Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-28
MINING MENTOR.

\ new strike of rich ore is reported ON
the Shonbar mine, Utah.
At the last cleanup the Cherokee Min
ing Company cast four gold bricks, aggre
eating SIP, 900. weighing over 800 pounds
avoirdupois.
Thirty men are at work on the Valentine
mill, at Glencoe, Calaveras county. The
grading for the mill site is completed, and
men have gone to work in the tunnel.
Mining is said to be progressing favor
ably in Siberia under Government direc-
ton. 1t is also taking rapid strides in st.
Petersburg under the management of the
Nihilists.
A find of limestone has been discovered
in the Santiago canyon, Tuolumne, which,
it is claimed, will furnish product equal
to the best Santa Cruz. The find will be
Immediately developed.
Some prospectors in the Santiago can
yon, while sinking for coal, accidentally
struck an artesian WELL which will be de-
veloped for irrigating purposes. The shaft
will be abandoned for mining.
Whiting is pushing the work on his
Quartz claim at French Ravine. 1t is
thought that rich pay rock will be found
when the tunnel is driven about forty feet
further ahead III Plumas National.
The Rising Sun gravel mine and the
Hidden Treasure quartz mine, situated
Just below Loganville, Plumas county,
have been sold to parties below, says
rumor. The price paid was $500
Somewhere east of 0roville few miles
another rich discovery in quartz is reported
by Chinaman, who will not tell its where.
abouts until he can find out the ownership
of the land. The rock shows abundance
OF free gold.
After drifting q distance of ninety feet
through hard rock, the Bounsall BOYS have
struck very fine vein several feet thick.
The ore looks very much like that taken
from the Elephant, which assays shows. to
be rich in silver.-[Calistogan.
Miners and prospectors of Yavapai
county have organized society in Pres
colt for the dissemination OF practical in
formation in regard to mines. The inten-
tion is to acquire collection of ores from
the different mines and to place them in o
large cabinet for general inspection.
The Semi Tropic, of Cotton, says The
Slower Mountain Mining Company contin-
ues to go down toward China! The main
shaft is now down about so feet, and in
very good rock. The ledge continues to
increase, and indications are favorable for
large body of pay ore soon being struck.
The new shaft being sunk on the Marys-
vile quartz mine (adjoining the Idaho on
the east has been sunk and timbered a
distance of twenty feet. The shaft, under
the present contract, is to be sunk to the
drain tunnel level, depth of 100 feet
The walls of the vein have the same geo.
logical characteristics as the Idaho
[Grass Valley Union.
E. w. Woodward, D. B. Carver, Will
lam Mccormick and Sylvaro Ruin have
located an iron mine on the mountain east
of Rutherford, Napa county, about mile
from the Whitton quicksilver mine. The
locations, four in number, are each
60xl 800 feet, equal altogether to an area
of eighty acres. The owners are sanguine
of its richness.
We understand that the last dividend
made few weeks ago by the Great West
ern Mining Company amounted to Sl2, 500.
There are only two quicksilver mines in
California that are reported as paying div
idends thus far this year-the one above
mentioned, and the Napa Consolidated
Mining Company, whose last dividend was
Sl0,0 00.-[The Callstogan.
a party of San Francisco men have
styled themselves the columbia Mining
Company" and have purchased the Stay ton
mine, near Five Mile Creek. About twenty
men are at work grading mill site, prepar-
ing for double shaft, getting out lumber for
mill-house, hosting works, boarding. house,
etc. The mill will be composed of two of
Huntington's patents and Dodge crusher-
capable of crushing II to l6 tons in "a
hours. There are a number of good min
ing prospects in the immediate vicinity
that are bound to be developed in the near
future by some ONE Tuolumne indie
pendent.