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Historical Notes of the Early Washington, Nevada County, California Mining District (PH 15-4)(Not Dated) (169 pages)
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Superintendent Lord of the Yuba Mine, which has just paid its second monthly dividend of one-dollar a share, says the mine has every appearance of paying dividends
regularly hereafter. Twenty-seven white men and thirteen Chinese are employed,
Some of the stockholders are making preparations to develope the Last Chance
Mine on Sawmill Flat, above Washington. *4. May 24, 1886.
The Jim, Norway and other mines in God’s Country, have paid well on the surface,
but none of them prospected well to any depth. *4. June 16, 1886,
Fred Bradley of the Spanish Mine and Tom Curry, have an excellent quartz claim on
Poorman Creek, a mile and a-half from Washington. The vein is nine-feet thick,
Samples of the quartz show well in galena and sulphurets, with a sprinkling of free
gold. *4. January 19, 1887.
On Gaston Ridge, Cole & White, have a shaft down twenty-feet. The rock is showing
rich in gold and galena. They have refused an offer of ten thousand-dollars. *4,
June 18, 1887.
Tregidgo & Eastman purchased from Towle Bros. a twenty-stamp mill and will
erect it at the old Baker Mine on the South Yuba, opposite the mouth of Canyon
Creek. *4. June 18, 1887.
Twenty-stamp mill moved from Omega to the Washington Mine at Ormonde. *4,
July 13, 1887.
Blue Bell Mine, near Ormonde, has a shaft down 118 feet. Two drifts take off on
the 100 foot level. 640 tons of ore milled averaged seven-dollars a ton, *4. August 4, 1887.
At Brandy Flat, below Washington, a four-stamp mill is crushing cemented gravel
from the famous old lead that has been worked off and on for thirty years and yielding
a million dollars, ‘more-or-less’, *4, August 24, 1887.
Baron Von Schroeder visited Ormonde. He is a large stockholder in the Washington and Blue Bell mines. *4. December 17, 1887,
Rough & Ready gravel mine, near Washington, shut down last Thursday on account of
a reduction in wages. ‘The owners are fearful that the hoisting works will be blown
up by dynamite’, *4, March 25, 1888.
At the Daylight Mine, Helgeson Flat (Holbrook Flat) the rock in the past has paid as
high as sixty-dollars aton. *28. April 21, 1888,
Tom Simmons is working the Norway Mine in God’s Country. Mrs. Robinson, who
used to keep the Central House, on Washington Road, owns the mine. Has a mill
on it. It is situated on the mountain-side, midway between the North Bloomfield
ditch and Canyon Creek,
April 21, 1888.
Five tons of ore from the Blue Jay Mine has been crushed and yielded eighteen to
twenty-five dollars a ton. An immense quantity of ore is in sight. *4, June 24,
1888,
Fred Bradley, superintendent of the Spanish Mine and Thomas Curry, will resume
work on their quartz claim on Scotchman Creek, one and one half miles from the
town of Washington. They have already expended about $3,000 worth of labor on it.
The tunnel is in 160 feet on the vein. The ledge is twelve-feet thick and will mill.