The record-union., 1899-05-02
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

news will find much to interest them IN
the following references to the min
eTai resources of the Pacific Coast:
DEATH ON THE WAY TO GOLD.
Redlands Facts: If one-half of the
published reports in regard to the ind
ing of gold-bearing vein of great
richness upon the desert south OF
Kramer proves true, then this summer
Will prove period of disaster from
deaths by starvation and thirst, pre-
ceded by delirium, throughout the sec
ton covered by those burning, water
less, shadeless sands, which will as
1onlsh and appall the whole country.
Fools, with little or no money, water
and food will flock to the death dealing
waste and give up their lives in the
mad rush for gold, sure to follow con-
Hrmation of the reports. Every man.
before starting upon search for the
alluring metal should count the cost
and dangers, consult with experienced
desert travellers and prepare for the
Very worst of fates. Timely warning
and thorough investigation of the perlls
OF such a trip may save many llves'
great loss of slender modes of earning
a good livelihood, and much suffer
ing.
PLACER, QUARTZ AND. RIVER.
The following items are from the
Yreka Journal:
The Cherry Hill quartz mill at Cherry
Greek, is idle at present, owing to a
breakdown, which will soon be re-
paired. There is a great amount of
quartz on hand, and miners are busy
getting out more, SO, that the mill will
be kept well supplied constantly
Myron Carrick continues prospecting
at the head of Spring Gulch on Yreka
Flats. He finds small stringers of
quartz about an inch or SO in thickness,
which pays handsomely, and believes
they lead to a wide, well defined per-
manent ledge some distance below the
surface.
The ledge in the New Klondike dis
trict on the Scott Valley road about
three miles south of Yreka looks like
good gold bearing quartz, but has not
yet been fully tested. The lode has
been opened to a depth of three or four
feet, and is about forty feet wide, so
that it will be a big thing even if con-
tanning gold in small quantity. 1t is in
a range of hills where rich quartz
lodges are found ON the opposite sides,
north, south and west
The Greenhorn Blue Gravel mine is
still yielding handsome returns Since
the commencement of work northward
in the claim, under the foremanship of
John Carney, over $4,000 has been
taken out. When John took charge of
the work, he prospected northward
from the hosting shaft, where he found
good pay, and took the entire force
away from the south extension to work
northward, using a few men for cross
cutting to test the localities adjoining
the drifts extended.
There is considerable mining at Little
Humbug this season, as there is a good
supply of water in the creek B. B.
Jackson, Rider & Fabricius. Everson
Rider and others are sluicing pay gravel
every day with very good success, and
will take out considerable gold this
spring and summer
Tim Austin & Co. are still taking out
good pay in drifting at their claim on
Yreka Flats, north Of the High School,
and it is evident that the good pay
gravel extends into the Butler and Nc
Nulty ranches, near the northern
L
Work at the Sheba mine on Patter-
son Creek, in Scott Valley, is progress
ing with energy. and the mill is never
Idle. The ledge varies from to feet
in thickness. and is believed to be pay
ing rich, although the managers say
nothing about what is realized.
The new quartz mill at the Cape mine
on Greenhorn Creek win be ready in
about three weeks, when the hundred
tons of quartz now on the dump will be
run through AS soon as the nall is
started, the work of getting out more
quartz will be continued
The Spe3gler Bros at the mouth of
Humbug Creek are still sluicing down
the top ground while there is an abund
ance of water, SO that when the supply
Stacks up they can have plenty for
washing the rich bed rock gravel, need
ing less water and more attention. in
order to save the gold usually quite
thick in the gravel at bed rock bot
toming or close to it.
REPORTS OF A BIG STRIKE.
Inyo Independent: The mining ex-
element in this vicinity continues un-
abated. Julius Schroeder brought dowr
some average samples of ore from tho
Barnes & Anderson mine. and from g
piece of white quartz weighing one
and one-half- ounces, which showed ne
free gold, he horned out 40 cents worth
OF gold. There is much of the rocl
which carries masses of free gold The
owners have a good trail to the mine
and twelve tons of ore are broken and
sorted and ready for shipment. A
great deal of it will carry $4,000 a tor
gold. There is a shaft down about
eight feet, the ledge is three feet wide
and the ore is apparently rich in the
bottom. 1t is no doubt the richest
strike made in California for many
years. The groupings have been sam
pied for 600 feet, and it all prospect:
as we'll as the groupings at the poin
where the shaft is sunk. 1t seems in.
credible that such values should ex
fst, but it is true. The owners are no.
excited, though they have PRACTICAL,
unlimited wealth in sight Johnson &
McGinnis have their trail about com
pleted. They have been putting al
their time in on it. and conseuuentl,
no further work has been done at tn.
mine. All agree that this is as gooc
a prospect as the Barnes e. Anderson
They have a shaft down ten feet anc
the ledge has been crosscut for lively,
feet and it samples S3S per ton A
large amount of S100 ore can be sorted
for shipment. The ledge crops for sew
eral hundred feet on the surface ant
the pay seems evenly distributed. TIL
vein lies in a contact with the tru
granite backbone of the Inyo Rang
and gneissiod granite, capped will