Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-03
MIEIsG NOTES.

The boom IN Mohave county, Arizona,
continues.
The miners of Utah are anticipating the
busiest season ever witnessed in the Terri.
tory.
The mining districts in all sections of
Arizona are reported IN the most promising
condition.
Over 400 mining locations have been
filed with the County Clerk of Grant
county, N. NJ, since the first of the year
All the quartz mills down Deer creek are
running again, the water bitches and fumes
having become free of ice.-[ Nevada City
Herald.
The Mayfower mine, of Castle Creek,
Arizona, has a two-foot vein of gold ore
which, at depth of 80 feet, assays from
$500 to S.. 900 per ton.
A Las Vegas company which recently
purchased several mining properties in the
Carpenter District. will stock the same
and put a large force of men at work at an
early day.
The new mining recorder at Haley,
Wood river, has struck veritabie be-
napza, 900 certificates of new locations
having been sent to him for record. At So
each they amount to 81, 700.
The Horn Silver Mining C ,mpany If
Utah announces its regular quarterly divi.
dend Of three per cent, or $500. 600, pay
able on the l5sh of February. making the
total amount paid to date 81. 1000, 600,
The Alice mine, Butte, NJ. T., shipped
January 18Th bullion to the value of So,
| l3l "a, and on the Dist, 81, 10 As, which
| "a ko eh,n-,anT, ka
amount for January to date, S79, 537 IS.
Captain Hardy informs the AEa Arizona,
Mineral Park, that they struck it big in
the Mackberry mine. A body of ore four
feet thick was encountered several days
ago on the 500 foot level, which assays over
$500 per ton.
The Republican mine in the Caballo
Mountains, N. NJ, is said by many who
have visited it, to be one of the most won.
derful properties ever discovered on this
continent. The vein is thirty.cne feet
wide, and assays from $50 to $50 in silver,
with large per cent. of lead.
There are large deposits of gold. and-sil.
YER bearing quartz embraced in the Moses
reservation, on the Upper Columbia,
Washington Territory. Quite number of
claims have been taken up on the 0kana-
gan, which lie there unworked because the
country awarded to Moses includes the
mines.
Harlow Gilbert, of tie firm of Daclez &
Gilbert, has discovered one of the richest
nickel mines in the United States within
Eve hours ride from Los Angeles. Assays
show 66 per cent pure for the best speci-
mems, and 80 per cent. for the poorer
specimens. An expert reports that it will
be valuable discovery to Los Angeles
Times.
We were shown some very rich soeci-
mems of quartz one day last week, which
were taken from the Leavitt mine, situated
near the Big B r bridge, on the Mokelumne
river. The rock was taken from depth
of forty feet, and the vein at that point is
large and well defined. Considerable work
has been done upon the mine in the way OF
prospecting. -[Calavera Chronicle.
The latest excitement in mining matters
here was that occasioned by the finding OF
fine quartz groupings in the mountains four
miles south of Windwhistle, in Sonoma
county. The ledge can be traced some dis.
tance, and the quartz taken from it is really
fine, and assays show it to contain from
Sl4 to S692 in silver to the ton, the former
being the very lowest. OF course this ground
has already been well covered with Ioca.
tions. Nothing of any Importance had
previously been discovered in the hills anc
mountains on that side of the valley; but
the croppiDgs mentioned are, as near as W.
can Judge, the finest yet found in this 10
caiity.5[ Calistogian.