Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-15
MINING NOTES.

There is considerable excitement over
the reported discovery of rich placer dig
gings at Skull creek, a tributary of Flat
creek, about miles from Willow Creek
Station, on the Winnemucca and Idaho
road. Coarse gold has been discovered
there, and claims have been located nearly
the entire length of the stream. 1t is also
reported that very rich veins of gold. bear
ing quartz have been discovered in the
mountains at the head of the creek Tus-
carora Review.
The Lucky S. mine in Esmeralda district
continues to improve the more it is opened.
The ledge is now about four feet wide, and
at least half of this is very rich. Ore is
being got out as rapidly as possible, and by
spring a large amount will be stored ready
for milling. The work of building a mill
will begin in all probability just as soon as
it is possible to deliver material after the
roads open. The proprietors are quite ju-
bllaut over their prospect.-[Greenville
Bulletin.
We are pleased to note great activity on
the part of our miners in regard to lead
prospects, which until lately were almost
valueless. Now everything is changed,
and galena lodges are at a premium, and
those who are fortunate enough to own
such are invariably having the assessment
work done on them instead of trusting to
the chance of relocation. The amount of
lead ores shipped from Mohave county next
year will be enormous, and we predict that
their value will exceed that of al other
kinds of ore put together MUhave Coun-
ty, A. T., Miner.
There is some excitement at Poker
Flat on account of quartz. Lindsay and
Sutherland have located the ledge formerly
known as the Marchini property, on the
south side of Canyon creek. Two tons of
the rock were sent below, the returns from
which were SIS per ton in gold. The ledge
is seven feet wide, and has been pros
pected in ten or more places with salts
factory results. 1t is a north and south
ledge, and gold can often be seen in the
rock. There is considerable quartz in this
section, and doubtless much of it will pay
when properly developed. - Downieville
Messenger.
BLACK BART AND THE SKUSK.-The fol.
lowing is from the Stockton independents
Black Bart tells Of one experience he had
stOpyin RAss career as a highwayman. He
had interviewed a party of travellers by
stage, aud got small haul for his trouble
After starting the stage on with the gentle
admonition to the driver to go on and never
look back, or he would drop MIN, he as
was his custom, pitched into the brush, He
had not been walking very long when he
heard voices behind him, and looking down
the mountain aide could see several horse.
men and footmen coming in his direction at
a lively gait TRey ware gaining on him
very fast, and he was compelled to do some
thing suddenly or be captured. The only
chance for escape was to secrete himself
before they caught sight of him. He began
looking about him, and noticed large,
hollow mr. log which lay on the ground
Plunging into it head first just before the
vigilantes came in sight, he crawled to the
furthest end of the hole, but be discovered
to his horror that he had company, which
by the peculiar oior emitted he concluded
was a polecat-in fact, he knew it was 1t
was a time for tears but not for retreat, and
he lay there in mortal agony aud heard his
pursuers come up and sit down on the log,
while their dog tried to make the scquaiat-
snce of the fragrant occupant of the hole
in the log. The smell finally drove them
away, and Bart crawled hurriedly out, not
only sick at heart and with the world, but
terribly sick at the stomach. He declares
that he did not get over the effects OF his
experience in the log for three months af-
forward, and that it nearly cured him Of
his propensity for robbing stages.