The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-16
same channel. and residents believe it

same channel and residents believe 1t
J will develop into paying mine.
/ The Cuibertson quartz mine which is
| two miles west of town has a ledge
three and one-half feet wide and ten
stamp mill through which they have
crushed rock worth SO per ton. They
are running a tunnel which viii be 1O0
| feet long where they expect to strike
| another chute of ore. Water power is
| used. The ore is all free milling.
RELIEF HILL DISTRICT
| Is in Bloomfield Township. 1t was
originally a hydraulic mining section,
| but when residents were prohibited
from that kind of mining, they went
resolutely to work and developed drift
mines.
The principal one in full operation is
| the Union. 1t has tunnel 2,40O feet
long. The pay gravel is from 100 to
POO feet wide. There are thirty men
continuously employed.
! The Waukesha is another claim which
is being developed. 1t is on the old
| Blue Lead which runs across under the
ridge to Moore's Flat. The owners
found good gravel but their tunnel was
too high up so they are compelled to
sink an incline in order to work it
again.
| The Eagle mine is a claim which is
! being worked under a lease from the
Eureka Lake Company.
Relief Hill, although a small place, is
one of the most prosperous in the coun-
| ty. The population is about 200. There
are three boarding houses and hotels.
! four saloons, a public hall, store and
postoffice, and a very comfortable
schoolhouse.
Near Moore's Flat, at German Bar, on
the Middle Yuba River, the Buck Bros.
recently struck a quartz pocket in their
| ledge, from which $500 was pounded
| out in a mortar in one day, and 1000
was taken out in the same manner in
| three weeks time.
| Below this claim is the Plumbago
mine which was purchased two years
! ago for New York company by NJ.
| w. Mather, who is superintendent. The
mine is north of Minnesota in Sierra
| County and about six miles from
| Moore's Flat, Nevada County.
1t is known as a pocket ledge and is
| from one inch to six feet in thickness.
1t pitches at an angle of from 80 de-
! Srees to 40 degrees. The mine has a
| ten-stamp mill run by steam power.
| The rich rock found in punches yields
! from largely. From fifty pounds of
| the arsenical ore and sulphurets there
was So, 800 taken. Last year the ten
stamp mill yielded $120000 The pres
emf owners bought the mine two years
| ago for $4,000, and $4,000 has been
| paid for more ground adjoining and the
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| treasury. There are other claims on
the river said to be just as good
The Providence mine at Nevada City,
! an account of which was given some
| time ago, last week encountered large
! ledge of rich rock fourteen hundred feet
! below the surface, the backs of which
will all be in virgin ground. AS here
/ tofore stated this mine has yielded in
| the neighborhood of $4,000. 600 and the
prospects bid fair for it to continue a
dividend payer for a generation.
! Taken altogether the quartz industry
in Nevada County is in q prosperous
condition. 1t is the largest gold pro-
/ Queer in the State and the develop
ments going on in nearly every quar-
ter bid fair to increase the past output
! greatly in the next year. The people
as a rule have had no pinching times
such as other sections have passed
| through. While there is no boom there
has been a steady growth and improve
ment throughout the depression.
The condition of affairs has demon
| strated that mining is one of Califor-
MAS most important and productive in
| duStries, and that fact is being made
palmer day by day w.