Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-12
MINING MENTION.

Reports ara afoat at Hornitos that rich
pockets OF gold have been strnck in the di-
rection of Cotton creek.
1t is reported that the purchase of the
Lizzie L. series of mines by the KIT Carson
Company is about to occur at Eureka, New.
Some hydraulic mining on small scale
is being done in the sag northeast of the
Lent shaft, Bodie. The water comes from
the Red Cloud.
The Sterling Mining Company is about
purchasing more ground in the vicinity of
Sterlingville. They will soon own nearly
all the diggings in that section 0rego.
Man.
The outlook for Plumas, says the Ma.
tionai is so per cent. better at the present
time than ever before. The mines never
looked half as well and new ones are being
discovered every day.
a fine vein of silver ore has been dis
covered in the Beveridge district, Inyo
county. Two assays OF the ore, made by
Mr.. Woodruff, show respectively 1857 OS
and S494 81 per ton in silver.
The Cotton paper says the Pinacate min
ing district, in the northern part of San
Diego county, continues to hold its own.
New discoveries are continually being
made, and considerable work being done
on the main shafts.
Colonel Ned Byrne, formerly of San
Francisco, is working nickel mine near
Columbus, Esmeralda county, New, for
New York parties. The mine is opening
with exceedingly good prospects, and viii
likely be sold in Europe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Waterman arrived in
town Tuesday evening, leaving their min
ing claim at Raccoon Bar Sunday. They
report everything quiet in that section, no
work, except in general way, being done
at this season of the year Ferndale En-.
terprise.
a correspondent from Tucson District,
Arizona, says: There is a heavy mineral
belt in these mountains tthe Patagonia
range) entirely undeveloped as yet. The
men who get ore can do nothing with it.
There is plenty of timber and water, and
the district is quite a large one.
We are informed that there are from %
to so men at work in Desert District,
about six miles from the Desert Crystal
Salt Works at White Plains. The Churchill
mill and mining company are running
their six-stamp mill steadily on ores from
several mines which they own in the dis
trict, and the yield is said to be salts
factory. Winnemucca Silver State.
The furnace of the iron mines near Clip.
per Gap, Cal, is turning out about thirty
tons OF pig iron per day. 1t is reported
that the iron company has ordered from
the East all the necessary machinery for a
rolling mill, which will be erected near the
furnace. 1t is the intention to manufac.
ture railroad iron, gas pipe and such other
iron wares as will command a profit on this
coast.
Frank Souchet says he has about j. 600
tons OF ore opened up at his Bunker HUI
mine near North Bloomfield. The last
crushing paid 50 ton, which is a little
less than can reasonably be expected after
the footwall is reached. The cost of ex-
tracing from the open cut and milling
aggregates 81 80 Per ton, leaving nice
margin for working as long as The ore con-
tinues as abundant as it is now.
The Mariposa Ga1ette says In shaft
recently sunk about twenty feet deep, near
the old works where the Diltz mine was
opened when it wac first discovered, rich
body of ore has been struck, and free gold
can be seen letting out all through without
the aid of glass. We had the pleasure
of seeing about twenty pounds of this
rock, taken from the bottom of the shaft,
and it appears as we have stated.
The Washington mine has been closed
down for short time, because sufficient
quantity of water with which to run the
machinery could not be obtained. Work,
however, will be resumed, we understand,
in about two weeks. 1t is most probable
that the Washington Company will put up
steam power, as water power cannot be con-
stantly depended upon. Water can be
used part OF the time. and in dry times
steam will take hold Of the wheels. -[Gssss
Valley Free Lance.