The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-08
Operators and Prospectors Grow.
ing More Hopeful of the
Future.
SURE EVIDENCES OF WEALTH
The Washington, the Number Group
and the Pool Coming to the
Front.

than for many years past. There are three
apparent causes for this improvement:
the renewed interest in gold mining. as
shown by the somewhat feverish ex-
element in stock speculation on the min
ing exchanges of Colorado; the proposed
development of electric power at MERGED
Falls and elsewhere on MeIced River. and
the attention that THE CALL is giving to
mining matters at the present time.
Miners, and especially prospectors, for the
most part lead a somewhat isolated life.
and mining news of their own district or
State is interesting reading in many re-
mote cabin. They are learning that the
mining industry is not dead, but is again
coming to the front with a rush that iusti
fies the opinion of all old-time practical
miners that California is the richest and
easiest worked gold field in the world. All
assessment work in this district will be
done this year and no claims will go by
default. The country around Hornitos is
perfect network of auriferous veins, and
quartz groupings are found in every direc-
tion. Few mines are down to any consid-
cradle depth. In those that have gone
deep experience teaches that the ore
improves in richness.
The Washington mine has gone deeper
than any other hereabouts. 1t is situated
about two and half miles from Hornitos
on the Bear Valley road. The Washing
ton consists of three full claims, the Wash
ington, Franklin and Jenny Lind. No
work has been done on the property since
1882, when the company that owned it
ceased operations owing to mismanage-
ment, lack of proper appliances and the
excessively high cost of fuel. The princi-
pal shareholders in the Washington COM
pany were J. P. Dwyer, George E. Weber,
Nathaniel Page and Nose L. Rodgers. The
old workings are now inaccessible. There
were two hosting shafts, one to a depth
OF 1900 feet and the other was down 1000
feet. There is still an excellent lode in the
bottom of the mine. There was formerly
a 30-stamp mill and complete chlorina-
ton works on the property, but now no
machinery or buildings of any kind longer
exist. In some prospect pits sunk about
fifteen feet, the lode appears regular and
well defined, possessing excellent walls
from four to six feet wide, having a strike
northeast and southwest, and dips to the
west at an angle OF IS degrees. Samples
taken from the outcroppings at these
pO14lS assay p ~ per IOI. II Is 6SLlIndLeQ
that fully $250,0O0 was lost in the mill
leavings. Fair samples from the tailings
give an assay result of about 81 so per ton.
There are several gold-bearing lodges on
the Washington, which has surrounding it
$50 acres, of patented land, but scarcely
any WORK has been done on them.
The NJ ruber Nine mine is situated about |
one and a half miles southeast of the
Washington and consists of 100 acres of
land on which the following lodes out
crop: Number Nine, Julia, Number Eight
and Blue Ledge, Operations have been
chiefly confined to the Number Nine ledge.
This claim is 2400 feet long, and two shafts
have been sunk, about $50 feet apart, to
depth of 30 feet and 40 feet respectively,
from which drifts have been extended to
distance not exceeding 200 feet. There is
consequently nearly 500 feet of virgin
ground between these two drifts. In the
bottom of the shaft of Number Nine,
which is 210 feet deep and equipped with
an efficient hoist and pump, the lode
has a strong, mastery appearance, and
possesses the necessary characteristics
for permanence. AT the bottom OF
the mine the lode has attained to a
very great width; neither a hanging
nor foot wall has been intersected not
withstanding the fact that crosscuts have
been extended about forty feet across the
ledge. Samples taken from various points
in the 15O-foot and 200-foot levels gave the
following results: So SO per ton, So q per
ton, 81 10 per ton, 81 40 per ton. There is
an enormous body of this description of
ore that could be very cheaply and profit
ably worked. The No. 8 lode, like the
Washington, has a strike northeast and
southwest, but dips to the east at an angle
varying from % to 30 degrees. At the sur
face operations have been conducted in
a very desultory fashion. Innumerable
holes have been sunk by tribute workings
and leases, out of which, to Judge
rich gold has been mined. The
books of the company which formerly
owned the No. show that from August,
1881, to June, 1884, bullion was sold to the
value of Si50, 900. On the Julia, No.
ledge, and Blue Ledge little work has been
done beyond exposing the outcrop in
places. The No. 9 has a millsite of 2l7
acres, patented land, and a water right
from FL Dorado Creek with 10000 feet of
fve-inch pipe conveying water for battery
purposes. There is 30-stamp mill with
ore feeders, Blake rock-breaker, 75-horse-
power engine, 12-horsepower engine, Two
steam pumps, buildings, office, storeroom
and residence.
The Pool Mine adjoins the Number 9,
and consists of 100 acres of patented land.
A great number of gold-5earing Lodges e1-
ist on this property, on which no system
attic mining has ever been done. The
creek that runs through the Pool tract has
been very extensively placered, and great
many holes have been sunk in various
places. In fact the surface has been "hen-
scratched" and ''coyoted" in manner
almost ludicrous. The main reefs on the
Pool lands follow the same strike as the |
and Number 9, but there are |
several cross lodes which form network
Of intersections.
Quartz Mountain is about two miles dis
tant from Hornitos and one and half
miles from No. mine. and consists OF one
full claim. 1t has a most imposing end
massive outcrop. In the crosscuts ex-
tended from the tunnel level it appears TO