The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-08-27
CALIFORNIA MINING,
Mining is the Leading Industry
at the Present Time.
MILLS CONTINUALLY BEING ADDED
Rich Strike In Nevada County-rsn.
Stamp Mill For the Reward-The
RawhIde Adds Sixty Stamps.


stamps to its present mill.
Ten more stamps will be added To
the Reward Mine which is situated
near Pine Grove, Tuolumne county.
The owners of mine ON Mill Creek.
IN Siskiyou county, are erecting a ten.
stamp mill, and the outlook for a fine
cleanup is excellent.
The people of Grass Valley ere high.
ly pleased at seeing the Oamha Com.
pany secure the Homeward Bound and
other claims at Grass Valley.
The Katie Pease mine, near Maybert.
Nevada county was recently sold.
Development work will commence at
once. The purchaser is backed by
New Workers.
The Morning Star Gravel Mining
Company, operating on Forest Hill
divide, has declared its regular month
ly dividend. The one for July is the
9th and is for So per share.
The owners of the recently pur.
chased mines in the southwestern part
of Shasta county propose to erect
2O-stamp mill. A large steam power
plant will be put in to increase the
capacity to 40 stamps.
The Del Ray mine, situated at
Middle Bar on the Amador side of the
Mokelumne river, has developed well
defined lead Of three feet in width,
showing free gold. The mine has been
bonded to company of San Francisco
capitalists.
The Crown Point mine, at Grass
Valley, is now producing some fine
looking ore. The machinery for pump.
ing and hosting in this mine is laid
in solid concrete. The manager is
we'll pleased and intends to sink as fast
as practicable.
A rich strike of gravel has been
made in the extension of the West.
chester tunnel ON the Blackhawk
mine, two miles from Forest Hill,
Nevada county. This tunnel was
started in 1857 and the mine has been
idle or in litigation since. The prop
erty comprises Westminster, Black
hawk and Kirk claims making hold
ing of 800 acres. Col. Wallace has
interest ed DR.. B. B. Brewer and H. S.
Crocker, of San Francisco, Frank
Smith who is a large owner of Mexican
mines, who will develop the property.
A stamp mill will soon be erected
The group of mines ON Whitelock's
creek have been sold to a banker of
Seattle. These mines are situated
north of and adjoining the property of
the Tendron Mining Company of Whit
locks and are valuable group of
mines The last rock taken from
them this summer paid handsome re-
turns to the proprietors. When the
new owner commences to work the
property no doubt he will do so on
much more extensive scale than the
former proprietors and will bring to
the mine the best machinery that
scientific men have invented for the ex-
traction and crushing of the ore and
the saving of the gold.
James Bryan, farmer of Sonoma
county, while sinking deep well
drove his pick into one of the richest
lodges of cinnabar ever struck ON this
coast. He had reached depth of
about thirty feet and while picking in
one corner he struck the ore. One
side of the ledge shows gray cinnabar
while the other is red. All the indi-
cations are that the quantity is almost
inexhaustible, and it is pronounced by
experts to be of high quality. The
mine is only few yards from the rail
road, which will render the transpor-
tation of the ore very easy. The ledge
Is ten yards wide. Extensive arrange
ments are being made to develop the
new mine. There are a number of
other cinnabar mines in the county,
but there has not been much activity i'll
them recently.
The Colfax placer county, Sentinel
has the following: A company has
located and bonded about a mile of
the main lava divide between the North
Fork of the American and Bear rivers.
1t IS organized on economic business
principles. The assessments are light
and limited. Most of the stockholders
are workingmen and the coin drops
into the slot CT the treasury without
any trouble or expense on the first of
every month The Directors are all
working men and know how to put the
money where it will do the most good.
The company has 10000 shares of
stock, all of which are taken. The
principal place of business is at the
tunnel. The promoters of the enter
prise are employees of a nearby railroad
company. There are no top-heavy
high-salaried officials and the efficient
secretary and treasurer receives a
salary of $40 per month.
just now it is noticeable that the
mining industry is calling forth good
many comments from all sides. This
is as it should be. Mining enterprises
OF the present day represent an enor-
nous amount of invested capital. Few,
II any, other enterprises have the same
claim upon the public purse. Interest
grows with every discovery of minerals,
says the Western Mining World. Signs
OF ore, ITO matter where found, in the
mountain or valley, in the sands of
Africa or the SHOWS of Alaska, no mat
ter, climate, risk or remoteness, are
the signals for the stampede of men
and money. Idle capital has keen
scent, and it can as rule be depended
upon to strike bee line prompt and
direct to the richly filled vaults Of
mother earth. Mining enterprises are
less vagrant and spasmodic, and the
class OF men engaged in the business
are of better class than at one time
dominant. With abundant resources