The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-11-12
THE MINING INDUSTRY
What they are Doing in the
Mines.
ALL BRANCHES ARE REPRESENTED.
Brienets That Are Of Interest to All
Glasses News from All over
the Country.

Work in the Melones mine, of Gala.
veras county,is being pushed by a force
of forty men; a hoist is being put in
capable of going down 1000 feet.
Most of the miners around South
Fork of Scott river, Siskiyou county.
are waiting for the rains to come to
furnish them with enough water to
start up.
Some very rich rock is said TO be
now being taken from the Weinland
mine in Amador county. The mill
was recently started up as test, and
proved to work satisfactorily.
The Rawhide, Jumper, App and
others of Tuolumne continue to show
big clean-ups each month. They are
three of the leading producers of the
State and are situated within Il radius
of three miles.
The Starret mine, of Amador county.
promises to be one Of the richest strikes
in that district Rock taken from the
tunnel is being shipped at present to
mills at different points to be worked
and brings very good results.
The Brown Bear Mining Company at
Deadwood, Trinity county, is shipping
sulphurets to the Selby Smelling and
Lead Company at Vallejo Junction.
4 part Of a shipment Of twenty-six
tons has already arrived there.
Preparations are being made to be-
gin work at the Meinicke gravel mine,
near Nallecito, Calaveras county, as
soon as the winter rains begin. A
reservoir is being built and thirteen
men are preparing for hydraulicking.
The Emo mill at Mugginsville, Sis
! kiyou county, will be started up soon.
, 1t will be started with five stamps, but
it is expected that it will be increased
to ten in short time, and can be in
creasd to twenty if desired. A couple
, of True Vanning concentrators will be
{ put in and other improvements will be
made.
The Tubbs property called the Her
man mine in Eastern Placer county,
is keeping up its lick" The mill is
running night and day and has been
making regular shipments of bullion
for about twelve months now. Tunnel
) No. has been started 400 feet below
! No. 3 and will be driven i'll on the
ledge 1900 feet.
, The Grass Valley Telegraph says:
. A most beautiful gold bar was brought
to the Citizens Bank from the Penn
sylvania mine. represented the S.,
q 900 and over, without the sulphurets,
2 and was the result of twenty-one days
run from the fiye-stamp mill. There
:, is now five months run i'll sight. The
n rock from which this gold came was
=. not by any means selected ore, but
# came from good, bad and Indifferent
q rock.
d The hosting and pumping machin.
y cry at the Ragon mine, two miles west
j. of Nevada City, has all been taken
down and is ready to haul to the Mill.
ken ranch, on the Washington ridge,
where Poorman 81 Hastings recently
Is purchased a gravel claim. An incline
e will he started right away, and the
II machinery will be hauled and put III
l. as soon as possible. This new gravel
|. mine adjolns the Delaware drift mine
lie and is supposed to be very rich.
= The California Exploration Company
\ is gradually putting men at work Oh
y the different mining properties it ha,
y secured in Calayeras county, prepare
- tory to commencing more extensive
y operations when the electrical plant al
y Big Bar will be ready to transmit
- power, which it is expected will be il
:, about three months. The company i,
- advertising for bids to run "A 250-foot
= tunnel on one of its properties in tn,
81 Cobb ranch near Mokelumne Hill. A
:, - bonus is given by the company for fast
" driving in tunnel work.
A. Tuttletown, the famous old deserted
T. mining camp, formerly the home o
~ such celebrities as Mark Twain, Bre
j. Harte and Prentias milford, is awaken
N ing from its condition of inactivity ant
1, is now among the prosperous, bustlin.
camps of the lode. No less than fit,
miners are employed in properties stu
ated close to the old stage station
s. and before winter the number will b
Of doubled. The demand for boarding
n and lodging quarters has increases
1t with such rapidity that it is almos
4. impossible to get comfortably houses
IS there on short notice.
D. The managers of the Star mine, o