Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-03
MINING MENTION.
SAN FRANCISCO. August .. 1851.
MORNING SESSION

a ten.foot ledge, showing well IN gold,
has been found in the Gold Bluff mine,
Nevada county.
The last two carloads of gravel washed
by the Bald Mountain Extension Com
pany, yielded s3S.
A number of the miners formerly en-.
ployed in the North Bloomfield hydraulic
mine at s. 80 day are how working in
the Derbec drift claim at 80 per diem.
Superintendent Sprague says that the
Nevada City mineis looking very well. 1t
is possible that the addition OF ten more
stamps VIII be found necessary this fall.
Judge McConaughy, who is working
tailings on French creek, with new tail
| iDgs machine, cleaned up eighteen ounces
last week, after run of live days.
jim Denoon and party, says the Plumas
National, recently took down $4,000 in
gold bars, the result Of the seasons run at
two hydraulic claims near Gibsonville.
The Pioneer mine, says the Tucson Jour.
nal, owned by Solomon Warner OF Tucson,
and others, has a shaft down ninety feet.
Fifteen tons of ore was hauled to Tucson
and worked at Warmers quartz mill, Ie
turning something over 5000 to the ton.
PIumas National The outlook for
Plumas is fifty 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. There are
lots of water in the pipes now, and the
supply will be good for the rest of the
| season.
Reports give Deadwood District the
cake. The Trinity Journal says: The
| Mcdonald boys struck quartz vein on the
| Gibson location, some of which is said to
go as high as Sl5 to the pound. VIM.
| Lappen has quartz that goes 81 900 to the
ton. Grayson & Co. will have their To-
stamp steam mill in operation by the end
of next week."
| A. III. Scott has discovered another pay
ing quartz ledge. 1t is located south of
| Banner Hill and near Stiles goat ranch.
| He now has about twenty tons of ore on
the dump-piie, and it is estimated that the
| rock will pay 925 to the ton. The ledge is
| four feet between walls Mr.. Scott has
the prospect of good thing. The woods
of all Nevada county are full OF quartz
ledges that will pay well-ledgss that have
never yet been tried.-LFree Lance.
The Redding Independent says; AS
| work progresses in the mines on Iron
mountain prospects brighten. The lower
| tunnel has tapped the same body of ore as
exists in the upper tunnel, one hundred
feet nearer the surface, which proves that
| there is an immense body OF ore. Colonel
Magee says that the ore viii assay on an
average about $50 to the ton. 4. Potter
and others, experienced miners, have faith
in the rich future Of the mine on Iron
mountain.
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| Farmer writes the following from Cherokee
place Cherokee is chiefly one ziezag streak
on the side of the mountain. 1t has q pop
ulation of about 600. The mines at this
place have been considered the most ex-
tensive hydraulic mines in the State, yet
| only about 200 men are employed, and no
more can be proftably employed, since the
number is limited by the supply of water
| The mines are In operation both night and
day, and powerful electric lights are used
during the night. Electricity is generated
| by machine which is operated by water
| power.
| Considerable excitement hassbeen occa-
stoned by the discovery OF fich gold.bea
| Keyser gulch, Fresno county. Several
gentlemen well known in San Jose are
Implicated" in this discovery, but they
are at present mum about the exact local
ity. The bed of the creek, so we are in
formed, was mined years ago, and proved
to be very rich, but the banks above were
never prospected to any extent. The
gravel In the new deposit is of blush
cast, and no doubt indicates the channel
of an ancient river.-[San Jose Times.
The Mariposa Gazette of the 30th instant
says information had just been received
from Yosemite valley that a very rich silver
mine has been discovered in Mono coun-
ty, near Mount Huffman, which. is about
thirty miles to the eastward of Lake Te-
noya. The informant stated that the sill
yer is contained in pebbles, varying in size
from a pea to a hens egg and larger. The
pebbles are red in color on the outside and
blue on the inside, and are imbedded
in a dry substance, which, when wet
| becomes a very compact clay. These
pebbles assay $500 to the ton. The
| extent of the belt as far as discovered is
| four miles. On the news Of the discovery
| being made known about five hundred
people from the surrounding country, but
mostly from Toga District, aocked
to the mines and located claims. Besides
these, ninety to hundred people passed
through the Yosemite valley for the same
place.