Amador ledger., 1902-03-28
.DO|NGS OF GOLDSEEKERS
Bright Prospects for the
-Mahoney.
Report that the South Spring Hill
has Changed Hands To Operate
the Fremont and Cover.

KEYSToNE.-The new mill of the
keystone at Amador City was started
up last week. Sixty stamps are now
dropping steadily at this old stand by
the longest lived mine in the county.
1t was at the Keystone that quartz
mining in Amador county was started
in the early fifties. And after fifty
years of activity, the mine stands to-
day with larger equipment than at
any previous period of its checkered
history. The ore is lower grade, it is
true, than in it's bonanza days, but
with the ample milling capacity with
which it is now provided it is believed
that it can be made to pay fair profit.
The mill is run with electric power.
and the managers are well satisfied
with it.
FREMONT AND GOvER.-Prepara-
tions are being made to operate these
consolidated claims on a large scale.
Heavy hoisting machinery is to be
erected over both shafts. These works
will be equal to, if not superior, to any
thing at present existing in this county.
Some idea of the magnitude of these
works may be gained from the fact
that some of the timber5 for the gal
lows frame over each shaft will be
nearly 100 feet in length. The grading
for these hoists is about completed.
The engines and boilers and air COM
pressors will be in keeping with these
powerful works. A sixty stamp mill is
talked of in the near future. The site
has been selected about midway be-
tween the two shafts. Large ore
bodies have been found of low grade,
but which it is believed can be made to
pay by working large quantities of it.
The mine is now giving employment to
between 10 and so men, 20 of whom are
miners, as rock is being crushed at the
Pocshontas mill near Dry creek.
SOUTH SPRING HILL.-It is freely
reported around Amador that the
South Spring Hill mine has changed
hands. That Mr.. Kelly, one of the
Boston stock holders, has secured con-
trolling interest. He was out here a
short time back looking into the az
fairs of the mine. All reports tend to
prove that this is one of the best prop
critics in the county. All it needs is
more liberal expenditure of capital in
its development. A new shaft so stu.
ated that both the South Spring Hill
and Median can be operated throug b
it is the great dissideratum. This we
understand is to be undertaken at an
early date. Amador City as mining
center is rapidly improving. With the
Keystone, South Spring Hill, Cover
and Bunker Hill all iu active opera
ton. there must be between 800 and
400 men employed in this thriving
camp.
WILDMAN - The prospects of thi.
mine, we are pleased TO state, have i'm
proved greatly of late. A body o
good milling ore has been found in the
lowest level of the Wildman ground
upon which ten stamps of the mill have
been kept running. The yield ha
been satisfactory, and justifies the be
lief that the Wildman- Mahoney ha
many years of activity as dividend
paying property in store for it.
NEW WESTERN A correspondent
sends us the following: The New West
ern Mining Company of Plymouth
which has been milling the large Or
pile at that place, has changed owner
ship. Frank Moffitt goes entirely ou
and is succeeded by w. E. Dargie o
the Oakland Tribune. Mr. Dargie in
tends to start the plant in operation i
few days and to make some extensiv
improvements in its capacity.