Amador ledger., 1902-05-23
WEEKLY MINING RESUME
All is Activity Along the
Mother Lode.
Still Drifting at the Bunker Hill
New Deal Closed on the Rhetta
Mine Near Plymouth.

| prospect the country to the west. III
stock sufficient to guarantee this
amount can be placed, the mine will be
reOpened.
CENTRAL EUREKA.-This property
is looking we'll. Dividends, which have
been suspended for number of
months on account of the expense in
CURED in enlarging the milling capaci-
ty, are expected to be resumed next
mouth.
| SARGENT. The work of sinking a
shaft on this property has been fairly
inaugurated. The claim is located
south OF the Hardenburgh mine, near
Middle Bar. The company that is now
working it under a bond, is composed
of a number OF prominent stock holders
in the Central Eureka, who are pre-
pared to spend considerable money in
its thorough exploitation.
RHETTA MINE.-A new deal was
closed in the office of W. J. MCGEE on
the Rhetta mine last week. 1t ad-
joins the Bay State on the south, and
is the property of Chas. Kretcher.
About two years ago Mr.. Kretcher
bonded the property to the Rhetta
Mining Company for Sl5, 900. OF this
amount three payments, aggregating
about S65O0, had been paid, and the
balance was duo June 18th. The COM
pany desired an extension, so a new
bond was made for $4,000, on which
$1,000 was paid, the balance being pay
able in six and IL months.
LINCOLN.-The shaft has reached a
depth OF 2036 feet. They will sink
about 80 feet more for a sump, and
after that prospect for the ledge from
the 1000 level. The company has stood
by the proposition manfully. If the
outcome of the explorations at the
depth of 1000 feet proves unsatisfactory,
it is not probable that the present COM
pany will do any more. The stock
holders have put up in the most liberal
manner, and they are sanguine that
the result of the prospecting will justify
the expense they have incurred. The
success of the Lincoln would do more
to impart new impulse to business
activity in Sutter Creek than any min
ing venture that has been undertaken
there for many years.
EDINBURGH David Fisher, who
has charge of the operations of this
newly organized company, reports that
the tunnel is in a distance of 200 feet.
They are now making an upraise TO
connect with an old shaft, which was
sunk to distance of 40 feet. The tun-
mel level is SO feet from the surface, so
they have about 40 feet more to run to
strike the shaft. The property is To-
Gated near Wieland, and is on what is
known as the old Boyrie claim, 1t has
surrendered considerable from placer
gravel, but little heed was paid to the
quartz. There is quite a body of
quartz, the tunnel having been run
alongside the ledge, occasionally break
ing into it. 1t prospects fairly we'll A
test crushing of 200 or 300 tons will be
made, if a mill can be secured for that
purpose.
BUNKER HILL. = On the 800 level
they are drifting alongside of the small
vein of pay ore, that was encountered
two weeks ago, occasionally breaking
into it. The 400 level is being run
north toward the Mayhower ground,
to tap the same ore body. So far as
tested the rock is found to be of ex-
cellent grade. In the 500 level it is
small in size; only inches wide where
first tapped. 1t has been followed for
a considerable distance, but it's width
at other points is unknown. Should
the same vein be found to exist at the
140O level-as there is every reason to
believe that it will bet will afford
well-founded hopes that the Bunker
Hill will take rank among the dividend
payers of the future. The stockhold-
ers have stood by the property, pour
ing out their money without stint in
its development. No venture hereto
fore made in the county is more de-
serving of success than this.
MISCELLANEOUS
r. l.. Chase, the constructing en-
gineer at the Mitchell mine, has finish
ed framing and along with his crew
has commenced setting up the 20-stamp
mill. T he mill and rock breaker will
be driven by separate wheels by water
power. Supt. Hyner expects to have
everything in running order about the
end of June.
At the Horn mine, near Defender,
the tunnel is in 200 feet. The ledge is
expected to be struck within 100 feet
more. The ledge is small but of high
grade and assays from 800 to $500
per ton.
One OF the interesting features of the
progress of the mining industry along
the Mother Lode is the late revival of
activity in the region of Plymouth near
the northern boundary of Amador
County. This district was made fam
Gus many years ago by the mines long
known as the Plymouth Consolidated,
which yielded millions and which af
fOrded much of the wealth that AL
vinza Hayward won as a miner. Then