Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-15
MINING NOTES.

Diphtheria is raging at Carson, New.
The Nevada county treasury contains
$40, 543 OF.
The control of the Leviathan mine, Gold
Hill, has passed into Eastern hands.
The assessment on nine claims in Mono
county this month will amount to Sl7l, GOO.
Many miners are leaving Phoebe, Nevada,
owing to the recent troubles with the
mines.
The payroll of the Sutro Tunnel Com
pany for the month of April amounted to
$50, S43.
The Eureka Consolidated has levied one
assessment of 500, 900, and paid in divi-
dends 81, 255, 900.
1t is claimed that the Red Elephant
mine, in Colorado, is producing bullion to
the value of 800, 600 per month.
Large numbers OF miners are leaving
the Comstock every day for new fields,
most of them pointing toward Arizona.
There are now three mines in Gold Hill
which have reached the 1900 level, and of
these two are over 3, coo feet in perpendicu-
lar depth.
The Black Hills Meas says that miner
was in Deadwood the other day from Castle
creek with sack of ore that assayed $40
per ton in gold.
All the mines throughout Amador coun-
ty are having to contend with heavy in
crease OF water, supposed to be sipage
water, caused by the late rains.
The miners of Colfax are on a strike
against reduction OF wages to g 80 a day,
and notified miners on the Comstock not
to go to Colfax to take the places of the
strikers.
There will be a great falling off in min
ing letters after this week, says Virginia,
New, paper All the companies will make
monthly and weekly statements, according
to the law, and forward to San Francisco
in the place of letters.
The Tucson "a. IT, Star says that Vail
and Harvey have struck a rich gold ledge
in the Santa Ritas southeast slope. Plenty
of free gold is visible in the ore; it is be-
lieved they have struck the mother gold
ledge, which has yielded this gold in the
placers below.
The snow is rapidly disappearing at Os-
ceola, Nevada, but there is no water with
which to work the placer mines to show for
it. 1t is expected that work on the pro-
posed ditch will soon be commenced. With
plenty of water, good judge says that the
placers cannot be exhausted in ten years.
The Black Bear and other quartz mines
on Salmon river, Siskiyou county, are said
to be paying largely, aud extensive arrange
ments are now in progress for building a
new ditch to work the Yreka basin by
means of Cranston's hydraulic elevator, the
great trouble in working the basin being
the want of drainage, which the elevator
obviates.
The Bodie Free Press says that at no
time in the history of the camp has the
from one end of the lode to the other been
so good as at present. Crosscutting is going
on in several mines, and when the work
laid out is completed those who have prose-
cuted the undertaking will be handsomely
rewarded. 1t is safe to say that no camp
ever discovered on the coast had a brighter
outlook at its age than BOdie.
Two young fellows named McGrath and
coleman, says the Truckee Republican,
who have peregrinated through old mining
camps for some time, picking up odds and
ends, arrived in town last week and visited
the old smelling works below town. In
all smelling furnaces there is certain
amount of leakage of the bullion which
works on down through the bottom of the
furnace and penetrates the rocks and floor
ing. The young men referred to were suf-
ficiently versed in mining matters to know
that there was large amount of bullion
scattered among the rocks below the fur
mace and that ID was worth money. They
went to Judge Keiser. the owner of the
smelling works, and offered him one-third
of the profits of the bullion for the privilege
OF working it up and selling it. The Judge
closed the contract, and after six days la
Dor the young men produced as the result
Of their venture sixteen bars Of bullion,
weighing about 100 pounds each, and from
an assay test valued at not less than
81, 1000 that the young men made
about SIS each per day by their specula-
ton. The bullion was shipped below
Monday.