Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-16
RICH ORE CHUTE IS
FOUND IN RAINBOW

ing a small quartz mill built to crush
the ore already mined.
Fortune in Dredging
Very few people know that there is
q gold dredger at work in the Calaveras
river near jenny Lind in Calaveras
county that is taking out nearly $4,000
q month in gold, says the Chronicle.
The machine is operated day and night
by three shifts, each composed of three
men. Not long ago a block Of gold
which represented $4,000 was sent to
the smelter, and it is said that gold
bricks will be sent every week from
now on. The company operating the
dredger has bonded and bought rights
that will keep the machine in operation
for the next twenty years.
A hoistin-- plant has been installed
in the Etna-King mine, near Angels,
and the sinking ia hree-compartment
shaft has been commenced. Several
Stocktonians are Interested in this
property. Streaks of high grade ore,
running from $50 to 5000 per ton, have
been uncovered and many selected lots
Of rock taken from it range from $40
to $50 per ton.
California Mine News
A Redding correspondent says: The
last of the smelter buildings at the
Afterthought mine has just been
completed. The smelter is at Ingot,
ftUanfy-oieybt ,,,iIao aoet 90 Ioa,1dino o,,5
will have a capacity of $50 tons day.
The company is now receiving it's first
consignment of coke preparatory to
blowing in the furnace. This will be
the third smelter in Shasta county.
The Mammoth smelter, now under con-
struction at Kennett, will probably be
in operation before the close of the
year, making the fourth smelter in
Shasta county for the treatment of
copper ores.
The four-stamp prospecting mill on
the Scherer mine is ready for business
and will be started up as soon as an
additional boiler is installed-George-
town Gazette.
Two hundred and forty stamps are
crushing gold quartz in the mills To-
Gated within a radius of two miles of
the town of Jackson. Amador county.
The Argonaut forty-stamp mill was
started Monday last. Owing to some
of the rock in the mill having packed
solidly on account of long standing
some inconvenience was experienced,
for a day or so.
A great many of the placer mines in
Siskiyou county have already started
up and others will soon follow, the
heavy fall of snow in the mountains
affordihg a good supply of water for
starting.
been started on ore from the 1400 level
of the Wildman shaft. About twenty
men have been put to work during the
last week. The tunnel from the Lin
coin shaft at the 1900 foot level is in
about 300 feet. This will tap the Ma
feet below their lowest levels, and if
rich ore Is encountered in sufficient
quantities to justify the Mahoney shaft
will be sunk to the depth of the tun-
mel.
In excavating for the foundation Of
the new power house at Electra 1t is
reported that the workmen came across
rich streak of gravel, partly in the
channel of the Mokelumne river. Some
of it yielded SO to the pan. That neigh
borhood was worked in early days as
far as the water of the river would
permit. The appliances to control or
get rid of the water in excavating d
foundation enabled the workers to get
at the gravel that was unavoidable.
OF all the good mining snake stories
the following from the Mekolumne
Hill Chronicle is the best: ''When the
water was turned into the ten inch pipe
at the Outlook mine Saturday last for
a short time it would not come out of
the nozzle, and Col. Robinson, the SUI
perintendent, was at loss to know the
cause of the obstruction. He was
about to shut the water off at the head
when about four or five inches of a
snake appeared at the end of the noz-
zle and in few seconds more a seven
foot bull snake was forced out of the
pipe.
Grist From GoIdfield
Late reports from the now celebrated
mining camp of Goldfeld. that fur
nishes most Of the news from Nevada
of an exciting character, is to the
effect that a big strike has been made
at Ladd mountain, where the Bullfrog
interests have opened ledge that runs
into the thousands in gold. On the
properties of the original Bullfrog syn
dicate the miners are rocking high
grade ore from the shaft and
two open cuts, and some of 1t viii
go better than $4,000 ton, it is said.
The location work on all the COM
panys claims has now been completed,
and they are proceeding to open up
and develop the group on Ladd noun
tain. The ledge matter here is fully
600 feet wide. 1t has been opened up
by half a dozen shafts and open cuts,