The San Francisco call., 1895-11-25
The shaft shows fairly good

rock.
The Eureka and Bear group consists of
the Eureka f29lx600 feet Grizzly Bear 1900
x60O. Brown Bear 1400x600, White Bear
1500x600. Cinnamon Bear 1500x60O, contln-
uous and on the Rose vein.
These are surface prospects and show
good groupings and q strong vein. The
work done consists of few short tunnels
and cuts. The claims extend from the
north line of the Gross to the South Fork
of the American River, and run parallel
with Big Canyon. Assays from the crop
pings are said to have yielded as much as
$50 per ton.
The Texas Hill gravel property consists
of 264 acres. and is "drift gravel mine"
A large channel traverses the eastern por-
ton of the property in northerly and
southerly direction. Its width IS sup
posed to be 800 feet, and the length is about
1000 feet. 1t has tunnel 900 feet long,
and branches aggregating fully 800 feet ad-
ditional, besides airways.
The value OF the gravel in this property
has been SO on the north line and 81 on
the west line per carload Of 1900 pounds.
This is a valuable property, from which
immediate profits may be expected. There
is 10-stamp mill on it which can crush, |
am told, sixty tons per day.
In the shaft, about 1900 feet from the
mouth Of the tunnel, reaching the rim
rock at ffty-three feet. large body of
gravel was encountered that prospected
So so per car OF 1900 pounds. A recent
prospect taken from the rim rock near the
chute yielded $50 to the pan. Work was
discontinued on this owing to water. The
bedrock is soapstone and porphyry.
For the sake of convenience to the reader
the properties are enumerated in sum-
married. form.
The Pacific-Rose group consists of the
following claims, all patented: The Pa
cific 2000. feet; Ida No. 2, Rose. Oregon,
Ida, continuous, 5000 feet on Rose vein.
The Chester, Kcgan and Davy group
The Chester, 1460x1S5 feet; Kegan, 930x500
feet; Dayy, 420x500.
The Eply group = Faraday, 15oox55o
patented, on Pacific vein, 5000 feet; Eply,
2460x500 teet, patented; Weber, 900x
600 feet, not patented; Albright, f. y acres.
Williamson, Z acres, on Rose vein, 1850
feet.
The Gross, Van Hooker and Harmon
The Gross claim, 1246x575, Van Hooker,
945x5O0, Old Harmon, 1500x500, all pat
ented, continuous to total length on
vein, 3691 feet.
The Eureka and Bear group-The Eu-
reka, 1291x60O feet, patented; Brown
Bear, 1413x600 feet, not patented; Griz-
zly Bear, 1500X600 feet, not patented ;
White Bear, 1500x600 feet, not patented; ;
Cinnamon Bear, 1500x600 feet, not pat
ented.
The Texas Hill gravel property. COM
prising 264 acres, not shown on the dla-
gram.
The canal and ditch property, 100 miles
in length.
The whole chain is situated upon the
mother lode that stretches across the five
gold producing counties from FL Dorado
to Mariposa. 1t is very properly styled the
Comstock of Ell Dorado County.
The same company that holds the above
mining property also owns water rights,
canals and bitches Of great magnitude.
The company is known by the name of
the EI Dorado Water and Deep Gravel
Mining Company. The main canal takes
its source from the South Fork of the
American River at Cedar Rock, and is
forty miles in length. In addition to the
main canal the branch bitches are sixty
canal is 5000 inches The same company
owns also the South Fork ditch though
not in operation at present. They are pre-
pared to furnish water at very reasonable
rate to mines within a radius of eighty
miles. This great waterway was con-
structed in 1874 at a cost Of 81, sou, 600.
With this great Comstock to be developed,
and the immense water-power at COM
mand, this pioneer county (at one time
known as the Empire County, is destined
once more to assume her proud position
as queen among the gold-producing Sec
tions of the State. Not to speak of the
other properties now in active operation,
and those being projected from day to day
in this section, it is safe to say that Ell
Dorados opportunities need only be
brought to the notice of the world to Sc
cure inspection and consequent investment
of capital.
The reopening of this chain OF mines
upon the mother lode. based upon the
plans of deep mining, would bring about
rich results to the investors in particular
and to the country in general.
The owners are giving no attention to
these properties, and the fact that not one
of the company is resident of the coun-
try, makes it probable that negotiations
for purchase would be favorably enter
tanned. There is an agent here. L. G.
Couper, who attends to the water interests
only of the organization.
Because nobody has taken pains to bring
this bonanza property to the attention OF
capitalists, it lies dormant and unnoticed.
A. Z. HAMILTON.