, and pay handsomely, no one
can doubt. On the hillss in the valleys,
in the bed of the American river, and in
fact everywhere around us are evidences of
the miners toll, and we understand that
very soon parties from San Francisco will
commence mining on very extensive scale
near town.
The Oregonian reports a strike about six
miles from Baker City. The owners now
are taking out with a hand-mortar at the
rate of 81 ,000a day. Itappears the pocket
is increasing in width and richness, and so
far they have taken out over $50, 600. If it
keeps on the chances are they may take
out millions. There is nothing equals it
except the Gold Hill excitement in Jack
son county S. Ottenheimer & Co. have
rock on exhibition of which ton is worth
from $50, 900 to S75, COO.
About one and one-half miles east of
Tombstone, A. T., is large output of ore
on the mesa that is l,S00 feet wide, COW
cred by three locations in width, having
the surface covered with good looking float
There is several shafts from five to ten feet
in depth, but no vein is disclosed. 1t is
all alike and everywhere assays from 81 to
Sl4. At depth of ten feet it runs into a
dark gray dust that looks and feels like
ashes, and all this ashy stuff assays from
IS to Sl2 in silver. 1t is curiosity.
From D. C. Courtney, who left Jackson
vile about six weeks ago for the Skagit,
and who returned as far as Portland, the
Oregon Sentinel learns that those mines
are the worst kind of fraud. Mr.. Court
ney had to travel over so miles of snow,
frequently 80 feet deep, and on his arrival
found numerous claims "staked off" in
the snow, but no one working. He found
many miners there, who were unable to
return, and subsisting on charity, and was
told by the first locators that IS per day
was the highest wages they had ever made.