Amador ledger., 1900-06-01

tions for the season and will go back TO
Pennsylvania in short time. There
is pretty well grounded report that
Mr.. Emery may represent his Pennsyl-
vanis district in Congress the coming
term. He has just completed the re-
modelling of the old Doghi building in
Ell Dorado, by giving the front coat
of paint: 1t is now handsome and
well appointed hotel.
Citizen: A force of men are working
at the Kentucky on the arranging OF
the new pump and pipes and work will
be steadily pushed along from this time
on.
The work at the Commodore at pres
ent consists of Strengthening the shaft
and repairing the same preparatory to
sinking deeper, and further crosscut-
ting.
The mill at the Ford mine will start
to run on rock from the 100 and 300
foot levels of the mine next week. Mr..
Condit of the Standard Electric Com
pany has been rearranging some of the
electrical appliances there this week,
and all is about in readiness now for
the mill to start up.
Some very rich rock has been re-
Gently found at the Ritter mine, at Ell
Dorado, ore picked up from the dump
being literally filed with gold. Sam
Redmond and Mike Rigney are still
pushing the tunnel in, and the pros
pect in the tunnel is most fiattering.
The boys are both deserving of their
coming good fortune.
The McGuirk mine, near town, now
has force of about eight men work.
ing, and the manager, Chris Masterson
was in town few days ago hunting for
a few more men. This property was
recently bonded by Philip Deides-
helmer for two years for $40, 900, and
the shaft is now down forty feet and
sinking is going on as fast as possible.
They have vein of between four and
five feet which is widening, and the
rock is similar to that of the Commo-
dore and the prospects are that it will
be a good paying proposition.
Chronicle: The latest reports from
the French Hill tunnel as we go to
press are to the effect that the vein
has proved to be much wider than it
was at first believed to be and shows at
present about nine feet of fine looking
ore which carries very high percent
age of sulphurets. The prospect in
free gold is very satisfactory and a
quantity of the sulphurets has been
sent to the assayer, the returns of
which have not yet been received. AS
a whole, the results so far are anything
but discOuraging, and we expect in our
next issue to have still better news to
chronicle,
At the Sampson mine in Glencoe dis
trict, owned and operated by S. H.
Krim, tunnel is being run to tap the
vein. This tunnel has reached depth
of sixty feet and it is expected that the
ledge will be encountered within a
further depth of about twelve feet, at
which point backing or stopping will
be secured. With tunnel 300 feet in
length on the same grade 800 feet of
stopping could be had. The lead is
about 36 inches wide and the groupings
show an excellent prospect, but it re-
mains to be seen what will be the
character of the rock at the depth at
which the tunnel will tap the vein.
This mine is situated on the lode be-
tween the POOrman mine on the north
and the Jones mine on the south. In
the former rock has been found that
will run away up in the hundreds, but
the average is about $50 to the ton,
while in the latter the ore has yielded
on an average of $3.50 to the ton. In
view of this fact it is but reasonable to
presume that pretty good rock ought
to exist in the Sampson at reasonable
depth.