The San Francisco call., 1895-07-30

for the Rawhide and App mines in Tuol-
umne County by the 10th of July they
would now be sole owners of gold mining
property which the owner, Captain w. A.
Nevills would not sell to-day for So, ,00O, 600.
and upon which s15O, 900 worth of improve
ments will soon be erected and 100 miners
will find employment.
"When 1 agreed to bond the mines for
81 100000 some time ago I did so because
was tired of the eternal vigilance necessary
to conduct them, and as the transaction
was to be cash 1 was willing to SELL" said
Mr.. Nevills Yesterday. "The day follow
ing the arrangements 1 would have given
$4,000 to have called it off, and had they
pressed me hard I would have given
$4,000. Why? Because felt that was
making a great mistake and because l
knew that the property was worth great
deal more. After occurrences proved that
l was right, because within two weeks
from the date of the agreement we took
out $261, ,000-more than quarter of the
price for which we were obliged to sell, had
they kept to their compact.
81 told the expert when he made his ex-
animation that would not permit him to
enter the mines again after he had left
them until the sale took place, and that /
would give no further information con-
cerning them. Therefore, if he wanted to
learn anything to do it then and there, be-
cause it was the last opportunity he would
have.
Shortly after that we found body of
ore in the APP group that was 123 feet
wide. some of which assayed far into the
thousands. l was very careful about the
information getting out, because l feared
that they would at once come to the front
and make deal which would have taken
out of my hands the most valuable mining
property of the kind in the United States.
l have kept that secret with such care
that up to the present time none others
than myself and the miners know of it,
You are the first disinterested person who
has received this information. The reason
I am giving it out to-day is because the
bond expired on the 10th of July. / re-
ceived a dispatch last night requesting a
it under any condition. They had all the
opportunity one would require and to-day
the mine is beyond purchase"
"What do you propose to do with the
property now?"
sBegin at once to erect forty stamp
mill on the App group together with q
hosting works, an electric plant and also
cyanide plant to work the tailings at the
Rawhide. The contracts are nearly all let
One is for 5000 feet of 20-inch iron pipe to
convey water to the mine for power. That
contract went to Shaw, Ingram e.
hatcher, Sacramento, for $4,000. The hoist
ing contract went to Demorest & Fellen of
Altaville for $4,000, and the stamp mill will
in all probability cost about $50, 600. Aside
from this is the pumping and electric plant
upon which we will begin operations at
once. / figure that within four weeks we
will have everything under way, and by
fall will be in full blast. have already
sent about thirty men up there, and more
will leave on the boat tomorrow. All told,
we will find employment for about 100
miners besides the force now at work there.
81 am confident that we are right in the
center of the mother lode which is about
eighty miles long, running through
Mariposa, Amador, Tuolumne and Gala
varas counties, with its stringers and frag-
ments scattering into Ell Dorado. You will
notice that there have been q good many
failures there in mining schemes, and it is
simply because they are at the extreme
end of the lode.
''In one vein we have found body of
ore that goes SOS, 900 ton. Here are some
specimens, about sixty pounds, with several
hundred dollars worth of gold in sight"
The millionaire mining man then ex-