The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-15
MORE HYDRAULIC MINING.
n WEI NE RBsUMBD ON a LAReE
SClLE IN CALIFORNIA.


btntnp httIa eotng 10 tue Atnahnn NtnFn.
Los ANGELES, Nov. G.-The Miners AssociA,
ton IA making a strong effort to start the con
p~truotion OF retaining dams for hydraulic mines
for which the sum OF $500 900 Is available,
When these lam nro completed hydraulic
mining will be resumed on u large scale. The
plan has been suggested OF carrying the
plickens from the mines In pipes to the tuls
lands. where the sediment would be deposited
and tho water turned back into the river.
More deep mining Is to be done in Amador
county. Tho Centennial, closed down since
1878, has been bonded to the Columbian Mining
Company and will be reopened and sunk TO the
depth OF 1000 feet. The Keystone Is also
bcing put down to the same depth.
Tho big dam in tho Feather River. Butte
county, has been blown up by the owners be-
cause 1t backed the water so far and 30 deep
up tho river that tho mining of tho river bed
became too difficult. Three new dams will be
built, costing $3.50. 900, which will make it pos.
sible.to work the river bed ut all seasons OF the
year. Tho Blackleg mine at Nimshew has been
bought by San Francisco capitalists, who will
work 1t by the novel method of hydraulicking
under ground. They will sink n perpendicular
shaft over 800 feet from the top of tho noun.
tain and from the lowest point run in a tunnel
70 meet the shaft. Through the shaft will be
conducted a pipe line carrying water under
heavy pressure and tho gravel will DO sluiced
sout through the tunnel.
The Pinto basin mining district In Kern
county. fifty miles northeast of Mojave, is prov.
ing to DO very rich. 1t has been mined by
white men nearly forty years. and before them
had been worked by Mexicans and Indians.
j.. o. Wilkinson went into tho district a few
months ago and bought the Wheel of Fortune,
- mine which had been abandoned in 1860,
after the owners had scraped of all the FREQ
milling orc to a depth Of fifty feet. He went
down i've feet deeper and struck sulphide ores
that assayed 1856 to tho ton at hfty.two feet,
at ffty.three feet 1858. at fifty.four feet $6O6
and Mt ~ffty-hve feet $2.504 in gold. He then
stopped work and came out to send in q mill
and q concentration. Some of the tailings from
tho old: ~arastras worked years ago when put
through COMMENTATORS have yielded $500 in
gold to the ton. About eighty miners are now
: in the camp. and have taken up all the claims
In the district. Two companies of Eastern
capitalists have invested In the abandoned
mines. The district lies in a basin on the top
of a mountain $500 feet above sea level.
The Rand group Of mines at Randsburg is
shipping twenty four tons OF ore per day to the
Garlock mills.
A largo ledge of ore which goes 800 to the
ton has been found in the 400 level of the ALI
son Ranch mine, Nevada county. which is now
in the hands OF Mackay & Flood. The May
flower mine is now being worked steadily at a
profit Sinking began last week on the TWEEN.
ty-second Level of the Empire mine at Grass
Valley. On the 2,O00-foot level a new ore
chute has been struck.
On Rush Creek, Plumas.county. Carter &
Owens have.a sevcn-foot ledge which mills
$3.50 per ton. The Green Mountain mine.
together with fifteen claims, has been bonded
by Cornell d Co. tosa syndicate, which has
begun extensive development work and is also
reoponing and retimbering the old tunnels.
Extensive development work Is being done
ln.the Yaeger mines in Trabuca Canon, San
Bernardino county, and a plant.is being in
stalled to work them by the cyanide process.
The Rose Cyanide Company was incorporated
TO work the tailings of the Rose mine in Hol.
comb Valley. of which there are IL, 900 tons
that will go SO per ton. The company will put
in a plant that can work fifty tons per day.
three-foot ledge has been uncovered in Shasta
county which Is thought to be the source of the
gold quartz recently found near Castillo. The
ore assays 81 TO W. per ton and carries 20
The Graves Brothers mine, the Blue Jay. in
turning out nuggets. The owners have been
running IN on the ledge and say that it I'M.
The Altoona quicksilver mine, which was
Hooded last spring. has at last been unwatered
before. A two-mile tunnel is to be driven TO
drain the mine.
A ,phenomenally large strike has been made
TWO and a half miles north. Of the Rawhide and
l @oiba and 1od Z half w south Ihos Of the {. Utica. qn the
who developed the Treaiwcll mine. in Alaska |
Last summer he organized a company and gave
a working bond upon the property. Last week
at a depth OF 200 feet an ore body was uncov. |
cred 81 feet Glto wide, with go feet additional vein
SIS per ton; but it carries a streak eight feet
vide @, which " I. runs S23 to the ton. The ore can
Norwegian group of mines. n quarter Of a mile
east of the Belle. has produced 100000 since
rock is $50, but it holds many rich deposits
OF free gold. :
BUTTE, Nov, 9.-For a piece of ground en-
praclng only five acres. with dimensions 400
by 600 feet, the sum of $G0l, 900 was paid last
week. Bnt in Butte prices are not governed by
mineral deposits belle exist down Below
The price was paid for the Michael Davitt claim.
were three bidders in the field, the Boston and
Montana COMPANY, the Anaconda Company.
The boston and Montana Company was the sue
the works 9f the Anaconda Company"
A new shaft is being sunk on the Overland
ground near Montana City. 1000 feet west OF
Sinking on the vein has been started at the
D2ncet Coal mine, near Castle.
Thomas Collins of Iowa has purchased the Sun.
rise placer claim in the sylvanite district.
ESMrs. a: /. Thorn OF Clancy. besides attend.
shift at the mine. Her husband owns the
Mocking Bird mine and works 1t alone. Mrs.
Thorn works the windlass while her husband is
down In the mine, and thus fur she has hoisted
Twelve tons OF ore to tho surface and put 1t In
sacks ready for shipment.
some pecnlia- mineral has been discovered
In q g!lch lying between Neihart and Barker,
1t Is thought 10 be a form of graphite. 1t has
q black metallic, lustre, is soft enough to cut
with a knife, and makes a black mark on paper.
eral. "'
mast A good ssslo deal i Of pTqsspssctHing has been done the
ports agree that the lodges are large and heay-
fly mineralized. and besides the gold values
There mel arci strong Indications OF copper. Work
VIII be pushed. this winter on a number
OF properties and by spring things will be ripe
for great activity at Red Top.
The tunnel on the Jim Hill mine in the Syl.
San'te district has been extended to a length
OF lao feet. 1t has cut through a solid mass
Of quartz fifty feet thick, which pans gold in
places, and recently cut a small vein OF blue
quartz that pans and assays well. 1t Is not
certain whether this vein is the main pay
ledge or whether the main ledge is still ahead.
Some work has been done the past week In -un.
ssowerinS the Gaping OF the Goldine Ledge, 100
rect north CT the line Of the tunnel. Many
miners think the Goldine ia the main nav iedue