The San Francisco call., 1908-09-21

in the Grass Valley district.
Z The work of development at the
Bunker Hill mine in Amador county is
said TO be satisfactory. The present
plan is TO carry the shaft 400 feet
deeper. opening up two new levels of
200 feet each.
Mining operations in Placer county
are summarized by local papers as fol-
lows:
Sheriff McAulsy has received renewed assur-
ance that eastern capitalists viii take hold
OF the Gray Eagle and begin development work.
Manager Stoekley has force of men doing
preliminary work at Peckham hill.
Manager Fletcher has nearly cleaned the
Breeze and Wheeler ditch OF slides and brush.
I Carpenters are busy putting up fumes at many
points.
Davis & Savage have four men at work OPEN
ing up their gravel mine at Duncan ridge. The
gold is coarse and shows a heavy wash. One
four men
clary & Barton are driving ahead in the
White Oak tunnel. The channel has been pros
peeted and good pay gravel found.
Forty men are at work at the Hidden Treasure
removing the old pillars and making a clean
sweep Of the bedrock and debris
One hundred and fifty men are working at
Last Chance and vicinity.
At the Home Ticket three batteries with a
running. The rock is first broken by a rock
breaker. The motive power is steam. An electric
plant win be installed
The tunnel the upper lead at the Ell Do
rado is in 400 feet, and the channel is being
breasted at a width of 60 feet. The pay breast
runs from six 10 nine feet. The gravel pays
very well. The width of the channel is not
known.
About 900 feet Of the vein at the Ruebln has
been opened. The company viii put in more
stamps and concentrators this fall The mill
has been run up 10 the present without concen-
traitors, thus causing loss Of gold,
The company is drifting on the 400 foot level.
The vein is nearly two feet through at this
depth. Forty tons taken from this level was
through the Msmberg mill last week and the
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GOLD STRIKES REPORTED
Accounts of several reported gold
strikes have been received from vari-
Gus quarters. In Sierra county a strike
has been made, so reported, at Gold
lake, on what is known as the Ed
wards ground.
Norton. Emery and Van Vlack report
the discovery of fine ledge on Rus
sian creek in the Liberty mining dis
trict in Siskiyou county.
high grade chute of ore is reported
to have been developed in the Ante
lope property in PIumas county.
Pockets have been taken out in the
Frye mining claims in Sierra county,
northeast of Downievite. According
to the Oroville Register a pocket Of
$3.50 was taken out on Sucker run by
r. II. johnson from a space a few
feet square The pocket consisted of
decayed quartz. The location is near
Moortown, in which neighborhood
many prospectors have been at work
the last year.
Good ore is reported TO have been
struck at Maybert by T. H. Kohler.
San Jose men have taken an option
the old Ross mine, a few miles from
Franklin hills, says the Oroville
Register. Four stamp mills will be in
operation at Franklin hills next sea
son.
w. NJ. Turner reports that he has
made q valuable strike on a group of
claims in Meadow Lake in the eastern
part Of Nevada county.
The Trinity Journal says regarding
developments in the Deadwood dis
trict:
At the recent discovery in the old Brown
Bear group the ledge improves stesdily In.
tunnel is run in In the face Of the tunnel thi
vein IS 81 feet wide at the top and ela feea
wide on the bottom and the ore VIII averag
$40 ton and upward.
Osgood & Moln have a lease on one of the
Brown Bear mines and are taking out that
goes s. pound. They are operating on the
on what is supposed to be the old Brown Bear
lead.
Nicholson & Leach are taking $50 ore from
their lease from the Brown Bear company. They
are working about 400 feet from the West Point
mine.
At the West Point the lower tunnel is in 4oS
feet. In the face Of the tunnel is Is inches
of ledge matter showing free gold.
BUILD LARGE FLUME
The Downieville Messenger says that
60 men are working at the Brandy City
mine and head dam A fiume to be nine
miles long is building 1t will take
water from Little Canyon creek to
Brandy City for hydraulic purposes.
The company operating the Brandy
City mine is sxpending 100000 for i'm
provements
The Nevada City Transcript says that
the prospects are good for the trans
fer of the properties of the Champion
mining company to an English syndi-
cate.
The examination of the lands in
Butte Creek valley, so says the Chico
Enterprise, is about to begin in behalf
of gold dredgers. A company has OBJ
tanned control of the creek bottoms
from the Centerville bridge to the
Stevens ranch. a distance of two and
half miles, in tract that is from
three-quarters of a mile to two miles
wide. The examination Will be made
systematically, with drills.
A strike in the Union Hill mine, in
the Grass Valley. district, is reported
unoficially%
The superior court in Nevada county
has confirmed the sale of the Larimer
property, in the Grass Valley district.
to A. d. Foote, manager of the North
Star mines. This includes the Larimer
quartz mines. The price was $4,000.
Preparations have been made for the
erection of a stamp mill at the Birch
Vile mine, in the Graniteville mining
district John A Bunting is at the
head of the enterprise.
The Four Jacks mining claims in
Plumas county have been sold by A.
Slaback to c. H. Culp Co. of San
Diego.
The California and Nevada consoli-
dated mining company has been organ
ICED to operate IN Plumas county. A
Lowe is the president
G. w. WEIDLER PASSES