Volume 08 (1864) (474 pages)

The Blining and Scientifie Press, dL claim. Mr. Adam llaag and Mr. Riel, members of this company, both subscrihed to the Press. To Mr. Haag I tender my acknuwledginents for much assistauce,uad muny civilities. Adjoiuing tho Germauia, hut pu auether vein, is the BURNA BURDA. T have nlsa lost my memorandum of this clnim. The mnin shaft is, howevor, somewhnt deeper thnn thot of its neighbor. Monch already said of tho Germnnia is applicable here. I can only spenk of tho character of the rock, a3 I did not gn down the shaft. Work has since been resumed. The rock is good, enrrying heavy sulpliurcts of copper and a large quantity of mundie und sulphates of iron. Nevertheless they hnve to sink considerably yet. Below this claim, a few yards, on a third parallel vein, is the DALLARAT. Of this claim I wns unable to learn aay particulars —work: having been suspended uatil next Spriug. ‘Neither, to my knowledge, did 1 make the acqunintance of any of the proprietors. All I enn say is, the rock looks well. Proceediug hence to Jamestowa, a little more than half a mile uorth of the town, I came to the NORTH STAR. It coatains 3,600 fect, in single foot shares, Main shaft 50 fect, with two drifts, one 30 aad the other 55 fect. Both of theso, ia my opiuion, are cntirely useless. They nre ulso unfortuaate, for the labor expended on them, put upon the shaft, aecording to present nppearances, would certainly have given this claim tho honor of first striking copper. It opens well upon rich carbonates; on these giving out the rock looked hlank and dead, as it always does. Hence tho first drift. But, to on “expert,” it shows no more of the existence of the vein than the evidences in the shaft at the same depth. hud they known where to look for them. They then went down to their present level, carrying the foot-wall nearly all the way, epleadidly developed, with the hanging wall just coming ia at the hottom; aad now comes the incomprehensible error of drifting north between the two walls to strike ths veia they are really all the time on. All they will ever find in that drift is what they have fouad—places here and there, where to the inexperieaced eye the indicatioas lock hetter than at tho foot of the shaft— thnt’s ull, ond a poor reward it is for so great an expeuse nnd delny. This is really a sad hlnnder, though the present Snperintendeat is aot to hinme for it. Here isn splendid vein, 6 or 7 feet wide, with hoth wolls developed with fluckun, carrying the hnudsoinest slate possihle, profusedly impregnated with copper pyrites, yellow sulphurets, sulphates of iroa nad mundic. Surely all that constitutes a copper vein, if nnything does ; and, therefore, by going down at the hottom of the shalt, they were equally certain to strike ore, hy drifting on the vein aorth or south 60 feet and then sinking at the other extreme. This is a self-evident proposition, which admits of no argument. Leyond douht the North Star is a magaificent claim, as it stands now. All it required was depth ; aud the length of the lower drift added to the shaft, would have given Tuolumne connty a live and reliahle copper mine. aad I believe a rich one. I explained these views to Judge Preston and Mr. Calloway, the Superivtendent, iu a conversation with them upon the subject, and the probahility is, they will sink a new shalt at the end of the drift, or go down oa the old one. I haye to acknowledge the cordial politeness of the Judge and Mr. Calloway. These nre all the mines in the neighhorhood of the towns mentioned, lying on the soutb side of the celehrated Tahle Mountnin, of which I shall speak hereafter in the proper place. I must now proceed to the nortb side of the mountain, some three miles, to the continuations of these claims. The first is the PACIFIC. It contains 2,250 feet, in 15 shares. Mnin shaft 20 feet, opeuing with a strong vein, carryiug yellow sulphurets, copper pyrites aud mundic. When I first euw this claim with Mr. Ilulsey. its strong ndmixture with serpeatine gaye me an unfavorable opinion of its future success, in spite of its fine ojiening. By singulur good fortune, they have lost, at their present depth, nll serpentine connections, and rua inte a remnrkably huudsome taleoso formation, with streaks of good shipping ore—fine, pure, yellow sulplmrets. At one time I thought they were on the verge of opening tho vein, but from rock J havo since seen I conclude, from these sudden changes, it will tuke considerahle depth to free it lrom all corrnptiou, and open it reliahly. Tho cluim is managed by Mr. Halloc, who subscribed to the Press. Near this clnin, soaiewhat lying uorth, is the NE PLUS ULTRA. It contains 1,800 feet, in 12 shares. Monin shaft 20 feet, showiag hoth walls well developed. I saw an exccllent chnracter of rock from this claim, very pure iu formation, with stroag yellow sulphurets and heavy cast of umundie. I did not visit the shaft. At present they cannot work on account of water. A wile and a half or two miles helow the Pacific is the COPPERHEAD. It contaius 3,300 fect, in 11 sliares—at least it appears soin my notes, hut I think they must he wrong. Main