Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-15
MINING MENTION.

The Homer Mining I,sdcx has passed
into the hands of John l. CHM.
Corbin & Co. are sinking a new shaft in
EIzabethtown flat, Plumas county, about
1000 feet below their present works. It
is down 80 or 40 feet.
Some good-sized specimens of washed
| gold are being found in the True Blue drift
mine, in Nevada county, and the channel
is increasing in richness Gs the wsrk of de.
velopment progresses.
Mr.. Russell, of Greenville, who was re.
| Gently over in Sierra county, says that the
| Bald Mountain Extension is turning out
richly, and is paying at the rate of FIVE
ounces to the set of timbers.
Says the Quincy National. Plumas is
now the attraction of the northern gold
regions OF California. There are more un-
! developed mines IN our county boundaries
than can be found in any other section Of
! the Pacific coast.
John Daggett, OF Yreka, while building
tramway to the Kean mine, on the left
| of the Klamath mine and near the Uncle
Sam, uncovered q ledge Mr.. Roberts
hunted for some time ago which is said to
prospect exceedingly rich.
The new air compressor and drills are
now in operation at the Placerville Gold
| Quartz mine. With the aid of these it will
be possible to drive a tunnel in 200 feet in
thirty days, where before it took nearly as
many weeks. Ten stamps are now being
run on the best ore yet crushed since the
mill was built.
The Siskiyou quartz mill, on Humbug,
will be started up again in few days, with
j. j. Curran, of Sawyer's Bar as engineer
and amalgamator, the mill being run by
steam. He started over to Humbug on
Monday to get the mill in order The com.
pany also intend runninga new tunnel, and
have already on the dump quantity OF
quartz for crushing.
The people around knights Ferry are
considerably worked up over the alleged
discovery of valuable mines on the South
Fork of the Stanislaus river, near Straw
berry valley, Tuolumne county. The mines
are supposed to be an extensive gravel
range, and the gold found is quite coarse.
The gravel is of great depth, and prospects
very rich from the very top.
The Black Bear quartz mine, in Siskiyou
county, is said to be paying better than
ever Of late, from operations in the old
levels, where there is an abundance of
good paying quartz. The mill is now run
up to its full capacity Of thirty-two stamps.
The same company has also completed its
four. stamp steam mill on the Kasch ledge,
in the vicinity Of the Last Chance mine,
and will commence crushing the last of
this week.
A two-stamp oscillating battery has
been erected on the East Walker river,
nine miles below the Elbow ranch, on the
Carson road. This is the first oscillating
battery in the State. 1t has been built in
connection with Dodge concentrator, and
went into operation about week ago. 1t
is intended to crush rock from the copper
mines in the district, concentrate it and
send it to San Francisco for reduction.
[Bodie Press.
Peter McCarty discovered recently on
the divide between the Rio Hondo and the
Rio Colorado a cave which has from time
immemorial supplied the Indians with
their bright red war paint. Mr.. McCarty
was alone and had no candles, but lighting
some splinters of pitch, explored it for
about hundred feet. In some places he
had to crawl through narrow openings,
but in most he was able to stand erect.
lEe eVluenCe VI tHe extensive use Cnc III
diaus make Of this paint abounds in the
workings where they have cut it out with
knives and sharp implements. Mr.. Nc
Carty located it under the mining laws;
believing the mineral probably the red
oxide of ironl, of which there are thousands
of tons, to have commercial value
News and Press.
The Centennial Company and McCon-
nell & Co., on the Klamath, says the
Yreka Journal, are taking out pay gravel,
but are not yet down deep enough for
their richest pay. The Lime Gulch Com
pany are sinking down from the high
point of bed rock found towards the dlrec-
tion in which the bed rock pitches, expect
ing to find rich deposits when they near
the bed rock channel below the high point.
This company have splendid derrick aud
other apparatus, and work faster than any
company on the river. All the other COM
panies, both above and below Virginia Bar,
are busily sinking down, and in short
time, when the good-paying channel
gravel is reached, we may expect to hear
Of all the companies operating day and
night, which will make the Klamath
busy looking section for distance of
twenty miles or more.