Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-21
MINING NOTES.


per cent. of pure iron.
The McGreigh mine, Calaveras county,
IS building quartz mill.
In Calaveras county the silver vein on
Bear mountain proves rich.
The quartz mill at Murphy's, Calaveras,
IS running to its full capacity.
The Derbec mine, Nevada county, EN-.
ploys so white men and "a Chinese.
The Blue Jupiter gravel mine, Dogtown,
Calaveras county, has begun work again.
Hosting machinery is being erected at
the kessling claim, Rich Gulch, Yuba
county.
1t is said that over $50, 900 was spent in
prospectingi the Duvey mine, Nevada
county.
B. X. Thorn's quartz mine, in Calaveras,
has been sold TO San Francisco parties for
$4,000.
The last cleanup of the Blue Tent n.y.
drauic mine, Nevada county, realized
about $4,000
The new town at the Green river mines,
Utah, is called Bullion. The camp is
called Carbonate.
California paid the Sutro tunnel royalty
for June amounting to Sl,369 so; Con-
solidated Virginia, 81, 1853.
The Spencerville Copper Company have
The net profit of each ton is IS %.
Sulpharet works are being built at the
Waters mine, Tuttletown, Tuolumne coun.
ty. They will be finished in two weeks.
Deep Springs District, Inyo, has narrow
lodges and rich ore. 1t is said to be the
best sort of place for men of small capital.
The Northern Chief mine, Bingham,
Utah, bids fair to become one of the lead.
ing gold and silver mines in the Territory.
The Tombstone, A. T., EpitapA gives
list of over fifty mines which have sunk
shafts to the depth of from 80 to $50 feet
on lodges in that vicinity.
Rich quartz is reported at Six-nlile creek,
near the Black Bear mine, Siskiyou county.
Some prospectors struck a VEN, and from
% pounds Of rock took Sl52.
The Cinnamon working in the cut at
Morey's foundry, Placerville, struck rich
streak recently. One man says a shovel
full yielded nearly half gold.
The San Leandro Reporter states that
poi IVY VI JOohS iAiOn llOul tHdI ScStlOu WHO
have been to the Skagit mines have re.
turned and say the mines are worthless.
The Polk county (Oregon) Itemizer says ::
We hear report that there has been found
in the mountains toward the Nestucka good
prospects of gold, silver and quicksilver.
The shaft of the Fortuna mine, Nevada
City, is down about l75 feet, and is ad-
vancing at the rate of ten feet week.
When it has reached depth of 200 feet,
drifts will be run along the ledge.
The papers of Colorado figure up bull
ion output for that State for the first six
months of the present year equal to about
$S, 900, 600. Utah for the same time has
produced, approximately, S5,00O,000.
There is an unusual number of pros
pectors in and around Mammoth at this
time, says the Herald. Scarcely day
passes but mere or less OF them are in
town with their pack animals purchasing
supplies and too,s.
A very important discovery was made
last week in the Eictorine mine, thirty
miles south of Austin on the Smoky side
of the Toy abe range, says the Reno New
Gazette. The workings are down 220 feet,
and have shown up fine body of ore to
II feet wide aud Us feet long, which goes
from $50 to 500.
The Last Chance, near Galatians, Siski.
you, has struck body of gravel which is
paying $l3 per day to the man. They
work through shaft forty-five feet deep,
using water power for hosting and pump.
ing. The Montezuma yields large divi-
dends. The Never Sweat quartz mine is
working on so rock.
Says the Chico Enterprise The ma
chinery for the Sem gold quartz mine has
arrived, and the owners will shortly COM
mence work. This mine is located in the
foothills, and the specimens shown us are
of fabulous richness. There are only six
teen shares in this mine, and they are
principally held in Chico.
Cummins City, near Laramie, Wyoming,
is proving a disappointment as mineral
district. Referring to this matter the Lar.
annie Times says .'There is 10 question
about the richness of the mines in that To-
cality, but most if not all of them are
owned by parties who are not able to open
them so as to command the necessary cap
ital for the erection of stamp mills and
other machinery"
The Georgetown Gazette says Lewis
Sites, at Spanish Dry Diggings, has made
good strike in his Modoc mine, upon
which he began work some six weeks ago.
Five weeks ago he began striking it rich,
taking out some fifteen ounces Since then
the mine has continued to increase in value,
some OF the pans going as high as $50.
Jacob Burner, who short time ago took
new lease of the old Grit claim, at Spanish
nr,r fro,,n Tho 81 w g. a
struck seam few days since, from which
he has taken out seven ounces of gold.
The Spring Valley Hydraulic Gold Com
pany has IS men employed in its mines at
Cherokee, Butte county, The extent of
The water supply is 2,2lO inches of water
per diem. Six thousand cubic yards of
dirt is the average days work. Five banks
of very rich dirt are opened ready for pip
ing. A greater portion of the ground
worked, especially down toward the bed
rock, is blue gravel and rotten powders.
Tanks are now being put in with view of
saving the black sand. There is an enor-
nous quantity of this in the claim.
A silver ledge has been found at Oak
Valley, about four miles from Campton-
vile. Charles Biber and James Mcbride
in prospecting quartz ledge for gold,
came across some singular looking metal
which they deemed worthless and threw
aside. As they went down on the ledge
they found large quantities of this metal
and finally concluded they would test it
and see what it was. They did so and
found it to be silver. The ledge has been
traced distance of 1900 feet and the vein
is fourteen feet in width. Free silver is
found all through the ledge and the parties
think they have struck bonanza San
Jusn Times.
The Mariposa Gazette gives history of
the Ell Carmena mine, which is near the
Hite mine. 1t was formerly known as the
Manuel Gomez, and was discovered and
worked in 1864. A great amount of gold
was extracted from this mine, but like
many other discoveries in those days, the
gold was used in other ways than improv
ing and developing the mine. The extent
of the work done up to the present time is
a shaft some 300 feet deep, and tunnel
some l6O feet in length. 1t is said that
not pound of ore has been taken out that
was worth less than 500, and from that to
$500 per ton. The last five and one-half
tons taken from a little below the 300-foot
level yielded 81, 700. The last attempt to
work it was the running of tunnel upon
the vein proper and striking the body of