The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-13
STRIKES ON MANY LEDGES.
VIEW MINES DIsCoTERED IN Az
THE GOLD FIELDS.

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o.. 900. 900 That went Through the Ola
Butns-stamps Hard at work rrou Ontario
TO H~eIieo-sooO Per Ton In Goid Tunnel.
Los ANGELES. Sept. 4.-The Gwin Mining
Company is reported TO have bought the Good
Hope mine at Middle Bar for ST., 800. The
forty.stamp mill at tho Gwin mine brushes
daily 100 tons OF 50 rock. The cost Of mining
and milling lie about 81 per ton. The Eclipse
mine. Tunnel Ridge, is yielding rich rravel,
and Is telng put into shape to be worked on a
largo scale. The cleanup after each six hours
run yields fifteen ounces. and when the mine
IL fully opened IL is thought the yield per day
will average 81, 800.
Tho Starlight mine, Fl Dorado county, pays
10000 dividends PEI month.
Rich strikes OF collaborating quartz are re-
ported from Pine Ridge, Fresno county. This
is only a short distance from the remarkably
rich ledge discovered by l.. Robordore on Bear
Creek. Many prospsctors have gone in and are
examining all the adjacent region.
In the King Solomon mine, owned by the
Ashford Mining Company, Randsburg. Kern
county, a fine body Of ore was struck last week.
It is all very rich and some OF 1t goes as high
as $500 per ton. This has always been n
good mine, but this find. considering Its guam.
tity, Ia the most valuable that the property
has yielded. Another shaft in tho SAME mine
is going in on a different ledge, which prospects
500 per ton. Tho Alameda, at johannesburg,
Is yielding good ore from each one Of four
shafts. Tho Val Verde has over 200 tons OF orc
on tho dump awaiting its chance at the mill.
which Is kept busy night and day. Another
stamp mill is TO be erected soon at Johannes
burg. A concentration is being built on the
Alameda property. This will make 1t possible
TO save the gold from much low-grade ore that
10 now valueless. The Randsburg region Ia
now developing very rapidly. Much outside
capital is coming in, and a good many unde-
veloped properties arc changing hands. Over
. dozen mines have put on night shifts in the
last month, and many claims are being devel-
oped which heretofore have been held for sale.
In the Gold Tunnel mine. near Nevada City.
Nevada county. q ledge Of quartz filled with
fine gold was struck last week which pays
5000 per ton.
Il. H. Benjamin has uncovered a hve.foot
quartz ledge carrying a large aad strong vein
at Granite Basin, Plumas county. The same
mine: yielded a $4,000 strike two years ago.
A. L. Shinn has an eighteen-inch vein in a loca-
ton adjoining the Homestake mines in which
tho quartz 10 speckled with gold. G. Shideler
netted $3.50 per ton on ore from his mine at
Lights canon, which he shipped to Selby's.
new strike has'been made in the Good Hope
mine, Riverside county. The quartz assays
$4,000 per ton.
NJ. w. Rynerson has disco vered a copper
mine In the Encinitas district. san Diego
county. The vein is six feet thick and widens
ns it goes down. Al the Golden Cross mines,
Hedges, $40 tons of 50 rock are crushed daily,
the day and only two degrees lower at night.
In the Mesquite district, thirty-ive miles from
San Diego, nearly the whole OF a region ten
miles square has been located. In anticipa-
tion Of a boom next fall a town site has been
located. The district has both placers and
long been deserted. as it was thought the
placers were worked out and the lodges not
valuable. The rich finds made last spring and
during the summer show that both these no
tons were mistaken ones.
A case is being tried in court in San Der
force Of the grub stake. The mines in dispute
are thirteen properties in the virginia Dale
ths Grub s stake w %as gwen So'V Virginia LA Dale tSg . Was
an unknown section OF the desert and the
claims were not believed to have much value:
Burt a two years grub stake to assist him in
developing the mines, and now that they have
TOO high for the grub and that the bargain can
not be made TO stand.
asara mine, Shasta county, has been reorgan-
lied and the mine is TO resume operations. The
mine has yielded 81 900, 900, The vein is five
one foot Of $50 smelling ore.
Z. Beaudry has bough4 several hundred acres
an extensive scale. Two prospectors working
Ia Sav ea TAKEN e ort s. Hss5 in Ea half a dia are T ifia is is
in tho same range Of mountains in which rise
Coffee Creek and the other rich streams on
which tho Trinity county strikes have been
made.
An $500. nugget was found last week on the
Louis Dendero.placer claim. near Yankee Hill.
Tuolumne county. Another worth 81 $3.50 was
mo claim clears $1,000 per month, aside from
The excitement over the Trinity county
diggings has nearly quieted down. although a
rush. OF the men who never got in on anything
has begun, and they are s%kepticaI about there
reports indicate that the first accounts OF all
the rich strikes, except that OF the Graves
brothers. In the Blue Jay mines; were probably
sen has found one OF the best cinnabar lodges
ever uncovered in, Trinity county. II bids fair
New River. in the same district as the famous
Altoona quicksilver mine.
Ygba county. is producing $1,000 per month
with 4 hve'stamp mill.
NEVADA.
VIRGINIA CITY, Sept. 4.-The Knickerbocker
Austin Mining Company for $4,000.
At Stateline the ophir Company has uncov.
sr go an eigh ,1 si;ksr .6 chute ne w which dc6, samples a
Ten car loads OF silica are being shipped
from near Virginia City to New York.
high.grado ore and concentrates have been
shipped TO tho Selby smelter.
Los Angeles capital Is interested In a scheme
To buy 800. 900 tons Of Comstock tailings, which
went through the Gould 81 Curry MIL in the
500, Including quicksilver, 1t is figured that
the deposit Is worth 81, 600, 900. The buyers
propose building a plant that will treat 400
Il. II. Blood has bonded tho orc tailings in
Six Mile Canyon, at the southern base of Sugar
Loaf Mountain, and has formed Il company for
the purpose of erecting a plant and working the
tailings by. a new process OF which he is the
Inventor The tailings, which arc tho property
Of the Union Mining and Milling Company,
are valued at $500 900. They assay from Id
TO SO per ton, and contain nearly 2 per cent, of
copper, which vitiates the cyanide process.
MEXICO.
GUAYMAs, Sept. 3.-An English syndicate hns
bought for ~, GOO. 900 the mine nj Guadalaja-
re, OF which d. b. Nichols was part owner, and
Of which he had been for years the superin.
tendent.
A rich strike was made last week in the Viz.
mayo mines at Alamo. Ore was found on the
2OO'foot level assaying $3.50 per ton. The last
twenty. day run OF the ten.stamp mill produced
u gold brick weighing 255 ounces.
A pearl diver has discovered a gold ledge on
tho west shore Of the Gulf, south of QUAY.
mas. The ledge runs along the beach 700 feet
II Is gil trembling, and nearly 200 tests run
from ~ to $2s, per ton. Seventy claims were