Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-27
MINING. NOTES.

1uc hioluS Quar- hiHllS SOuipdu1 HAVE
started work in their gravel claim, eight
fmiles above Sierra City, near Gold lake.
Two shifts -four menl are employed. A
shaft is now down 65 feet.
The Truckee Blue Gravel Company, Mo-
hawk valley, Sierra county, are said to
have % feet Of gravel, prospecting So so
to the car load. They are running a tun-
mel to the bottom of their shaft.
The Chips mine, Sierra county, is being
reopened. This ledge was partially de.
veloped in 1868, and has stamp mill.
The quartz averages 800 ton, and is car
ried out through tunnel, now in l65
! feet.
The Richmond Consolidated mine of Eu-
reka county. Nevada, paid dividend of
| los. per share in London on the 9th of
August. This is equal to Sl35, 600, and
makes total of S2,72l 200 paid BY the
mine to date.
|, The Monumental mine, Southern Oregon,
has suspended operations for short time
Tor necessary repairs on machinery. Three
silver bricks, weighing respectively 81 ,SSl,
81, 81 and Sl,3S2, were sent in to Pendle-
ton from the mine last week.
Some large specimens of free gold ore
from the Rocky Bar mine are on exhibition
at the Citizens Bank, Nevada City, and
hundreds of people flocked there Monday
to see them. A thousand dollars was of
fered for one piece of quartz and refused.
: The Sutro Independent says that owing
to the extreme hot and foul air in the
header OF the south lateral branch of the
Sutro tunnel, all work there has been sus.
pended Tor the present, and it is hard to
say just when and how air viii be procured
to allow the resumption of said work.
The Calumet and Hecla Copper Com.
pany, of Michigan, paid dividend of s.
per share, equal to $500, COO, in Boston on
the 10th. This is larger dividend than
is now paid by any other mining incorpo.
ration in the United States. The company
have paid 81, $50, 900 since work was COM
menced.
McMurry & Hupp finished cleaning up
for the season last week, says the Chico
Enterprise, and, as usual with this claim,
the yield was immense. All told, the mine
tarned out for the season of 1880 the |
nice sum of l,42S ounces of clean dust, or
about S26, 900. There are few if any bet
ter mines in the State.
A company of Chinese are working the |
bed of Bear river, Just below the junction |
OF Greenhorn creek with that stream, says |
the Grass Valley Union. The stream has |
been turned over to the Nevada county |
shore, and large area of ground inclosed |
by an embankment, within which the pits |
are dug through the deposits down toward |
bedrock, and the pumps placed there. |
in to pump out the water The |
same company worked at this point of the
river last year, except that they worked |
next to the Nevada bank. This year they
have changed to the other bank directly
opposite. This looks if last years opera.
tions were sufficiently encouraging to in
duce them to turn the stream again this
season.
A wagon load of rock from the Salmon
mine, near Custer, Dakota, was lately
taken to Dead wood. The Black Hills Pio-
neer says: There is from 1000 to 800
pounds of the rock some of it hard white
quartz, some of it white fiecked with black,
and some of it as black as manganese, but
all of it is literally cleaning with gold.
dotted with glistening yellow metal, so
that the ore itself would almost do to pol
ish up for jewelry. Some of it assays |
the hundreds. The one drawb back about it |
is that it is refractory ore, and will not |
yield its gold to any of the processes now
in use in the Hills. 1t is to be shipped to
Omaha for working. There is a l4.inch |
vein of this rich ore, and a l6-foos vein |
that will run into the hundreds to the ton.
The Bodie Free Press gives an account
of noted mining camp of the past, and
says In 1858 what was known as the
Dogtown diggings were discovered on the
upper waters of the East Walker, distant
from Bodie in southwest direction about
twenty miles. The following year the
little town of Monoville was started. For
year or go it was fourishing hamlet,
and altogether, first AMI last, there was
probably gold to the amount OF half |
million dollars shipped from there. There
is little sign Of a town ever having existed |
there now. The placer gold came from small
but rich lodges OF quartz, eroded away by |
atmospheric agencies. Quite a ditch was
brought across the divide from Virginia
creek, main source of the East Walker.
1t was by means of this ditch that the
waters and lakes of Mill creek came to be
stocked with fish. Mining has been car
ried on at intervals ever since the original
discovery, July 4, 1885, several parties
realizing handsome sums Of money There
is enough now doing to keep the waters
With an arastra some of those
small veins could be made to pay, by
proper management, while the benches and
ravines roundabout still contain substantial
deposits of placer gold of fine quality.