The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-09-17
CALIFORNIA MINING.
An Electric Power Plant Anna.
Big Mining Properties.
DEVELOPMENT ACTIVE IN PLACER
Placer County Mines Look Bright-Genu.
Annie Quartz Mine Bonded-Esw.
From the sorth-News Items.

The Rand Mining Company Of Kern
county, will put up 40-stamp mill.
The Hill mine, on Coffee Greek in
Trinity county, is reported to be in a
fiourishing condition and mill with
a capacity of 20 tons will soon he
erected thereon.
/ New reduction works are to be
erected in the old Mechanics mine. ON
\ Suffer Creek, Amador county. The
name has been changed and is now
called the POtazuba. or, in other
words, "Pet of Gold"
The Superintendent of the Peter
Woods mine, near the Forks of Butte
has 80 men at work digging roads and
getting things in shape to put machin.
cry on the mine. This mine is owned
by an English syndicate and work will
be pusheds>
The Redstone mine, at Blue Canyon.
I Placer county, purchased last spring
by an Eastern company, is now operat-
I ing in good shape. The new ten-stamp
mill works well and the ore looks very
promising. Superintendent Wiley has
fifteen men at work and the force will
doubtless soon be increased.
One of Butte's famous placer mines,
on Magalia Ridge, that produced big
pay back in the sos, and that has
ever since shown extraordinary rich.
ness, will soon be made to yield its
treasures more abundantly than ever.
under improved machinery and ad.
vanced methods of working the placer
mines of the State.
A new road to the Rand district
from Los Angeles, 10 miles, has been
completed and already is beginning to
| be travelled. This road was the direct
outcome of letter from Randsburg
} miner, calling attention to the fact that
r unless this county opened a road to
j that place it need expect none of the
3 trade arising therefrom, which was
! considerable.
The Hidden Treasure at Sunny South
Placer county, had one of the best
clean-ups last month that it has had
for years. The gravel at present being
$ worked is softer than for months past
4 and pays well. Nearly 100 men are
a now at work there. At the old
e Mountain Gate mine the same company
is at present opening up an air shaft as
the air from the old works drove the
0 men out.
The Panama Star and Herald says.
!. !, The Espiritu Santo gold mine, in the
: Darien, is giving wonderful results.
With only five hammers $50 tons of
> mineral were mined in one month
. : which produced 1900 ounces of gold
valued at $4,000. Twenty more ram.
mers are about to be put in operation,
p which will produce some 5000 ounces
> of gold year, the value of which is
= estimated at e300, 900.
n The Gentle Annie quartz mine, near
IL Placerville, Ell Dorado county, has
1t been bonded by its owners, John Mel.
ton and G. b. Parlow, to Thomas T,
Lane, the son of Captain Charles d,
Lane, the partner of Alvinza Hay
1t ward, and the Hobart Estate Company
t. The bond is to run for two years. Dur.
IL ing that time Mr.. Lane intends tC
S, prospect the property, and if it meet:
as his expectations he will purchase it al
(, a price exceeding 5000, 900 and work il
to on improved and more costly methods
le than in the past. The Gentle Ami,
Of has been exploited with more or les,
Dr. success since the early sixties. Mr.
le Lane, who is practical miner as wei
as mine-owner, has thoroughly ex
as amined the property and is convinced
ne that by proper workings it will de
es velop into large ore-bearing PROPOSE
n ton.
~ The work of pumping out the old
10 Confidence mine in Tuolumne county
70 recently bonded from Baker & Hami-
8 ton, will soon be finished. The water
y, is down below the 600. The Lowest
ia present working is the 500. That thu
IA Confidence will soon be added to tn,
~ list of producing properties is pretty
Q, we'll assured since the new OPERATOR
~ became interested. They have fount
lp on nearly every level bodies of goo
milling ore that were passed over year
ago as being too low grade to worl
proftably. Nowadays, however, thing
: have changed. Ore that would no
~ come near paying twenty years ago Cal
now be handled at big profit, and i
- is for that reason that the mine is
= better proposition today than when i
!; was pouring its millions into circula
- ton.
"a This summer has seen the formation
10 of an enterprise that will have yer,
!. important effect ON the future of Cali
N fornia as mining State. Between tn,
10 Mokelumne and the Stanislaus river
rs in Calaveras county lies portion o
the mother lode that owing to tn,
scarcity of water, has never been de
- veloped beyond a slight depth. o.
Is either side of it lie such famous mine
y as the Argonaut, the Kennedy, thu
70 Utica, the Rawhide, all worked t
u vast depths, while this promising
y region has been merely scratched OIL
= the surface, the shafts in no case ex
D. tending below two hundred feet. Il
r. is with the object of developing thi
70 lode by means of electric power tina
|. the California Exploration Compan.
"a has been formed. The strip OF terri
:. tory now in the hands of the California
d Exploration Company is fifteen mile
Is IN lenght, extending from the Gwil
mines to Altaville, and varies from
half mile to mile in width. 1t in
;, cludes forty-six mines.
D In official circles it is believed the