The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-11-19
THE MINING INDUSTRY
What they are Doing in the
Mines.
ALL BRANCHES ARE REPRESENTED
Brlenets That Are OF Interest To An
Glasses News from All over
the Country.

Mr.. Terrier of Paradise Valley
Placer county, has bonded his mine to
Colorado capitalists, who will deyelon
the property.
Most OF the miners around the south
fork of Scott river are waiting for the
rains to come to furnish them with
enough water to start up.
A San Francisco company has been
moving machinery to the Venzeke
mine ON Bald mountain, Placer county.
and Will soon begin active operations.
The famous Keystone mine in Anna.
dor county is reported by the president
to be milling now the richest ore that
has been taken out of the old mine for
some time past.
The Slime Mine and Milling Com.
pany were filed in San Bernardino re.
Gently. The purposes of the orRaniza.
ton is to carry on general mining
and milling business, and for the de.
velopment of gold, oil and minerals.
A company has just completed the
construction of flume in the Ameri-
can river bed short distance below
the Mammoth Bar mine, Placer
county. About twenty men are en-
ployed, and Mr.. Andersen, who is in
the employ of Colonel Davis, has had
charge of the work.
The Spengler Bros, at mouth of
Humbug creek, Klamath river, are
now able to commence work on an ex.
tensive scale, as the late rain storms
furnish good supply of water, be.
sides snow on the high mountain
peaks, to keep it up, until the regular
winter storms begin.
Orc Grande, San Be1nardino county.
is to have smelter, and there are
prospects that San Bernardino will also
have similar addition. The smelter
that will be located at Orc Grande is
the result of three months effort on
the part of Los Angeles capitalists and
the agent for the company which man
ufactures the machinery.
A joint stock company, with paid
up capital of $40, 900, has been formed.
for the purpose of working a Horse
Greek property. A large consignment
of pipe will soon go down to the new
mine, which is a hydraulic claim, and
is to be worked on an extensive scale.
This mine has been worked some, and
it will no doubt prove to be one of the
richest claims in that section.
The Alameda mine, on the Mother
Lode, north of and near to the Raw
hide, Tuolumne county, was sold last
fall to parties who have vigorously
operated it. The mine has so rapidly
improved that it has been decided to
put forty stamp mill upon it at once.
Ore has lately been found in the mine
of the value of $500 per ton.
: A meeting of the Miners Associa-
tion of the City and County of San
Francisco was held at the Chamber of
Commerce rooms the other day, and
che following officers elected for the
ensuing year: President, A. j. Rail
ston; Vice. presidents, Andrew Carri-
gan, S. J. Hendy, Thomas r. Church,
E. A. Belcher and Louis Glass; Seore-
} tary. Charles G. Yale.
The Great Bear Mining and De-
yelopment Company, whose location is
near the Iron Mountain mine, Shasta
county, is making quite extensive i'm
provements on its claims. The ore,
which is free, assays from $40 to $40
per ton. There are four tunnels, %
feet, 80 feet, 100 feet and 10 feet, and
shaft of % feet, from which latter
! point $4,000 in gold was taken out.
Q The owners of the Gardiner mine at
Orc Elmo, Siskiyou county, will be-
: enabled to start up soon, as it does not
r require as large an amount of water as
Q the other hydraulic claims around Orc
Elmo. The Eastlick Bros. and Wright
3 & Fletcher mines are never worked
f great deal until along the first of the
year, when the owners put large forces
S at work and are kept busy until fall
S Articles of incorporation of the
r North Star Mining and Milling Com.
Q pany were filed in San Bernardino
Q recently. The purposes for which it is
q formed are for the locating, buying,
I selling and working CT gold and silver
I mines, and other real and personal
q property; the appropriation of water
9 and water rights indispensable to the
! purposes; the erection of all mills, ma
chinery, etc., necessary for carr ipg OF
the company s business and for all other
business deemed necessary by tn,
Board of Directors. The capital stock
} is $500, 900.
t A revival of interest in gold mining
g is apparent and while many hundred:
{ Of men have been deluded into join
4 ing rush to Alaska, South Africa ant
r South America, many better informed
Callfornians have pushed out into tn,
: remote corners of the State and art
Q developing its quartz lodges that il
f many instances were located man,
{ years ago and abandoned under tn,
: conditions of those times, or laid id,
Q for want of capital to work them. i
j. is a mistaken idea that the gold mines
: OF California are in any degree ex
Q hausted. Even all the placers are not
d The easy benches were of cours,
: worked first, but the higher benche,
! are almost as rich, though it cost
;, more to work them. With littl,
+ knowledge of the science of mining
many mines now closed will be opened
and proved successful. Every business
Is subject to more or less risk. Lucl
plays no more part in the success of I
Q mine than in farm.
n Pomelos In the south.
;. Lso Angeles and San Diego COUNTIES