White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-19
HIGH GRADE
MINING DIST.
DEEP SNOW AT PRESENT INTER-
FERES WITH MINING DEALS
PROMOTERS MAP OF DISTRICT
SAID TO BE "INCORRECT."

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200 Colorado prospeetors and miners
scattered about the snow line sur
rounding the deep snow area where
is located the Highgrade mining
district. Modoc county, California.
New Pine Creek on the north slope
of the district is filled with that
class of men which deals in real
estate and the booming of town
sites.
But few important deals in a min
ing way have been made in the snow
belt. On the Pine creek side there
are but three properties that lie with
in the scope that reaches the little
narrow-guage railroad, the Nevada,
Oregon & California.
N. f. Guyot and associates In the
new townsite on the school section
have already sent a surveying patty
up into the hills to stake out their
plat on 10 feet of snow. Ali of this
takes on the regular old townsite
booming methods, with mining a
secondary consideration. New MN
ing companies are %springing up on
ground that has little, If any. de-
velopment, and not much merit
from the standpoint of ore dis
covered.
The Big Four, an old company.
and the Fern and the Sunshine
are on the north side of the noun
tain, which has an altitude of 1915
feet. From Pine creek there Is a 3
per cent grde for a distance of 8
miles to these properties, and for the
last 4 miles there is now from 5 to
Is feet of snow on that level. The
boomers have shoveled out the trail
twice. but the continued snow
storms have filled their work,
leaving transportation to snow shoes,
and the packing is done either on
webs or skis. The grubstake men
from the railroad side have been
in the hills stalking ground on the
snow and every inch of available
country is located.
On the Fort Bidwall side different
conditions obtain. Mt. Bidwell is
just s miles from the village and one
can drive to what Is known as
O'Conners forks, where there are
some 30 tents occupied by prospec-
tors. From there the trip up another
1000 feet, from the Bidwell town
level, is made right Into the heart
of the known development. There
is less than 5 feet of snow on this,
the south side of the mountain.
The first property that has any
merit is the Sunset, on which Wall
and Williams have been leasing
for the past 2 years and have done
a great deal of development that
leaves a large tonnage of blocked
out ore with milling values of
about $40. Last year they installed
a Lane mill, which will take care
of their output as soon as the cyanide
tanks are added to the plant.
The Sunshine prospect is situat-
ed on one of the little hills that
lie to the north and In the depres-
sion of Mt. Bidwall, at an elevation
OF about 5000 feet. In and about
the tunnel house and cabins there
Is IL feet of snow. There r three
openings that show the ore in this
property. There is a 22-foot shaft
sunk on the 5-foot vein at surface,
and a 40-foot shaft 80 feet. to west
ward of this opening on the same
vein. To the south and on the
same line as the shafts there is a
tunnel driven into the hill for a
distance of ISL feet on the vein,
with about SO feet of backs.
The 22-foot shaft is timbered
down two 5-foot sets. On the hang
ing side of the vein there is mud
and tale that will average "
inches; than Illuminated against this
seam there is quartz that will aver
age 5 inches. The breast where they
have widened the shaft in the bot
tom shows both walls standing at
about so degrees.
Several samples were assayed
with the following results: No. /,
from 6-inch pay streak, $56O.S0; No,
9. 3 feet across ore, $23.15. The