The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-05-28
The Great Revival in Gold Minin0
in California.
THE GOLD PRODUCING COUNTIES.
Mines Bonded Last Week-Progress in
Tuolumne and Calaveras-Sale Of the
Yellow jacket Mine-News Items.

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the resent gold-mining revival is not
along the lines of stock investment or
stock excitement, but is almost entirely
confined to legitimate investment and
the actual working of productive pro-
perties. Prospectors are busily search
ing for gold indications in every part
of this State and of Nevada. Wherever
PARTICLES of the precious metal have
been found in placer sand, or a trace
has appeared in the outcroppings of
ledge, a thorough search is being made,
and with the most satisfactory results.
Indeed, the present erea of gold mining
notable in the history Of the Coast, in
as the ore is sought and found
in the most unpromising localities, and
important discoveries have been made
in fields where it has hitherto been
affirmed that the geological conditions
precluded the ores existence. The
territory in which operations have
been conducted has been largely ex-
tended, and counties which have been
ranked merely as grain or furit dis
tricts are falling into line among the
gold producers.
A San Francisco man has invented an
ore crusher that is operated by two
horse power and will crush from twelve
to fifteen tons per day.
An English syndicate has purchased
the Pierce gold mine near Tucson,
Ariz., for $275,00O. A 100-stamp
mill will be erected at once.
More rich developments in the vicin-
ity of Carson may be looked for in the
near future, as a vast amount of pros
pecting is being done, and there is no
better mining section anywhere.
The superintendent of the North
eastern Lead and Silver Company, of
Tucson, Ariz. who is working mines
at Mineral Hill near Florence, Ariz,
states that 60-stamp mill will be
erected on the property Immediately.
A new ore bin of 100 tons capacity,
! hoist and elevator for raising cars,
Henry ore feeders and silver plates are
being added to the North Star mine of
Mokelumne Hill, also an air compressor
and power drills are being placed in
position.
The sale of the Yellow Jacket Gold
! Mine in Idaho, to a New York syndi-
cate was concluded in New York re-
Gently. The syndicate represent So
900, 900 capital, and $1,00, 5000, i'll
cash was transferred. This is one of
the most important mining deals made
in this country for several years.
Out of the fifty seven counties i'll
California, thirty three are regular
producers of gold. The amounts for
1895 ran from $144 Orange county to
81, 1898 for Nevada county. Eight
produced over $500, 900 each, and five
over 81 900, 900 each. The total was
$15, 1884, 317, besides $599, 7S9 in silver.
) The Keystone Consolidated vs. the
: South Spring Hill is case before the
: Superior Court of Calaveras county,
and promises to prove an important
} one for mine owners and mining men
i'll general. The preliminaries show
} that the case will include all the fea-
lures of the vexed question of side and
3 end line trespass.
The Alabama mine, situated 1000
feet south of the famous Rawhide of
Tuolumne county and adjoining the
Crystalline on the north, is again to
become the scene of busy operations.
A financially sound syndicate of English
and Eastern capitalists have secured a
. bond ON the property and this week
put twelve men to work under the
superintendency of Mr.. w. f. Ne
i wills, who is son of Captain w. A,
9 Nevills, of the Rawhide.
n The Placerville Nugget says: Thu
new Eastern owners of the Salisbury
mine will start their mill in a few
. days. They are running twenty
O stamp mill on the Grand Victory. TIL,
d CAPACITY of the mill will be increased
b within three weeks to fifty stamps.
9 On the Lone Star property the,
It are driving the tunnel at the rate o
about two feet day. Mr.. jackson
10 reports that they are about 200 feet OF
If the vein. The rock shows an excellen
II prospect.
L The Perris New Era has the follow
y ing item regarding the Golden KIM
= mine: This valuable property, belong
y ing to Messrs. Eli Waters and J. NJ
y Reed, situated i'll the Menifee mining
- district, is, perhaps, one of the mos
" promising mining properties in tina
district, and though the wealth of tn
es mine has, thus far, been kept pro
" found secret by the owners, it ha
20 leaked out that something pretty ric
v. had been struck
p The Big Betsy mine, near Fords
D. town, Butte county, has been bonde
IL for $50, 900 to an English syndicate
70 which is opening up the property. In
III mense concentration and hosting work
p and a forty-stamp mill have bee
10 erected and are in operation. Tn
O. mine was owned by Finch, Titus
u Co., and attention was attracted to
r. by the rich developments during tn
VI last six months of Slows Gold Ban
nt mine in the same neighborhood. Tn
ledge of the latter crops up on tn
no. surface. The ore is of low grade, bu
to is in large quantities and can be worke
NJ cheaply.