The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-03-04
Development News.
A rich chute of ore has been struck
Ill the Marconi mine at Big Oak Flat.

IlCn CnuVe OF ore mas been struck
i'll the Marconi mine at Big Oak Flat.
Captain G. E. Gillette of the United
States Debris Commission visited the
Kate Hayes mine last week, says the
Nevada City Herald, with the result
that the company's license to mine has
been revoked. The recent freshet
carried out the company's restraining
dam on Sweetland creek.
The Oroville Register says that more
men are employed in the Magalia mine
than ever before known in the history
Of that mine. A. d. Gassoway is the
superintendent and it is the current re-
port on the Magalia ridge that he is
getting out more gold than any man
who ever had charge of the work.
The Plumas Bulletin says Messrs.
Lee q Jolly are making fortune out
OF their mine in Granite Basin. They
only have tive-stamp mill and employ
six men. As work progresses, the ex-
tent and richness of the quartz veins
seem to increase. The mill is now
running on ore delivered last fall. At
one time, the owners named $50, 900 as
the price of the mine. Since then
they have realized goodly share of
this sum. Now the property produces
better than ever and it is not on the
market.
In the work of clearing out the old
Draper mine in Tuolumne county. the
main shaft has been cleaned to within
sixty five feet of the 800 or last level.
The mine was worked in the early
COS, and yielded large amount of
bullion. The timbers and that portion
of the pumping apparatus under water.
and which was used over thirty years
ago, are reported to be in excellent con-
dition. In fact, the foreman informed
a Sonora Democrat representative that
the pump was as good as new and that
all timbers covered by water were az
sound as any recently cut. The mine
is being operated by William B. Moore
q Co. and eleven men are employed.
Some six years ago the late Senator
George E. Whitney with p. g. Galpin.
bought what is known as the Darling
mine in FL Dorado county and put up
mill and steam hoist and worked
considerable ore, some of it of high
grade. A shaft was sunk about 200
feet in depth. Since Senator Whit
ney's death. Mr.. Galpin, a prominent
member of the San Francisco bar, un-
able to give the mine his personal at
tention, has allowed it to lay idle.
the mine is located few miles east of
Georgetown, and has been for sale for
some time. 1t was recently sold, how
ever, to Juan d. Alvarado of London
for the sum of $40. 900. The mine was
exported by Col. ID. II. jackson some
time ago, and it was upon his report
that the mine was sold.
Ex.United States Marshal Long has
been at work for about two years in
reopening the old Gagnere mine in
Tuolumne county. According to tn
Sonora Democrat the mine was oper
ated nearly forty years age, and a
that period paid handsomely, but il wa
found impracticable to work il salts
factorily with the methods then ON
ployed IN saving GOLD. Subsequent
the mine was shut down altogethe
by litigation. The shaft is down s3
ieet. On the 100 and 200.foot level
massive ore bodies mark the walls
IS estimated that there are 80. 900 ton
OF ore in sight. The ore is not of
bonanza character. but carries suffl
cient gold to make it very profitabl
TO work. 1t lies just south of the Pater
son. A twenty-stamp mill will be
erected ON the property in the spring.