The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-09-24
CALIFORNIA MINING.
Mining Revolution Caused bv
Electric Power.
WHERE METAL LIES In SoNoMA.
Where Metal Lies in Sonoma-Prospeets
In siskiyou-ThIngs Look Briaht in
Kern County-New Mills, Etc.

OOPAO 1OhtAAuo " 20 ITOm the val
ley towns to the new mining regions
around Randsburg, Kern county.
About 100 men are employed at the
smelters at Keswick, Shasta county. To
which about IS tons of ore daily are
taken.
The grading for the forty stamp mill
of the Gwin mine, Calaveras county
is completed and the retaining walls.
finished.
The owner of the Crowly mine, stu
ated on the South Fork of Scott river.
Siskiyou county, has put up a two
stamp mill.
San Francisco people are at work de-
veloping the Ramona mine, of Butte
county, and expect to have mill run
ming within sixty days.
The Baltic, near Sky Park, FL Dora
do county, is erecting a five-stamp mill
and has made arrangements to erect
five more when necessary.
A party of San Francisco men have
gone to the Lone Star mine in Calayer-
as county TO investigate it with view
OF purchasing part of the stock.
The Coon Mountain Grave Mining
Company of Del Norte county, have 20
men at work. They will probably
employ 80 men before winter sets in.
The Straight mine, seven miles west
of Placeryille, Ell Dorado county.
which has been practically abandoned
for the past nine years, has been started
up again.
A new mining map covering Nevada
City and Grass Valley districts on a
scale similar to the Engelbright issue
OF 1884 is being compiled by G. E.
Wren and will be ready about January.
A ten-stamp mill will be erected ON
the Green Lead mine in Holcomb VAL
ley, San Bernardino county. A five-
stamp mill will also be erected on a
rich quartz mine on Van Dugen Can.
yon in the same county.
On the Hill mine, on Coffee creek,
Trinity county, mill with capacity
of twenty tons, will soon be erected.
The ore from this mine is free milling,
running from $50 to $40 per ton. There
are eleven men employed.
The Providence Mining Company,
Nevada City, whose chlorination works
were recently destroyed by fire, have
decided not to rebuild, as they can
obtain about as much by selling the
sulphurets as they could get at their
own works.
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The Sierra Gold Mining Company of
Sierra county recently bought mine
above Downieville which they have
proceeded to develop. They have pur.
chased the 20-stamp mill ON the Mt.
Moriah mine between Forest City and
Downieville.
The placer miners on Salmon river,
Siskiyou county, are getting things
into shape to run as soon as the rains
commence and furnish them with
water. They have to depend almost
entirely on the rain for water to run
their mines.
The Distlehorst and Barton Klamath
River dredger is said TO be pronounced
success. 1t is not known exactly what
the result has been, but from all that
can be learned, it is certain the result
has been far beyond the expectation
Of the owners of the dredge.
On Douglas Island, Alaska, where
about 100000 has already been
taken out within a radius of 900
yards, there are now $50 stamps run
ming, with a yearly output of 81 $780,
ODn SpUarQl Is IL.
being opened and will be operated next
summer.
The machinery for the Rand Mining
Company's pumping plant has arrived
at cole, Kern county, and is being set
up. Water is coming into the shaft so
fast that 1t cannot be bailed dry and
pumping must be resorted to. The
water supply is assured and the new
forty stamp mill will be put up at
once.
The Ball mine ON Salmon river,
which has been closed down for some
time, will soon be started up again, as
1T is thought the difference is between
the Slsklyou owners and the Eastern
owners will soon be settled. The 20
stamp mill at this mine is the largest
in Siskiyou, and the mine is perhaps
the best property in that vicinity.
The mineral deposits of Sonoma
county, as evidenced by recent discov-
cries, seem principally to lie along a
line drawn from English Hill to Occi-
dental, thence northerly to Cloverdale,
and then DETECTING to the east at an
angle of 80 degrees. There are doubt.
less some paying lodges between Occi-
dental and Duncan's Mill, for float and
placer have both been fond between
these points.
Much work is being done at the Jor-
dan mines, in Mono county, prepara-
tory to the erection of 40-stamp mill.
Bridgeporters may soon look for The
arrival OF teams with machinery, ETC.,
for that camp. 1t will he bonanza
Tor teamsters, as there will be about
300 tons, more or less, of freight to
come IN from Carson. The Standard
Con. M. Co. will erect another electric
plant ON the river few miles below
Bridgeport.
Electric power has proven to be a
success in Bodie, and with another
large electric plant to be put up early
next Spring one can foresee a great
mining revolution for this section.
Now that cheaper power can be fur
nished, Mr.. N. Westheimer, who has
brought about the consolidation of
the Leading Bodie mine. says that the
combined companies are going to build
another electric plant with sufficient