Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-29
MINING NOTES.

| The miners are being driven out OF Ruby
district, British Columbia, by starvation
The Atlantis (Montana) smelling works
shipped June lst lS4, GOO pounds of bull
| ion.
A Remington Hill hydraulic mine, Ne
vada county, cleaned up 1000 on fifteen
days run.
1t costs only fifty cents per ton to con-
centrate the low grade ores of the Freeland
mine, Colorado.
Mining is going on with renewed activity
in the vicinity of the Kirkendall mine,
Amador county.
The Eureka (Nev.) Leader says that an
English company is negotiating for the
purchase of a series of mines in an ad Join
ing district.
Assays made from samples brought in
from the new discovery in Ruby Hill dis
trict, Nevada, showed its value to be over
81, 900 per ton.
The spring freshets have washed away
all the wingdams ON Ruby creek, WASH
ington Territory, and mining is suspended
on account of high water.
The New York Mining Ne,cs says: 1t
is rumored that the Princess Louise has
lately imbibed taste for investing in min
ing stocks, and that she is loading up for
the prospective boom.
The total product of the Homestake
mine (Dakotal for May was Sis, 0S5 A, of
which S6S, 907 05 represented the produc-
ton of the latter half of the month. This
is the largest yield in the history OF the
mine for any one month.
The Plumas National says that j. A.
Edman is developing big quartz mine in
Eagle Gulch, and that the owners have
cleaned up over $1,000 with hand mortar
during the past winter. They are putting
up large water arastra.
Some new and very rich placer ground
has been found near Brownsville FL Do
RADIO county, which is creating quite stir
in that neighborhood. The ranch on which
the discovery was made has been cut up into
claims, and lively work is being done.
Reports from Unionville, Nevada, are to
the effect that the largest and richest body
OF ore ever found in the Arizona mine was
struck in the lower workings four or five
DAYS ago. The Arizona at one time pro-
duced ore that worked from $3.50 to 5000
to the ton.
They have got the mining boom fever
bad in New York. The Daily Mining
Meas has three columns of interviews with
to the stock market Nearly all are sure
it will come IN the fall, if not, it will next
spring sure. v
Prof George Holman has lately struck
gold bearing quartz vein near Malone's
say mill, says the Mariposa Gazette. About
500 in rich specimens were taken out. To
what extent the rich ore runs, or how
many fortunes are to be realized from this
discovery, is yet to be ascertained.
In recent case in the Superior Court
OF Nevada county, involving the question
as to whether Chinaman can convey title
to mining ground, Judge Caldwell decided
that under the Revised Statutes of the
United States an alien cannot hold, by oc-
cupation or otherwise mineral land previ-
GUS to patenting.
The Ohio mine, at Rebel creek, according
to the Winnemucca &lUei' State, is sending
ore to Salt Lake to be reduced that will
work from 5000 to 500 per ton. The ledge
is from four to fourteen feet thick Nearly
all the ore will pay to mill, but it has to
be assorted to pay to ship to Salt Lake,
500 miles distant.
The strike in the Bell mine so far proves
permanent, says the Plumas National, and
a good showing OF very rich quartz has
been developed by the work. The ledge
is six feet through, and in places fairly
shines with gold. The mill is running
steadily as yet with rock from the upper
levels, and is paying well.
Mining reports from Patagonia, Tomb
stone, Dragon, Arivaca and Santa Cata-
lima, all in Arizona, are most encouraging.
Developments have been active, with good
results. The amount of travel to the dis
tricts of Altar and Sonoita, in Sonora, is
rapidly increasing on account of the re-
ported discoveries in that district.
From all the mining counties of the
State, reports of the extended work and
valuable developments are highly en-.
couraging, and tend to the assurance
that the product, both from placer and
| quartz claims, will be largely increased
this year. Equally cheering news comes
from the outlying mining regions of the
coast.
After various backsets says the Nevada
City Transcript, among which was the fail
ure of the wood supply during bad weather,
the Nevada City mine is looming up again.
The ore is hardening on both levels, but all
continues to be easily milled. Enough is
being extracted during the day to keep five
of the ten stamps running continually.
Some of it pays as high as SO, although the
average yield of the chutes being worked
is $50
A party by the name of Spargo, says the
Nevada City Herald, short time ago
erected four-stamp mill near the Provi-
dence dump for the purpose of working
the waste ore found on the same. Since
| that period, while prospecting in the vicin-
! ity, he discovered ledge on the side of
the hill that proves to yield very rich
quartz, showing considerable free gold.
| Spargo has therefore removed his mill to
! said location, and is doing well. The mines
in that district are all in Aourishing con-
dition.
a gentleman who is in charge of de-
veloped mine there, says the Nevada City
TraascriDt, says that the section in the Vi
cinity of Woods Ravine, a new quartz dis
| trict lying just east of this city, is all
located now, and that a larger num-
Der of prospectors are at work there
this spring Inan dU any IlIile SlHCe the
rush began, which was within the past two
years. A number of good properties have
been found by the prospectors, and it is
more than likely that others will be devel-
oped from time to time.
a gentleman who was engaged for sew
eral years in mining in Salt Lake county,
and who went to Wistun, Colorado, last
spring, writes from Irwin, Ruby Camp
Postoffice, Gunnison county, Col, under
date OF June IL, 1850, to friend at Salt
Lake 81 went to the San Juan country
and prospected north until I came to this
camp. l will say this for the San Juan
country l would not give $40 note for
all saw of it. The mines are small they
are very low grade, and the country is COW
cred with snow nine months in the year.
The mines of this camp are very high grade
and good size, but the ore seems to cut out
after getting down about thirty feet, with
slate rock and stone coal. This camp is
situated on the eastern line of the reserva-
ton, about eighty or ninety miles west of
| Leadville If Congress makes any dis