The San Francisco call., 1910-10-16
CALIFORNIA
App Mine Strike

App Mine Strike
most nm important @ strikes Of recent years
in mining on the mother lode was
msde rash the ARP Rbs RTopsasy sems men a. Wsrs
eidefIa old HysIop Claim. i'm On the east side Of
the App, they went INTO the old smart.
At the 400 level they discovered what
whf witch iVso Worked ed the he mine in early days.
Their shaft was we yertlcais, II ,se wnste sast 'he
At this time it is impossible to tell
the extent of the ore BODY. Enousn
has heen uncovered. however, TO snow
large "a. S.n showed sos pvaiues Of
from SIS to s1e5 per ton:
A crosscut viii be, run from the
App shaft aS 9 tfap this 9ody f is
that this will show up the 1ong r,nh i9ss
ness.-Mother Lode Magnet.
Colombo and Monarch
Not only has the revival OF opera
tions at the Sierra Buttes Hlne at
Sierra City had nraeingh h eHes, n,in;nr nr
operations are making things loom up
again around Sierra City During
the last two months G. r. thompson;
a
things up in that vicinity by startinE
operations at the well known Colombo
mine which csmp Is DER rhompson os So a IS
not confning his energies entirety 10
the Colombo. but he has secured
bond on the Lee brotheTs mlne IN
Sing canyon, known as the Monarch.
IT Was al this property that phenome-
naliy rich ore was encountered last
June. a. h.,rS
tan tho vein which viii give
fuiiy 900 feet of backs on the ledge.
The vein will be encountered NE rboynpson by pnna
ning gaboSt aS1u. iGe men iesa employed and new
boarding house and blacksmith snop
stamn mill at the Mountaineer mine
above Sierra City has been pQrcnaseo
and viii be moved to the Colombo.
A shaft is being sunk II on nhdMins 1nG ,snRn Hn
aee At the even M0hasc beyond G expectations IT IS
stated that the ore being extracted IN
the shaft will mill a good pron.. ~
welon Us nj the Monarch and later. if the
prospects warrant it, to erect Hlii.
The Monarch has come e., mo ee cbs brothers
made the big strike there and mas AZ
tracted the attention OF several mln-
ing men to that section.-Grass saltey
Union.
EngeIs' Copper Mine
These are busy days at the Engels
Brothers copper mine in Ldgh.s cahyol a19eu
The work of constructing the smelter,
tramway and other appurtenancss
which make UP a big copper mindns
and smelling plant Is .oe,hf {o nast en-
caiiy t9oss pusaeft pa IS now believed that the
plant will not be completed and ready
for operation this gear gfa see the Engeis
mine Turning out it's product Of copper
matte. At present the g1,.er smelter ITs- Na-
tional Bulletin
Sierra Mines
The Alaska mine of Pike, Sierra
county. has arrived at stage WneIe SsvsIe
opnent can now be prosecuted IN the
usual even tenor OF well equipped
mine. Only few more ob improsIsmtsiiass }W eIentrizs
the plant and thus solve the power
problem, and the water question Is hs,nS nov
thing Of the drv past witb bhe the ih1 present @
pumping equipment With a triple
COMPARTMENT straight shaft reaching q
depth of 700 feet from the surface ano
the large, complete suriace pni pia1t rsnS uns
of big mines of northern California.
and Sierra county presents another
great mine as corroboratlye evloehce
that the gold mining revival Is on IN
THE rehabilitation of the Alaska mine
has been one OF the marVel0us lea.s
present management took hold IL 1ound
the mine full of water. 1t was great
reservoir At 400 feet. down the ledge
has been drifted upon for 1900 feet and
had been stopped near to the surface.
Besides the vein had served as nat.
ural drain for the ridge and an ancient
gravel channel ana cd's .ne no@ with nab 20 uow e
feet eeti Below 4 IoSp the old workings the vein
Manager George st. John says that
good ore was obtained, but gives no
particulars for publication. Ore was
mined from what is known as the cas-
serly ledge a cross lead. That was
yery rich when worked by former own
ers. 1t is stated that last spring one
months run of the 20 stamp mill by
up Of 1000 ounces. of gold. The Gas.
serly ledge was mined at the zoo foot
and $50 foot levels. 1t was rich but
The Eureka consolidated group of
quartz claims adjoin the Alaska mine
on the east, being 1000 feet long and
500 feet wide dan1med IN a. by con;n mGyrs vnd 6a
properties of southern Sierra county:
Fl has between 4.500 and 5000 feet of
development in tunnels drifts. shaIts.
depth to speak OF has been obtained
that would give more than SO to $50
feet of backs, Dut the showing Inaue
is an excellent one, the Lodges making
first rate surface showings.
One Of them IS 3 to 10 feet wide,
AVERAGING g. and numerous assays on
Fl show Il all to be Of milling char
acter, the assays ranging from 40 cents
to 81 per ton in gold. A soft talcose
gouge accompanying the ledge is ileav-
ily minenalized and when washed yield
ed granulated sulphurets of two grades.
The finer assays $400 in gold to the
ton. and the coarser $238.-Nevada City
Transcript.
Work at the Carson quartz ledge In
Slug canyon was suspended Tuesday
night. This property is bonded by
Turpen & Henderson from Bell. DoIan
q Tiedemann. It is said that the sus-
nension is but temporary, and that de-