The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-11-05
THE MINING INDUSTRY
What they are Doing in the
Mines.
ALL BRANCHES ARE REPRESENTED.
BrIefiets That Are of Interest to All
Glasses News from All over
the Country.

The Supervisors of San Bernardino
county have appropriated money to
build road into the Virginia Dale
mining district.
Prospectors have discovered the east
of the Ellery mine, of Shasta
county, showing two and on e-half feet
of ore that will mill $50 per ton.
The new company of Redding capt.
talists who recently purchased thu
Ren Shinar mine, of Siskiyou county,
are pushing work on their ditch at
Notion with large force of men.
The Golden Cross Mining Company,
of San Diego county, recently shipped
by express $30,300 in gold bullion.
This is the largest shipment ever
made from these mines. The mines are
looking splendid.
The Monte Rio riverkmine, which con-
sists of about 5000 feet of the'channel
on Bear river, Immediately above the
South Yuba dam, about three miles
from Colfax, has been sold to E. w.
Chapman by it's former Auburn own
ers.
The hosting works at the Gray
Eagle mine, near Forest Hill, Placer
county, were destroyed by fire recently.
The loss of machinery is heavy. The
mine has recently been worked through
a tunnel and operations will continue
as before.
A rich strike of gold as been made
in the mine of the Union Consolidated
Mining Company, seven miles south
east of jackson. There is mill of
thirty stamps on the property, which
is to be at once repaired and its capac-
ity doubled.
The Jumper mine of Tuolumne
county is credited with having cleaned
up during the past month nearly $780,
900, most excellent showing, espec-
tally when the fact is taken into con-
sideration that the Jumper has but a
twenty-stamp mill.
Reduction works will soon be
opened in Oroville, at which the ores
] AhOAl OliO numerous LCuSOS bud0
in the foothills and mountains of that
vicinity may be given fair and COM
petent test. The statement is made
that it will be in operation within the
next six weeks or two months.
Great preparations are being made
for the California Miners Association
Convention which will be held in San
Francisco of November 10. From all re-
ports every county organization will
double the number of its delegates
over last year and then there were 500
DELEGATES
The newly discovered cinnabar
ledge at Pine Flat, Sonoma county, is
said by it's discoverer to contain
enough ore in sight to run ten. ton
furnace full time every day for year.
The ore, according to a Healdsburg
paper, runs ~ per cent, which is
double the assay of the average mine
in California, and the metal can be
delved, extracted and shipped at a
cost not exceeding 80 to the ton.
A deed was recently filed for record
in San Diego county by which D. K.
Allen transfers to George W. Ireland
for 500, 900, the Golden Dream group
of five{mines, the Alycon group of five
mines, the Noon Day group of five
mines and four millsites, situated in
White Gold Basin, in the old Picacho
district, on the Colorado river, in this
county. The mines are believed to be
fully as promising low grade properties
as the famous Golden Cross group at
Hedges, in the same county, where 14O
stamps are kept pounding night and
day.
The old copper mines in eastern
Fresno county are being reopened in
great style, and number Of valuable
STRIKES" have recently been made.
The Petroleum and Smelling Company
OF Los Angeles has force of eighteen
men at work on its claim, four miles
east of Letcher. There is little doubt
that the company will purchase the
claim, and then smelter will be
erected without delay. Copper is now
in considerable demand, the electric
supply factories consuming much more
than ever before. The Anaconda copper
mine in Montana made two big towns,
Butte and Anaconda, and almost
wholly sustains them now. The open
ing of Fresno's cupreous deposits will
yearly add to the wealth of this city
and this county.
A dredge built by the Shasta Dredg.
ing Company to raise by suction the
auriferous gravel in the bed of tn,
Sacramento river in the neighborhoot
of Redding, was not a success. Nov
another company has been organized
to work the river gravel by differen
method, using instead of suction
pump scoop shovel holding yard o
dirt. To this shovel are attached thre,
prongs, which are forced into thG hare
cement. The company is known as tn,
Tortillata Gold Mining Company, ant
is represented here by Major ]. B
Schoenefelt OF Wyoming The ma
chinery to work the shovel has arrive,
and the boat will be built and every
thing will be in readiness for aetiv,
operations in about three weeks
An Oroville exchange points wit
becoming pride to the mining reviva
In that county. 1t says statistics sho,
that mining for gold in Butte count
has nearly doubled this year. both i
the number of mines operated, an
also in the number of mines operated
and also in the number Of men EN-
ployed over that of last year, notwitt
standing the fact that last years in
crease was greater than for any singl
year during the previous twenty year,
UnCnYarin0 anniant riv or channals o.