The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-09

The Etna Quicksilver Mine and
Napa Consolidated, also quicksilver
nine in Napa county, are making big
profits.
A twenty stamp mill will be erected
N very short time at the Leon mine.
/ few miles southeast of Ferris, River
tide county.
Preparations are being made to oper-
ate two hydraulic elevators at Horse.
Shoe Bar. below Michigan Bluff. They
will be S00-horse power.
The bringing in of a nugget weigh
ing $500 has stampeded the inhabitants
and all Mojave has gone to the mines.
The find has created the greatest excite
ment this place has ever known. -
An Alpine county mine, called the
Leviathan, is said to contain to each
ton of ore 800 pounds of copper, So in
gold and eight ounces of silver which
at present all-round prices would aggre.
gate $l54.43.
The Distlehorst and Barton klamath
River Dredging Company on the Klam-
ath river, has been doing some good
work lately, and expect to be ready
for mining in another month. They
have been faithfully at work for sew
eral months past in building the boats
and getting the machinery ready.
The ten-stamp mill at the Nebraska
mine, on Cherry Creek, Siskiyou
county, leased by Means & Mahan,
will soon be in operation. The estab-
lishment of this mill will not only be
of great benefit to the Nebraska mine,
but it will also be the means of open
ing many other quartz lodges in that
vicinity, which have been idle hereto
fore because the expense of hauling the
ore to mill is too great.
The Fellowcraft mine, near San
Andreas, Calaveras county, has recent
ly been sold to a Cleveland, Ohio, syn
dictate. Prof. P. L. Hobb, of the West
ern Resmer College of Cleveland,
Ohio, and Mr.. A. J. Weatherhead,
president of the Cleveland Faucet
Company, are now in the city as the
representatives Of the syndicate. The
first payment has been made and ten
stamp mill purchased.
An important strike has lately been
made in the Mosher & Lamphere mine
near Mokelumne Hill, says the Suffer
Creek Record. The rock encountered
is said to be extremely rich. In con-
sequence of the late developments at
the Gwin that whole country, from
the river to San Andreas on the south
and jackson ON the north, feels the
impulse of awakened mining activity,
and it would be passing strange indeed
if great results in a mining way did
not follow.
The suspension of operations by the
} Mountain Mines Company, Limited,
has thrown 300 men out of employ
, ment, and created feeling of consid-
cradle uneasiness. However, it ap-
! pears certain that the suspension will
be for only brief period-one month,
: probably, three or four months at the
} outside. AS soon as work is resumed,
the company will employ large force
of men in the contraction of ditch
that will convey water from the Sacra-
mento river to Keswick, distance of
A fourteen miles, for the purpose of gen.
, Grating electrical power to operate the
Z smelter. A force of men are now at
work clearing site for a large ore
g roasting plant.
Civil Engineer William Watson is
4 drawing plans for what is to be one Of
: the largest restraining dams in thu
0 State, to be erected across Spanish
!. creek at DEVILS Elbow, by the Quincy
a Mining and Water Company. When
n completed the plans of the proposed
Q dam will be submitted to the Debris
t Commissioners for their approval. The
u proposition is to cut a waterway across
a the narrow neck of the DEVILS Elbow
and dump the waste into the bed O
Spanish creek. Above the dam abou
10, 900, 900 cubic yards of debris ma,
!, be impounded, thus permitting mining
. to be prosecuted practically to an un
limited extent.
X The coming of John Hays Hammond
n to California to aid in the development
q of the California Exploration Com
2 pany's properties is the most impor
" tant event that has occurred in tn
. history Of mining in this State within
. thirty years. Everybody along tn
- mother lode knows Jack" Hammond
Il and he knows every foot of the groun'
!. and has confidence that great wealth
N lies beneath it. Though his name his
10 been made known throughout the who'll
# civilized world as leader in the Trans
10 vaal his fame as mining enginee
had long preceded it among the CAPT
talists who were interested in gol
mining in all parts Of the world Wit
the millions Of capital already benin
Of him to develop the thirty EIGHT claim
he of the company he represents, the
rs will soon begin to turn out their treas
ID ure. With the improved methods an
~ appliances of the first mining enginee
Id of the world, the earth will give up il
I'd treasures in immense volumes; tn
IN mountain streams will be harnesse
Id and the powers of their waters trans
OF muted to electricity to give light
lie power and greater safety to minin
at operations; to drive machinery and full
Is nish transportation and to cause tn
ne mountain regions to flourish rs the
ce never can without those aids. Ne'
life will be infused into all depart
ments of industry in all the regio
along the mother lode and all Califol
-, mia must share the prosperity that wi
- be most marked in Calaveras count
~ at first but will gradually extend il
Il blessings all along the mother lode
- and from which Stockton will rea