Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-14
MINING NOTES.

1t is said that the Black Star coal mine,
Anahein, is to be reopened.
River mining, by using dredger, is to
be tested on the Upper Missouri.
The Auburn Herald says that more rich
gravel has been struck in the Dardanelles,
Forest Hill.
Some 1000 pounds of pure copper has
been shipped from the Jackson mine near
Walker river, New.
The old Weske mine, Michigan Bluff,
Placer county, is again in operation, under
! the supervision of William Muir. He has
about eighteen men at work.
l. w. Harris, of Round Hole, Roop
county, New, has shown the Reno Gazette
specimens of plumbago. He says that in
that region there are beds of gypsum, salt
springs, chunks of borax, mineral springs,
etc.
The Fort Meade hydraulic tunnel, Da-
kota, is the largest tunnel in the Black
Hills, being twelve feet in width and ten
feet in hight. Its purpose is to obtain bed
rock drainage to Rapid creek, which is
supposed to contain great quantities of placer
gold.
The Graphic mine, situated about five
miles south of Forest City, Sierra county,
on the Plum valley road, was shut down
last week and all the men discharged but
two. The mine is owned by parties in
New York, who were dissatisfied with the
returns.
There is considerable travel through this
place now, says the Idaho World, mostly
miners and prospectors going TO the north
ern country. The country between here
and Bonanza will soon be filled with pros
pectors, and rich strikes will undoubtedly
be made. Rich float has been picked up
all through this section.
Mrs. a. Hill, owner of considerable ditch
property at Iowa Hill, Placer county, has
commenced the construction of large res
ervolr IN Shirt Tail canyon, by means of
which she will be able to store water
enough to protraet the supply for that
mining district till late in the season. It
| will cost over $40, 900.
The water having given out, the n.y.
draulic mining at Iowa HILL Wisconsin
Hill and other neighboring camps, in
Placer county, is all suspended for the
season. The result has been a good aver
| age. Most of the claims have paid equal
to the expectation of the owners, and as a
result good cheer and more than average
good times prevail in that popular mining
region.
In the vicinity of Good Lake, Sierra
county, there is large area of mining
ground that is hardly prospected yet, al
though mining has been going on there for
twenty.six years. The Truekee Blue
| Gravel Company, located just beyond
| Woodchuck ravine, have tunnel in $50
feet, with nice blue gravel that prospects
fairly. Haskell Peak has tunnel in $50
feet, with nice-looking quartz gravel. Gull
yer Co. have good paying claim in the
ravine below Woodchuck. Davis & Wilson
have paying claim just in the edge of
Thompson ridge. They have taken out as
high as $500 per week, with very little
water Parties on little Bowlder ravine
have done fairly this year, making a great
deal more than expenses. Freeman & Co.
sunk shaft last year at Big Bowlder ra-
vine, SIS feet deep, nearly all through
gravel. The Pennsylvania Company,
/ Thompson ridge, are in l 700 feet through
granite and gravel.
A Curious thing recently happened in
the Woodchuck claim, beyond Gold Lake,
| Sierra county. owned by l.. Foss. he has
been working with good prospects all the
season, and few days since had got his
gold pretty much all down in the ground
sluice near the head of his boxes. He sent
a man up to turn off the water, and went
himself into the sluices to pick up any
! large pieces He had been there but a
! few moments when the water suddenly
ceased to run. He could see the water
still coming over the bank above, but none
came into the sluices, and this puzzled
him. Going to the head of the boxes he
found that the bottom of the ground
sluice, at the point where the most of his
gold was, had suddenly fallen in, and his
gold had gone down into the bowels of the
earth in an immense crack of unknown
depth. A head of water was still running
into the gulf, but no signs of filling up
| were visible.