The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-12

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Mining News.
The following facts concerning Pacific
Coast mines will be Of genera al Interest,":
MINING IN TUOLUMNE.
The Mother Lode: The outlook for
mining in this county was never better
than at present and the recent forma-
ton of miners association is a long
step in the direction OF progress. There
is much good mining ground lying I'M
touched owing to a lack of advertising.
and the location and worth of this
ground must be brought to the atten-
! ton of moneyed men. When men Of
capital can be assured of paying invest
ments in gold mines they will not be
slow in putting UP their money for de-
velopment work.
But the time when any prospect hole
could be sold for a big price has long
gone by, and the men who carry the
sack must have the worth of a property
dollars on a buy. Yet any miner who
money enough for the exploiting of his
claim providing he treats the men who
furnish the capital in fair and bust
ness like way.
There are many men in Tuolumne
who have from two to half a dozen
claims which they allow to lie idle from
year to year because they set too big a
price on an undeveioped property. The
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part of its program to induce such men
to look alt the matter in a proper light,
and sell one or more claims in order
to secure working capital to develop the
balance of their holdings. The fame of
the riches of Tuolumne's placers is
world wide, and that the quartz mines
are equally rich is an ascertained fact.
In the matter of putting mining prop
er5y on the market human selfishness
and purblindness must be reckoned
with, and the ideas Of the value of
ground entertained by the owners and
Would-be buyers are liable to be worlds
apart, but little judicious advice at
the right moment from we'll known and
disinterested mining men should go far
in bringing buyer and seller together
in deal. The public has an interest
in the opening of new mines, and it is
to the best advantage Of our county to
have all the rich claims reach the hands
of men able and willing to put them
on paying basis.
NEW MINING IDEAS.
Scientific Press: California; each year
is getting further from the old time
methods in mining. and the latest ideas
in electricity, compressed air, metal
lurgy and mining methods are being
adopted. The old-time methods We're
good in the old time. but new meth
DDS must meet the constantly chang
ing conditions. In newer mining COM
munities they are not handicapped by
the old-time ideas and methods, and,
as a result, mines in some cases out
side of California are leading this State
in progressive work. California has in
a measure been spoiled by the facility
with which gold was obtained in the
earlier days, when great fortunes were
taken from the mines at comparatively
little expense. That era to great ex-
tent is past. The old mines are deep
and only the latest labor saving de-
vices and the best machinery of all
classes should now be employed. The
new mines are initiating the newly res
directed older ones and are getting the
latest and best of everything. They
realize that mining is business ind
that the mines are deep, and in order to
derive the greatest benefit and to work
to the best advantage old-time ideas
must give place to the new.
TUOLUMNE NOTES.
Mother Lode Magnet: Demarest &
Fullen of Angels will build the 10
stamp mill for the Melones Company at
Robinson's Ferry.
The incline shaft at the Tarantula
| mine is now down $40 feet. They are
cutting a chute and station at the 800
foot level.
Favorable reports continue to reach
Columbia from the Philadelphia dig,
gings above here. The company mas
| two monitors-a three-inch and six
| inch-in operation. The returns from
| the gravel so far worked have exceeded
expectations. They are just getting
| into the channel now. Superintendent
Coul states that his company will erect
| a sawmill at once and cut their own
! lumber, as much of the 700 and odd
acres of mining property is covered
| with a fine growth of timber.
1Hlfly-Hf0 IItu were ldiO Oll a. thS
Dutch mine last week and the Dutch
| mill closed down Saturday night. The
company still has force Of thirty-five
men at work in the mine where they
are sinking in the barren zone which
is found in mother lode properties.
At the Mezeppa mine workmen are
clearing off the site for the 2O-stamp
mill, which is to be erected this sum-
mer In the mine the shaft is now
down 295 feet Superintendent Pease
states that he will commence work on
five drifts about June Sd.
At the Star mine twenty-seven men
are now at work. The recent cleanup
at this property is said to have been
most satisfactory. The mill is running
full blast
It is rumored that the Columbia Ex-
ploration and Tunnel Company will
commence operations again on their
gravel mine, west of town. The prop
osition in view for working the deep
gravel deposits which exist throughout
what is known as the White Lead, is
an excellent one, and it is the opinion
of all familiar with said lead that while.
mint of money has been taken out
by what may be termed the scratch
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