The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-13
CALIFORNIA MINING,
Electricity the Coming Power for
Mining Purposes.
REPORT OF THE MINING EXCHANGE.
Discovery OF a New Lime Ledge-BIz
Mining Deal In Reddlng-About The
Grass Valley Dlstriet-New Mills.

Butte county has developed new
| resource. 1t is vast one and NAV
mean vast things. 1t is nothing more
or less than the opening of lime
ledge. 1t is the first in that part of
/ the State.
The Empire is down 1900 feet, being
the deepest in the group of seventy
gold mines. What field is here for
Legitimate gold mining with good
profits. Capital and intelligent energy
are alone needed.
The Grass Valley and Nevada City
mining district in forty years has pro-
duced $14S, $40, 1861. This does not in.
clude the Bloomfield mining district
Of this amount, Grass Valley has pro-
dued $103, 200, 900 and Nevada City
$40, 900, 900. The belt on the east side
of Wolf Creek, not including the
Idaho Maryland group, but taking in
the Empire and the mines to Slate
Creek, also the Norambagua and the
Shamrock, has produced 81 ,952 ,642. /.
A rich strike in pocket of the fam
Gus Cardinell mine near Tuttletown,
Tuolumne county, is reported to have
been made lately. Sufficient develop
ments have not yet been made to deter
! mine the extent of the wealth but it
is believed will exceed anything of
similar kind taken from the mine in
! months past. The discovery was on
the 100 foot level. Years ago the
Cardinell was one of the first produc-
/ ers in Tuolumne county and in one in
} stance, ON the 200 foot level, picks un-
earthed pocket valued at over 800,
; 900.
, General Walter Turnbull, president
of the Gold Mining Exchange, has Just
completed his semi-annual report, i'll
which is reviewed the work of the ex-
change for the first six months of its
existence. Sin view of the exceeding.
, ly stringent times" says the report,
I'VE may we'll feel proud of the success
thus far attained an our present healthy
, financial condition. Much of the work
has been purely educational. The sus.
picion which naturally attaches to all
mining enterprises is being gradually
overcome by the policy of making ex-
, pert examination of mines before plac-
a ing their securities before the public"
: The Oroville Mercury says there is
big quartz vein on the stage road to
. Quincy that people have been travelling
: over daily for the last forty years, that
is now likely to be developed into big
, mine. About thirty years ago the
8 stage driver, after passing over the
} groupings for long time concluded to
. have an assay made Of some of the
. rock. The test was not satisfactory
g and the big ledge lay untouched until
recently mining expert was at
. tracted by the immensely of the crop
~ pings. He made careful examination
10 of the vein and declared it to be valua-
- lbe, and a company of capitalists have
50 taken up the property and will make a
~ big mine of it.
" The Chinese company working the
is Big Bend mine, of Butte county, are
,e experiencing much trouble from oppo-
sition Chinese companies, whom, it is
thought, desire to obtain the privi-
lege of working the mine. They make
at they will not be paid for their labor,
lie and tell them there is nothing in the
III bed of the river, anyhow. There is
a now about rs men employed. The
I'd company desire to employ about 100
ne men. 1t might very naturally be sup
10 posed that white practical miners
of could take hold of this big mine and
he operate it more successfully than the
is Chinese, who, on the theory that
ed Chinese laborer's time is of no conse-
ne quence, do everything by the slow pro-
to cess of main strength, instead of max
tn ing use of means to more rapidly ac-
re complish the work to be performed
eu At the present time the greatest in.
On terest is taken throughout Mariposa in
u the falling waters of the MERGED river.
g There is now but little snow visible on
OF the higher Sierra, and when that is
gu run off the river will reach its fall
eh level, when work in its bed becomes
possible. Formerly this season was
looked forward to for a renewal of the
n placer workings. This year it is anx-
MT iously awaited for the installation of
an electrical power generated by the
&c. waters of the river. Along the course
in of the MERGED, from the boundary line
he of the National Park to MERGED Falls,
on works of more or less extensive
he nature are in contemplation. The cost
~ of producing steam with wood fuel is
st the most serious item that the gold.
in quartz miner has to face in Mariposa,
es and the advent of electricity will work
no marvellous change. Cord-wood is
% growing more and more difficult to
ca obtain aud the hills ON all sides are
an this summer looking barer than they
IN ever did before. Much timber was
At last year cut on Government lands, but
n. the inspectors have had their attention
"a drawn to the matter and are now
nm watching closely for any. delinquency
he in this respect.
tn A large mining deal was made in
Redding recently. John W. Frank Of
Red Bluff, who held a bond ON eight
ba mining claims in Harrison gulch, sixty
nj five miles southwest of that city owned
"a. by ]. j. Fowler Isaac Rhoads and L.
ra NJ. benton, sold the property to Cap
"a. tain j. H. Roberts of Sacramento
% owner of a line of steamers ON the Sac
cd ramento river, and formerly owner o.
n. the Great American mine in Ell Dorado
od county. The consideration was $110,
no 900. In June, 1895, Fowler, Rhoad,
II. and Benton, who were engaged il
90 farming on Cow Creek, twelve miles
nd east of here, discovered the rich lodges
AZ ON Harrison gulch. They developed