Amador ledger., 1900-08-10
order whereby w. H. Martin conveys


to Alyinza Hayward the Superior
quartz mine in Diamond district, the
constellation being $4,000. The
mine. better known to residents of this
city as the Ribbon Rock, has been ope-
rated for number OF months by Hay
ward under bond.
Rapid headway IS being made in the
drifts both north and south that are
now being run on the 200-foot level of
the Ribbon Rock mine south of this
city. The south drift is now IN over
one hundred feet and the north drift
has been driven distance OF sixty feet.
The entire face of both is In good mill
ing ore. Three eight hour shifts are
employed at this property.
Messrs. NJ. M, Drew OF Sacramento
and 2. C. Cohn and J. H. Donnelly of
Folsom are putting largo force of men
at work on their river bed mine at
Salmon Falls. They are giving white
men the preference, but are forced to
hire a few Chinese owing to the fact
that good white laborers are scarce.
The section of the river to be worked
has been damned, and centrifugal
pump has been set up to keep the water
out of the pit. The outlook Of the
mine is very promising.
Preparations are being made by the
Two Channel Mining Company for ex-
tensive development work on the Will
ton claim near Josephine.
Work has been suspended temporarily
at the Gold Bug mine near Georgetown.
The Kimble mine south of this city
is now employing 81 mon. About 100
car loads of gravel arc put through the
mill during the ten hours it runs each
day.
The Columbus Development COM
pany, whose principal place of business
is Oakland, location of works FL Dorado
county, has levied an assessment, No. l,
of three and one-half cents per share on
the capital stock OF the company, de-
linquent September 18th. The Colum-
bus company was engaged for number
of months last year and early this year
in developing the Columbus quartz
mine on Cold Springs Flat, three miles
west of this city. They contemplate an
early resumption of development work
on the property.
Development work at the Ribbon
Rock mine, south OF this city, is steadily
progressing. Three eight-hour shifts
are steadily driving the tunnels for
ward both north and south from the
200-foot level.
The fattering prospects that ener-
getic prospectors have been receiving
this year both on Big Silver Creek and
near the head of Slab Creek would
seem to justify the hope that another
season will witness great activity in
gravel mining in both OF these districts.
At the South Slope gravel mine, which
is being opened at Kings Meadows,
pans running as high as dollar and
nalf to the pan have been obtained and
equally good pans have been washed at
the Big Silver placers. Hundreds OF
square miles of territory are embraced
III the Two districts, all OF which will
receive the attention of prospectors
during the coming season.
The new boarding house at the Ex-
pansion mine, eight miles west of this
city, has been completed. The ma
cninery for the mill is being hauled
from the railroad depot at Shingle
Springs and installed.
The Crystal mine, three miles south
of Shingle Springs, has been sold by
Boarman Brothers & Simpson to Wood
ruff & Mau. The new owners will at
once equip the mine with a hve-pan
Huntington mill. They expect to be
able to mill fifty tons day. The plant
will be arranged 80 as to be operated
both by steam and water power. The
Crystal is big low-grade proposition,
the ledge at the deepest workings being
about % feet in breadth.