Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-13
MINING NOTES.

The Chaparral tunnel, Placerville, is in
l25 feet.
The mining. jumping season opens up
briskly in the Black Hills.
Tin, silver and lead in paying quantities
have been discovered near Ilwaco, Or.
The new hoisting works at the Derbec.
drift mine, Nevada county. have begun
work.
The old Elizabeth town mines, Plumas
county, continue to turn out nuggets OF
large size.
The Duffield gravel mine, jackson coun-
ty, Or, has yielded $40, 600 from quarter
of an acre.
Spenceville copper ore now smelts 40per
cent, and the teaching process cannot be
used longer
The Rainbow quartz mine, Chips Flat,
Sierra county, has taken out SIS, 900 in the
last 10 days.
The stenographio reporting and tran
scribing in the Richmond-Albion case cost
in round numbers 81, 100.
The Nevada Hydraulic Company, near
Little York, Nevada county, are said to be
drifting in rich gravel in their claim.
Snyder concentrators are used at Rough
and Ready, Nevada county, and elsewhere
for saving sulphurets also for black sand.
Ford & Co. took out several more boxes
of rich gold-bearing specimens from the
Ford & Mullen claim, Grass Valley, last
week.
| Mining operations are active in Little
York township. Nevada county, and the
hydraulic companies are making the most
of their water supply.
Considerable mining is opening up at
Angels Camp, Calaveras county. Men are
prospecting, and arasiras are running in
many places. The electric light has been
introduced.
1t is reported that Placerville farmer
has an acre of land so situated that it
catches tailings. He sold the privilege of
washing it out for S400 few months ago,
and it has since filled up again
The several gravel claims owned by East
ern parties at Simmons, Tehama county
the jackson Hydraulic Mining and other
companies-have been consolidated under
the name of Deer Creek Mining Company.
At Big Bar, on the Klamath, 5000 was
cleaned up after a thirteen days run, and
work is being pushed day and night. San
Francisco capitalists are examining Browns
property at Orleans Bar, Del Norte
county.
Two Bodie men who were prospecting in
the Sweetwater region by means of a
divining rod, have been " fred out" of the
district by the superstitious miners, and
have been prospecting in the vicinity of
Wellington.
Near Mokelumne Hill they are putting
up mill and hosting works on the Gwin
Raymond mine, in Old Woman's Gulch,
the property of Gouldstone & Co. also on
the Corral Flat mine, belonging to Robin
son, Gouldstone & Co.
The Maryland Mining Company of Grass
Valley, who own the eastern extension of
the famous Idaho, at a recent meeting,
elected Samuel P. Dorsey, President, and
John G. Coleman, Treasurer. They will
put up machinery at once.
In the Sardine claim, on the Middle
Fork, near Greenwood, El Dorado county,
the tunnel mas been driven about three
fourths of the way across the river, under
its bed, and no gravel yet encountered.
An up-raise will be starred during the,
week, through which the bed OF the stream
will be reached
In Northern Senoma work progresses at
the Mount jackson Quicksilver mine, and
E. G. Hall is now engaged in refittiDg the
furnace. The new Burleigh steam drill
works well, doing the work which formerly
required several men. The Great Eastern
mine is about free from water again, and is
prospering as usual.
The Mammoth lode, in Silver Mountain
is called the largest and best defined gold
and ver-bearing quartz ledge in Arizona,
and can, it is said, be made to yield pay
ore in sufficient quantities to keep every
stamp in the Territory constantly employed
for twenty years. The solid ledge is from
$50 to $50 feet wide, and crops boldly out.
for more than mile and . half along the,
vein.