The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1919-12-06
'EUREKANS INTERESTED !
PLAcERV|LLE GOLD MINE
Eugenes Davis and John E. Sexton
Take Over Nearly One thousand
Acres Of California Placer Ground
and Start Development Work.

Placerville Democrat Nov. 20: Last
Sunday John E. Sexton. one Of the
owners Of the Pacific Channel deep
gravel mine. lying about 16 miles
east Of Placerville on the State high
way to Lake Tahoe. visited that prop
erty in company with H. u. Manwar-
ing, manager of the Palace Hotel, and
DR.. Fred H. Zumwalt Of San Francis
co, T. A. p. Elder of Deer View Lodge.
T. G. Patton, Joseph Scherrer, e.
Fitzgerald and J. w. Shanklin of
this city.
The members of the party we're en-
tertained at dinner at Pacific after
an inspection of the mine. Mr.. Man
waring and DR.. Zumwalt were taken
up the Lincoln highway as far as the
Three F Rancho" Fox, Forbes and
Folger's famous Summer home above
White Hall, and the former never
having seen any part of the Placer
vile and Lake Tahoe highway, was
delighted beyond measure. mo won
der you invite people to go over this
road, 1t is wonder" he said, "and
the farther up into the mountains
you go the grander is the scenery.
Count upon the San Francisco hotel
Iaen to tell the public about the South
Fork canyon route in future"
Under the guidance of Mr.. Sexton
the party made general inspection
of the mine, which is deep gravel
proposition, lying on the south side
of the American river under a large
ridge leading out westward from the
main mountain range. A tunnel
driven into the ridge upon a level
with the State highway. which crosses
the property, has opened up an ex-
tensive deposit of gold bearing ce-
mented gravel at a distance of 400
feet from the mouth Of the tunnel
and 200 feet in width. This tunnel,
however. just uncovers the top of the
gravel deposit, which is so full OF
water that II cannot be economically
worked from the top at present.
Another tunnel is now being driven
into the ridge from point forty feet
below the mouth of the first tunnel
and which will cut the channel zoe
feet west of the present drifts, thus
affording drainage and increasing the
area of the channel bed. There is ne
question as to the future of the mine
as carloads of gravel taken from tht
surface of the deposit and dumped a
the mouth of the tunnel yields from
SIS to s12 worth of coarse gold to thu
pan when washed out by the usua
method of panning, and there arr
thousands of tons of gravel alread,
uncovered.
A Dodge roller mill has been in
stalled with a capacity of five tom
per hour for working the gravel. Thi
mill will be operated by water power
and is ready for business as soon a
the lower tunnel is completed, which
will be very soon, as three shifts o
willing workers are driving it for
ward as rapidly as three powe
drills and ten-round sets of blasts cal
open the way through the rim rocl
| into the bed of the channel. Min
hundred and sixty acres of ground 1
covered by this mine, embracing owe
three miles of what is known as tn
Pacific channel, and tourists goin
over the Pioneer trail section of tn
tLincoln highway next season will en-
counter a sign about sixteen mile
east of Placerville reading, "Pacif
Channel Mine, the largest Deep GRAY
ell Mine in the World"
| Eugene Davis, an extensive min
Operator at Eureka. Nevada, Is II
terested with Mr.. Sexton In the Pa
cific Channel venture, and their d.
lvelopment has already passed the 9,
detrimental stage. Their operation
have already attracted favorable a.
tention to Ell Dorado County, an
l1920 will see activities along man
new lines in this section Of the Stat
as preliminary steps have alread
lbeen taken upon two extensive pre-
jects which are not yet far enoug
advanced to make public.
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