Amador ledger., 1900-12-21
cAtAvERAs COUNTY.

Citizen: At tile Mahala mine at
Rich Guleh, the tunnel is now in 200
feet and fine body of ore which pros
poets well is in evidence. The assess
ment work on. the mine was completed
last week, Ed Zumwalt and Gus Nc
Gahan having been employed to do the
work by the owners of the property,
Messrs. Casey, Redmond & Casey.
There is no doubt that the owners of
the Mahala have good piece of prop
erty.
Lee Vandell and Limon Harrington
are at present engaged in opening up
an old abandoned gravel tunnel at
Chill Gulcb, and have already found
some very good gravel on the rim of
the channel. On Thursday last they
struck some pillars of rich gravel, the
washings from fourteen pans of which
yielded $500. The boys think they
have lot OF virgin gravel ahead that
they will soon be able to work.
on patented land, on the old Bailey
place, and is at present in bond to Dr..
Lewis Lee of West Point. 1t has been
a good many years since this property
has been worked, but it is said that a
large amount of gold was taken from
the mine when it was in operation. 1t
is DR.. Lees intention to prospect the
mine in most thorough manner, and
should it prove to be as good as report
ed, English capital will be enlisted in
its 0pefation and is now only awaiting
the result of DR.. Lees exploitation.
The New Lightner mine has been
formerly known as the Webber, and is
located near Copperopolis 1t is a
gravel proposition and has been work.
ed with antiquated machinery, but even
with this great waste it averaged about
$50 to the ton. Dan Lightner, one of the
owners, was dissatisfied with these re.
suits, knowing from his experience as a
miner and theepromising, surroundings
that it should yield BETTER so he got
out five tons and sent it to San Fran
cisco to have it handled by proper
machinery and the result was that it
yielded 800 to the ton. The owners
we're highly pleased with the result,
and consequently began to put in i'm
proved machinery, and in about a
months time all will be ready to go
ahead with the work of taking out gold.
The soil is red clay that can be easily
worked and there are great quantities
of good ground.
Hon. w. G. Ralston, manager of the
Melones Mining Company at Robinsons
Ferry, passed through San Andreas
last Tuesday morning on his way to
San Francisco from the property of the
company. Mr.. Ralston is highly elated
over the results of the recent assays OF
rock taken from different parts of the
mine and it is apparent from what we
learned from him that the Melones
property, inside of two years, will be
the biggest mining proposition in the
county and one of the largest in the
State. The assays recently made are
highly satisfactory to Mr.. Ralston and
all interested in the property. From
the east vein of the Carolina 155 assays
were made, each sample taken being 5
feet wide for distance of 25 feet over
crosscuts LIZ, 8, 4, 5, 6 and Z, and the
assays show an average value of SO. SO
TO the ton. From surveys made in this
section of the property there are /, 424, :
600 tons of the same grade of ore in
sight, making a gross value of "a, 765, :
600. This does not include high assays
nor crosscut No. l north nor shaft.
The total amount of ore between the
South Carolina and tunnel No. 3, to-
gesher with the balance between cross
cuts Nos. and and the north end of
the mine is 1882, 900 tons by actual
surveys made. The gross value of the
ore at 1886 per ton is SO, 800, 920, and
after milling expenses are deducted the
net value will be S3,O0O,060 at least.
There is enough rock now in sight to
keep the 12O-stamp mill running twelve
years.