Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-04-02
MINING NOTES.

Work has begun on the Redwood City
mineral well.
The Suffer Creek Sulphuret Works are
temporarily closed
Twenty men are employed at the Oneida
mine, Amador county.
About 1900 inches of water are used in
the Volcano tunnel, Amador county.
R. G. Downes has bought the Eagle
Quartz mine for So, 200. It is in Amador
county.
The old Willow Creek mines, Yuba
county, are to be worked again, and on an
extensive scale.
The Zeill mine, Amador county, is EN-.
ploying seventy men. Roasting sulphurets
begins next month.
A force of men has been placed on the
Ygnacio mine, Cerro Gordo, with orders to
extract 200 tons Of ore.
The Solo mines, Browns Valley, Yuba
county, are paying largely, The develop
ments are causing excitement.
Eighteen men are at work in and about
the Antelope mine, near Reno, New, and
there are over 500 tons of ore on the dump.
The mining boom at Coarse Gold, Fresno
county, is still on the increase. New finds
OF rich gold-bearing quartz are of daily &C.
,rrence.
North of the CHA river, about ten miles.
and about fifty miles southwest of Silver
City, some good prospects have been dis
covered lately. The ore is of gray copper
and copper glance Of good grade. The
veins are narrow but very rich.
Every Indication points to the fact that
there is to be a lively mining season in
Nevada county, and perhaps one which
will excel all others in the past. There are
more hydraulic mines in operation than
there have been in a great many years,
and their clean-ups thus far have been
larger than usual.
On the yard directly west of the Rich
mond Company's refinery, says the Eureka
Sentinel is stack of lead which has been
accumulating for a long time. Our Sentinel
reporter computed the weight of the mass
at SO, 400 tons. 1t covers an area of 1870
by 60 feet, and is piled to hight of seven
feet in some places.
San Simon district lies about 35 miles
west of Shakespeare, n. NJ, and is looked
upon as 90 coming" camp. There are
great many veins in this district, and they
are generally Of large size. The ores are of
fair grade and good quantity. The for
nation is mixed, granite, porphyry and
limestone being present.
In Mineral Hill District, Idaho, the ores
are carbonates and galena, combined with
anthony and zinc. In Warm Springs and
Saw Tooth is found considerable amount
of free milling ore. About l 900 tons were
shipped to Salt Lake last year at cost of
$40 per ton. The average yield has been
$50 ounces per ton. A smelling furnace Is
now being erected.
Superintendent Arents, of Robinson,
Colorado, is the inventor of very neces-
sary continuance for use in connection with
lead furnaces used in smelters. This in
vention is a syphon tap, through which the
liquid bullion runs up hill into a basin at
the top of the tube. Nearly all smelters
use this convenient and simple appurten.
ance, and for its use royalty of $1,000
per year is allowed Mr.. Arents.
In the west level of the Broadway mine,
Madison county, Montana, an immense
body of ore has been struck, which is as
rich as any that has been taken out of the
mine. Besides this, another large body
has been struck 80 feet below the old
workings, the lowest assay from which
gives 800 per ton in gold, and running
from that to "away up" figures. There
is an abundance of rock in these two bodies,
sufficient to keep the two mills running
for an indefinite length of time