The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-25
MINING INTERESTS.
Many Men Rushing to the Rands-
bury District.
ACTIVE WORK in FRESNO COUNTY.
Very Rich Find Near Sitka-some Rx-
element In Butte County-Many
Mines Opening Up-Notes.


erected on the Herman mine of Placer
county.
Gold has been found in the streets
Of Fresno which yields about eight
cents to the pan.
Thirty stamps will be added to the
twenty already at the Grand Victory
Mine of Ell Dorado county.
At the celebrated Utica mine at An
gels 1876 stamps are running and ore
mills SO per ton in free gold.
The forty-stamp mill at the Poosi
to the MERGED Gold Mining
Company is running full time.
The hydraulic miners at Orc Elmo,
Siskiyou county, expect to be able to
keep their giants at work until after
the Fourth of July this year.
Another dividend of So per share has
been declared by the Morning Star
mine, Placer Co. 1t is one of the most
lucrative gravel mines in the State.
The owners of the Eclipse gravel
mine, at Soda Bar, Trinity county,
have leased it to parties who will com.
mence opening and developing imme-
diately.
Active operations are to be COM
menced at once on the White Swan
mine, location situated short dis
lance from the famous Gwin mine of
Calaveras county.
1t is estimated that there are now
is, 900 miners at work in this State
an increase of 1000 over 1894. Before
the suspension of hydraulic mining it
was generally conceded at least $4,000
miners were working in the auriferous
ranges.
A large deposit of graphite contained
in mica schist has recently been dis
covered about forty miles from San
Diego. Samples of it yield over 80
per cent of graphite. The deposit has
been traced for distance of 600 feet
ON the surface.
The Emerson mine, located mile
and half from Mokelumne Hill, will
soon be opened up. One thousand
feet of 15-inch steel pipe and all the
necessary machinery and timber for
complete hoisting plant are now en-
route from San Francisco.
The owners of the Redstone mine
situated in Placer county, will add
. five stamps Immediately to the mill
already up and contemplate putting in
twenty stamps at point 1900 feet
lower down ON the river. Concentra-
tors will be put in also, two to each
five stamps.
A solid ledge of gold quartz 900 feet
wide and over 5000 feet long is the
/, wonderful discovery of Captain Cow
den and Mrs. w. +. Turner of Sitka.
The mammoth body of quartz is stu
ated in the N'Squashinsky Bay district.
IL is said the ledge would keep 500
. stamp mills going day and night for
: 100 years.
Q The Marysville Appeal says:
r Browns valley, famous for its rich
: and extensive quartz lodes, is today
Y the scene of some excitement and much
Q activity. Prospectors are scattered
. everywhere throughout the district.
8 Rich strikes are reported from all direc-
n tions. New locations are being made
$ every day"
y The old Summit mine, situated about
It half mile from Suffer Creek, in Anna.
j. dor county, was sold to the Central
It Eureka Gold Mining Company, com
posed of San Franciscoans, and will
hereafter be known under that name,
The price was little over $40, 900
IS New hosting works have been put
10 in and it is proposed it sink a shaft o.
10 1000 or 1900 feet
. A mining deal was closed recent,
" which it is confidently believed vii
l. have an important bearing ON thu
g. further development and prosperity o
y Globe district. Judge E. J. Edwards
acting for Col. James A. Fleming ant
a DIR. ]. NJ. Ford of Phoenix, secured
u bonds on seven copper claims in Web
10 ster gulch, which are pronounced b.
a. experts to be among the most promis
d ing copper properties in Arizona.
=. - The Knob Hill Gold Mining, Milling
: and Development Company of Fresno
:, county was organized few weeks agt
- under the laws of this state with &
;. capital stock of $4,000 This COM
- pany now owns the Knob Hill and Lave
Oak mines in Aubery Valley Inc
work of development is being pushed
n. on the Knob Hill mine with very
~ favorable results. A ive-stamp mil
o is now in position and will start W
a crushing ore Immediately.
ee The whole country about Randsburg
es Kern county, is filed with prospectors
I'd The country for miles around is GOV
or cred with monuments defining or at
en- tempting to define the boundaries o
claims. Many claims have beel
ep staked out upon which not stroke o
or work has been done. This is i'll dlrec
Oh defiance of the law, because 1t retard
d. Others from developing them. Ther
lis are mines in the Randsburg dlstrlc
at sufficient to keep four or five time
the number of men at work as NJ
actually there.
The Mariposa Grant has been sold
Of an English syndicate. The considers
of ton is not known, but is believed
mo- have been SIC, 100000. The mines O
,ol the grant are to be operated to their III
I capacity. giving employment to hui
nd dreds of men. In it's northern boun'
n. airy the grant has the great water pow'
IN of the MERGED River from the Wal
mn ranch down to the Broadhead old dan
an This structure in the MERGED is capab
IN Of generating fall in its fifteen mile
ed Of power second only to that OF MI
,er CARA. The mines which have bee
Id operated in the Mariposa grant are Il