Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-12-13
Mining Notes.

UPTON & WHEELER.-T Upton
niue, situated about seven miles north
east of Plymouth just over the border
in Ell Dorado county, has been pur-
chased by eastern capitalists. princi
pally of Pennsylvania. Under the
name of the Western Pennsylvania
Mining Company, the owners are push,
ing work with view to the early re-
sumption of active work upon the
property. S. G. Wheeler has taken a
contract To remove the 10 stamp mill
| from Quartz Mountain and erect the
same on the Upton claim. Men are
now at work taking it down and re-
building it on the new site as fast as
the material arrives. Some work was
done on the mine years ago. and from
the prospects obtained it is expected
that the rock will 90 from $40 to SIS
per ton. Some estimates place it con-
siderably higher than this. Although
the property is in Ell Dorado county,
all its business is transacted through
this county, Plymouth being it's center
The same company has purchased
the Wheeler mine near Plymouth, but
are doing nothing in the way of active
mining, except cleaning up around the
works,
PEERLESS. Operation at this mine
were suspended temporarily on the LIST
instant. The engineers are at work
keeping the water out. At the direc-
tors meeting held in San Francisco re-
Gently, it was decided to discontinue
work for a time. Word was sent up to
discharge all the miners. Those inter-
ested say that work will be resumed
soon. There is difference of opinion
as to the best method of conducting
further prospecting operations. There
is no doubt, however, that the prop
erty will be further explored, when a
plan of operations is agreed upon.
DEL MONTE.-The superintendent
reports that the vein encountered in
running the drift has widened out to
three feet, of fine looking rock. No
assay of the ore has been made, but it's
appearance justities the opinion that it
is of good paying quality. Work is
progressing slowly. A machine drill is
expected to replace hand drilling in the
near future, and with additional means
which the sale of large blocks of the
stock in the eastern states will put in
the hands of the management, the
work of pushing the long tunnel, and
placing the property on solid work.
ing basis will be greatly expedited.
KEYSTONE. The renovated hosting
works were started up Monday morn
ing, and works smoothly and salts
factorily. The entire mine is again in
full running order.
PLYMOUTH NoTEs.--F. A. Orr
writes us that another rich strike has
been made north of Plymouth, this
time on the Wyona quartz mine, owned
by DR.. BOyson, and which adjoins the
Orr ranch on the north. Hearing of
the developments on the Orr property,
DR.. BOyson started prospecting on his
own claim, with the result that he has
uncovered the vein in two places, about
$50 feet apart. The assure is 20 inches
wide, with gouge and some quartz.
Some quartz mortared by John Gordon
of Plymouth, on Tuesday last, ran as
high as $40 per ton.
The Bay State mine has been sold to
San Francisco parties.
BUENA VISTA MINE. The Buena
Vista Copper Mining and Reduction
Company is making excellent progress
at its mine. Within the past month a
boarding house has been built and
road graded to the mine. Other nee
essary improvements in the way of
sheds for machinery and hoist are
rapidly nearing completion. We are
informed that the many tons of sur
face rock on the company's property
contains fair values in gold and silver.
Ore from the old dumps assay from S27
to S3S per ton.