Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-13
SIERRA TO
INCREASE
PRODUCTION
QUARTZ AND PLACER MINES
WILL BOOM
WILL DOUBLE OUTPUT DURING
THIS YEAR
Abandoned Mines Have Been Resur-
rected and Mills Are Busy Pro-
dueing Values-PIacer
Mines Are Active

BONNEVILLE, Sierra county, Jan. 10.
Interesting data and fgures have been
conn lied by local mining men of prom
inence and well informed, tending to
show that Sierra county gold mines are
In shape to increase the gold production
by surprisingly large percentage, says
Sacramento Bee special 1t is conf
IDENTIFY predicted tnat during 1903 the out
put OF Sierra county will go all of a
round million of gold as against the $780,
600 of the present closing year and the
similar amount for 1906 IC is not case
of counting upon the egg that is to be
laid tomorrow" but the calculations are
made upon the capacity of going mines.
The revival in quartz mining along the
Sierra county section of the Fathcr Lode,
iraugurated three or four years alyo, has
brought about the resurrection of aban-
doned mines with new activity to camps
long dormant, and the rehabilitation has
, been so substantial tina. a sufficient num-
Der of new producers hav9 already come
upon the list as to insure a most ma
terial increase in the output A still
larger increase will be made by the large
number of new stamps that will be set
to dropping in the spring.
New Stamp Mills
The data from Sierra City is particu-
larly gratifying. While the Sierra Buttes
mine is running but twenty stamps out
of its sixty at present, two other mills
on other properties have started up with
ten stamps each, with a grade of ore SO
much higher than the Sierra Buttes is
crushing that the idleness of the forty
| stamps is more than compensated for.
The machinery for another twenty-stamp
mill was hauled in just before the close
| of the freighting season and will be
erected in the early spring.
| In Jim Crow canyon the five stamps
on the Pappoose, which have been drop
ping steadily for the past year, will also
| be supplemented this spring with five
more stamps. AT Poker Fiat Hunting
ton mill on the Alhambra is turning out
/ the equivalent OF three stamps, while at
Gold Valley the Willoughby will put its
| ten stamps into action, a test run this
fall having proved satisfactory There is,
too, a prospect Of the litigation over the
| Salmon Lake mine being settled this
winter, and that new incipient bonanza
is likely 20 make record.
Allegheny Busy
At Allegheny the hainbow keeps ten
stamps pounding away day and night,
while its neighbor, the Croesus. at Plum
bago, is getting ready for a prolonged
crushing of quartz from the new chute
encountered this past fall, while the
Tihktner, at Allegheny, will make a
shipment of bullion at Easter that will
eclipse any of its shipments of the past.
That means a good deal when it is re-
/ al hat ha If Gip ole Orf1 h
! ing amounted a rate equaling over
$1O3 900 in gold per ton. There are a
| dozen other quartz mines at Allegheny
under development, each saving and ac-
cumulating high grade quartz for peri
odical crushings, and one milling lot Of
which viii mean a small fortune in the
precious yellow metal. At Pike City the
| Alaska mine Is taking out "jewelry shop
| ore from one OF its lodges known as
| the Casserly, and a crushing will be
| made in Que time.
Placer Operations
The review thus outlined in the fore
! going para graphic supports the claim of
the Downieville boosters that the quartz
mines alone, on present producing ca
pacity will guarantee the advance of the
output of Sierra county to $1000,000 for
1905 That is equivalent to 80 per cent
on the estimated output for 1907
The yield from the placer mines, both
summer and winter operating, will be i'm
portantly augmented. the old camp at
Forest now rapidly getting on a footing
| that will make several of its mines heard
from with rich output. Operations in
the Rowland Flat (Table Rock gravel
country are proving most satisfac tory,
while the Church Meadows drifts just
closed one of the best summer seasons
that district has had IL years. The
| drift mines of American Hill. Rock Creek
Bassetts, Goodyear's Bai, Monte Cristo
Ridge, Wide Awake Ridge, Pleasant
View and Brandy City will also prob
ably come upor the list of producers
of gold dust and nuggets, as the reports
of progress being made are assurances of
gratifying results.