The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-14
CALIFORNIA GOLD OUTPUT.
s.,D TO BE s~1s,s1y,sy6 FOE
~ LAST YEAR.

,,,,er Strikes n Rioh r
-. Amounts or supplies Going late GEEK
.-,.,-A Rich Ledge Discovered wear rue
",.,ry Cold Ftpd or = Mexican 1ndtan-
,,ortrs. Feb. 6.-An estimate OF the
.h.n from tho mother lode Of California
kou ro,d was discovered here. exclusive OF
n y partly derived from 1t, places the
- .rm at between $70,OOO.OOO ana SlOo.-
po'Al aao For number of years tho lode has
W.. ~. about onc.ffth Of the States annual
yN.' N.aarct yhilc Its entire yield has been
gou a quarter and n thlrd'of the quartz
n.oduct of the state. The average yield
- about $40 per ton. varying from $3 to
. nat heretofore Il has been the richer SEQ
~. NJ the lode that have made the greater
~, NJ the yield. With the modern methods
,, mining and milling the average yieiu VIII
O..hob,v be reduced to So or W per ton. A
"a many of the mines on this lode'have yield
"a enormously. Tho Keystone, the UTICA tho
V.nnedy, tho Old Eureka and the plymouth
consolidated have each yielded from $o,ooo,ooo
n s12. ooo. 900. A number have yielded BE-
-, 90 600 600 and SO, o0O, 900. and there are
'We. whose output has been In tho hun
s,od thousands. More work has been done on
a.. iod. IN Amador county than elsewhere, and
A. vi.la there has been between 1886, ooo,000
~ ebo 200 600. about half the entire product.
wells, Fargo g. Co. estimate the gold and sill
-, t,om California mines in 1897 at $ls,s30,-
40, rsarly 81. 900, 900 moro than the Mint es-
.,,at. A only Sl2, 94s Of this amount Is for
.nr,r the rold product stands at 1857. S76.
Tb,s IA probably as noarly accurate as the Mint
.,,irate as many mine owners send their
s,oduct outsIde the State to have IL minted.
Nevada county stands at tho head, its output
h,,ne about So. 800, 900. Its aggregate yield
s,nce 1919 has been, In round numbers, $2l2.-
100000.
Gradual resumption Of hydraulic mining
-n.s nm under tho Caminetti law. Every year
from thirty to fifty old hydraulic mines resume
nnerations. But their production Is much re-
rtricted by the necessity Of storing the debris,
which renders 1t impossible to wash as largo .
nunntity Of gravel as they could otherwise do.
AZ present many Of the hydraulic plants are
'elosed down on account Of the scarcity.of water.
IN Placer county alone ten out Of the thirteen
hydraulic mines have shut down.
Randsburg will soon have its first stamp mill,
which will be erected on the Kinyon mine, in
FYddler's Gulch. The water will be furnished
by the railroad company and hauled from the
railroad terminus to the mill. In the mean
time the dry washers, Of which. more than q
hundred are working, arc doing fairly well,
averaging IL Genus poT Euh dhu MY EuIib pCE
day. A big strike has been made in tho King
soiomon mine at tho 315.foor level, whore q
large body Of trembling. high-grade ore has
been uncovered, much of which goes as high as
81, ZOO per ton. In the William J. Bryan mine
n rich srringer Of silicate formation containing
free gold has been found which yields at the
rate Of $4,000 per ton. The ledge proper has
been yielding at tho rate Of $40 to $50 per ton.
The Yellow Aster Mining Company is now pro-
ducing about seventy-fve tons Of rock daily
that will average $50 per ton. TIL ore 10 sent
to Garlock to be milled.
Tho first mining machinery In Los Angeles
will be erected this month and will consist of q
stamp mill. a concentration and cyanide works.
Last year the Etna quicksilver mine, Napa
county. produced 5000 TASKS Of 761 pounds
each, the Napa mine 6,4Oo TASKS and the New
Idrin, in San Benito county, 8,605 TASKS. The
Pinacate mining district, in Riverside county,
although Of recent development, is progressing
rapidly. Eighty stamps are at work'and about
$500, 900 is invested in mining machinery. Six
hundred men unemployed:
. Messrs. L. J. Kimball and W. 81. Snyder say
they have discovered a largo gold belt beRin.
ming near. the summit Of Badly Mountain and
extending across the desert. They: are in tho
employ Of O San Francisco syndicate, which
proposes to begin development work on the
ledge.
Receiver Charles W. Pauley of the Golden
Cross mines at Hedges. San Diego county. has
filed his second report. The cleanup for Octo.
Der netted SAG, AGO.; for November, $47,O 66,
and for December. $43, OS6. The receiver re-
ports that the mines will produce sufficient bull.
lion to pay of Observation-Disclosures. He says
the indications are that the ore will increase in
fchness as the mines are worked
Scarcity of water is affecting many Of tho
mines in Tuolumne county. Electric power
plants are being erected at q number of the
mines. The Colby mine. in Sonora, which yield
ed a 10000 pocket last fall, gave up So. 900
last week, and the owners him they are on the
verge Of another big strike.
A sulphur deposit on Sulphur Mountain, near
Nordhof, Ventura county, is being worked.
ohe bed 20 by 2io feet has been uncovered and
there are several others that are larger. They
pre- owned by I. r. Bard, who delivers fifteen
TONS OF crude sulphur daily in Ventura.
MONTANA.
BUTTE, Feb. 9.-The finding of almost pure
yoid In a slate formation almost in the heart Of
inc little camp of Diamond City, although the
tnd Is admitted to be only a pocket. would have
zen srnicient to create a stampede In old times.
practically, owner Of Diamond City. was in Hell.
ena a rev days ago and told of the finding of mug
feSo ., GOD In the formation by a miner named
- McCann, who has a prospect about a mile
ttoll me city and several feet higher in altitude
snah the camp; Some time ago McCann, while
Morkihg IN a ,desultory way In a shaft he had
sunk on MS claim, encountered some rich rock.
ohe piece or gold he took out weighed three.
quarters OF an ounce and was worth Sl3. Sew
eiht other chunks Of rock were taken out from
"mch ne extracted coarse gold. A few DAYS
ISL ne LOOK out five ounces in one day. The
taTr5halon does not encourage the belief that the
sHu 10 u mime, but Indicates rnfhpr TINT ~ "a N
pocket, i"'hoF Ina IL ID d
me work OF hosting the pumps from tho At
NAM ,-I snht OF the Boston and Montana Com
Rahy mas begun and the property will probably
%o nt1%anuoned Tor a time. During the past few
inonlls q force has been engaged at the At
tb bn'io win q diamond drill in cross-cuttin9 for
the ssenHse. several s~tringers of ore were cut at
IT, In 9pUuioot level, but nothing was found 10 JUS
fha hin a' explorations. 1t was supposed that
Sa m ps copper lodges crossed the fiat at some
s0pp' anu q smart was developed to a depth OF
lee, tuGt. bedrock was not reached until 400
sfo,m Hersa petrlfied tree was found, Further
eraS 10 md the ledge may be made, but not at
bass i hant gold quartz. assaying 1928 to the ton,
conn 1voh encountered near Rochester, Madison
Amn'iaI a;dcpth OF only eighteen feet.
arc ,to INNING districts tributary to Clancy
iric, p mrl worked. several mines in each dis
well \, ouTGihB ore some Of which will run
res imo iva May mine in the Basin district will
Io n operations on Feb. II with sixty men.