Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-12-30
MINING NOTES.

hich strikes continue to be reported in
New Mexico. -
The Poleta Company. at op Greek.
will soon start un work.
.fs'cn rock as coming from the Ginocchio
mine, says the Amador Dispatch.
Within week the estimate of the ore in
sight in the Mount Cory mine has been
raised one million dollars.
The Columbia Copper Company shipped
three carloads of bullion on Thursday.
This property is proving one of the big
copper bonanzas of Arizona.
Rich strikes made in the Portuguese
claim at Yreka the past few days have
created much excitement, and the owners
expect to find rich bonanza
The Maggie May is in the Magazine Dis.
trict, A. T., on ledge that may be traced
for miles. This is the only development
among many locations. It is said te be a
true contact vein.
Messrs. Jensen & Skinner, of the Yreka
Foundry, are busily engaged in making the
machinery OF five.stamp quartz n4ill for
Bailey, Bowles & Brown, of the Grizzly
Gulch Bonanza, near Indian creek.
The Eureka Leader learns that the
"new fiud in the Eberhardt and Aurora
tunnel, White Pine district, is improving
in appearance and in the assay value of the
ore. Some recent assays ran very high
from S400 to $500 per ton.
The latest of important silver mines.
says the Mariposa Gazette, are those sit.
uated at the base of Mount RAYMOND,
about twelve miles above Big Tree Station.
The ledge is about 80 feet across, and con.
tains a great amount of base ore containing
silver, copper, lead and other base metals.
Prospectors have discovered very rich
gold placer diggings near the Real del Gas.
tillo, Baia California. As high as 81, 81,
So and So so have been taken out of a pan
of dirt, and 81, 81 % and 81 so chispas,
or pieces of gold, have been found. How
extensive the placers are is not yet known.
-[San Diego Sun.
The Black Range Consolidated Mining
Company has filed articles of Incorporation,
to carry on mining in New Mexico. The
Directors are Solomon Hydenfelt, Henry
NJ. Levy, Morris Hoehich, Robert Sher-
wood and Archibald Borland Capital
stock, $40, 600, 900, divided into shares of
500 each. The sum of $50, 900 has been
subscribed for. A number of Comstock
experts nave examined Gne mine OF this
company and reported favorably upon it.
Virginia Enterprise,
At the Lincoln coal mine the new hoist.
ing works, now about completed, are So
feet high. The pumping machinery has
been started, and as soon as the mine is
dry the work of extracting ore from the
new shaft will commence. The coal is
found to be much better by being seasoned,
and for this purpose large new coal
bunker is being built, 200 feet long and II
feet wide, and calculated to hold about 80
carloads Of coal. 1t is built above the
ground, with an incline bottom and slide
doors, that ca-s may be run along the eide
and loaded without the labor of handling
the COAL Placer Ferald.
A gentleman of tiis city has invented 8
drill which is said, by men who arc good
judges, to excel anything ever before in.
vented in that line. It has been thoroughly
tested in the very hardest kind of rock to
be found in the county, and is doing its
work to perfection. The cost is about two.
thirds less than the Burleigh, Ingersoll or
any other of the high.toned drills in use.
1t will do as much work as any of them at
a great deal less expense. The gentleman
invented the drill for his own use in run
ming long tunnel and we are not Informed
whether he will get out patent for it, o,
whether he will attempt to introduce il
into the market. Nevada Transcript.