The San Francisco call., 1903-09-12
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Sierra City, a long tunnel has been run
to tap the ledge. a local company doing
the work This summer considerable
work has been done on the tunnel at the
Colombo mine, near Sierra City Some
time-agO a cave occurred and the ore
shoot lost. but an effort is being
made to find it again. Messrs. Cook,
Spellenberg, Devine and others have been
working the mine for a company. The
old Peterborough mine, near Poker Flat,
has been worked for years, and last
spring a fine run was made, over eighty
ounces Of gold being taken out in two
weeks time, the work being done with
hand mortar. 1t is expected that the mill
will be running soon, as the old ditch has
been repaired. Hayes, Flint & Co. are the
owners of the Queen mine, near Logan
Vile They have al tunnel into the ledge.
II is expected that a San Francisco COM
pany will take hold\of the property Ten
men have been employed at the Noun
taineer mine, which is owned by I. Berg
er and operated by IAN Eastern company.
An air compressor and pump were install
ed several months ago and a shaft has
been sunk from the tunnel, in which the
| ledge is of good quality.
Messrs Meikejohn & Stevens have had
ten men at work on their cyanide plant and
have been working the sand frola the old
Young America mine. which was At one time
At the Cleveland mine, on the hill above
Sierra City a shoot Of ore tapped a
few months ago and an upraise is being rum
The ten-stamp mill may be started at any
time
The keystone people have expended a large
amount of money In opening up their prop
| erty A hard-rock tunnel was run in a dis-
tance Of 43oO feet, which tapped the ledge
some 600 feet below the old works. Twenty
( men are employed. A drift is now being run
to tap the shoot below the shaft. In time
! the company will erect a mill on the property.
! The old Sierra Buttes keeps pegging away
Fifty men are employed in working above
/ the No. tunnel. Thirty stamps are kept
! running. Richard Phelan is at the head of
/ the Buttes Saddle mine, which is opened up
/ by a long tunnel 1t is expected that much
more work will be done there in the near
future A local Sierra City company, COM
! prised of A Thomas c. Jost, j. Johnston and
! others is the owner of the William Tell mine
They have the mine opened up by tunnel
| and some very promising ore has been taken
out, with good prospect OF a mine ahead
! There is a ledge which averages from twenty
J to thirty feet in the Poken Flat mine, while
| the ore assays SIS to the ton. A roller mill
! on the mine has crushed much ore and the
| company feels encouraged. J. w. Finney has
! done a great amount of work at the Tele-
| graph mine eight miles above Downievile.
At the Belcher gravel property fifteen men are
| employed.
owned by Wehe. Taylor & Morse is under
| bond to E. F. Harris. who is running tun-
| mel. One ledge has already been tapped and
| there are several hundred feet of backs.
Copeland has run a long tunnel at the Buck
! ingham mine in Jim Crow Canyon, to tar
! the ledge under the old shaft Around Logan
! VILE number OF quartz locations have beer
made this summer, most Of them being or
the north side of the river, and the parties
hope TO open up some new properties
The Redding Searchlight says that the
| Eastern parties interested in the Balak-
lala mine, on Squaw Creek, Shasta Coun-
ty. are coming out to inspect it. Seventy
five men and five drills are kept running
constantly on development work. Drifts
and upraises are being run in the lower
levels The ore is being blocked out into
l00-foot squares.
A queer circumstance is receiving the
attention of the Amador Ledger, which
says:
At all the mines in the neighborhood OF
Jackson large quantities of all kinds of sup
plies in the way of logs, tagging and lumber
| are being received. The contractors hurry
ing the delivery of these things with all pos
| sible speed. 1t is not merely the approach OF
fan that causes the contractors to rush the
delivery work. There is another and perhaps
more potent reason. In all contracts there is
| a strike clause, providing that in of any
labor trouble the companies will be under nc
| obligations to take supplies during the exist
ence of such trouble. This provision has acted
as a spur to those furnishing supplies to get
them all on the ground as quickly as possible
while everything is moving along peacefully.
They have the supplies hand in the noun
tains. and 1t is natural that they should usa