The record-union., 1899-07-21
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

The following news pertaining to Pa
ciflc Coast mines will doubtless be
found of general interest:
GRAPEVINE MINES.
San Diego Union: c. H. Atkins,
President of the Great California Com
pany, which owns twenty three claims
in the Grapevine mining district, is in
the city, having come down from the
mines to have ores from his claims as
sayed. The samples were taken from
the pay streaks near the surface, and
each of the assays showed a value of
| between $40 and $50 Many assays
have been made of the ore from the
claims, and have run from something
over $40 to considerably over 500 to
| the ton.
Yes, the Grapevine district is all
| that it has been reported to be by its
friends said Mr.. Atkins to a Union"
| reporter yesterday. 1T is another
Cripple Creek That is easy to say, of
course but it is a fact. nevertheless.
Good mining men are fast coming to
| this conclusion. The amount of high
grade ore in sight there is simply
amazing. 1 believe it is the mother
| lode of all that mineral region In
some places the ledge is 120 feet wide
between walls, and the pay streaks are
! proportionately large.
This man Onn. who came back from
| Grapevine and attempted to belittle the
| claims there. was actuated by spite. He
was green with envy when he saw the
Mercury mine. one of the claims own
| ed by our company, and was anxious
| to know where he could make a loca-
! tion of such a mine. There were no
more such locations to be made, and
| he left camp. Why he should have at
! tempted to injure the new district I
cannot see, unless it was from pure
spite. He certainly thought enough of
| it when he was there. and he is an in
| telligent man, too.
Our companys mines consist OF
twenty three mining claims, eleven mill
sites and 16O acres of standing oak
timber, all situated in the foothills of
| the San Jacinto Mountains, near the
desert, in this county. The officers of
the Great California Company are: C.
| H. Atkins, President: George NJ At
kins, First Vice President; George w.
| Ingils, Second Vice President; A c.
Meyer, Secretary: w. L. Rose, Treas
urer. The directors are c. H Atkins,
George NJ. Atkins. George W. Ingils,
A. C. Meyer. w. L. Rose. W. Llewelyn,
| Nathaniel Alexander.
The different mining claims which
extend from the eastern boundary of
Warmers ranch to the Colorado desert,
are known under the following names:
Ne Plus Ultra. Arcturus. Sirius, Jupi-
| ter, Shafter. South Side. Lewiston, Da-
Wis, Gilt Edge. Lisbon. Gold King, Alex
ander, Vesta, Dolly Cappy, Vulcan, Big
Boulder, Gold Reserve. Henrietta, So
! phie, Mercury, Beehive. Gentle Annie,
| Elizabeth.
| These mining claims make a COM
| bined length of 34.500 feet, with a
width of 300 feet on each side of the
| center of the lode. and contains 476
acres of mineralized land comprising a
large part of what is known as the
Grapevine mining district. The titles
| to these mining claims are held by To-
cation and possession. according to the
laws of the United States governing the
Federal domain.
THE different mines are so advan-
tageously situated on the sides of the
| foothills that a mill site can be To-
Gated on nearly all of them, the upper
foothills being covered with standing
oak timber, 160 acres of which have
| peetl ACQUIRED lOr Iuei supply ana mine
| timber
GRIZZLY FLAT MINES.
| The following letter to the Record
Union is from an old miner in the
| Grizzly Flat district, of Ell Dorado
County. and what he says win be Of in
| terest:
The Gold Note mine has completed
| it's twenty-stamp mill, and started five
stamps on the 10th of July, on ore
| taken from the four hundred foot level:
| in few days the full twenty stamps
will be dropping and there is plenty
! of ore in sight to last long time There
| will be no cause to stop the mill, as
they are fully equipped with both wat
er power and steam. AS the water has
given out they are now operating with
steam.
The ONO mine closed down on July
Sth as the water had given out. This
company is making arrangements to
put in steam; as they have an immenses
body of timber on their claims, they
can run their mill as cheaply with
steam as with water power, at 10 cents
an inch. They are also getting ready
to drive 1500-foot tunnel in on the
ledge from the river; this will give them
500 feet of backs in the face of the tun-
mel. They then propose erecting forty