The record-union., 1899-05-26
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

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The following news, some of it con-
cerning Sacramento people, will be OF
interest to all who care to know what
rs going on in mining circles:
THE BLUE LEAD STRIKE.
1t Is probable that eight Sacramento
gentlemen have made one of the great
est mining strikes in the history OF the
State. They are: Messrs. A. J. Bruner,
ElWood Bruner, j. A. Bruner, Curtis,
Carmichael & Brand, George K. Rider
and William Lampert. They nave
bond for what is known as the Blue
Lead mine, which embraces 10000 feet
running easterly, then southeriy from
The town of Dutch Flat. Eight thou-
sand feet of this are virgin ground, ana
the other two thousand feet (Which en-
brace many well-known worked-out
mines) have yielded many millions 10
their various owners, under such we'll
known names as the Pioneer, Blue Cut,
Potosi, Why Not, Ohio-Cologne, anu
Others
The Blue Lead embraces the channei
OF an ancient river; its width averages
about 500 feet with depth OF thirty
feet of paying cement and gravel, ana
this runs from a few dollars per ton
to a sum so large that the owners are
too modest to mention the figure.
We intend to put up ten-stamp
mill as soon as possible" said Elwood
Bruner yesterday, "and we have every
reason to believe will be taking out
hundred tons a day by the lst OF Sep
tember, and We expect to have min up
by August 1st. We have not dollar or
stock for sale, and we do not care to
boom the property in any way"
Allen Towle was one of the first of
the old-time miners to discover that
there were rich possibilities in this re-
gion. His Little Yankee mine, which
was the foundation of his fortune, is
now a. part Of the Blue Lead, owned
by the Sacramentans 1t was long be-
lieved that the ancient river bed was
hopelessly lost, Or that it had been
thrown aside by some great CONFUSION
OF nature, but when the Sacramento
gentlemen closed their bargain with s.
G. Jordan, the former own0', they soon
discovered the river bed, rich in gold
for its entire length. It was originally
buried beneath 500 feet of the hill, but
this has been washed down many hum
dred feet by hydraulicking. Dutch Flat
Property has risen in price since it be-
came known that the property was SO
good, and adjacent mines will be
worked for all there is in it, James L.
Gould, the well-known mine owner and
mining engineer, is said to have stated
that the mine is probably the largest
in Placer County, if not in the world.
ANOTHER SACRAMENTO MINE.
There has lately been considerable
talk about the ONO mine, of which G.
G. Armstrong of Woodland, is Presi-
dent, and w. D. Lawton of Sacramento
is Secretary and Manager. Speaking
of the mine yesterday, Mr.. Lawton said:
The ONO mine is, located on the east
belt of the Mother Lode, twenty-four
miles southeast of Placerville, in the
Grizzly Flat district 1t consists of
five quartz claims and one placer claim,
in all over 100 acres of land. There
are three well defined quartz lodges on
this property, but the principal work
has been done on the center, or ONO
claim. Three tunnels have been run
in on the main ledge, which has been
exposed a distance of 2,S10 feet, show
ing one of the longest, unbroken pay
chutes in California, and blocking out
over 10000 tons of ore ready for the
mill.
Tunnel No 1 was run in on the vein
a distance of 164 feet, all in pay ore
Tunnel No. 2 was started 636 feet
further down the hill and is now in
933 feet in pay ore. giving backs in
face of tunnel over $50 feet and sliII
showing the same well defined ledge
over five feet between walls. A shaft
was sunk eighty feet on the ledge over
the upper tunnel, also an upraise of
eighty-five feet was made on the ledge
from the lower tunnel to the surface.
The Improvements on this property
consist Of ten 1,000-pound stamps.
two concentrators, ore feeder, boarding
house, clearinghouse and several small
buildings, and every department is
thoroughly equipped and in good run
ming order
From mill runs which have been
made, the ore paid from four to ten
dollars per ton. The last cleanup made
from the mill was 141 hours run, num-
ber Of tons of ore nlilled 81, producing
1IS ounces of amalgam; the average
assay value of ore milled was $13.0S
per ton, the average cost of mining and
milling was $1.91 per ton, leaving a
very handsome profit to the owners
THE owners now contemplate driving
a tunnel in on the ledge at the foot
of the hill near the river, and when
this tunnel is in 2,G00 feet, it will give
them 1,200 feet of backs at which time
a forty-star,p mill will be erected. They
will have free water and the ground
is heavily covered with fur, yellow pine
cedar and sugar pine.
'.On the 7O0-foot level Of the same
ledge ON the claim north of the ONO, the
ore paid in the mill an average of SO
per ton, and the Mt. Pleasant still
further north and believed to be the
same ledge. paid on an average S23.3I
per ton for five years. Crossing the
south end of this claim is an ancient
lava-capped river channel, I320 feet
of which is owned by the ONO: this
channel has been opened in several
places and has always proved to be
rich The property of this company is
considered one of the best in the State,
and is owned by Sacramento and
woodland people"
KERN COUNTY OIL.
Bakersfield Echo: Not only are nu
merous locations coming into the Re
corder's office to go on the books. but
a whole lot of vigorous development
is going on Everybody is talking oil.
not only our own people, but strangers
are daily showing up with oil on their
speech.
The moneyed gentlemen who are op-
Dr Mitchell saws in diff