The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-23

A tye-stamp mill will soon be
erecteG on the Cape Horn mine neoS
Copperopolis.
The Boulder Mining Company on
Weber Greek, FL Dorado County Z
erecting a mill.
A twenty stamp mill will be erected
soon at the Leon mine near Winches.
ter, Riverside county.
Deposits of valuable marble have
been discovered recently in different
parts of S. E. Alaska.
Dunn Bros. of North Fork, Plumas
county, are preparing to put in five.
stamp mill on their property.
Last week So TASKS of ouicksilvor
valued at $4,000, were shipped from
the Altoona mine, in Trinity county,
San Francisco.
The contract for erecting mill on
the Fellow craft mine, Calaveras
county, has been awarded to Matt
Hertzig and active operations will be-
gin at once.
The Yantgraf quartz mine, near
Newcastle, Placer county, has so men
on the pay roll. The twenty STAMP
mill runs continually. The mill is
supplied with four concentrators which
handle ton of sulphurets per day.
The overland shipment of quicksilver
from San Jose during the past week
was $4,000 pounds. This is the first
time for many months that this pro-
duct has been represented in the freight
list, while several years ago it was an
important factor in overland shipments.
A French mining company of Shasta
county is pushing things. They: are
putting in sawmill near their long
tunnel which will be run by electricity.
At the tunnel near Minersville they are
running two large giants and are mov-
ing an immense amount of gravel.
The Bunker Hill and American
mines, situated above Gibsonville,
Plumas county, have been sold to
syndicate of capitalists. The Bunker
Hill and the North America, staside
from the good showing made by them
individually, are located in district
which has been remarkable for the
millions of dollars i'll gold produced.
The Martin Gravel mine, about
three miles west of Sheep Ranch, Ell
Dorado county, is running for its full
capacity with force of thirty men.
There is plenty of pay gravel in sight
to keep tive-stamp mill in operation
for several months. This is good evil
dence that there must be other rich
gravel channels under these lava
tables.
A man of Cluyton, Contra Costa
county, has discovered an ASBESTOS
mine i'll Mt. Diablo. The fine speci-
} mems he has unearthed gives assurance
that it will not be long before the vein
Will widen out ere yet he descends
many more feet. The specimens show
an immense deposit of this valuable
mineral, and as he intends to develop
this mine and interest capital in the
project, many there are who will be
benefited, should it be a successful I'M
dertaking.
The water supply for the French
syndicate, which is operating great
hydraulic mines near Weaverville,
Trinity county, is at present inadequate
and they are now at work upon a plan
to take water from Stewards fork and
convey it by means of bitches, fumes
and pipes to their mines. To avoid
n long detour of the ditch around the
mountain tunnel two miles in length
was begun. About LOO feet of the
tunnel is completed and the Mclean
Bros. have taken the contract to com.
plete the remaining 5000 feet.
There is more activity in the Ophir
mining ditrict than has been apparent
for years. Among the claims being
operated are the Hathaway, the Boul-
der, the Eclipse, the old Gold Blossom,
the Moore, the st. Lawrence, the Hope
and the Centennial. The Green mine
is about to be started up, and number
OF prospectors are at work on lodges
that are less developed. Besides one
or two custom mills which are kept
pretty busy on ore taken from the
different prospects, there are five mills
in operation with an average of ten
stamps each and the mines running
these mills employ at least 100 men.
Q. B. Stanton, formerly one of the
proprietors of the Baldwin hotel, San
Francisco, has struck it rich on Mojave
) desert. Mr.. Stanton's neighbor has
struck big flow of water. The former
hotel man has leased the well. The
flow is six inches and is sufficient for
working a 100 stamp mill. There are
plenty OF mines in that locality, but
owing to the cost of transportation only
the high grade ore can be shipped with
profit, They are putting in tank and
Will use petroleum for fuel. The
water is within four miles of Red
Rock, eleven miles from Goler and
thirteen miles from Randburg, all
fourishing gold camps.
: A recent editorial in the Oakland
Tribune describes the mining situa-
tlon to the point and is as follows:
California has correctly been desig-
mated as the Golden State.' 1t has
maintained for nearly half a century
lirst place i'll the production of the yell
low metal, except now and then tenn
porary spirit of some State, or far off
country, in gold production eclipsing
: for year and day the output of this
land of gold.
Today, however, California has
forged ahead to the front again, and
with certainty of taking the lead and
maintaining it for years to come. 1t
is again the main attraction for CAPT.
talists from the Eastern States and
Europe. and nrnne1.ties nra heinn nickad