Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-20
MINING NOTES.


Rich rock has been struck in tn 7oO-foot
level at the Mount Pleasant mine, Grizzly
Flat
Several sales of mines at Wet Point. Cal
| averas county, have lately been made at
| nigh figures.
There is.a good deal of PROSPECTING going
on in the Santa Fe district, east OF iunins,
Esmeralda county, Ney.
A ledge Of quartz that promises good
yield of gold has been discovered in Mis-
sion canyon, near Santa Barbara
The coal vein which is being worked at
size and quality as the shaft is suni1.
Surface and pocket mining seems to pay
well in portions of FL Dorado county, and
| is finding increased favor among miners.
The parties who recently purchased the
group of mines in Mount Haymond dis
trict, Fresno county, are preparing to work
! their property.
| Piutes haul water TO the Lapanta mine
| II Esmeralda county, New, and sen it for
50 90 a barrel. The Piutes make much
money in that way.
Hawthorne, New, is now the center of
great mining activity On all sides the
! work OF prospecting is pushed vigorously,
and discoveries that promise well are fre-
quent.
| The people of Calico and Daggett are re-
ported as being in better spirits at present
than for some time past The mines are
looking well, and there is considerable
building going on.
The Manhattan mill in Austin, Nevada.
has started up again, and is rolling out the
| silver bullion after its good old style. dis
posing of the rich ore which has been ac-
cumulating since July, when the mill took
! a rest.
Telephone is the name given a new
mining district recently organized in the
northern part of Elko county. New. The
district is located at the head of California
creek, on the Island Mountain and Hicks
| District road.
\ A five-stainp mill, and boarding and
| lodging-houses have lately been erected at
the What Cheer mine, Mokelumne Hill.
and work is progressing, notwithstanding
the difficulty the company had to contend
with in the influx of water
Work ON the ditch for placer mining in
the San Francisco canyon, Los Angeles
| usual progress is being made. The gold is
| there, but capital is too timid to embark in
| securing the golden treasure
Twenty-Five Cinnamon are at work placer
| mining in the canyon of the Yakima
river, twenty-five miles above North va
klma, w. I. They use sluice-boxes, blan-
kets and quicksilver to catch the fine. flour
gold, which they retort.
The Silger State says: There is some ex-
citement at Dun Glen, Humboldt county,
New, over the discovery of gold-bearing
quartz in Barbers canyon, on the western
slope of the range. Quite number of
claims have been located. a shaft has been
sunk thirty-five feet deep in the cauyon
without encountering bedrock. Five feet
| of the gravel is said to be rich in gold.
SUSPECTED CATTLE THIEF SHOE The
following is from the Walla Walla tW IT,
! Union of November 14th
The ordering of suspected cattle thieves
out of Umatilla county has already resulted
| in one violent death. o. H. Stanley, one
of the men ordered to leave, did not do so.
but returned to Pilot Rock and barricaded
| himself in a blacksmith Shop Feeling
! insecure in his position, Stanley got an
| escort of twelve Constables to accompany
| him to Pendleton. While on the way the
party were met by a company of fifty we'll
armed men, who ordered Stanley 10 halt.
! Stanley at once started TO rur, but had not
proceeded far when score or more OF
shots were fired at him, killing him in
] stantly. The killing is being investigated
hy the authorities.