Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-24
THE DAILY RECORD UNION.
MINING NOTES.

James Owens is putting up a 20-stamp
mill in Amador county.
The Good Hope mill, Sierra county, is
ready to start. The tramway and dump.
houses are finished and the shoes and dies
In place.
The Golden Bull mine at Lowell Hill,
Nevada county, is worked by the drifting
process. They are employing twenty-five
men, and the company is doing well.
Thirty nine loads of ore, estimated to be
worth 5000 a load, from the Ford & Null
len mine at Grass Valley, is being milled
Eleven men and boys extracted it in two
months,
The old Oriental quartz mine, now called
the Golden Gate, at Allegheny, suspended
work and raised their pump few days ago,
beating the workmen out OF about Two
months pay.
The new ten-stamp cement mill being
built at the Hayward mine at You Bet,
Nevada county, is now being put together
at the mine, and will be ready for work ID
about six weeks.
a rich mineral district has been discov-
cred by some Prescott, a. T., prospectors,
close by the line of the Atlantic and Pa
cific Railroad, about five miles from the
Needles, on the Colorado.
Work is still being pushed vigorously
ahead on the Burning Moscow, Calico dis
trict, San Bernardino county. Twelve
men are now working On the shaft, which
is down thirty feet, in good ore all the
way.
1t is reported, says the Astorian, that a
vein of coal four feet in depth has been dis
covered near Jewell, on the Nehalem.
Also new vein OF some thickness north
east of Garibaldi, between Miami and
Nehalem.
c. R. Thompson, the owner of the Tele-
graph Hill mine, which is situated in Red.
ding Canyon, Bishop creek, Inyo county,
has uncovered the ledge at different points
for distance of 800 feet, and at present
the ledge is eighteen inches wide of ore
that works by mill process 500 per ton.
The Gold Hill Mining Company at Grass
Valley has applied for patent to its
ground. This was the first ground located
for quartz mining in that district, in the
year 1850, and in all probability the first
claim located for that purpose in the State,
as Gold Hill was the scene OF the first
quartz operations in California.
Messrs. Smith, True and Stalker, of the
Alpine placer claim, Alpine county, having
completed the survey for their ditch, are
now engaged in taking the water out of
Markleeville creek, at point below Pleas
ant valley. They expect to have the water
on the claim in a few weeks. The ditch
will be over two miles in length.
One cubic foot of lead ore weighs 474
pounds thus, vein of galena, or lead ore,
one foot wide, six feet high and six feet
long otherwise fathom) will produce
eight tons FIVE hundred and thirty two
pounds, or vein one and one-half inches
wide will net one ton OF ore per fsthom
three inches wide, two tons; six inches
wide, four tons.
A contract has been let to George G.
Allan for the building of new twenty.
stamp mill at the Merrifeld mine, Nevada
City. Ground has been broken and a com.
mencement made for the foundation of the
new building. The new twenty stamp mill
is to be supplied with eight of Frue's con.
contractors. This will give the Merrifield
mine forty stamps and sixteen concen-
traitors. ~ 81 ~ rs ~
An old prospector says that the Trinity,
Salmon and hiamath river country is the
richest ground on the whole coast, but is
about twenty years behind the times. They
have not had the advantages of the use Of
improved machinery. and claims on the
rivers that now pay $40 day to the man,
by the use of the primitive pan and rocker,
could be made to yield an enormous amount
if they were well worked.
The tunnel started nineteen months
ago to tap George Schumpf's ledge in VII.
low Springs, Southern Oregon, has been
completed. The ledge was struck on the
23d ultimo at depth of l 10 feet below the
surface of the ground, and is four and one
half feet wide. showing a large quantity of
fine quartz. Prospecting viii commence at
once, Sohumpf intending to erect arastras
and test the quartz thoroughly before in.
vesting in a mill. The tunnel is 269 feet
long, through the hardest of cement and
rock