The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-16
THE MINING INDUSTRY.
What They are Doing In the
Mines.
ALL BRANCHES ARs REPRESENTED.
Briefiets That Are Of Interest to All
CIasses-Nsws From All over
the Country.

! Inc Red Dog mine at \ ou Bet, Ne
yada Co., is making its last cleanup for
the season. Lack of water compels
the company toelOse work for the sum-
mer.
The Sunset mine, near Gold Creek.
New, embracing eleven claims and
some placer ground has been bonded To
Eastern people and a contract let for
500 feet of tunnel.
The .Greenhorn Blue Gravel Co.
Shasta county, has struck rich back
channel, which is naying we'll, and
there is also good supply of bedrock
water for the sluices.
The gold production of Australia.
during the first three months of 1898.
was 7O2,924 ounces, against 54s,9IO
ounces in 1897. For the same period
the increase was about So, 900, 900.
The Kindred & Burgess mine at Mad
river has been recognized under the
name of Little Klondike. The dry
season will give them good opportu-
nifty to mine the low river bar that pros
poets encouragingly.
Near Stella, Shasta county, there IS
considerable prospecting and mining
going on, both in quartz and placer,
The Desmond Bros. will erect A D.
stamp mill on their property. They
have good ore and their claims are we'll
opened.
Inc company represented by o. How
ard, OF San Francisco, who has made a
deal for the old North Star quartz
ledge on Humbug, Shasta county, has
paid most of the purchase money with
intention of working the ledge on am
extensive scale.
Superintendent Summers of the So.
nora mine, Tuolumne Co., formerly
known. as the Scanavino, has a force
sinking the shaft, which has reached
100 feet. On the bottom the vein
shows 10 inches of free milling quartz
AT 100 feet the first level will be es.
tablished and the vein drifted both
ways.
The Salt Lake Herald says that the
McNutt placers of Moose creek. near
Leesburg, have been sold to q Chicago
company for $3.50, 900 cash. The same
company is operating two electric
dredges at Bannack, and it is the inten-
ton to use two similar dredge boats ON
the McNutt placers, which are to be.
extensively worked this summer.
The 40-stamp mill of the Empire
mine OF Grass Valley is being remod-
eled, and will be completed in six
weeks; it will be one of the best ar
ranged mills in the county, The con-
centrators are to be reset, and drv-
ing room for the concentrates is being
ntted up. Two dams have been bnilt
to impound the best of the tailings.
The Nevada County Transcript saws
That work on the new bedrock tunnel at
the North Bloomfield mine is progress.
ing. When the 500 feet of tunnel ia
completed the channel will be worked
by the drifting process. Miners will
then be put on as fast as room can be
made for them, and it is expected that
by next fall close to $50 men will ha
employed.
Inc Black Warrior Copper Co., near
Globe, Ariz., is shipping ore from the
montgomery, which is one of the fl
teen claims belonging to the companv.
The edge is 90 feet wide and the ora =
cheaply mined. 1t averages l5 7.1O
copper and is of character to flux
WIN the ores of the United Gloha
mines, which company has contracted
to smelt it,
The Magnolia mine at DeLamar.
New, shipped another carload of good
ore OF the value of 1926 per ton. This
is the second lot shipped from the
the present year. and the
is now in condition to mako
regular shipments during the summer
Inc haul to the railroad is long and
expensive and only the ores that afford
valuation of 5000 or better to the Ion
are marketed, While this high-erade
class Is being made to provide for do.
Velopments and sinking fund with
"nlch to continue in the winter. the
VEN is being steadily prospected. and
to handle the main body mill win no.
put IN next season. Mr.. Eisenman is
1ohoiai RudliuSeF
In the Victor mine, Cripple CreeL
the main shaft is $50 feet deep and the
last level runs 80 feet above that point
IN good ore. The mine is outputtinr
rom loo TO l25 tons per day. The first
grade is settled for on an AVERAGE az
S2oo per ton, while the second grade i
rood for $50 to 800, while the third
'r mill ore averages close to S25 ner
on. Mgr. N. H. Cone says there ia
hardly an end to the amount of low
'rade ore in sight in all of the levels.
while OF the high-grad there is suffi.
lent to meet the big payroll for long
lme to come. This mine has paid
Iividends in the past five years close
0 1000, 900. The ten or more orc
cams loading at the mine are a thine
the past, as everything in the or,
ouse now goes into the cars direct
nd big engine hauls it to market
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