Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-24

very graSSroots, but the Midas company
has done extensive work sinking on the
main ore shoot. The working shaft
from the surface has been driven to a
depth of 900 feet and still the ledge
holds out and is rich.
The old-bearing silicioSu ore is
worked in a twenty-stamp mill. Con-
nected with the mill is the finest and
largest cyanide plant in Northern Cali
fornia. All the tailings from the mill
go direct into the cyanide plant for
treatment. The sulphurites and shines
are collected in the mill and are also
worked by the cyanide process.
All the mine and mill equipment is
modern, and it is claimed that the
hosting plant at the mine is the finest
in the county. Shasta county's gold
mines are worked generally through
tunnels but the Midas company has
copied the method used in the mines in
the mother lode and they sink from the
surface.
Stations are cut every hundred feet
in the double compartment shaft, and
the ore body Is stopped out from these
levels. Sinking and drifting is done by
machine drills, but handwork is still
resorted to in the slopes. While work
is always progressing along the lines of
developing the main ore shoot. the
pecting for new bodies of ore.
Several rich strikes have been made
and one pocket, said to contain $4,000,
was taken out three years ago.
Sixty miners, millmen and laborers
are employed in and about the mine,
and almost every man in camp has
family. The district has several other
smaller mines owned by prospectors,
but the work on them Is still in the
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have worked the gulches and creek
beds, but the pocket hunters and pros
pectors are plentiful, making the town
lively at all times.
Great Gold Output
Since the discovery of the Klondike
gold fields ten years ago a production
of $4,000, 900 in gold is reported.
new source of wealth has recently
been discovered in the Yukon, said to be
greater than the first finds. Gravel in
the White channel is found to carry
gold in paying quantities, and it can be
successfully treated by the cyanide
process. The gold output of May of
this year is reported to be over $1,000,-
900, nearly double the amount last year
to this date. The high water has been
a serious handicap to mining opera
tions, work having been suspended for
several weeks in the creek. The Yukon
river is said to be the highest known
since 1898, the high water mark having
been reached June 15 after which the
water began to recede. on the whole
the prospects for successful season in
the Yukon country are very bright and
at the end of the year it is expected
that the production will exceed that of
any previous year of the past five.
Worlds Richest Gold Mine
Australia now possesses the deepest
gold mine in the world. Within the
last few weeks the shafts at the New
Chum railway at Bendigo have been
sunk to a depth of over 4300 feet, and
the quartz there tapped has been sam
pied and crushed, with the result that
a yield of gold equal to an ounce per
ton has been obtained. The operations
in the mine have been tested by gov
ernment officials in view of the fact
that never before in the worlds history
has gold been obtained from so low
depth as three-quarters of a mile.
Nuggets Of News
The Battling Nelson Mining company
with a capitalization of $1,000,000, has
been organized. The company will take
over an extension Of the Selby claims In
the Jumbo district near Virginia, New,
which 1t will develop. Nelson was
elected president of the company and
c. G. Degman secretary. Nelson holds
200, 900 shares of stock.
The Keane Wonder mine, one Of the
big shippers of the Bullfrog district,
has been taken over by parties dealing
Hosmer Wilson of San Fran
cisco. The company has spent $4,000