The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-04
MINING NEWS.
Great Interest Shown in the
B unswick Lode Directory.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MINING
Big Sale in Tuolumne-Lively Times I'm
FL Dorado-The InyO MInes-Other
News Notes.

There are about 200 miners and pros
pectors working in the immediate
neighborhood of Ell Dorado. 1t is a diff.
cult matter TO get a meal there at the
present time.
The Big Four mine, near Fourth
Crossing, Calaveras county, is improv-
ing greatly with depth Gold can be
seen i'll any of the rock without the
aid of glass.
A man, who leased piece of ground
adjoining the Campbell mine in Hull
gulch, Quartz valley district, Siskiyou
county, is meeting with unexpected
success. He will clean up in the
neighborhood of SO, 900 for the sea-
sons run.
The owners of the Juniper mine of
Fresno county have ordered the lumber
of twenty stamp mill, which they
will erect at once. The Confidence
mine, same county, is to be opened up.
Forty more stamps are to be added to
the mill, making 80 in all.
The Western Federation of Miners
has decided to amalgamate with the
American Federation of Labor. All
officers were elected. 1t is believed
that by the time the next convention
meets 800, 900 will have been secured
by private subscriptions for the pro-
posed miners home.
The Starlight mine at Grub gulch,
has been sold to Colorado company.
This is one of the largest mining trans
3 fers that has ever been made in MADEIRA
county. The company is putting ON a
big force of men to build roads, etc.
g First they will sink two shafts to the
e depth of 1000 feet. Mr.. Chadbourne
of Colorado is the general manager for
n this company.
The total value of the mineral and
= metal production of the United States
:, in 1895, according to the Engineering
!, and Mining Journal, amounted TO the
Il enormous sum of 1878, $3.50, sos, which
compares with a similar total of $685.
1853, 002 for 1894, showing total in
e crease of 800, 1926, 500 for the year.
"a This figures up little more than it
o really is, but it is safe to say that there
Ie has been an increase of Is y per cent.
l. Alvinza Hayward and A. B. Preston
10 have sold the Mooney, Mccain and
10 Trio gold quartz mines at Whisky
10 Hill, Tuolumne county, to Boston
ee syndicate. Colonel Haywards' interest
Il in the first two named properties was
ee one-half and in the Trio seven-eighths.
N For this he is to receive about $780,
000 Prestons' share of the purchase
rs price will be under $40, 900. The
re mines contain large body of low
~ grade ore, but have been little devel-
ne oped.
of The pocket hunter is out in "full
H. dress in Yreka mining district of Siski-
lis you county. All a person needs is a
,is pan, poll, pick and shovel Humbug
gulch and vicinity is rich in pocket
stringers and all it requires to get at
Is. them is little hard work and plenty
of of staying qualities. A man who went
H. in on an inch stringer about fifteen feet
ng was fortunate enough to get $216
of pocket at depth of less than five feet,
a. besides number of smaller pockets
ng that ranged from SO to $17.
's MANY other mining districts of Ne
a, vada are now coming to the front, such
30 as the Delamar, Silver Star, Como
81, which is regarded by many as a contin.
20 uation of the Comstock-Pine Nut and
-, Buckeye. Many of the leading mines
81, i'll Pine Nut have been bonded to East
g. ern capitalists, and new mill erected
;r there-the Schultz-Zirn-is yielding
~, handsome returns A great deal of
"a gold is being taken out and there is an
increase in richness of ore III depth.
Experts who have been there lately pro
nounce the formation similar to thatd
The the Cripple Greek country"
10 Another strike has been made in the
lne Queen of New York mine at Wander
ao bilt, the big mining camp north Of
ioe Needles and not far from the Colorado
no' river. A body of ore has been strucE
Up, at depth of ninety feet, which assay
az $465 to the ton. The ledge is three an'
nc one-half feet across. The ore is liter
nv ally full of wire gold. As soon as !
Jus was uncovered the miners knew the
ule had something rich, but were hardl
Is prepared for an assay of $465. 1t vii
not need capital now to develop tn
property, for the rich ore will pay e1
10 penses as the work goes ON. 1t is tn
the purpose to push it vigorously.
ent The Donnalan mine in Calavera
asst county, located on the northern lode
an" few miles north of San Andreas,
Iol- attracting much attention as nov
city in mines, says the Oakland Enquir
Ten er. The pay is decomposed stratum
lie of rock, about 100 feet wide, which
EN- being quarried out from open cuts, ant
rly milled in a 15.stamn mill Only re-
God .tamns bovaver or, RIM in the lack q
water pressure. The rock milled give
no indication Of being auriferous, ye
q the mold is there. 1t only yields
,ral per ton, but owing to the facility wit
ate which it can be mined and milled tn
nly mine is yielding about 800 per da
lei. profit. The mill is an exceedingl
abe neat affair and its arrangements al
Let highly complimented by mining mel
All Nevada is looking ON at the wor
W, .on on the Brunswick lode with interes
' 4 and in hope that it will bring about
VIZ era of prosperity, says Sam Davis,
the Carson Appeal, in an Examine
: Of interview. Mining men all thin
neil very highly of the prospects of goo
do. results from the development of u
Itch lode. 1t has been believed for man
the years that there was another lod
sue parallel to the Comstock that migf
by contain as much ore as that, but III Tn