Amador ledger., 1900-02-23
TUOLUMNs COUNTY.

Democratic Banner Inc Mt. Hood
mine, near the Alameda, is being oper-
ated. j. j. Morris, of Columbia. is
experimenting the work. The prop
perty is under bonds to San Jose par
ties for one year. A shaft is being
sunk. The ore body shows up well.
The ARIZONA mine, at Tuttletown, is
preparing to install a canvas plant.
The cage at tho Golden Rule mine,
Stent, fell a distance of 200 feet last
Tuesday. The bolt controlling the
brake dropped out OF place. No one
was on board. The cage was injured
to some extent.
The Jackass Hill pocket miners con
tinue to turn out the yellow stuff IL
is reported that big strike was made
this week, but no one appears to know
the name of the finder.
The mill at the Rising Sun, near
Arastraville, will be started up shortly.
The shaft at the ARIZONA, at Tuttle-
town, is at present 500 feet deep and
will be sunk TO depth of 1000 feet.
Superintendent Brown is preparing
to have l0-stamp mill erected upon
the Temiscale mine, near Confidence.
The Big Oak Flat correspondent of
the Democrat says that active Oper-
atiOns have been resumed at the Pau
per's Dream mine.
Antoine Lovely and brothers ex-
tracted several hundred dollars worth
of gold from their mine at Yankee
Hill last week.
Independent: At the Longfellow
drifting on the 400-foot level is being
continued with the usual result as to
quality and quantity of ore. About
thirty men are employed.
The Nonpareil shaft at the 50-foot
level has been crosscut, opening up
vein thirty lone and one-half feet wide,
all in slate, and averaging So per ton,
assay value. This mine had been
worked and thrown up several times in
past years, and no one thought of look
ing in the slate for gold, but it was
there all the time.
The Four Oaks shaft is down 1l5
feet Here the slate is rich in gold. A
crOsscut has been run several feet, cut
ting two quartz veins that prospect
well. Only one wall has yet been
reached. The assays run from S25 to
$50 per ton.
The Mt. Jefferson is still working in
its usual energetic style, piling up the
ore, while waiting for the engine for
the mill, which will without doubt be
here in few days, and the stamps will
after. A vein of very rich ore was
struck last week at the 3O0-foot level
in new ground, the extent of which is
of h1f l. 10
be extensive.
The Pauper's Dream, which was
closed down for a while, is at work
again.
The Kanaka will start up again
under the management of the Little
Wonder Company.
The shaft at the Little Wonder is
down 100 feet, with 4-foot vein of
SS<ere, with sulphurets ranging from
500 to $500 per ton. a new hoist is
being built and d 10-stamp mill will
soon be added.
The shaft at the Mississippi is down
so feet, where a station is being cut,
when sinking will be continued. Three
shafts are worked and the ground is
favorable for fast work.
At the Rhode Island the shaft is
down 80 feet, with hard slate in the
face. No station will be cut until the
200-foot level is reached.
Mess Bone and r. Conkling, who
leased the Never Sweat mine d few
weeks ago, took out a 1872 pocket this
week, with every indication that she
will keep sweating"
The pocket mines on Bald Mountain
and vicinity are said to have yielded
several punches of gold of late.
Custom rock is being unloaded at the
Enterprise mill on Bald Moutain this
week for treatment, the ore being
taken from the Hope mine, above
Yankee Hill.