Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-09
MINING MATTERS.

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Five hundred men are now employed in
the mines OF the Cerrillos District, n. M.
The Horseshoe claim, located about two
miles from Mineral City, N. NJ, in the
Tecolote canyon, is now being developed.
Part of the machinery for 100 stamp
mill is on the ground at White Oaks, n
NJ. The Merrimac mine, which has proved
itsef to be an immense property, will fur
nish the ore for the mill.
Prospectors are making the Organs and
San Andreas ranges, New Mexico, prom
inent objects OF their explorations, and
there is no doubt but that the spring of
1882 will open with a general mining boom
along the whole line of those two ranges.
1t is reported that the famous Black
Lode, of Holcomb valley, has been found
at last. The lucky prospectors are Messrs.
Boyd and Page. If this last find should
prove to truly be the long sought.after
lode, our county will soon lead other por-
tions OF the Pacific coast as a gold produc-
ing region. -[Colton Semi. Tropic.
The Bunker Hill district, situated in the
Galura mountains, about eighteen miles
east of the San Pedro river. promises to be
ore of the great copper centers of Arizona
as it has an abundance of ore, with the best
facilities for their reduction. The proper.
ties of Mr.. Mcdonald, from whom the
information was obtained, are said to be
looking especially WE'LL Arizona Enter
prise.
A claim, in which very rich indications
are being found, was recently located by Mr..
Milich and is owned by him. 1t is situated
about 600 feet south of, and running paral.
lei with, the j. & X. He has shaft about
thirty feet deep, and has crosscut to the
| walls each way. He found well. defined
walls on each side of the ledge, of clay,
fully three inches thick, and for the depth
| it is the best showing ever made in the
camp Reno Gazette.
Owing to the favorable report upon the
Victorine mine, at Kingston, made by Su.
perintendent Richard Of the Richmond
mine, Eureka, the parties in England own
ing the Victorine have concluded to add
seventy more stamps to the present milling
facilities for reducing the ore from this
mine. Colonel G. c. Morgan, Superintend-
ent of the VictoriDe, was in San Francisco
recently making arrangements for the re-
quisite machinery and material for the new
milling addition.-[Austin Reveillc.
The Battle Mountain Messenger of Sat.
urday says the Highland Chiefs new 40.
stamp mil, in Lewis, is rapidly nearing
completion. 1t also says the railroad will
| shortly be completed to the Highland Chief
| mine, and as soon az the new locomotive
arrives, the road will be put in operation
and new era will be open for Lewis. The
mines, that paper says, are still promising,
and there is no doubt about the Lewis
mines being able to keep both the High.
land Chief and Eagle mills running. The
latter started up this week on Starr Grove
ore, and it is the intention to start the new
mill as soon as completed.
John Hardesty, of Florence, one of the
well known mining men of the Territory.
visited the Silver King mine recently, and
went down into the 700-foot level. They
are now chambering out this level ready
to stope. The chamber in the longest part
was l0l feet, and the greatest width then
rs feet, though the limit of the ore body
had not been reached in any direction, The
character of the ore is the same as above,
only richer. Native silver and black sui
phurets abound. The King mine is phen-
| omenal. Nature was more generous with
silver than with the quartz to carry it.
The quartz streak which largely carries
native silver and black sulphurets il only
| about ten feet wide. The balance of the
mineral is in what is termed vein poryhyry.
This mine still takes the lead as far as
developed resources go.-[ Tucson Citizen.
j. f. Dodds, who is probably the most
experienced prospector and miner in this
county, and who has done more to bring its
mines into notice than any other one man,
called on US yesterday, and brought with
him some very valuable specimens from
his new mine-the Oversight He informs
us that his company has run tunnel in the
mountain seyenty-two feet for the purpose
of tapping the vein, and are now sinking an
incline to meet the tunnel. At depth of
thirty.two feet they struck the ledge, find.
ing welldefined ore body some three and
half feet thick. The ore carries large
amount of sulphurets as well as fine gold.
They have taken out considerable ore.
which they think will pay on an average
over S75 per ton, while some 400
pounds of the selected ore will yield over
81 to the pound. The ore resembles thai
from the Enterprise mine. The company
think they have valuable property, and,
If the specimen left on our desk is a cri.
terion, we agree with them. About one
mile from the Oversight is the claim Of
Messrs. Lang and Mcclellan. They have
sunk an incline to the depth of 100 feet, at
which point they started level to meet
partially completed tunnel, and after drift
ing few feet they struck a four-foot vein
of ore of very high grade. They also have
what is supposed to be very valuable
mine.-T Fresno Ex o3itor.