The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-12-24
THE MINING INDUSTRY
What they are Doing in the
Mines.
ALL BRANCHES ARE REPRESENTED.
Briefiets that Are OF Interest IN Al,
CIasses-News from All Over
the Country.

PhOoA OAaAnss iOOdtcu nlti6 over
mile from Mokelumne Hill, made a
cleanup with most satisfactory re-
suits. The Calaveras Chronicle saws
the mill was run twenty six days and
the cleanup amounted to $1,000.
leaving net profit after paying the
expenses of $6,0 900 to the stockholders.
The klamath River Dredging Com
pany is diligently at work near Oak
Bar, Siskiyou county, and will no
doubt be able to continue nearly all
winter. Their plant is the largest of
the kind ever built in the northern part
of this State, those on the Sacramento
being much smaller. A large proper
ton of the river bed from Oak Bar
down to Happy Camp has been located.
The hydraulic mines in Orc Elmo,
Siskiyou county, will probably be
opened up early in the spring, and judg-
ing from the snow that has already
fallen in the high mountains, from
which they derive their supply of
water, they will have an abundance to
keep their giants in operation late in
the summer, if the warm weather
does not come too soon and melt the
snow rapidly.
At Carson Hill, Calaveras County,
one of the richest collaborating spots
ON the mother lode, there is active work
going on in six mines. One of the
most promising of these is the Santa
Ana, which is down 800 feet, with
levels at every hundred feet. The ore
yields about $12 to the ton and has
high percentage of sulphurets. It is
being worked by the Utah Company,
and Colonel Woodrow is the Superin-
tendent.
The Emerson quartz mine, near
Mokelumne Hill, resumed work the
first of the month. Sinking a double
compartment shaft is under way and
the lOO-foot mark has at present been
reached. The ledge consists of two
separate veins, about 100 feet apart,
one eight and the other twelve feet
wide, and the shaft is being sunk about
midway between the two, in order
that they may both be worked to ad-
vantage. 1t is the intention of the
management to sink 1000 feet, and
machinery capable of operating the
mine at that depth, together with all
the latest improved apparatus for venti-
lation and drill power, are being used.
A miner up in Calaveras county
writes that claim which was aban.
doned some years was relocated. and he
bought it from the relocators, who in
cluded in the sale house which was
on the claim when they relocated it,
says the S. f. Examiner Now, the
former owner notifies the Calaveras
miner to let the house alone; but he
thinks it went back to the Government
with the claim when abandoned. This
brings up an old question, often mat
ter OF dispute, but one which should
be easily settled. If claim is legally
abandoned and taken up by some one
else, while the second locator has rights
to the ground, he has none whatever to
any machinery or buildings he may
md. They belong to the men who
put them up, whether they give up
their mining ground or not. Thew
could not possibly revert to the Gov
eminent with the claim, for while the
government originally owned the
ground, it never had an ownership in
the buildings or machinery. The Gov.
eminent could not give any one right
to locate" buildings or machinery
which it did not own, SO a relocator
would be given no such right. The
man owning the buildings is the one
who paid for their erection. Nobody
could locate" or relocate that class
OF property under the mining laws of
the United States.
The committee of the California
Miners Association which is prepar-
ing TO bring before Congress bill
establishing Department Of Mines
and Mining, the Secretary of which
shall be member of the Cabinet, is
busy in corresponding with other
sections of the country to obtain co.
operation, says Charles G. Yale, in
the Examiner. The Northwest Mining
Association will be asked to get the
assistance of the Legislatures of Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho. In Mon.
tana, Colorado, Utah and Nevada
prominent mining men will be asked
to assist. 1t is the intention to try and
get the Legislatures of the mining
States to pass joint resolutions and of
the proposed bill will be sent to all
members of Congress in advance, with
clear statement of the whole matter.
showing the advantages to be derived
from Mining Department of the Gov
The bill introduced in Con-
sress by Mr.. Caminetti Of this State
Will be remodeled and again intro
1uced. Correspondence is now being
'arried ON with many prominent min
ng men in Pennsylvania, Michigan,
ohio and other States east of the Mis-
'ouri, for their aid is essential. ALI
ms Will involve considerable work.
md 1t is not to be entirely plain sailing
'ltner, since some are afraid the meas
Ire will not carry and do not care to do
nuch hard work unless with better
assurances of success. Even such an
nnuential paper as the Denver Mining
industry and Review is opposed to the
MEASURE and says there is no reason to
reate another office. However, there
re plenty who believe the new depart
nent should be created. and the COM
nittee OF the State Miners Association
as plenty of work before it IN getting
hem in line.
The mill Of the Little Jamison Mine
townsville. Plumas County. is about
eaoy 70 start up. Ore from the mine
mich has been worked in former time
y the arastra process has given SIS per