The San Francisco call., 1896-11-11
THE Bic MINES
Of RICH AMADOR
Great Activity and Many
Miners Employed on
the North Side.
Nearly 375 Stamps Are New
Running and the Number
Will Soon Be Doubled.

d. Gutmann of this City, who is en-
gagged in mining in Amador County, has
returned here after visit to various prop
critics there. He said yesterday:
''There is great activity in mining in
Amaaor County. The following mills are
now running: Pioneer, Plymouth, 20
stamps; Bay State, Plymouth, 10 stamps;
Keystone, Amador 40 stamps; South
Spring Hill, Amador, 40 stamps; Cover,
Drytown, 20 stamps; Wlldman-Mahoney,
Sutter, 40 stamps; South Eureka. Jack
son, 20 stamps; Kennedy, Jackson, 10
stamps; Zeila, Jackson, 40 stamps; Union
Consolidated Gold Mining Company,
Wieland, 80 stamps; Reward mine, Pine
Grove, 10 stamps; Gracy bryant mill), 10
stamps; Macy, Pioneer, stamps; James,
Pioneer, stamps; Treadwel, Sutter
Greek, stamps; Wheeler, Plymouth, 5
| stamps; Tripp, 10 stamps; Ferrall mine,
10 stamps, making a total of 372 stamps.
"a great deal of prospecting is now be-
| ing done in the east vein of the mother
lode. on which tie Zeila is located. The
| Zeia is one of the Oldest in the lode and
| could If the same had good shaft keep
| 120 stamps running. At present this mine
| is being shut down again on account OF re-
| pairs to the shaft, which was sunk in the
| ledge and nearly impossible TO keep in re-
| pair. The management has secured q
| strip of land east of its shaft and will be-
| fore long sink perpendicular shaft to q
| depth OF 1900 feet-when this mine will
rank as one of the large gold producers OF
the county. It is safe to say that fully
! 1,000,0 600 tons of rock have been mined in
this mine the last eighteen years and that
the Zeila always considered q Iow-grade
proposition, has produced fully $5, 900 900
| in that period, and there is hardly any
doubt that with good shaft 100 900 tons
| of rock can be mined annually for the
fifty years TO come, as the ledge averages
thirty feet and the ore chute is over 800
feet in length.
"The Bellwether mine, about one mile
north of the Zeila, is being opened up by
Chicago company. Their new three
compartment shaft is now down 280 feet,
| and it is only matter of time when this
mine will be as big as the Zeila.
The Jackson Gate adioins the Bell
| pings in the State mark the lode. Their
shalt is down $50 feet, and at their 300
level, where drifts are now being run, the
! ledge is over 100 feet wide; the rock is low
grade, but still will pay to mill. All that
IS needed there is lots of stamps.
| The owners are so well satisfied that they
are now commencing the sinking of
three-compartment working shaft, which
! they intend to sink to a depth of 600 feet
| before crosscutting.
The managers of both the Bellwether
and Jackson Gate mines have profited by
| the experience of the Zeila, and they are
| sinking their shafts in the country rock
about 90 feet from the vein.
'At the Argonaut mine stations have
! been cut on the 1150, 1850 and 1850 levels
and in the 1850 level, going south, there is
II feet of rock which will mill better than
$50 per ton. Grading for mill south of
the hoisting works is now being done. The
loOrf 1ry n r.nt n 6oA &c unf 3
will put up 40 or a 90 stamp mill. In
the Allen Macmillan property at Sutter
| Creek q contract has been let for 40
stamp mill costing $4,000, which is to be
! finished within ninety days.
1.-The Alma Gold Mining Company is
much encouraged, and has good reasons
| for being so, after their diamond drill
| went through a ledge 81 feet thick, 800 feet
| in their shaft, the core from the drilling
| averaging S10 45 81. The Alma is situ-
ated within the town limits of Jackson,
and is a continuation of the Kennedy and
Argonaut, only one claim being between
the Alma and the Argonaut The COM
pany owns 140 acres OF land and has
| nearly one half mile on the lode line. The
| shaft has now reached depth of 910 feet.
has three compartments, and is one of the
best in the county; the shaft is $50 fee; in
solid greensboro; for 400 feet the shaft is
perpendicular, and was then turned to an
incline OF So degrees, this being about the
dip of the vein.
1.-THE company will sink to 1850 feet and
then commence cutting out stations on the
1000. 900 and 800 levels. and drift on the
vein for four months on each level, when
the mine will be opened up sufficiently to
erect 40-stamp mill in the early spring.
The machinery at the Alma consists of q
double hoist with pair of 14x16 engines.
three-drill air com pressor and all neces-
sary appliances. All work done at the
NINE has been done with view to perma-
nency, and from present indications it
promises 10 be second Kennedy. Nearly
all OF the stock of the company is owned
in San Francisco. There has been over
$50 900 invested in opening up this mine,
! and by the time the mine is opened up and
mill erected $140, 900 shall have been ex-
pended.
THE Anita mine is running q crosscut
from the 500 level to strike the ledge.
which is expected to be encountered
within the next 20 feet.
"The Oneida mine is operated by the
London Exploration Company, of which
the great Rothschilds are at the head.
Ross E. Brown, the eminent mining en-
gineer, is In charge of the work, and no
| expense is being spared in opening up