The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-07-16
CALIFORNIA MINING,
Amador County is Showing Up
Well This Season.
BOOM IN TRINITY AND SHASTA MINES
Extensive Work In Shasta-MagnesIts
Mines opened-The Big Champion
MIL of Trinity County-Notss.

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Preparations for new hoist and
compressor are being made at Ca
Creek, Tuolumne county, and
COLONIZATION plant is to be bull
summer.
A building for an electric
plant is in course of construt
the Gold Hill mine in Nevada
and active development
commence.
The erection andsuccessfu'
of the big smelling plant at NJ.
seems to have been but forerunnec OF
the commencement of smelling gener-
ally in Shasta county.
The Magnesite mines in Tulare
county will be opened up. There are
very few places where magnesite can
be found, therefore, the opening up of
these mines will result in much good
to Tulare county.
The work of putting in the new
smelters at the Iron Mountain mines
will give employment to about 800
more men. These improvements to-
gether with projected electric rail-
way from Redding to the works, will
boom the mining interests of Shasta
county as they never have been doomed
before.
The Clear Greek Mining Company
have made all the necessary arrange
ments for the erection of their large
cotton smelter on Clear Creek, nine
miles from Redding and it is safe to
predict that by the middle of July the
whistles will be blowing and the rich
ore of the Igo and Midtown mining
district being worked.
o. B. Stanton, recently of the Bald
win Hotel, San Francisco, has taken a
bond for $500, 900 for the purchase of
the Blue Chief mine in Kern county
for syndicate of New York capital
lists. The mine is situated on Green
horn Mountain, forty-five miles north
east of this place, and has a ledge five
feet wide, assays running from $27 to
1922 in gold and rs to 21S ounces of
silver.
The Champion mill of Nevada
county, as recently enlarged, is laid
out for big work. There are seventy
five stamps, nine ore chutes, two rock
breakers, and an ore bin that will hold
900 tons. The batteries have auto
matte feeders, of course. The stamps
weigh 1000 pounds each, and it is be-
lieved that they will crush an average
of 81 tons per day to the stamp.
There are sixteen concentrators, all of
/. the new pattern built by the Union
Iron Works of San Francisco. They
, are light and strong, with iron frames
all open underneath.
Extensive preparations will be made
this summer to work the Dam claim
near Sunny South, Placer county, on
a large scale. The Hidden Treasure
comapny has leased the old Dam tunnel
and for the past year has had force
of men at work opening up the extern
sion of the Hidden Treasure channel
which lies between the Hidden Treas
ure mine and the old Mountain Gate
mine at Damascus. 1t promises to be
one of the most extensive drift mines
J on the Forest Hill divide. An order
for 140, 900 feet of lumber for the con-
struction of necessary buildings has
been given and the work will go ahead
at once.
The Magalia mine in Butte county
is ready to commence taking out gold,
and, according to all former experience
in the old works of that mine, the
amount will be in quantities to satisfy
the most ambitious. The water in the
J old works has been pumped out, and
the mine is ready for working. 1t has
long since proved itself the richest
channel or placer mine ON the Pacific
J Coast, and those who have worked so
} long to place it in proper condition
for working will not fail to realize a
profitable return for their expenditure
, of money and labor. All available
J force will now be placed at work, and
the coming week will be noteworthy
one in the product of the mine.
The celebrated gravel mine of the
Minersville Gold Mining Company in
Trinity county is being opened up
extensively. Over 100 new men were
put to work this week and more will
be put on. The property comprises
$500 acres of gold bearing ground and
the mines are being we'll equipped.
, There are 1000 feet of new hydraulic
pipe just put in and three large giants.
Over 100000 feet of cut timber is
piled up and ready for use and the
large sawmill in connection with the
mine is being worked to its fullest
capacity. This is one of the greatest
gravel mines in the State and is a big
producer. With its development
Trinity county will enter upon new
era of prosperity.
Amador county is advancing rapidly
10 the hrst place among the gold-pro
ducing sections of the State, and, sin
: guar as 1t may seem, this section of
the great gold belt, though having
yielded millions of dollars worth Of
the precious metal, is still in its in
fancy as quartz-mining region. In
the early hfties, and up to within a
recent period, the miners of Amador
county confined their operations to
placer mining principally, and not
until the new famous Kennedy and
Zeile mines astonished the mining ex-
perts of this and European countries,
did the people of Amador realize that
within its confines WAS more wealth.
contained than its most visionary citi-
zen ever dreamed of. Then com,
menced system of deep mining which