The record-union., 1899-11-14
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

Star and Central coal mines near Anti
och. 1t is to this effect, that II, 4uoUoo
tons of coal are available on the prop
critics named at {. depth entirely prac-
ticable to work; that it will be entlreiy
feasible to take out 10000 tons OF coal
per month or about 700 per day. A
supply of steam coal so abundant ana
SO near Oakland is likely to have, as
the Enquirer declares, an important
bearing upon the industrial future OF
that city
THE KENNEDY.
Amador Record: The new shaft at
the Kennedy mine had last Saturday
morning reached a depth OF "a feet.
1t Is expected to intersect the MAN
ledge at a depth of $500 feet, but be-
fore that point is reached they will run
west to the vein. The mine continues
to yield about the usual results. Be
yond the sinking of the shaft no new
improvements are contemplated Tor the
present. Contractors are a little back
ward this season about getting in tim
bers. not employing teams enough, but
Superintendent Parks has provided
against an emergency of this kind, and
will not be caught short Of either mine
timbers or fuel. He has engaged adj
ditional timbers from another source,
and in case the wood gives out he will
burn stone coal, the difference in cost
being not great.
THE MORNING STAR.
Grass Valley gs-Telegraph: At
a meeting of the stockholders of the
Morning Star Gravel Mining Company,
held recently, the directors voted upon
a proposition to sell the mine outright,
a bid having been offered by the Big
Dipper Mining Company, which owns
the claims adjoining and up to whose
lines the Morning Star has been work
ed. The price paid for the mine was
on a basis of SIT per share, and as there
are 240O shares in the mine the price
paid will be $40 800. This money will
be distributed among the stockholders.
Besides this, there is enough money in
the treasury to pay each shareholder
dividend of 81 per share, which makes
the last payment they will receive from
the Morning Star Company about $24.
The Morning Star mine has a Won
derful history. 1t has made large
number of people rich. and while for
a time the assessments upon it were
heavy, it amply repaid those who held
on to their stock The mine is situated
in Indian Canyon, in Placer County,
near Iowa Hill, at an elevation of y
644 feet. The gold taken out has aver
aged from $3.50 to $40 per ton. and
about seventy-five carloads day was
the output. The mine employed from
forty to sixty men, and about 1000
feet of channel had been worked. Many
Grass Valley people We're owners in the
mine and while it has placed most of
them in good circumstances. several
will feel the loss of the handsome
monthly dividends it turned in. The
principal owners were the Coleman
brothers, formerly of this city, and
Lieutenant Governor Neff, who was
President and Superintendent.
The Big Dipper Company, now con-
trolled by Seymour Waterhousa, Will
continue to work the Morning Star as
the channel of the latter mine runs into
his ground. The channel is fabulously
rich, and the output of his mine at
the present time Is over 81, 900 a day.
He employs about forty or fifty men.
SETH MARTINS LOCATION.
Nevada Transcript: Ex-Assembly-
man Seth Martin had a motive in COM
ing back to his old stamping ground
County. where he is now living Along
with Colonel Jack Matlock, who came
over with him, he went out this week
to Mount Orc, fourteen miles east of
this city, where he mined for gravel
SO many years with varying success,
and upon their return to town last
night he told the Transcript" the pur-
pose of the trip. He had located a
ledge that has a remarkable history,
and proposes to go back to Mount Orc
in the spring and work it In 1855 a
man known as Boston Charley and
his partner struck a ledge there and
sinking nine feet on it found a pocket
from which they gouged out $4,000
in very short time. The first after
noon they got 5000 and upon going
deeper found ore that upon being brok-
en- up in a mortar gave $500 to the
pan. The $4,000 they got hare. added
to some S36, 600 they had made out of
gravel, gave them such a good stake
that they left for the States" after
covering up the ledge. intending to re-
turn later In 1861 Martin and some
of the men who We're working with him
occupied the cabin they had vacated
and he became familiar with the sur
roundings. In 1879 Boston Charley"
who was then a wealthy and prominent
citizen Of Illinois, came back to this
county to try and reopen the bonanza
ledge. But in the twenty-odd years
of his absence the appearance of the
country had become transformed The
old trails We're wiped out and new ones
coursed in other directions. Second
growth timber had shot up rapidly and
other changes had taken place The
returned pioneer spent several months
looking for the old location but could
not find it. Before leaving he told a
young man of the neighborhood about
his find in 80 and gave him a roughly
drawn map of the country as it then
looked, indicating on the map the
whereabouts of the ledge. Afterwards
the young man gave Martin this map.
In 1882 Martin began searching for the
formation. He sepnt much time and
money in the quest. In November Of
1888 he uncovered 1t, discovering even
the shaft, and following down to the
bottom of the pocket which the pioneer
discoveries had supposed was simply a
pot-hole, as they knew nothing of
quartz mining. Being in poor health
and short of funds Martin covered up
the find, saying nothing about it, and
intending to reopen it when he re-