Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-01
ITEMS OF MINING NEWS.

The Bodie mines have paid three million
dolla& even in dividends.
A large reservoir is being constructed
on the eastern slope of the hill at Bodie
to gather water for placer mining.
A rich strike is reported as having taken
place in gravel mine at Snow Point, III
the upper part of Nevada county.
In every direction we hear of new enter.
prises; says the Placerville Democrat, and
all who are engaged in mining hereabout
wear upon their faces an air of confidence
and satisfaction.
There can no longer be doubt that val
able gold deposits have been found in the
mountains and creeks near Lake Superior,
and not far from the line of the Wisconsin
Central Railroad.
Some 200 Cinnamon are mining on the
Columbia river bars in Stevens county, w.
T. Six miles from Whites Landing. the
Celestials are taking out from three to four
dollars per day. to man.
Among the new mining districts now
springing into prominence in the East Is
the Cherokee Mining District in Plumas
county. The district has already produced
several dividend paying mines.
The Crater mine, at Ophir, four miles
from Auburn, has taken out over S53, 600
in four months, and it is now said to be
doing even better than that. There are
between thirty and forty men employed
there.
The mines of Placer county are, generally
speaking, paying about as satisfactorily and
steadily as at any time for years past.
Those in the vicinity of Auburn, says the
Argus, seem to be doing particularly well,
and owners and prospectors are much elated.
The parties who have been engaged In
sinking and tunneling for the big gravel
channel in the mountains to the westward
of Washoe Lake, says the Gold Hill Ne'cs,
have overcome the cave of last winter, and
are again near the point where pay is ex-
pected.
A gentleman who has recently visited
the silver discoveries in Shasta county,
states that there is no question about the
richness of the lodes. The ores assay very
high, and he saw many specimens in which
virgin silver was plainly discernible with
the eye.
Reports continue to come into Cotton,
San Bernardino county, favorable to the
permanence of the Dry Lake Mining Dis
trict, some hundred miles or so north of
that place. Prospecting is going vigorously
on, and the showing is very fine. Water
was scarce, but wells have been sunk and
plentiful supply obtained.
A Nevada City man, while engaged in
prospecting few miles from town, recently
discovered large ledge from which he
secured number of specimens. He has
had the ore assayed, and finds that, while
it contains but little gold, it carries about
SIS worth in silver to the ton. 1t is prob
able that arrangements will soon be per-
fected for thoroughly testing the value OF
the ledge.
The placer mines OF Los Angeles county
have produced more gold tbs past winter
than during any three seasons previous,
says the Santa Ana Times. This is attrib-
utable to the fact that the past winter has
been more favorable, and that the mining
excitement throughout the land has put
more men to prospecting and working the
mines. Los Angeles has gold bearing
chain OF mountains which extend through
out the entire county.
The Arizona CITIZEN, speaking of Tomb.
stone, says: We hear many opinions from
well-informed men that labor is crowding
in too fast for the developments that capi.
tai is able to make. There is no doubt
that before SIX months from now there Will
be ample employment for the number now
there, but the question arises, how are they
going TO dispose of the surplus labor until
such time arrives? Mines are not opened
in a day, and until they are somewhat ad-
yanced they furnish employment TO but
few men, Still, as capital is moving into
Tombstone rapidly, we hope our fears in
this respect are groundless.
Congressman Daggett says After con-
sultation with the Land Commissioner, ]
y find that he mas formally decided that the
work on a claim may be done at any time
within the twelve months beginning with
the lst OF January after the location has
been made. Consequently locators have
an entire year, together with the portion OF
the year preceding the LIST of January fol-
lowing the location, to do their first annual
work Hence, claim located now MAY
Is, 1880 would hold good without work
until January, 1882, but some time between
January ], 1881, and January l, 1882, the
work must be done. This is the lnterpre-
tation given by the Attorney General, and
may be accepted as the law"
Superintendent Waldyer fired big blast
in the works of the Spring Valley Hy.
drulic Gold Company. at Cherokee, Mon,
day, says the Oroville Mercury of MAY
2Sth. The charge consisted of twenty-five
thousand pounds of Judson powder. Two
shafts were sunk to a depth OF one hun.
bred and twenty-five feet each, from the
bottom of which z ct" extended forty
oh q. L., L.
end of the CTS six thousand five hundred
pounds OF the powder was deposited al
electric wire ran from each charge to the
surface, where connection was made with
the main wire running from the instru.
ment. The ''T's and shafts were tightly
packed with dirt At II o'clock all was
in readiness and the signal was given Louis
Glass TO strike the electric spark. Instan,
taneously the surface of the mountain,
whieh was about two hundred and hft5
feet high, raised upward and outward FOL
distance of three hundred feet back from
the face AID settled in thoroughly demon.
allied condition. A low, rumbling noise
accompanied the explosion, and huge
cloud of dust arose as the enormous mass
partially topplei and fell into the plateau
in front. At distance OF five hundred
feet back from Che shafts, on the top OF
the mountaia, gigantic oak trees trcmbied
like aspen leaves, the earth seemed te
parties standing on it 10 rise upward about
foot, and the shelving table rocks iingied
together like dice in a box. Competent
judges estimate the amount OF dirt loosened
and displaced by the explosion at 100000
cubic yards.