The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-09-03
THE MINING INDUSTRY,
Work Continues Active as Ever
all Over the State.
EORE BIG STAMP MILLS ADDED.
All-Around Good Find in TrInity-TImes
Lively Around Jackson Farming
Land Converted Into a Mine.

present capacity.
A twenty-stamp mill is to be erected
on Kellogg mine, on the middle fork of
the Feather river.
The Ben Shinar placer mine, below
Thompson creek, Siskiyou county, was
recently sold for $4,000.
Ore can be worked from the Blue
Point mine, in Kelsey canyon, Kern
county, at profit for 81 per ton.
The old Mechanics mill of ten
stamps is being transferred from Suffer
creek to the Good Hope mine.
The Mammoth, Little Mammoth and
Tom Lane mines. in Kern county, have
been purchased by the Los Angeles
Gold Mining Company.
A new strike has been made on the
Butte mine, at Randsburg, which
shows free gold in the groupings and
rich sulphurets as well.
There is no doubt now that Prince
Poniatowski has succeeded in getting
several of his wealthy friends in Lon
don to invest 81 900, 900 in his Gala
veras county mining proposition.
The season for hydraulic mining is
about closed in the northern counties;
but such mining properties as have
been allowed to be operated by the
hydraulic process this year have made
a good showing.
One of the pleasing features in min
ing development in this State at pres
ent is the return into it of capital from
abroad. Foreign capital has got over
the syhness imposed upon it through
the suspension of hydraulic mining.
The troubles of the Transvaal have
diverted the flow of capital somewhat
toward this Western region of late,
and with it are returning many of the
mining experts who obtained their
early training in the mining districts
of this State.
An electric system is how in full
working order at the Bellweather
mine in Amador county, and the en-.
CINE house and other buildings and the
mouth of the shaft are now fully lit
up by the Amador County Electric
halfway anu LlgnU 20.
The Distlehorst dredger, above Oak
Bar, Klamath river, has started up
and made the first dip, raising 400
pound bowlder without any difficulty.
The machinery being all new. will re-
quire some days yet to get everything
regulated in good shape for steady
operation.
A copper ledge, fifteen feet in width,
and which has been traced for 5000
feet, has been discovered on Union
gulch, tributary of Swift creek,
about fourteen miles west of the rich
mining district of Trinity Center.
Specimens taken from the ledge are
surprisingly rich. The ore carries a
large percentage of gold, the richest
about 30 per cent. Copper, silver and
gold being found in such large guam.
titles that Union creek will be added
to the many rich districts of Trinity
county.
The weeks mining news is a repeti.
ton of what has been transporting all
along the Coast for many months past.
An increased number of transfers of
mining property is, perhaps, notice.
able. Capital is gaining confidence
daily in the mineral resources of the
State. All investments are made for
legitimate development-notf for specu.
latlon-which is healthy and hope.
ful sign of the times. As things look
at present California gold mines will
have to produce much more gold than
last year to keep up her name as 1.-The
Golden State, but this she will surely
do, even if Colorado the next best
state, takes out $50 900, 900.
1t is no wonder that times should be
lively and money plentiful in and
around jackson. 1t is safe to say that
month in and month out from sixty to
slxty-fve thousand dollars is paid in
jackson and territory tributary to jack
son. There is hardly doubt that the
Argonaut, Alma, Anita and jackson
Gate will each have forty or more
stamps running within the next twelve
months, and each forty stamps means
the expenditure of from one hundred
} ana nifty to two hundred thousand
dollars year, and an increase of five
hundred souls to the population of
jackson. 1t Is reasonable to SUPPOSE
that the Argonaut will commence the
erection of forty stamp mill within
the next sixty days. The Union Con-
solidated is getting already to start its
mill by the first of next month.
Thomas Ewing, of Oakland, mining
expert and manager, is back from
Montana, where he assisted in the sale
of the Diamond Hill mine to a Scotch
syndicate for 100000. James MIN.
mo and George A. Mitchell of elias.
gov represented the syndicate in con-
summating the deal. The Scotchmen
intend to make extensive improve.
ments and work the property as
thoroughly as possible. Mr.. Ewing
Will remain as general manager of the
mine, and will arrange for fully
equipped modern electric plant. The
new plant will have a capacity Of 600
tons day. 1t will cost between
100000 and $3.50, 900. Machine
drills will be introduced. Most of the
machinery will be ordered in San Fran
cisco. The mine now has forty
stamp mill. The Two Brothers mine,
IN Tuolumne county, has been bonded,
ana arrangements have beenj made for
10-stamp mill.
| Nansen Is Lionized.