Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
MINING NEWS
IN GREAT WEST
THE BIG GIANTS USED IN
TRINITY MINES
Los Angeles Mining Men Interested
In Big Strike Near Blake-Ralis
roads Racing to GoldfieId
and Tonopah

were discovered by Major Pearson s.
Reading, who had grant to the land
from the Mexican government, says
Mary Edith Griswold, in Sunset Maga-
zine for March, But the big migration
did not begin until 1851, when man
named Weaver struck rich diggings in
what afterwards became known as
Weaver basin. In that year the pan
and rocker were supplanted by the
long TOM" which consisted of the
sluice box and the tailings went into
an iron caldron full of holes. The
coarse stuff was forked out with a
sluice fork and the fine dirt and gold
went through the holes and into ooX
containing rifles.
During the next three years diverse
and sundry changes were made i'll the
method. The claims were so rich that
claims which paid only fifty dollars a
day were abandoned for better ones. In
1852 some bitches were dug and some
small sluice boxes, ten or twelve inches
wide, were built. The earth was SHOW
eed into the boxes and the water run
ming through carried the water and
dirt off and left the gold in the bottom
of the box between the rifles.
In 1858 sluicing began. The dirt was
loosened with a pick and water carried
TO it in boxes. This was called ground
sluicing. Hydraulic power was first
used in 1854. A canvas hose with an
inch nozzle constituted the first hy-
draulic appliance, but it was not until
the early COS that iron pipe took the
place of the canvas hose. With the iron
pipe came the monitor"
The first monitors did not work very
we'll, so a man named Craig of Marys-
vile invented a new machine, and he
called 1t the little giant" 1t was far
ahead of the monitor, and every miner
got giant. The pattern of this nozzle
has been greatly changed since then
but the name has stuck and they are
all called giants to this day.
A table prepared for the use of hy-
draulic miners and others using water
for power or other purposes gives the
following data: A rectangular flume,
three feet wide, running IS inches deep,
will have Velocities and capacities as
follows: Grade one-eighth inch to one
rod; velocity, &c feet per second; guam
tity of water per minute, 702 cubic feet.
Grade one-fourth inch per rod; velocity,
81 feet per second: capacity, 999 cubic
feet per minute. Grade one-half inch per
rod; velocity, 5.3 feet per second; capac-
ity, 1431 cubic feet per minute. bitches
and fumes should not be run more
than three-fourths to seven-eighths
full.
! nc ITduSNddl SOid
The Mining Journal of London prints
official figures of the gold output of
the Transvaal (South Africa mines for
the year 1905. For the Rand proper, the
output was 4,677 433 ounces worth G19.-
991 664; outside mines. 190,7SS ounces
worth GS10416 a total of 4,S97,221
ounces, worth G2OS12,074, or about $104-
100000. For the previous year $500 the
production was $S0270, 900.
az
received from the secretary of the
Transvaal chamber OF mines, Johannes
burg South Africa, shows the following:
Tons of ore milled, 1,012, ,625; total
yield, 424757 ounces, worth &1,S04,253
average value per ton, 35.06s stamps in
operation. 1856; mill returns, G1125,4S5;
concentrates. GSO,S17; sands, G4S7,5S5;
shines, G1O1.7S2 banks, etc, GS5S4.
A compilation of the metal produc-
tion of the state of Colorado from 1859
to the close of 1904, tabulated by coun
ties, shows total of $1,OS3, 46S.532. The
two largest producers were Lake county
Oeadvile) 1926, ,643, 1877, and Cripple
Creek, $139 SO9,161
The Blake Strike
Los Angeles mining men and capi-
talists are considerably worked up over
the recent strike at Blake, near Needles.
The strike is two miles from Won
trigger springs. north of Blake. and
was made by j. F. Musselman, T. H.
Rosenberger and C. d. Lasseur. The
Iaen who made the strike kept every
thing dark since the time of the dis
CoVery. February 26, but few days
ago the news of the good thing leaked
out and there is now a grand rush on to
the district.
There has not been much work done
on the original property but sufficient
developments have been made to un-
cover strong ledge and a great part
of the ore is exceedingly rich. 1t is
said the men who have made the strike
have offered the property for sale at
good figures and there are several
prospective deals in sight. In the
meantime the whole country is being
staked out and prospected.
Railroads to GoIdfied
Beatty Miner J. Ross Clark. ac-
Companied by superintendent Il. Il.
Cullen of the Salt Lake railroad; f.
M. Grace, superintendent Of the new
line, and Walter r. Bracken of Las
Vegas, passed over the new Las Vegas
& TonOpah railroad Monday in the
first coach to within two miles of
Indian Greek, and arrangements are
being made 10 deliver freight at the
old Latimer ranch. A and station
Will ne put III bl lllUlIn creek llnllle-
diately. Telegraph poles are scattered
along the new line and a gang is at
work stringing the wires closely upon
the heels of the tracklayers. Graders
are camped north of the summit, over
half way to Beatty, and the tracklaYers
are after them. No stop at Indian
Creek, as the knockers predicted.
Thirty miles north of Indian Creek.
near Miller's well, another station will
he established when the rails reach that
point.
Official advices show that Borax
Smiths railroad is approaching Beatty
at the rate of one mile per day Forty
miles of rails have been laid out from
Ludlow on the Santa Fe toward the
Lila G boraX mine From there the
line will be pushed through Beatty to
Goldfeld and Tonopah via Amargosa
route.
Ancient Cache of Gold
Fifty-four pounds of gold, livestock
weight, is the amount of the treasure
troVe located by Thomas O'Brien on