The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-08
MINING INTERESTS,
Modern Machinery Cuts an I'M
portant Figure.
NEWS FROM MINES OF SISKlYoU.
Continually Adding New MiIIs-ltems
From Butte County's Mines-Aetiy-
Ivy in the Soutn.-Notes.


done on McAdams creek, Siskiyon
county, with more or less success.
The Mabel mine, joining the Column
bia on the East at Scott Bar, Siskiyou
county, is putting up new 5-stamp
mill.
The Gold Hill mine at Grass Valley
has dynamo with capacity of 5000
volts and the finest mining plant in
existence.
Every mine in the Randsburg dis
trlct, Kern county, ON which work is
being done is showing up better the
deeper they go.
A large force of men are at work on
the ditch for the 4O-stamp mill to be
erected for the Goltea, Montecito and
Sterling mines in Mono county.
One of the most important develop
ments OF the last week or two in Ne
vada county has been the strike made
IN the Cadmus mine at Nevada City.
A new 10-stamp mill and hoist are
being erected on the Marconi claim.
near Groyeland, Tuolumne county, by
the parties who have bonded the mine.
State Mineralogist Crawford, in his
biennial report, says: Gold is to be
found in every county in the State.
and in paying quantities in all counties
except fifteen.
A mining company is erecting new
saw mill on Horse Greek, Siskiyou
county, for their own private use, in fur
nlshlng lumber for their extensive oper-
ations, at that place.
The placer mine in the Salmon River
country will be started up Just as the
fall rains furnish sufficient waters.
Some of the richest mines in Siskiyou
are located in that section.
The Ball mine, on Salmon river.
Slsklyou county, which has been closed
down some time, is expected to be
started up soon. The mine is equipped
with twenty-stamp mill.
A cyanide plant of 100 tons daily
capacity has been erected at the Young
America mine, near Sierra CITY. and
Will be started up in about ten days.
The tailings run from $40 to $40 a ton.
The 20-stamp mill at the Boston
Mine near Mokelumne Hill has been
increased by ten additional stamps. A
new hoist has also been erected. 1t is
claimed an immense body of low grade
ore is in sight.
1t is expected that the rock found in
the re-opened Gwin mine, Calaveras
county, will average IS per ton. About
500, 900 has been spent in re-opening
this old mine, which had been living
idle many years.
A rich strike of gold has been made
III the mine of the Union Consolidated
Mining Company, seven miles south
east of jackson. There is a mill of
thirty stamps on the property, which
Is to be at once repaired and its capac-
ity doubled.
Parties have struck rich ledge ON
Riders gulch, Siskiyou county, viii CHI
promises to develop into a good paving
mine. The ledge is about eight inches
wide where it was discovered, but gain
III the width as depth is attained, and
the prospects grow better as develop
ment progresses.
The Columbia quartz ledge. of Siski.
you, which adjoins the Mabel mine
has been producing some fine rock
lately They crush it in their mill ON
Mill Greek, and have found the results
to be better than ever this summer.
Inc ledge seems to grow richer as
they go down on it.
Mining is very active in the neigh
borhood of Forbestown, in Rntte
county. AT the Gold Bank, owned nv
the Stow heirs, an eight-foot tunnel is
pelng run to tap the old vein at 500
1eet below the old works ON the 600
loot level. Already two or three lodges
have been encountered. Forty stamps
are being run.
The Hiatt & Garrette & Co. Gravel
Mining Co., of Yolo county, have
hnlshed large wing dam in the
klamath, just below the mouth of
Scott river, and with force of 26
men, are running day and night, wash
ing the top gravel, which pays quite
we'll. They expect rich strike when
they reach bed rock.
The Distlehorst dredger has been
moved down the Klamath river. to the
Barton orchard, above Oak Bar. and
works fine. 1t raises cubic ward or
ton OF gravel, every minute, and the
ground worked shows good pay. Lift
ing 90 tons an hour of pay gravel, is
certainly an immense quantity, when
every days work is considered.
The recent discoveries of gold near
Los Olivos are good deal better en-.
Titled to the attention of daring adven-
turers than those of Alasks. The ore
is low-grade, to be sure, but then
ledge OF sixteen feet diameter would
be a paying property if the rock did
not yield over $3.50 per ton by mill
work. The Treadwell mine on Doug
las island does not average above that,
ana II is one OF the most regular yield
ers of dividends in all America. Modern
cuts very important figure
IN these big dividends of low-grade
pres. Forty years ago, no man would
have taken the Treadwell mine for a
gift. Now, we doubt if million
would purchase it.
A wreck occurred on the Southern