Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-13

crat thinks the land can be dredged
and the gold extracted without de-
stroying It for agricultural purposes.
The Carter News Era has the fol-
lowing Tuolumne county mining notes;
The APP mine employs eighty men
and sixty stamps are crushing ore. A
five-foot vein Of stS ore has been found
at the Justice mine one Of the Big
Creek group. Another vein showing
encouraging prospects has been discov-
cred at the over mine in the vicinity
of Columbia.
O. L. Turffrey, who is mining the
ground at Bowman formerly hydrau-
licked partially by John Hobson, has
put a number of men at work mining
a tunnel into the gravel hill. 1t has
now entered the gravel sixty geet.
The bottom of the crevice has never
been reached. as the bedrock pitches
steeply toward the center of the hill
from all sides. The gravel is gradu-
ally gaining in value.-Placer Repub-
lican.
The Polar Star mine at Dutch Flat,
owned by William Nichols, jr., has
been leased to a San Francisco COM
pany and William Simmons, formerly
of Dutch Flat, who is superintendent,
has a large force of men at work day
and night.-Placer Republican.
Sleep Destroying Gold
Every one relishes a good story, even
about mining. The following get-rich-
quick yarn is from an exchange. which
is undoubtedly ashamed to acknowl-
edge it's parentage:
Frank Athern and Claude Smith OF
Clements have returned from Tono-
pah and report great success after
much labor in vain Athern worked
several months without realizing any
thing until he met a couple of sports
who had claim they didn't care to
work by themselves. With another
man he secured a lease of the claim,
the owners to have a certain percent
age of the product. They struck it
rich, so rich that after the first days
work they were so excited they were
the owners their share. according to
the terms of the lease, the lessees
have a fortune left as their reward
for several months of hard labor. The
best quartz rock is of dirty yellow
color and contains free gold. 1t breaks
very easily and it is no trouble to
mine it,
From Nevada Camps
The Goldfield News says ten-inch
streak found in the vein of the Sim
merone mine will average $4,000 q
ton in gold, and another twenty-six-
inch body in the vein will average $4,000
per ton. The porphyry in the shaft at
a depth of forty feet is showing values
of from $50 to 5000 per ton.
According to a correspondent of the
Reno Gazette, Salt Lake capitalists
have bonded the Copper Farm group
of eight claims in Esmeralda county.
located about twenty three miles from
the town of Sodaville, where smelter
terests. Two distinct veins about 4S0
feet apart parallel each other on the
properties. One is fifty feet in width
and carries average copper values Of
6 per cent, with eight ounces of silver
and $1.25 in gold per ton. The ore is
generally of sulphide character and
will make a good concentrating propo-
sition. Very little work has been done
on this vein but on the surface it can
be traced distinctly and is clearly de-
fined in it's width and at all parts
where it has been sampled the values
are uniform
What appears to be another big strike
has just been made at Coaldale on the
Tonopah road between Tonopah and
Sodaville, assays showing $3.50 rock.
Budd, LilSins and Parker, who are en-
ployes of the Tonopah Railroad COM
pany and are stationed at Coaldale,
started development work on some
claims they had located with the start
ling result that rich ore was encoun-
tered from the beginning. They have
now concentrated their efforts on the
Tiger, and have reached to a depth of
thirty feet, three assays taken from diff
ferent parts of the mine showing $34S,
1884 and $66, values being in gold, sill
yer and Redistribution Independent.
The Tonopah Mining company will
put in a mill at once and have it in
operation by the first of August. The
will be in a position to handle
1000 tons of ore day; 1900 men will be
There will also be a power
plant of the latest design. Machinery
of the latest make will be put into the
mines. This will give Tonopah de-
cided boom.
Here Is a Good One
The Bisbee Miner in special dis
patch from Los Angeles, has the fol-
lowing yarn that is "amoosin even II
true" Just listen:
While clinging for life to a manza-
nita bush ON the verge of 500-foot
precipice, to which he had fallen, and
kicking desperately for hold in the