Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-20
MINING MOTIFS.

coiiiO Auc uAoCos Cries nave Deen recently
made IN the Single canyon district, near
FGeorgetown, N. NJ.
The gravel mines at Dogtown, Calaveras
county, are said to be paying well. Quite
a number of miners are employed in the
various mines in that section.
Near Summit City, Alpine county, a
gold and r-bearing ledge of base metal
ore has been developed, twenty feet wide
At depth of 200 feet the ore assayed
$500.
The Picche New Record states that
some vandals had injured the works of the
Mszeppa mine, at that place, to the amount
OF $1,000, by caving it and filling up drifts
and cuts.
In Butte county, near 0roviile, the
Minerva mine is thoroughly opened, and
can put thirty tons of rock ON the dumps
daily. Rock assays at least S55, and can
be taken out for 81.
One of the largest Jumps of solid gold
ever seen in San Francisco, and now on
exhibition, is about fourteen inches long by
seven in width and six in hight. Its value
was estimated at so, 600.
The Dutch Flat Forum learns that
pretty fair strike has been made in the
Franklin mine, just at the edge of town.
There was SIS taken out of two pans of
dirt. They expect to find still better pay
dirt soon.
As yet there are no indications of
diminuson of the water supply either at
present nor in the near future-and work
continues to be ardently pressed upon all
the claims in this vicinity, says the Gale
Ueras Chronicle.
The Eastern papers report that the
present activity in mining in Utah equals
the booming days of the Emma mine, and
it is estimated that fully $40, 600 have
been invested there since last spring by
Eastern capitalists.
Hon. John C. New, ex-Treasurer of the
United States, is the President of the For
tuna Mining Company, whose claim is sit
uated at Nevada city, and also of the Trim
ity Hydraulic Mining Company. He is
largely interested in other mining proper
ties.
The tunnel of the Bald Mountain Exten-
sion Company near Forest City is now in
over twenty-five hundred feet, and the
progress made is one hundred and eighty
feet month. There are now only four
teen hundred more to run. Three shifts
are being worked. The formation is still
mountain lava.
For the last week the mine of DR.. Bue.
low, situated in Rough and Ready town.
ship, on the south side of the South Yuba
river, has been producing very heavy sui
phureted ore. When in sc feet from the
shaft the drift struck five-foot ledge. 1t
is the same body of ore found in the shaft
but has increased in size to remarkable
extent.
Parties are now at work upon the coal
mines in the Cajor Pass, says the San Der.
nardino Indec. Those interested as own.
ers have sold to the railroad company for
good round sum if they can show the bed
to be four feet in thickness. From what is
stated it will not be long before it will
change ownership, as they have about that
in sight now.
Utah men engaged in mining in Idaho,
say they have a great deal of trouble in
getting mill and furnace machinery de-
ivered. owing to the scarcity of teams, and
they fear the season viii be well advanced
before smelters and mills can be place in
running order. Meantime ore accumulates
at the mines, but the boys cant get the
dncats out OF it till the machinery is in
motion.
A gentleman, recently from Mojave
county, informs us that in Mineral Park
District several new mills are being erect
ed. Much prospecting is reported as being
done in various parts of that county, with
good results, so far as finds are concerned,
but the great difficulty is the absence of
capital. 1t is said that the Vulture and
the McCracken mills are about starting
up. The Indians are apparently peace
able. Tucson Star.
A Frenchman named Canyon discovered
rich gold quartz ledge in Honey Lake
valley few days since, says the Reno
New Gazette, about five miles southeast
of GAINESVILLE. The ledge is situated high
up on the hillside, and about quarter of
mile from the post road The fioat-rock is
rich in free gold, and the quartz is rusty.
The claim is to be developed as fast as pos
sible and the necessary capital is said to be
at the disposal of the locators.
According to the Virginia New Enter
prise, some of the hottest places ever found
in the mines have long since been passed by
These were on the 1900 and 400 foot levels
of the Gould & Curry and bonanza mines.
This heat was at points where there were
soft, decomposing rocks and soft clay in
places where there was very little water
On the same level, in the same drift, and at
but short distance apart, there is found to
be great difference in the heat of rock.
Three holes may be bored in the floor of
drift fifty feet apart, and thermometer
placed in each, when the temperature will
probably be found to vary from fifteen to
twenty degrees.