The morning call., 1895-01-31

other State in the Union. The State has
never in any single year since the discovery
within its borders been excelled in its gold
yield by any other State or Territory of the
Union. And still there are hundreds and
hundreds of mines undeveloped and I'M
opened for lack of capital. AS to one section
of California where there are chances for
investment of capital, Colonel w. T. Rob-
inson has this to say in the Calaveras
Chronicle:
"Nowhere in the world can be found
gold field so extensive in quartziferous
gold-bearing veins and auriferous deposits
of gold as exists in California. The first
great gold boom existed within the confines
of this State. 1t was here that the people
of the United States and most of the coun-
tries of the world were educated in gold
mining. After gaining the knowledge
and found gold fields in other countries,
and thereby deprived California of her
most enterprising miners. However, suffi-
Gent remained to teach the rising genera
ton, who took up the pick and pan, and
the gold yield, sometimes less than at
other times, has always been great, leading
all other countries in the production of the
precious metal.
"Now, after forty-fve years of dilligent
prospecting and mining in the placer fields
and the quartz lodes, we learn, with few
exceptions, that we have but specifically
searched over the surface, and that the
greatest yield of gold is yet to come from
deep-seated quartz veins, and especially
those along the great mother lode of
Amador and Calaveras A few years ago,
during the great yield of the Plymouth
mines, Amador and Nevada counties took
the lead in the yield of the royal metal;
but, presto change, the Utica and Stickle's
steady stream of gold launches old Gala
Veras to the front, and from the great
stretch of the mother lode, with the many
auxullliary veins, extending from the
Mokelumne on the north to the Tuolumne
on the south, it is an even bet against the
field that the gold yield will not be sur
passed by any other county in the State.
''As the old saying goes, a prophet in his
own country is not appreciated. So it has
been with the gold fields in California
their fortunes in Australia, South Africa
and other countries, while better mines
with greater facilities to operate them can
be found at home. At last, however, the
people of the Pacific Coast States, espe-
clally mining men from Montana, Colorado
and Utah, are beginning to buy up good
locations along the mother lode, and before
another year passes hundreds of prospects
will be well on the way to the Uticas and
Kennedys. Can any one think for mo-
ment that the Utica or the Kennedy mines
are the exceptions? Not so. There are
hundreds of locations along the mother
lode that contain bonanZas of even greater
magnitude.
at is within my time when these great
bullion-producerS were considered but poor
prospects. Now that experience has
taught us the kind of cropping and sur
rounding that makes mines in depth, it is
no longer a gamble but certainty when
sufficient capital is at hand to do the de-
velopment and afterward when the mine is
opened to put on plant for reducing the
ores. And, too when it is taken into con-
sideration that machinery and supplies are
IN price about one-haf what they were
when the Idaho mine of Grass Valley, the
Eureka of Suffer Creek, the Keystone of
Amador and the Gwin of Calaveras were
first opened-and they paid-does it not
stand to reason that equally as good pros
poets with the present advantages and
operated by experienced miners will payP
For instance, take the Gwin lode.
"There lies stretch of country extending
from the Gwin mine to Central Hill and
thence into Bear Mountain of unbrOken
vein matter of precisely the same kind of
ledge formation the same kind of gouge:
the same castings; the identical slate and
country rock even to the texture of the
quartz is the same as found in the Gwin
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these earmarks show the same family,
with the one exception, they have nowhere
been sunk on to prove mine to exist as
at the Gwin. The Gwin, less than four
teen years worked, put in active circulation
over 100000 of gold.
adjoining the Gwin on the SOUTH the
south extension or so-called Roach mine,
United States mineral patent, 1500x600
feet, has quartz that averages in the very
grass roots So per ton. This mine has been
idle for thirty years for the want of capital
or the attention of capital called to it.
ITO the south of the Roach, and covered
by agricultural patents, there exists an
unbroken section of the ledge, save where
the pillow has sometimes brought to light
fragments of quartz, that awaits the hand
OF man to cause 1t to give up its quota of
gold to the world. Within the last month
or two an enterprising prospector, Dan
Ross, sought out a favorable spot on the
lode within the patented lands of
rancher, who also possessed enterprise and
foresight, ana who readily segregated off
1000 feet in length by 600 feet in width
along the lode as a mining claim. To-
gether they have sunk shaft 35 feet deep,
exposing a splendid quartz vein the big
ness of the shaft, and how much bigger
they do not know, but from present indi-
cations it will develop into a vein Is or 20
feet from wall to wall in 100 feet in depth,
with every prospect of making frst-class
mine-perhaps a second Gwin.
ITO the south of this mine, which we
will call the Ross, lies Central Hill. Here
there are three quartz claims held, two
with mineral patents and one simply a
mining location. The first is the Hudson,
a United States mineral patent, the sec
ond the Gold Run, owned by the Jackson
Brothers, quartz location. During the
last five or six years Adam Jackson, one
of the brothers, has pounded out with
hand-mortar $12, 900 in gold, and nowhere
on the mine have they sunk a shaft over
forty feet deep. The next mine on the
south of the Gold Run is a United States
mineral patent. Quartz here was found in
the shaft sunk near the creek bed that
would mill SIS per ton, but not having the
machinery to take the water out of the
shaft it, too, now lies idle, and can be
bought or bonded for a nominal sum.
These are only some of the chances cap
ital has in this county. could name hun
dreds of fair prospects that can be bonded
on reasonable terms that are the making of
mines. Yet there are plenty of men who
are looking for desirable prospects, but
they come up from San Francisco to look
at some especial mine or prospect they have
heard of, stay one day and rush back, gen.
orally to condemn something they know
nothing about. The thing for capital to do
is to select favorable location on the moth
er lode, or within the mother zone. and