Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-06
MINING NOTES.
er City mines are improving.

Copper City mines are improving.
The Eureka hydraulic, Calaveras county,
employs % men.
New quartz finds on the North Fork of
Flat creek, Shasta county.
Fvs arastras are being used at the In
vincible mine. Calaveras county.
The April bullion product of the North.
ern Belle mine was Sl20, 6lS, gold value.
a French Gulch, Shasta county, miner
lately cleaned up $500 from six tons of ORE
The Castle Dome District mines, Yuma
county, Arizona, have been worked since
1869.
The Colorado MILL Alpine county, is in
operation, and the roasting and teaching
works are busy.
The Buckeye placcrs, Shasta county, are
paying better than usual. A s65 nugget
was found there lately.
A Nevada county Chinaman lately sold
two beautiful nuggets worth $500. He
found them near Omega.
The Standard Consolidated mine pro-
duced $l6G, $40 in April, of which Sl3, IL
was silver and the remainder gold.
The fire in the old works of the Consoli.
dated Virginia mine is considered to be
under control. 1t occasions no anxiety.
The Loan Star Mining Company, near
Smartsville, have struck ledge two and a
half feet wide, containing plenty of free
gold.
Scribner & Wiseman of Portuguese
Point. Butte county, have taken out over
81 800 from their gravel claims in three
weeks.
The San Francisco Copper Company, at
Spenceville, are making substantial i'm
provements. About 1876 men are en-
ployed.
The old Clear Creek mining ditch, Shas.
ia county, is to be repaired. Centerville
miners will pay about $500 per week for
water from it.
The Clipper Gapiro mine is now in full
blast, and is turning out very excellent
quality of iron at the rate OF about twenty
five tons per day.
A Baltimore firm have leased the Flores
chrome mine in San Luis Obispo county
for five years, paying s. per ton for all the
! ore they can extract.
The North Bonanza owed So, 93l on the
lst and the New York S4,470. 1t is re.
ported that both companies will have to
look to stockholders for relief.
The old Calaveras Empire mine is a
gravel claim, worked by means of an in
cline tunnel, and the hosting works are
run by water power. The tunnel is in - D
! feet.
The Vanderbilt mine, situated on Chap
arral He'll, Calaveras county, near Carsons,
is now being worked. This mine contains
high-grade ore, and the vein is several feet
wide.
The Washoe Lake placer diggings are
paying well. These diggings were worked
as early as 1850, but were abandoned be-
cause they would not pay more than So a
day to the man.
Despite the 500, 600 collected by the
| Union Consolidated during the past two
s., 900 on the lst. Another assessment
this month is considered unavoidable.
The Sierra Nevada owed S2I, lS2 on the
lst. An assessment of 500. 900 was levied
April 22d TO cover this Indebtedness and
provide for future expenses. 1t seems that
the ore taken out from week TO week is
insufficient to meet current obligations.
Work is being prosecuted vigorously in
the Rising Sun mine at Coliax by extend
ing the drifts, making up-raises and cross
cuts and sinking WINES. Besides this a
new hosting shaft has been started, con-
tanning two large compartments to open up
the western part OF the miae, 90 what 10
known as the old western chute. Seventy
men are employed.