Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-11
MINING NOTES.

A new shaft is being sunk on the Girard
mine, Tombstone.
A rich deposit of fire-clay has been found
within the city limits of Santa Fe, n NJ.
The furnaces of the iron mine at Clipper
Gap are reported 10 have closed for sea
son.
A ten-stamp mill has been started up on
Deadwood. Trinity county, on rock from
the Brown Bear mine.
1t is reported that a rich strike has been
made iii the Summers Consolidated tunnel,
on the Howell claim, at Sweetwater, New
Several valuable specimens of tin ore
have been found in Montana, near the
boundary line at the head of ST. Mary's
river.
The miners employed in the Lamphier
mine at Contidence, Tuolumne county, have
struck because of some disagreement with
the foreman.
| Three miners have leased mine in the
| Tucson mountains and are sacking about
two tons of sixty dollar ore per day for re-
duction at Tucson.
The buildings for the new hosting works
of the North mine at Grass Valley are up,
and the machinery is being put in place us
rapidly as possible.
A recent strike at Silver City, Idaho, on
the east side of Webfoot Gulch, shows much
free gold and promises to equal the best
finds in that section.
| The Day mine at Royal City, Lincoln
county, has been closed down for the pres
ent, and all hands discharged, owing to the
low grade of the ore.
| In Darwin, Inyo county, J. C. Eddy is
| doing Il good deal of work. Not long since
after run of fourteen days with five
stamps, he cleaned up $1,000.
A new gold discovery was made last
| week in the mountains near Mt Badly. San
Bernardino county. The groupings look so
well that the discoveries will immediately
sink q shaft.
| In Hunters canyon Beveride district,
Inyo county, some Mexicans recently made
a rich strike. A good prospect has been
struck in The Golden Reef mine in the
same district.
A half interest in the Hussey mine, at
Willow valley, in Nevada county, sold for
| $1,000 about six months ago Since then
the other half interest has offered $4,000
for Mr.. Hussey's claim.
Although considerable number of min
ers have been laid off at Gold Hill, it is
expected that they will soon be put
on again. The fall floods in the Carson
river will not long be delayed.
The Bonanza King mine, in the Proyi-
dence mountains, with ten-stamp mill, is
turning out $750000 annually, keeps 100
men at work at good wages, and supports
directly or indirectly over 800 persons.
A gold mine about eighty miles north of
Calico has been discovered The ore is
thoroughly impregnated with coarse gold,
and there has been taken ont ton and
half of ore that will mill $500 per ton.
Reports from Hamilton, New, continue
to give fattering accounts of the develop
ments in the Stafford mine and the people
think the old town will once more be the
center of mining enterprise and activity.
The Grass Valley 7Gdtaqs says: At the
Larimer mill, down Wolf creek, some
miners struck gravel lead which pans out
from 81 to So a pan There is much ex-
element and the gravel seems to be i'll a
regular lead.
Six miners returned to Helena, VI. r.,
from the Little Rockies recently for sup
plies. The men more than confirm the
good reports already received. Three other
gulches have been discovered that promise
to be very rich.
Near Riverside, in Pinole county, Ari-
iona Territory, an Old NINE was reopened
q short time since. and after going through
solid rock for six feet, the ore changed to
solid mass of carbonate ore, running from
30 to 20 perez copper and 10 to 20 ounces
in silver to the ton.
Recently the miners on the Upper
Palouse, w. T., met and organized mining
district, extending from Grizel camp east
erly and including all the tributaries of
the Palouse river This embraces the
newly discovered Hoodoo mines, which
have been reported as rich.
The Mountain Messenger says the Orc
ledge is to be developed by its owner a
new arastra is to be built and water Will be
brought from Slug canon, and by means of
a combined overshot and impact wheel,
with suitable buckets, the weight and veloc-
ty of the water will be utilized It is
thought five tons of ore can be worked per
day.