Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-02-15
MINING NOTES.

The Cherokee mill, Plumas county, will
be started in day or two for steady
run. Additional silver plates have been
provided for the sluices, and increased re-
turns may be expected In consequence.
Three tons of Barcelona ore, shipped to
Eureka, Nevada, recently, worked $50
per ton four tons mixed with screenings
worked Sll7 per ton. There are large
quantities of richer ore in sight in this
mine.
The Southern Utah Times says that the
organization of prospecting company of
practical miners and capitalists is now be-
ing agitated. 1t viii be the purpose Of
this company to sink shafts in various
places III and around Frisco for determin-
ing the exact character of the ground upon
which Frisco is built.
Says the Candelaria New Tribune
The Red Mountain mining district, from
personal inspection, appears to be a net
work of ledges, many of which by judicious
labor can be made valuable. A good op-
portunity is here offered to the prospector
and capitalist. The lodges being gold,
upon development will readily find pur-
.chasers.
Of late there has been considerable ac-
tivity among the Chinese miners at the
Lava Beds, near Oroville, Butte county,
for some reason or other. The Record
says old claims that had been abandoned
are being relocated and gangs of men put
to work On tract formerly worked by
J. c. Gray, gang has been at work during
the last month, and have been taking out all
the way from rs cents to 81 to the rocker
Some time ago the Gignac mine, FL Do.
rado county, was bonded for thirty days
to f. r. Derkey and others. These par
ties spent sixteen days in preparation of
the ground for hydraulic mining, and max
ing fourteen days run with water, re-
sulting in clean-upof S2,0l4 Owing to
some misunderstanding on the part of
Derkey and associates, they were unable
to obtain transfer of the mine, and it has
reverted to the Gignacs.
At the Black Jack mine, Sierra county,
three shifts are employed, making two and
a half feet in twenty-four hours. The ledge
is expected to be tapped $40 feet from the
mouth of the tunnel Five feet of snow
at that point before the storm, at an alti-
tude of nearly 6, 500 feet. They are well
provisioned for the winter, and all other
supplies are on hand to prosecute opera
tions until the opening of the roads in
spring.
Owing to the impure air in the header of
the Eureka, New, tunnel, they can work
but one shift in twenty-four hours at the
present time, but change for the better,
in this respect, is evident within the past
few days. This is accounted for by the
change of formation. The tunnel is now
in l,6l0 feet below the surface. The ore
indications are more favorable at the pres.
ent scene of labor than they have been for
the past 300 feet.
The Rising Sun, Shaw Mount, Idaho,
looks better to-day than it ever looked,
and there are about 100 tons of first-class
rock on the dump. The men at work in
the mine are taking out, on an average,
one ton per day to the man. The ledge in
the tunnel is about two feet wide. La the
shaft there is two-foot ledge. The tun-
mel has run in on the ore body now be-
tween eighty and ninety feet. Another
tunnel has been started to tap the ledge
100 feet deeper.
Maitland District has been formed in
Nevada. 1t comprises the greater part of
the old Walker Lake District, and is
bounded as follows; On the north by the
old camel trail, beginning at Silver Star
District, and running to the southeast end
of Walker Lake; on the west by the Car
son and Colorado railroad and the Alum
creek wagon-road; on the south by the
Carson and Columbus toll-road, and on the
east by the Black Diamond District. The
district lies principally on the north side of
the range of mountains north and west of
what is known as the Marietta range The
minerals in the district are copper, silver
and gold, with tire former in preponderance.