Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-10
Latest Strike Made Near
OrOville
ORE AVERAGES
ABOUT $1,000 A TON
Los Angeles Capital Seeks
Profitable Investment
Tonopah News

Near Oroville, Cal, a rich strike has
been made f. the Wyandotte property
as quartz that goes $1,000 to the ton
has been uncovered. This corporation
has been working for two years on the
claim called tie Bliss and in this mine
has the find been uncovered. In driv-
ing the opening the last shots last We'd
nesday opened the rich ledge of gold
bearing rock. The property is owned
in San Francisco and has a few share
holders in Los Angeles, who say the as
says Of the ledge run very high, as the
ledge Is large the development will be
on a more expensive scale. This prop
erty is on ranch land that runs toward
range of mountains anG only by
accident was the original discovery
made. AS the land is patented, the
owners have a bond to purchase acre
age sufficient to protect their mining
interests.
Butte Creek Claims
For several weeks engineers repre-
senting, it is stated English capital
seeking investment through Los An
geles parties, have been prospecting
ground on Butte creek, about four
miles east of Chico, and the Chronicle
Gays it is reported that they have made
a very favorable report and that II
made during the next ten days. The
property under bond and which seems
to include all the dredging land in the
section comprises about 1000 acres of
creek bottom, some of which is under
cultivation. Much of this has never
been worked and in addition to it's Or
iginal deposit of metal has been en-
riched by the flow of failing from the
Butte creek mines for many years.
1t is understood that should the sale
operation.
VIII Unwater Mines
The south and central Eureka min
ing companies on the mother lode,
Amador county, have entered into a
pumping contract. Under the terms
of the contract a pump with a capa-
city of 2SS,OOO gallons per day is to be
installed at the 20O-foot level in the
be constructed at that point capable
of holding $4,000 gallons of water. All
the water of the two mines is to be
diverted by means of iron pipes into
this reservoir and pumped from there
with one lift to the surface. The
pump will be driven by a 150-horse-
power motor installed at the pump.
The electricity to drive the motor is
to be transmitted down the shaft
through armored cable, and the water
column. When installed the pump
ing plant will be one of the largest
on the lode and the lift will be one
of the longest.
Rich Ore Found
During the past six months six diff
ferent lodges have been found on the
Tadpole mine near Colfax, Cal, and a
test of one of them assayed from so
to $307.98 per ton. The company will
use the Alameda mill at Black canyon,
which has twenty stamps, until the ore
in their mine is thoroughly tested and
1t is proven that mill is needed on
their property. Four men are employed,
but we are informed this number is to
be increased. The Tadpole is quartz
cit oh mil
above Westlake, and is worked through
two tunnels.
Bullfrog and Tonopah
IA Tonopah strike of $400 ore in the
Mizpah at the 600-foot level was the
talk of the town for severtl days. A
confirmed report from the mine states
that the rich ore body is fifty feet in
extent. This effectively disproves the
rumors that had begun to find accept
ance that values in the great Mizpah
were decreasing with depth. This find
proves that Tonopah mines have depth,
and when taken with the fact that, be-
fore uncovering this ore body at 600
feet, the Mizpah had 800. 100000 worth
of ore in sight, it shows the immense
wealth supporting the desert gold fields.
-Tonopah correspondent to the Chron-
icle, June 25. e4- F.
The Combination mine, one of the
oldest in the Goldfeld district, has at
tanned an output of $165.00O a month,
which will soon be increased to $780,
600. The present mill with ten stamps
is handling forty-five tons a day. Ten
more. stamps will be added at once
Chronicle correspondence.
A tunnel $50 feet long of the Bullfrog
Mining company of Nevada has cut
into a four-foot ledge. Drifts forty feet
north and forty feet south are still In
the ledge, with rich ore all the way and
ore left In the breast.
A shaft has been sunk from above Tor
seventy feet and the company is run
ming an uprise of seventy feet to meet
this shaft.
The principal object for which this
tunnel was originally driven was to tap
their 125-foot vein on the mountain
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