The record-union., 1899-10-06

and the new dredger will probably be
shipped here about the same time. The
manufacturers of the dredger have
been .crowding work upon it all sum-
mer and are anxious to have it fin
sIshed as soon as possible
The Wheeler Company sinking to
bedrock at Greenhorn, south of the
Blue Gravel mine, has not yet reached
bedrock, the work progressing very
slowly at present owing to the immense
quantity of water the big pumps are
required to raise IN. keeping the shaft
clear for operations. When the bed
rock is reached, and the bottom strata
of gravel proves rich. this great body
OF water will be highly beneficial for
slulclng on large scale, to use larger
pumps if necessary.
we learn that II. H. Hunter of this
piace, has made big sale of the After
thought mine at Copper City, in Shasta
County, from which he realized a good
stake. Several others have endeavored
to sell this mine. but Hunter is a good
rustler and an expert in mining, to
snow up a claim to best advantage.
The Afterthought mine is valuable
property, and will no doubt prove very
rich when thoroughly developed
Scott, the late superintendent of the
Mount Shasta mine in this district,
says the Shasta Courier" is now in
terested in and developing mine near
Hornprook, in -Siskiyou, which gives
every indication of proving a big
bonanza. When Scott left Shasta he
left many appreciative friends who
wish him we'll in his enterprise in Sis
kiyou.
A COPPER FIND.
San Diego Union: San Diego County
appears to be unearthing some of its
valuable deposits of mineral. and the
year 1893 Will pass into history as a
reeord-breaker for good discoveries, at
the rate rich mines are being found
The latest to attract public notice is
a rich discovery of copper, gold and
silver ore in an old mine five miles
inland from Encinitas, thirty miles
north of this city. Mining men who
have seen it report that the mine is
the most valuable in the county, with
the possible exception of the Golden
Cross property on the desert.
Charles +. Holland and N McKinnon
of this city are the owners of the Enci-
nitas mine. The claim is very old,
having been opened by some of the
earliest white settlers of the county,
and men are now living in San Diego
who worked in the mine thirty or forty
years ago. 1t was from the first con
sidered a promising copper prospect,
but the development work was never
carried on Systematically, and after
abandoned.
Some time ago Holland and McKin-
non took hold of the mine and began
to develop it after approved methods.
AS result. they appear to have struck
what a Mexican would call bonanza.
Assays of the ore-the most peculiar in
appearance of any in the county-show
value of 30 per cent in copper, be-
sides $40 in gold and $40 IN silver to
the ton Naturally, while the gold
alone would give rich value to the ore,
it's principal richness is in the copper.
and the owners are jubilant over the
returns from the assays. Other as
says are being made, the appearance
of the rock indicating that it is fully
as rich as the specimens first treated
The development work on the mine
consists of tunnel seventy-five feet
in length, and a shaft at the end Of the
tunnel seventy-five feet in Depth with
another shaft fifty feet deep. Holland
and McKinnon will put on a force Of
men and push development work. The
ore giving such rich returns is entire
ly new in the mine, and does not re-
semble that heretofore taken out near.
er the surface. Not only the owners,
but other mining men who have seen
the mine pronounce it extremely valu-
able.
THE FORD MINE.
CalVeraS Citizen: There has been