The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-23
The sale of the Copper Queen mine

The sale of the Copper Queen mine
on Coffee Creek below Carrville, the
negotiations for which were previously
reported in the Advance" as pending,
has been completed. The sellers are
Thomas Burke, Elias Ellery, F. T.
Dimmock and William Vonmers, the
consideration being 5000. The pur-
chaser is Napa syndicate. This is
q copper and gold proposition necessi-
tating smelling plant, and the sale
makes the latter an assured fact. This
will be big thing for that section.
up Trinity Center.
A GRAVEL MINE.
Calaveras Chronicle: A. Pellaton &
Co., owners of the Shoestring gravel
mine on the Calaveras River have a.
force of mem at work on that property.
A tunnel was driven in on the mine
some years ago for considerable dis
lance and at the end Of which a winZe
was sunk down forty-five feet to bot
tom of the channel, from which it is
said exceedingly rich gravel was taken.
There seems to be an upper and lower
channel in the mine, and it is the in
tention Of the owners to work the low
er channel only, by the drift process.
OUR MINERAL WEALTH.
Sonora Union Democrat: Retrospect
lively following the course of time from
fifty years 4go to the present we find
that the strongest light Of the American
West radiates from mining, with every
probability that the spark will burn
brighter for a long lifetime to come.
What will be the turn of affairs after
that no one can tell; greater under
ground wealth than ever may be the
order, on the SCARED old workings may
be abandoned as exhausted and WORTH
less. All we can do is to live and wait
and hope. But it is a fact of common
cognizance, speaking for the present,
that the gold mines OF California have
stood without parallel in either plac-
err or quartz since the discovery Of the
precious metal: The veins of this
State go down as deep as the deepest
so deep, in fact, that true assure one
has never yet been known to pinch
out. Cheap or timid operators will
doubtless deny this, but their opinions
are valueless' when placed against those
Of the best experts in the country and
when it is also known that they throw
up the sponge and howl ''petered out"
every time a horse comes in. AS long
as there is plenty of gold in sight they
are ".noted mining men," but when
thrown against a formation requiring
nerve and intelligence before success
can be attained they shrivel to infinite
SINAI insignificance in short order. In
word they are a drawback to the adj
vancement of any mining community SO
unfortunate as to have them for resi-
dents. OF the local claims it is un-
necessary to make mention; all are as
good and some better, than ever, while
new ones keep springing up on every
side Tuolumne asserts that her quartz
veins are as superb creations in quartz
and gold as the world can produce.
CHEAP POWER
Virginia Chronicle: Leon B. Hall, a
prominent civil and mining engineer
who arrived yesterday, has been in
speeding points ON the Truckee River
Offering the most favorable site for the
installment of dynamo plant for the
transmission Of electric power at q
I point nearer the ComstOck than where
the Floriston wood-pulp paper manufacr
turing plant will be located. Such a
site has been found east Of Floriston
and above the source of supply OF all
frrigating bitches. and the site selected
will materially shorten the distance to
be covered by wire transmission.
There is no longer any doubt about
the prospect OF utilizing power of the
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