Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-08
NOTES FROM 81 DORADO COUNTY.
Something of the Various Mines in that
Vicinity.


Vicinity.
EDS RECORD UNION In my last spoke
of some of the causes of decay of the min
ing interests at Grizzly Flat. 1t is situated
70 miles east of Sacramento city, "A miles
southeasterly from Placerville, and rs
miles from Single Springs. Since the
boom last spring there has been daily
stage from Piacerville and semi.weekly
one from Shingle Springs, allowing parties
coming here to leave Sacramento in the
morning and reach Grizzly Flat the
same day. On their arrival they
find three good hotels, three stores,
and the town looking new and lively,
with new school. house and many new
cottages. We have all the benevolent So
cieties, Masons, Odd Fellows, Workmen
and Chosen Friends, all in prosperous
his arrival the difference between the camp
now and the camp three years ago. What
has made the change? We find on exami.
nation, after crossing the b5lt in q
southerly direction, three gold. bearing
quartz lodes runn ng north and south, with
a slate belt from one to two miles wide,
the three quartz lodes running parallel
from one to five hundred yards apart, all
gold. bearing, and some have been and are
now very rich. The Mount Pleasant mine
is the deepest, the shaft being 600 feet deep,
and had paid from the surface down. The
lode was small on the surface, from six
on the 600-foot level. This mine is con-
sidered one of the best in the State, and is
managed by Captain Smith, who keeps a
20 stamp mill running night and day, and
if that wise "mine- killer" who reported
it "no good could behold one months
clean up, he would say "Alas if had
that coin would be seen in Pauper alley
no more but, like the man in Missouri,
would go to 'keepin' grocery"
North of the Mt. Pleasant we find the
mine owned by E. R. Morey. This man,
of all others, is one that has done more to
keep the camp alive than any man in it !;
for when it looked dark and the town of
Grizzly was dead, he kept steadily
at work with his 5.stamp mill,
contending against all the difficulties
poor man comes in contact with, when
he tries to open mine without coin. For
years he stood alone and said, time will
prove there are good mines here" and
when HIS hair is white and his body bent
with years of toll, his days are made happy
by the sound of many quartz mills reveal
ing the golden treasure. West of Mr..
A 60 81 Ea1lo hr,o
ramento company. This mine paid largely
in early days, but from many causes has
not been worked for years, only little
surface prospecting. The company own
their own ditch and steam hosting works,
and report says the mine is to be opened
next spring by an Eastern company, and if
so, will prove second Mt. Pleasant. All
this mine needs is money, brains and
little time to open it.
Next we find on the east lode, and near
the Eagle, the Day mine, that has been
idle twenty.three years, until last fall Mr..
j. M. Day, one of the owners, and some
others, sunk shaft on the mine down to
new ground, finding four feet of good ore,
getting assays as high as $50 per ton. Mr..
Day has formed company and will, am
told, commence work as soon as spring
opens. Mr.. Day is one of the ablest
miners on tde Coast, and for years his
Judgment has been taken in this State and
Nevada, not as mine killer, but as prac-
tical miner of forty years experience.
Next, we visit the Grouse Gulch mine, on
the west lode Here we find shaft 100
feet deep and steam hosting works idle.
As to who owns the mine it is
hard to say, but one thing know, the
0re looks well and prospects well,
and men that have worked there say it is
A good mine. Northeast is the Eagle King,
On the middle lode. This is an Incorporated
they have run tunnel 800 feet
On the lode, and have crushed some of the
pre-. They have Dyer cannon-bsll mill,
and own their own ditch. From what
could see, think this is good mine but .
the owners are, like many others, poor and
want to sell. Next north is the Melton
mine, Superintendent II. FL. Mcclellan,
md we find everything ship-shape, fifteen
stamp water mill running, and tunnels be-
ng run on the lode, steam hosting works,
working shaft being sunk, and every
thing being done to prepare the mine for
working next spring, and when Nc. gets
mis- dead work done this mine will
prove what can be done with
money and an experienced man to see that
the coin is not foolishly expended. Yester-
lay we visited the old Eureka or Treat
mine, which has been idle for twenty-five
years. l am told by QUE of the old owners
Of this property that the ore paid we'll, hut
he worked the ore in an arastra, and before
he reached live sulphurets he had trouble
with his partners, and was compelled to
stop work. The mine belongs now to
lady in San Francisco, Mrs. j. ID. Treat.
Adjoining the Treat lode is the Sacra-
mento, MIR. Ballard, formerly Of Sacra-
mento, in charge. Mr.. Billiard came here
two or three years ago, and was one of
the first to see that he had found the
right place to prospect, and after
looking around a few days conf
menced work on the Sacramento mine,
secured a water right, and has built
an eight stamp mill and crushed enough
ore to warrant his going ahead, and the
other day he arrived here with machinery
for an air-compressor to run his Burleigh
drills and things look lively, and soon we
can say as our neignbors in the adjoining
counties said twenty years ago, "We have
got Burleigh drill" This camp wants
few more live men like MIR. Ballard.
have now reached the north fork of the
Costumes river, and am compelled to say
that what is called the North End, the
Mount Hope, the Flagstaff and other mines
are idle at present, but are only waiting
for spring weather to open, as they have to
haul the ore one mile to the mills. On the
middle lode we find A. A. Gignac at work
on the Rip Van Wrinkle, and from
the looks of the ore they have
good mine. Gus and his partner are work
ing it themselves, are stayers, but not the
old stayers l spoke OF in my last just
east of this mine is the Saroni mine. They
have a cannon.ba mill and good lode,
owned by Mr.. Saroni and Captain Rick
ards. Now we have reached five miles
north Of Grizzly, l will go back, and we
will see what is to be found south. On
my way back met an old miner, one that
has been mining for years. He asked me
where l had b zen. told him. He said,
"Now, if you are looking for good mines,
Just examine the gravel mine belonging to
Wat. & Ghallager." l did SO, and found
they have large mine, one-half mile
east of Grizzly. This looks like mine
that would pay if it had machinery to
work it. The gravel is cemented, and will
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