The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-09-10
MINING INTERESTS.
Wide Field for the Cyanide Pro-
cess in California.
SALE OF THE LAST CHANCE MINE.
Work Continues Active In Amador-
Miners OF Butte VIII Meet Soon
Rich Strike in Randsburg.

Mining III AmadOr county continues
as active as ever with nearly all mines
making extensive improvements.
The owners of the Richmond mine
OF Amador county intend putting in a
forty-stamp mill. They will also put
up large water power hoist.
Bright reports continue to come in
from Placer county's mines, showing
that energetic work there, as well as
elsewhere, continues as active as ever.
The Bunker Hill and Niagara gold
gravel mines, of Plumas county, have
been sold to an Eastern syndicate
The purchase price is said to be $780,
900.
The Providence mine, situated near
Nevada City, Nevada county, was re-
Gently burnt. The loss was in the
neighborhood of $1,000. The contract
to rebuild the works has been let
The salt industry of Utah is growing
rapidly. Five years ago not over
twenty carloads of refined, or as COM
monty called, commercial, salt was sold
annually to outside points by Utah
men. Now the business is about 1900
cars of refined salt annually.
There are now fully 1000 miners at
work in Amador county This is a
good many for small county like
Amador. There is more inquiry, too,
for claims than for years. Any amount
of prospecting is going ON. Many
small properties are being worked, and
the mines are in general way OPEN
ing out well. The Exploration Com
pany of London is doing a good deal of
work.
One of the richest strikes in quartz
ever made in Trinity county has been
unearthed in the Vinicia mine, in
Eastman's district, near Lewiston.
The ledge is four feet in width and
gold is plainly visible all through the
ledge. In fact, the rock is literally
sprinkled with the precious metal 1t
is impossible to estimate how much the
rock will yield per ton, but guesses
are made that it will go into the hun
dreds of dollars.
The Quartz Hill mine, in Siskiyou
county, bids fair to become one of the
greatest gold producers in the world.
The latest examinations of this proper
ty and the development work under
way has had the result of making the
owners feel satisfied that after the
erection of large plant the output
can best be calculated by the capacity
of the mill. The quantity of gold
quartz containing sulphurets is so ex-
tensive that experts rely on steady
yield for hundred years to come.
Q The Butte County Miners Associa-
4 ton will meet i'll the first week in Sep
f TENDER for the purpose of recognizing.
Q The purpose of this is to allow the
: association to conform to the new con-
9 stitution and bylaws of the California
S Miners Association. Julian Sonntag,
g of the latter body, will assist the Butte
!, miners in recognizing. From all ao-
: counts there is general revival of in
d terest in mining matters in Butte
J. county and the association desires to
d send large delegation to the Califor-
k MIA Miners Association Convention,
which will be held on November 10.
u Another exceedingly rich strike is
n reported from the Rand district and
i has occasioned rush of prospectors to
IS the scene of the find. The mine is
!. about six miles south of Randsburg
l. and in the county of San Bernardino.
!. An assay of surface ore showed $111O
a ton and this is an average. The
prospect is considered by old miners to
;. be far richer than the celebrated Bur-
n cham mine. This direction from Rand
v burg has been but little projected, as
4 1T was supposed the lead ran in the
;. opposite direction.
1t A wide field for the cyanide process
l. is opened up by its successful applica-
e ton to mill tailings. Everywhere
l. throughout the West, where gold mills
II have been operated, there are old
II dumps, containing millions of dollars,
is but of such low grade that they have
been regarded as of little value to the
is owners. In the early days of gold
o milling there was not SO close a saw.
is ing of values as modern machinery
d and methods have made possible, anc
j. a considerable percentage of the prec
# ious metal escaped. Even with the
d superior mechanical appliances of the
}. present day, there is considerable loss
y varying from 10 to 40 per cent, accord
y ing to the character of the ore and the
: state in which the gold occurs Any
:, method that will profitably extract
# the values from these tailings will
therefore supply an unexpected sourc,
o of wealth, and the cyanide process il
% coming into extensive use as an auxil
II larry to copper plate. amalgamation, a.
J. well as in the treatment of old dumps
Two new points in mining law il
E this State have been laid down b,
u the Supreme Court. The first ques
o ton. concerning which there has beef
q much doubt, was whether title to min
& ing ground could be founded wholel,
10 upon working and holding" or, as il
Q is termed in this State, without ,
n formal location. The Court held tina
It title could be so acquired thus answer
Is ing that question judicially for the frs
70 time in this State. The second poin
q was as to what constituted labor upol
n mining claim in order to compl,
Is with the law. This, according to tn
9 Supreme Court, may consist of the ordi
l. nary work of development, or, if tn
mine be idle, it may consist of the ser
;. vices of Waterman in looking afte
- and taking care of the property. In tn
y !. latter case, however, there must b
E something ON the land in the nature o
= buildings, bitches or such other i'm