The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-06-18
CALIFORNIA MINES.
Wonderful Activity all Along the
Mother Lode.
MINES IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
Rich Find in Kern County-Mlning Trans-
fer In Plumas County "A Big Mining
Suit Ended-Brisf Notes.

erect mill.
Some rich strikes have been made in
the Piute Mountain mining district of
Kern county.
A discovery has been made one-half
mile north of the Steele mine in Quartz
Valley, Siskiyou county. Development
work will commence Immediately.
The new mill at the Alaska mine,
which cost about $4,000, has been
burned to the ground, together with
the old mill. This mine is in Nevada
county.
If the test run in the old five-stamp
mill of the Rose Hill mine, Calaveras
county, proves satisfactory, it is in
contemplation to build forty-stamp
mill on the property.
The work of reopening the Niagara
mine, on the mountain back of French
gulch, Shasta county, is progressing
rapidly. A Dutch company now owns
the property and forty men are en-
ployed, besides the lessees.
Grading is going on at the Esperanto
mine of Calaveras county, preparatory
to adding twenty stamps to the mill
and erecting larger hoisting works.
Twenty stamps more are TO be added to
the mill on the Roanoke NINE
The Bend Power Company, of Mari
posa, county, which proposes to install
an electric power plant, is asking mine
owners and others likely to use power
or light from them to state their re-
quirements so that adequate machinery
may be put in.
Manager W. 7. Phipps, of the State
Anti-Debris Association, together with
the editor of the Marysville Appeal,
recently visited the hydraulic mines ON
the San Juan ridge, in Nevada county,
and report that considerable work is
being done under permits, also the find
ing Of some poor dams.
Some men have discovered rich
gravel on Democratic gulch, short
distance from Weaverville. The
gravel bank is about eight feet in
depth and prospects over 80 cents to the
pan. Since the discovery they have
been panning out IS to $40 day
and have taken up eighty acres.
There are in various parts of Napa
county deposits of diatomaceous
earth, a nearly white, challzy sub
stance, very light in weight and easily
reduced to powder. 1t is in use as a
polishing material, for the manufacture
of dynamite and possibly other ways,
and the demand is said to be increas-
ing.
The Rawhide of Tuolumne county
never extracted richer ore than at pres
ent About Carson Hill mines are do
ing well. In Siskiyou and Plumas
mines are active, as are also the mines
J i'll Southern California, especially in
San Bernardino county. Never before
for many years has mining been so
general.
The tranfer of the famous Sunnyside
of Plumas county and the Day placer
claim, an extension on the north,
which is presumed to be equally valua-
Bile, has been consummated. This
transfer means new era of prosperity
in that famously rich mining camp, in
Butt valley, and will materially aid in
calling attention to gravel resources
in other nearby localities.
! Jackson, Cal, is experiencing the
novel sight of Chinese panning out
, gold in the heart of the town. The
, late heavy rains swelled the three
: creeks running along the leading
thoroughfares, and the Chinese have
, found that gold, varying from color
to mustard seed in size, had washed
down. In consequence of the discov-
cry they are out with pan and rocker,
doing thrifty business.
The Sidewinder mine, located about
nine miles from Victor, San Bernardino
5 county, and one of the richest proper
9 ties on the desert, was sold to syndi-
, cate of Oregon capitalists for $240, 900.
Q The Sidewinder was owned by Joseph
7 Driscoll of ORC -Grande and Los An
geles parties, the former being the
3 owner of five-ninths of the stock. The
| price paid was the actual worth of the
+ mine as indicated by the development.
The wonderful activity in California
gold mines is fruitful source of COM
ment in business circles all over the
State. Travellers from all sections
report times lively in the various dis
tricts which they may have visited, and
: the travel throughout the interior is
Q steadily increasing. Every old mine
a that has lain idle, is being reopened,
3 the country is alive with prospectors,
y and everywhere things are booming.
The Cherokee Flat mining suit is
, ended. After being in the courts for
. ten years past, during which time the
. big property has been virtually closed
: down, the end has suddenly come and
the mine will soon pass into new
hands. The Cherokee mine is too well
known to need description. 1t Is
one of the largest and richest hydraulic
mines in the State, having a record of
producing $13,000,0 900 in gold with
> the lead apparently as inexhaustible as
: ever.
: The renewed activity in mining in
. Southern California which has of late
become so marked, is nowhere more
= noticeable than in San Bernardino
county" says the Los Angeles Inyes.
tor. Every week brings further
e news of rich strikes having been made
y and new properties sold in that section.
II The actual condition of the gold min
n ing industry in California is greatly