Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-28
MINING NOTES.

There is a big stampede to Mount Badly
district, Utah, which is now regarded as
superior to anything in Colorado.
There are quite number of San Fran
cisco and Comstock mining men in Nye
county, New, at the present time inspect
ing mines.
A car load of anthony from the great
field of anthony in Southern Utah has ar
rived at Sandy and Will be sent to England
to test that market.
Reports from Pehastin quartz district, in
Oregon, are encoura ging-the various COM
panies are prosecuting the work Of devel
opment vigorously, and with fair returns
for their labor.
A big strike has been made in the Oak
land mine at Pima, Arizona. ID. G. Croker
reports that he has struck a l5-foot vein
which assays up to 5000 per ton at depth
of about fifty feet.
British Columbia miners who have just
returned to Victoria from the Skagit mines
pronounce them very rich, and are sur
prised that such valuable and extensive
gold fields should have remained so long
undiscovered.
The experiment of running the hot
water from the north-end mines into and
through the north lateral branch of the
Sutro tunnel via the drift leading from the
G. & G.. shaft has been made, and found to
work satisfactorily.
The Leadville Col Herald says: That
the strike is over and that the mines will
at once resume their former shipments of
ore, can be easily seen by trip over Fryer
Hill. Where everything was quiet few
days ago, all is now activity.
The Yakima wv. T. Record says a mug
get worth S44S has come from the Swauk
mines in that county. The same party has
a number of smaller nuggets. It also
speaks of rich prospects having been found
near Ellensburg, in that county.
The Napa Consolidated Quicksilver Min
ing Company, have declared a dividend of
ten cents per share. The company have
paid 500, 900 in dividends since August
1878, and have done this during the low
price of quicksilver, and also used only one
furnace.
The other day miner in the Bald
Mountain drift claim at Forest City, says
the Nevada Transcript found a nugget OF
almost pure gold weighing 49i ounces 1t
is said to be one of the handsomest speci-
mems ever discovered in that section, where
great deal of coarse gold is found from
time to time.
The Butte Mont Miner says: The
days when pick, pan and shovel were the
only outfit required by the miner have
passed, not to return, and the man who
comes to Montana thinking himself amply
Quilted in the possession of a pair OF
strong arms and the capacity for work is
apt to discover his mistake only when too
late.
The last mining town in Colorado is sit
uated in the Tomichi mining district at the
headwaters OF Tomichi creek, about twelve
miles from the Marshal creek road, and
midway on a direct line between Pitkin
and Chaffee The town is finely located,
being convenient to water, with wood in
abundance, and close to most of the rich.
est mines as yet discovered in the gulch.
The Salt Lake Tribune tells the story of
prospector who discovered valuable
mine and stayed with it all winter, living
in hole in the earth, patching his clothes
with gunny sacks, and living on the plain.
est fare. Being asked how he could remain
in the mountains in such a condition
through such rough winter as the last he
replied, because l am superior to dis
tress.
The Tuscarora New Times Recieac
states that on the 18th instant, while at
work in Shoecraft ravine, a Chinese miner
picked up an $50 gold nugget. This is
the second of about that value found in
the same vicinity this season. The same
paper adds that some forty or fifty Chinese
are employed sluicing IN the various
aulches and ravines west Of town, all Of
whom, so far as we can learn, are making
good wages.
The Gold Hill Neirs says: This pump
ing on the Comstock is costly business.
A good rod of Oregon pine, lG by 10
inches, strapped, as are some OF them in
use with wrought iron straps IA inches
wide and from a half to an inch thick,
placed on two sides and bolted every foot,
will cost over $1,000 per 100 feet. All
this eXpensiveness is strong argument In
favor OF hydraulic pumps which will oper-
ate without rods and with less machinery
and fuel
The placer mines of Eureka Gulch and
Shoecraft Ravine, says the TuscarOra (Nev.
Times Recie,c of June DIST, are yielding
better this season than for many years past.
During the last three or four days nuggets
were found, the smallest of which was
worth about sos. On Saturday evening
another one was found by Chinaman, the
value of which was $50. There is no way
of ascertaining the exact amount of gold
mined by the Chinese, but it is generally
believed that their shipment this season
will be largely in excess of any year for
the last three.
Night before last, at a distance Of 300
feet, and at depth of 700 feet, says the
Eureka New Leader of June 23d, the
Eureka tunnel cut into the shale belt. This
is regarded as a most important develop
ment both for the mine and for Eureka
district. 1t demonstrates that the shale
continues to this depth, very important
trath of the depth aud permarence of the
Eureka lode. As the ore has always been
encountered in the Ruby Hill mines on the
west side of the shale, it is almost sure
that the tunnel will make rich develop
ments as soon as the belt is penetrated.