Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-28
MINING NOTES.

A mining boom in the vicinity of Nash
vile, FL Dorado county.
! Several mines have been bonded lately st
Murphy's. Calsverss county.
The Arcadian, Greenville, Plumas county.
is developing into fine piece of property.
The Haviah mine, Nashville, promises to
become the boss mine of Ell Dorado county.
Reports from the Plscerito and Piru
Canons show that they are proving remuner-
alive.
Red Mountain district, north of Virginia,
is exhibiting rich ore from a ledge recently
found.
1t is reported that they are taking out very
rich ore from the Mammoth mine at Nam.
moth City.
Rumors come of an important new strike
in the old Modoc mine Lookout district,
Inyo county.
The Milton mine at Grizzly Flat, FL Do.
RADIO county. had the largest clean up lately
that it has yet made.
A body of ore sssaying S19S per ton has
been struck in the Lsvenfeldt tunnel, Jordan
District, Mono county.
A ledge of twenty inches in width, in the
Piru District. Santa Barbara county, shows
240 ounces of silver and $40 in gold to the
ton.
There are fifty tons of $500 assay ore on the
dump at the Marion mine, Whiskytown,
Shasta county, and fifty tons more coming
out.
The Plymouth Consolidated Company of
Amador county, has 100 stamps in operation,
and is paying its monthly dividend regularly.
A great deal of building is reported as be-
ing done in the vicinity of the Ceur d'Alene
mines. The weather is fine and there is lit
tie frost at night. Snow is two feet deep on
level in the gulcb.
The company working the Gold Cliff mine
in the vicinity of Angels, Calaveras county,
will soon commence grading for a new mill.
1t is thought that a forty-stamp mill will be
erected near the mine.
| The Lemon mine, on Tunnel Ridge, Gala
veras county, is said to have received its
name from the fact that chispas Of about the
size and shape of lemon were at one time
quite plentiful on the property.
The Bald Mountain Extension Company,
| Forest City, cleaned up last Saturday in their
small dump 100 ounces and l3 pennyweights
from 692 car loads of gravel, averaging over
81 70 per car load Mountain Messenger.
It is rumored that the fve-stamp mill at
Ell Rio, on the California side of the Colorado
river opposit Yuma, which has been shut
down for about eighteen months on account
of litigation, will soon be started up again.
Los Angeles Herald.
On Sunday morning, the Sth, the new fur
mace of the Owens Valley Mining and
Smelling Company, at Etns, Inyo county.
was fred up, charged and the blast turned
on. The yield was good, bat the lead well
blew out, shutting down operations.
Santa Paula Canyon claims to be the great
! oil center of the coast. About 90 barrels
day are now produced there, but so great is
the faith of the people there that they have
erected an iron tank of 5000 barrels capacity
and laid a pipe line nearly 16 miles in length
to carry the oil to the port of San Buenaven-
tura. A well 1000 feet deep is expected to
yield oil soon. Petrolis beats that by yielding
oil at $50 feet.-[Los Angeles Herald.
A company formed in Ventura county,
consisting of T. Il. Bard, Mr.. McCory and
others, have made number of valuable loca-
tiong in the district, and it is reported that
the company will commence work On some of
| their locations about the 1st Of May. These
mines are located on the hesdwsters Of the
| Piru and Sespe creeks, and are distant from
our town about 40 miles. They can be reached
either by trail up the Sespe, or by wagon road
around by Elizabeth Lake and German Sta
tion.-[Ssnts Barbara Independent