The San Francisco call., 1895-12-29
Development Work Will Not Be
Delayed During the Coming
Year.
RECORD BREAKING YIELDS.
Prolific Properties Which Have Re.
turned Vast Fortunes to Their
Owners.

JACKSON, CAL, Dec 26.-Nowhere in
California is there more activity in mining
or is prospecting carried On in more
thorough manner than In old Amador.
On its twelve miles of mother lode, such
mines as Hayward Eureka with record
of $20,00o000; the Plymouth Consolidated,
$4,000, 900; the Keystone, $40, 600, 900; the
South Spring Hill, 100000 Wildman
Oneida, 100000 Bunker Hill, 81, 900 900;
Gopher, $1,000,000 and the Kennedy,
$5,0O0,000 shine as beacon lights to the
other undeveloped mines on the great lode
and it is safe to predict that within the
next twelve months, in and around Jack
son alone, 120 or more stamps will add over
500, 600 month to the gold output of the
State.
The principal mines now being opened
up in and around Jackson are the Argo-
naut, Alma, Anita and Jackson Gate.
Between Jackson and Sutter Creek the
South Eureka has just completed its
twenty-stamp mill, and at the Central
Eureka the work of sinking has COM
menced. At the old Oneida mine work is
to be commenced after New Years. The
Bellwether, adjoining the Jackson Gare,
is to be opened up as soon as material for
sinking can be procured. The Argonaut
adjoins the Kennedy on the south, and the
shaft is now down 1860 feet. ALI work on
this mine has been done in a thorough and
systematic manner, and there is not a
finer equipped mine in the State. Forty
stamps will be running there on good rock
before the year 1896 comes to close. g.
One claim intervenes between the
Argonaut and the Alma. The Alma is in
the town Of Jackson, and all the work
done there has been of a permanent char
acter. The shaft is now down $50 feet.
and, after crosscutting at the 400-foot level,
where fine ore body was encoun tered,
the owners decided to sink to 1000 feet,
and sinking is now in progress. 1t is safe
to predict that a 4O-stamp mill will be
crushing similar rock to that in the Argo-
naut within year.
South of the Alma is the Anita, which
is being superintended by Peter Reichling,
an old pioneer of Amador County. The
shaft there has reached a depth of $50
feet, and the ledge encountered shows very
flattering results.
The Jackson Gate is on the same belt in
which the Zeila, the old standby of jack
son, is situated. The Zeila has worn out
its forty stamps after a continuous run OF
sixteen years, and a nearly new forty
stamp mill was erected this year. There
is hardly any doubt that as soon as a new
shaft is sunk on this property eighty more
stamps will not exhaust the pay rock of
the mine within the next twenty years.
Great things are predicted for the jack
son Gate, which is controlled by f. c.
Siebe of Siebe Bros. & Plagemann OF San
Francisco. The shaft there is now down
200 feet in solid quartz, which prospects
well enough to warrant the erection of q
large mill within the coming year. The
groupings upon this property a-e the
largest on this lode. South of the Jackson
Gate is the Bellweather, which has been
lately sold to Eastern parties.
The Clinton mine, eight miles southeast
from Jackson, is now being operated by
the Union Consolidated Mining Company.
This mine is splendidly equipped with a
thirty-stamp mill, hoisting works, chlori-
nation works, compressor plant and all
modern appliances and has produced
more gold from the surface down to the
tunnel level than any mine in the county.
There are immense ledges OF low-grade ore
on this property. The new company is
now getting ready to sink the shaft 800
feet below the tunnel level, and has mate
rial enough on hand to carry it through
the winter. 1t is estimat that the mine
will be free Of water and the thirty stamp
mill started on large body of ore within
two months. During the coming year
vast Improvements are to be carried on at
this mine. giving employment to many
men and adding to the gold output of
Amador County. The Union Company
has gone about its work quietly and sys-
tematically, and is greatly pleased with
the outlook.