The San Francisco call., 1910-12-04
Looking to the Mother Lode


| -CalaveraS Prospect.
Looking to the Mother Lode
| Men who are well posted in mining
I affairs are promising great activity
along the mother lode in the counties
! tributary to Stockton and the future
| looks encoura ging for greater develop
ment throughout the mining region
which has made California famous for
more than half a century. When spec
ulators were rushing into the oil fields
| quartz mining and the leading counties
| east of Stockton suffered for want of
means to develop the known good prop
| critics awaiting men of means to handle
| them. Now that the oil business has
! been so generally absorbed by great
combinations OF capital, men of smaller
mother lode, and things are brighter
! for the counties. of the southern mines
! belt.
| Deep mining along the lode is profit
| able, and men who know the fields look
for boom in the sections where deep
| shafts have uncovered paying veins.
In Amador the deep works in the Key
| stone and Eureka properties, anon g
others, have shown that the great
! quartz assures are dividend producers
| when their ores have been reached on
| levels 1000 and more feet from the sur
| face, and such mining is no longer ex-
| perimental. The South Eureka, in Am
! ador county, located between the IA
! nous Eureka and Keystone properties
/
| critics in the state, and the development
was made within the past year by~sink-
mother lode southward it has been
| found that deep mining pays in Gala
veras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties,
and everybody knows the wonderful
success of the deep mines of Nevada
| county, where the vein matter had been
dug into at a depth of close to a mile
from the surface.
All along the great quartz zone
which made California famous as a
| gold producer are many promising
properties only awaiting plucky men
down to 1000 to 5000 feet. Once cap
| ital is turned to the field of the mother
lode and California's gold story will be
larger than in the old days, for the
| gold is in the rock in almost unlimited
quantities and modern science RECEIVERS
all of it.-Stockton Independent.
Red Ledge Nuggets
came to town yesterday morning,
| bringing with him a collection of gold
nuggets and specimens from the
famous Red Ledge near Washington.
mine and the display that he brought
here equals any ever seen in this city.
pea to as large as mans hand. Many
| of the pieces are pure gold, as pretty
as the eye would care to gaze upon.
| While here Williamson sold large
y
! firm who will convert them into stick
| pins, brooches and other forms of jew
! elry. as they have an extensive demand
/ for quartz jewelry. Some of the speci-
mems show the imprint of leaves and
are most handsome, while others are
pure leaf gold One piece is pure gold
on one end, while the other end shows
! sprinkling of white quartz
The Red Ledge continues to yield the
| precious stuff in quantities that pleases
the owners.-Grass Valley Union.
GraniteviIle Lively
| George Mainhart. owner of the An
| cho mine in the Graniteville district,
| left this morning for the purpose of
| making arrangements to work the
| property during the winter months.
he had sufficient supplies at the prop
| erty to last until spring and that the
mine was in excellent shape for con-
| tinuous work. The autumn has been
! panies operating in the mountains in
| that it has permitted them ample op-
| portunity to get in all the supplies nee
essary for the winter.
| The Ancho has been running steadily
| for more than year under the man
agement of Mainhart, who has had
! the property for many years. and 1T is
| developing into a substantial property.
reducing the ore that is taken from the
! vein and there is a good crew of men
at work. Operations. during the winter
will be in charge of Frank Mainhart,
! son of the owner of the Ancho.
Graniteville will be a lively camp
this winter. 1t will have more men at
work than in years at this season of
the year. Besides the Ancho the Erie
is contemplating further improvements.
The company has plenty of sunnlies
and the men will be kept at work all
winter.-Nevada City Transcript.