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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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the boulder.
The quartz ledge from which the piece of quartz came adjoins the Giant King, but
although considerable prospecting has been done the rich spot has not been found.
The quartz evidently came from the El Capitan claim. *4. February 27, 1897.
Ten or eleven years ago, James Kramer was watchman at the Omega Diggings.
One day he went down in the canyon and broke off about fifty pieces of a quartz ledge.
Upon examination many of the pieces were found to contain sulphurets, galena and
pyrites of copper and iron. One piece of rich arsenical ore was almost pure metal,
The outside was covered with moss and the inside showed a fresh fracture that looked
like white metal with streaks of pure gold running through it. He has visited the
canyon several times since, but could not find the spot where the pieces came from.
*4, March 8, 1897.
New owners of the Crumbecker Ravine Mine are going to erect a mill as soon as the
snow is clear. Samples of ore taken fifty-three feet in width were $5.44 per ton.
The sulphurets assayed fifty-dollars a ton. *4. March 10, 1897.
The last sample from the Giant King Mine gave an average of ten dollars per ton.
Sulphurets assayed $143 per ton. *4. March 10, 1897.
Prospects of the El Capitan lower tunnel, at Washington, are very encouraging. It
looks as if there would be as greata chute of ore as in the Giant King and Giant Queen,
both in the same fissure and contact sister chutes. The work in the lower tunnel
of the El Capitan proves that these giant ore chutes dip to the south. *4. April 2,
1897,
Eagle Bird Mine has a record of producing $900,000. Yuba Mine--$2,000,000.
Blue Jay Mine is worked out. *4, June 11, 1897,
C. G, Fisk and partner have struck it rich in their gravel claim on Fall Creek.
Several thousand dollars in coarse gold and nuggets have been taken out lately. One
nugget was worth over eighty-dollars. *4, August 31, 1897.
Rich gravel is being taken from the Cotton Hill Mine, near Washington. A tunnel
300 feet long taps the channel, which is seventy-feet wide. The gold is coarse and
many small nuggets worth three to four-dollars are found. *4. August 31, 1897.
Tiernam & Richards are having a crushing from the Gray Eagle milled at the Blue
Jay Mine, They transport the ore from the mine to the mill on burros. *4. September 23, 1897.
Francis N. Burns will leave in a few days for Washington where he will do some work
on the Giant Queen, in which he is interested and is an extension of the Giant King
Mine. It is his opinion that the mine, when opened, will be fully as good as the Giant
King, which has the largest body of any gold mine in the State, being 130 feet wide
and the quartz averages four-dollars per ton in free gold. *4. October 7, 1897.
Charles Phelps is in town today. His drift claim on the head waters of Jefferson
Creek looks very promising. The new tunnel is now in 400 feet. Inside of another100
feet Mr. Phelps expects to bottom the old blue lead. He has cut through some ground
that gives encouraging prospects. The first tunnel he ran for the channel was too
high and he is doing the work all over again. *4, November 12, 1897.
The company re-opening the Eagle Bird, at Maybert, have some thirty-men at work
and it is said to be making some encouraging development. It is reported that over
half of the force are Chinese and a good deal of feeling is being created in that part
of the county by this action. An attempt was recently made to reduce the drill men
from $3 to $2.75 a day and some of them quit rather than to accept the reduction.