The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-08

CENTERVILLE MINE.
Two miles up FL Dorado Canyon from
Sunny South is the town of Centerville.
1t is new camp and the buildings are
superior to most mining camps The
town was built to accommodate the
workers in the Centerville mine. The
owners of the town and the channel,
which lies on the ridge back of it,
We're the original owners of the Hidden
Treasure mine at Damascus and the
Sunny South mine at Sunny South.
The Centerville mine is on the same
channel, lying between the two mines
mentioned.
At the new town of Centerville the
old Waske mine was worked through
what was known as the Dam tunnel.
AS they ran into the hill they came
to the Hidden Treasure and Sunny
South channel and had to quit work.
The Hidden Treasure Company leased
the Dam tunnel, water rights, build
ings, etc, and extended the tunnel LOU
feet when they got into the channel and
are now working it with satisfactory re-
suits The gravel has been worked
over 500 feet wide, and rim rock has
not yet been encountered. The gravel
is a hght-colored material mostly
quartz. Thus far the material is haul
ed out of the tunnel to the mill by
horses, but the company is preparing
to put in an electric plant to transport
the gravel and to light the town and
mine.
The gravel is dumped into large bin,
twenty five feet below the track, from
which it is sluiced down into a fiume
600 feet long and then through under
currents. There are about $50 carloads
washed per day, of one ton each. Mr..
Howell attends to that part of the
business.
Senator Power is the Superintendent
and manager A first-class grade, two
miles long, has been built alongside the
mountain from the old Sunny South
road to Centerville There is a fine
boarding house and store, a lodging
house and several residences already
constructed, and many more viii be
built as developments are advanced.
THE SUNNY SOUTH MINE,
Owned as before said by the Hidden
Treasure Company, has been pretty
we'll worked out. though there are fif-
teen men working there now who have
the mine under lease.
On the Middle Fork of the American
River a company is preparing to work
a bar of the river and they call the
claim
THE HORSESHOE BAR.
The river takes a turn there about
the shape of a horseshoe. The COM
pany has tunneled through the foot end
of the horseshoe and expect to turn
the water of the river through the tun-
mel and then work the bed of the river
by means of an hydraulic elevator AS
all the bars worked on that river We're
rich, it is believed there will be good
results from this enterprise. There will
be between one and two miles of virgin
ground to be worked.
There is another enterprise being
prosecuted on the Middle Fork of the
American, which will be called the
CASH ROCK MINE
AS I obtained my information by in
Quiry both in the case of the Horseshoe
Bar and the Cash Rock, I can not vOuch
for it's accuracy, or even that hey are
not the same enterprise.
1 was told that Mr. Hearst of the
Examiner" is interested in the Cash
Rock In this case the water of the
river is to be f1umed so as to dry the
bed of the river, when the gravel in the
bottom will be hoisted up to be washed.
An engine and boiler have been put in
to pump water out of the pit, and a
water wheel is being put in to run a
dynamo for electric lighting.
Seven miles northerly from Forest
Hill is the
DRUMMOND MINE,
Owned by Charles r. Reed of Auburn.
1t has been proven to have rich rock,
and, to more Systematically open it,
and prove its value a tunnel was some
time since started, and it has been ex-
tended 600 feet. 1t is expected to tap
the ledge in sixty feet further Mr..
Reed has bonded the mine to Mr.. Wilt
see, who will open the property on an
extensive scale if the tunnel develop
ments are satisfactory. On the river,
near Michigan Bluff, is situated the
BIG GUN OR SHERRY MINE.
It is owned by a local company 1t is
worked by sluicing and drifting Out
of the mine $1,000 600 has been taken.
The ground is rich and outsiders believe
the owners have a rich reward ahead of
est Hill is the well-known
MAYFLOWER NINE.
1t has a tunnel two miles long.
twenty-stamp mill, which brushes 200
tons of gravel per day. 1t has paid
regular dividends for years, and has
levied no assessments in all that time
There are about seventy-five men en-
ployed there now. At present an up
raise is being made in anticipation of
finding an upper and unwor6ed channel
If this experiment is successful, as many
believe it will be. the mine will have
hearts of stockholders by dividends for
many years to come. William Rule is
the Superintendent and F. Chappelett
the general manager
There are other mines Of Importance
in the county, which my hurried visit
prevented me from inspecting, but
enough have been spoken of to show
that mining is one of the most import
ant industries of the county.
A recent report from the State Min
ing Bureau shows that Placer is Sec
ond in gold production in the State Ne
vada leads, with $3.50 1876 10, and
Placer fellows with an output of ST.
ga, S44 30
This showing is pretty good for
county making as few pretentions as
Placer. I have not touched upon the
extensive lumber and mining interests
a bOVa COlfax on the line of tho "a il,~ood