Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-01
MINING NOTES.

Cinnamon have found placer mines along
Lundy creek, Mono county.
The Big Flat mines, Del Norte county,
are using | 400 inches of water.
The Butte (Montana) Nmer reports the
collapse of the Yago mining excitement
The rich copper mines OF Railroad Dis
trict, eastern Nevada, are being pros
pected.
The hosting works OF the New York
mine. near Nevada City, were burned on
the 9th.
The Ontario Mining Company of Utah
consumes fifty tons of coal every twenty
four hours.
The new town in Mule Pass, near Tomb
stone, Arizona, is called Blsbee The
mines there are copper.
The new S0,stamp mill at the Vulture
completed will be 10 feet long and about
46 wide.
Since the 9th of March last the Consti-
tuition mill, says the Tombstone "a. t.
NUgget, has produced half million dollars
in bullion.
Amy, Wyoming, is an important coal
mining district. Several hundred men are
employed. The Central and Union Pacific
Railroad Companies own most of the mines
in this region.
The gold dry-washing machine was re-
Gently tried at Oroville. 0ut OF 500
pounds of tailiDgs about pound OF black
sand was extracted, in which could be
plainly seen about % cents worth of gold.
The whole operation was performed in less
than five minutes.
A mine which has recently been pur-
chased in Denver, Col. for 500, 900, was
discovered by two children aged 9 and 10
years. The were playing mine at the
time, and had dug down four feet on the
Little Chief, near Ruby Hill, drilling and
blasting FIVE feet more until valuable
body of ore was brought to light.
A mining expert who has recently re-
turned from Arizona informs the Truckee
Republican that it is the richest country in
mineral he ever saw. The veins are large
and the ore exceedingly rich. He says
new strikes are made almost daily and no
matter in what direction one goes in the
mountain districts, gold bearing veins are
found.
1t is well worth any persons time to
travel many mile to see the workings of
the great hydraulic mine near this city,
says the Nevada City Transcript, owned
by the Blue Tent Consolidated Company.
4 force of 1870 men are employed in the
various departments, and head of ,, 500
inches of water is used in washing. The
average daily clean.ups are $1,000. The
banks are high and the dirt hard, requir-
ing much blasting. This season the Narrow
Gauge Railroad Company have delivered
to the Blue Tent Company CO. 000 pounds
of black powder and upwards of 4, 600
pounds of giant. Two blasts, aggregating
?, coo kegs of powder, are now being ar.
ranged for, and will be fired this week.
The Bald Mountain Mining Company Of
Forest City, Sierra county, have adopted a
new mode of working their mine. They
let out all their work by contract, fixing
their own price. They pay so much for
each carload OF gravel delivered at the
dumps. and the car must contain a GER
tain quantity of gravel. They furnish all
the material for, tunneling purposes, and
let out the work required under agreement
At first they foupd great difficulty in pro-
curing laborers Under the new system, but
eventually men took hold of the work and
found, after experimenting for number of
days, that by putting in faithful days
work, they could make more money per
day than they formerly did under the old
system. The mine is paying as well if not
better than it ever did, and gives promise
of doing SO for years yet to come.