Amador ledger., 1904-02-12
A DIVIDEND PAYER
ADDED TO LIST
The Oneida Declares $4,000 Divi-
dend for January Other Mother
Lode Properties Progressing.

IOf tne pdSG el8nb or nine years. pro-
ducing something like 1900 tons of ore
per month, it has at last joined the list
of dividend payers. At a meeting of
the directors held in San Francisco the
26th utimo, dividend OF $40, 900 was
declared payable on the 1st instant.
Since this is the first dividend paid by
the property since operations we're re-
sumed in 1895, it speaks we'll for the
economic. business-ik, conduct of the
| property under It's present manage
ment, and the stock holders are to be
congratulated upon the promising out
| look for a little interest on their invest
ment. The operations at the mine con-
tinue with perpetual motion constancy.
| The winze being sunk 400 feet north of
the shaft at the 1000 level, for pros
pecting purposes, is now down about
| 100 feet, but as yet nothing startling
has developed. 1t will be continued,
however, to the 2200 level As yet the
new Aldrich pump has not arrived,
but it is being looked for daily. The
electric cable to furnish the motive
power for the pump has already been
put in place, and the pump will be in
When this pump has been placed the
Oneida will have become almost COM
pete electric plant.
KEYSTONE,-W this great moth
er lode mine continues it's excellent
and steady output, the management s
overlooking nothing in the way of i'm
provements to greater facilitate hand
ling the large product. Since our last
visit at the Keystone two new Griffin
mills have been added to the crusher
plant, the foundations for the new
boilers to be used as air reservoirs are
nearly completed, and the pump at the
| 500 level, to take the water from the
sump pump and raise it to the surface,
is now in place and performing its work
nicely. In the mine proper new de-
velopment continues with satisfactory
results, and although, as rule, min
! ing companies who have nothing to
| sell do not advertise the values of their
product, we are informed by A |
authority that the big bodies of pay
rock in the Keystone average a good
deal better than the usual run along
| the lode. The insipid strike which oc-
Cured there about month ago. had
no bad effects upon the labor coudi-
tions at the mine, and no trouble of
any character is looked for or feared
| there for some time to come.
WILDMAN-MAHoNEY. - While as
yet very little is doing at this property
it is only matter of a little more time
till Manager Ross will have gotten
matters in shape to again put the mine
on a basis of steady operation. The
great draw back now is mine timbers.
AT this time of year, owing to bad
roads and the distance timbers have to
be hauled, to secure them is problemat-
ical indeed, but notwithstanding these
draw backs Mr.. Ross is not discouraged,
and expects in Il week or so to have
men driving towards the Wildman-
Mahoney ledge from the shaft of the
Lincoln. For the present only the
pumps are going, to keep the mine un-
watered.
DEL MONTE.-At the special meet
ing of stock holders of the Del Monte
Mining Company held February 8, the
action Of the directors in executing a
trust deed of the property to the
O'Neills to secure the payment of in
debtedness to said O'Neills in the pur-
chase of their interests in the company
was ratified Geo I. Wright was
elected superintendent and manager of
the mine, and Jas. j. Wright secretary.
The work in the big tunnel has been
resumed, and is making steady and
satisfactory headway, averaging about
two feet per day. A new and more
powerful drill has been secured, and
everything is progressing favorably.
The tunnel is now in distance of about
900 feet, leaving 100 feet more to be run
to reach the point where it is expected
to tap the ledge. At the present rate
of progress it is believed that this tun-
mel enterprise will be completed by
about the first of April.
SOUTH EUREKA.-Although moth
ing startling has occurred at this prop
erty since our last visit there, at the
same time there is no let UP in the mine
to new deYel0pment Since this has
been the making of all the great prop
critics not only on the mother lode but
all over the world, the public need not
feel surprised to hear exceedingly good
things of the South Eureka at any
time in the near future. At present a
drift south from the 1000 level has been
completed for distance of 700 feet. In
the breast of this there is now q snail
showing Of ore, but not enough has been
done as yet to determine it's extent
The object of this drift is simply to
prospect this virgin ground to the end
lines of the company's ground, and it
will be pushed ahead for at least 800
| feet further. At the 2l50 level a sta
ton is now being cqt to drift nprth for
q distance OF about 600 feet. When
this is completed winze will be sunk
to the Slopes at the 2300 level for the
purpose of better ventilating the lower
workings and furnishing better facili-
ties for handling the timbers in the
Slopes at the 2300 level. AS yet nothing
definite has been done relative to the
new mill, but Mr., Moore expects the
matter to be taken up some time in
March.
CENTRAL EUREKA. this prop
erty operations continue steadily both
in mine and mill, there being at pres=
ent about 20 men employed. Just re-
Gently the management decided to open
up 100 feet of additional STOPPING ground,
consequently contract was let for
sinking the shaft from the 2100 to 2200
level. This work was begun on the
31st of January, and has progressed at
the rate of feet per day. If nothing
unforeseen occurs to delay this sinking,
it is expected to reach the 2100 level by
the Goth Instant, and probably by the
1st of March the new Slopes will be
furnishing ore for the mill.
Mrs. DR.. Mushett Dead.
| Word has hean received nv :, nrivata