shaft 50 feet. This clnim made quite a aoise at one time, because, like mony others, the splendid surface indications were over estimated iu character and duration, aud aow they hove given out, as they generally will. Itis not valued as much as it onght tohe. Apart from its spleadid openings, both walls were reliably developed with fluckan, at first 20 fect apart. From the badly chosen site of the shaft, as usual too much west, and in a low rugged ravine, the walls linve been sadly bolted, and sow pinch together close. ‘The vein, however, is strong ond healthy, of splendid rich, dark hlue slate, showing yellow sulphurets, hlack oxides, aad eulphates of iron, ond mundic—so stroag, indeed, that it is impossihle for it to give out. At 10 or 15 feet more, I ani satisfied, it wi] widen again from 5 to 7 feet; the walls will become regular, and no further trouble experienced. At the snme time I do not think anything less than 100 feet will open the mine properly. There is more in a nawe than some people imagine. Had this heen enlled “Republican” iustead of “Copperhead,” it would, no doubt, have gone straight down, like any other decent, well-behaved copper mine, and aot have cut up the didos it did. Towever, 1 am glad to say,I have readly great faith iu this claim. It is owned by a spleadid set of fellows, to whom the Press is uuder many obligations. They aot only took two copies, but rendered me much valuahle assistance. To District Attoraey Brown, Messrs. Gardner and Potter, County Clerks, our thanks are especially due. ‘The only fault I find with them is, that about Christmas nud New Years they were just a eed/e too heavy on turkey and chicken-pie. Adjoiuiug this claim, ou the same veiu, is the oso. It contains 1,500 feet, in I0 shares. Maiu shaft 40 feet. In this shaft, from its more advantageous location, the vein shows itself straighter, more haudsomely, though not more healthily thnn in the copperhead. It is some 5 feet wide, with hoth walls developed, nnd flucknn. ‘he description of one answers the other, only, I think, from the advantage of position, and the settled and regular course the lead shows in this claim, it will prohahly be the first to strike copper. Still further north, nenrly a mile, on tho same vein, is the MEADE. It contains 3,750 feet in siagle foot shares. This was ouly just opening when I visited it. Since then T hnve understood it looks promising and healthy. Beyond the Meade, continnations on the same vein to the river Stanislaus, are the Break-of-Day Canon, Mount Washingtoa and DGouquet, at present simply locations. Considerahly north of all these, on anotker vein, is the DOWNEY, OR FRENCH CLAIM. It contains 1,950 fect in 13 glinres. Main shaft 20 feet, showing very pure nnd rich rock. ‘here is something very singular in this claim. The vein was first found iu a ruvine hy men workiug their pincer cluim, and so they foolishly sank right there, ahout 50 feet helow the ledge whero it crops on the mountain. In the shalt the vein rans enst uad west almost, as if sometime or other n portiou of it hnd heeu dislodged from ahove nnd thrown down the ravine. There is no evidence whotever of its heing a cross-veiu, so that I think as they go down, rich as it looks at present, they will have trouble. One thing is certuin, it has ao right running as it does; aad, if it does uot come rouud to its proper course as they descond, there is surely something wroag somewhere. Such, I helieve, are all the copper mines in Tuolumue connty at present in operation. Few people helow,I take it, imngined there were so many, or that they looked so prosperous. Wus J wroag in saying $100,000, judiciously invested, would accomplish wonders? Some of theso claims are goiag to equal the hest copper miaes we have in the country. Jf, by hriuging their merits hefore the puplie, reliahly, as I have endeavored to do, you succeed in nrresting the flow of money and meu to distaut, outlandish places, your paper will confer a greater henefit on the State at large than all the others put together, and eveatually renpa proportionate reward. T hnve another letter to prepare, on the qnartz interests of this section; and, I thiak, I can show that in this respect, as well ns copper, Taolumae county is not hehiud any other in her claims upon the notice of capitalists. L. H. Reese River Letter. ‘We are permitted to make the following extracts from a recent letter written hy J. E. Bowe, at Amador, Lander, Co., N. T., to Mr. B. J. Hull of this city, relating to the Aspiuwall and Biglow ledges. The ledges are located on “Forty-nine Hill,” ahout one and one-half miles uorth of this place. The “ Aspinwall,”.upon which the most work has beeu done, is without douht oue of the hest ledges iu the district. We have had two lots of rock tried at the same mill, Varney’s. The first lot proved so rich that the mill man thought there was certainly a mistake, and of the aext lot, all that we could get him to say was thntit would work over twenty-five dollars to the ton. A Mr. Wilson, who claims to represcut your company here, has tried it and he says that it assays from thirteen to fourteen hundred dollars per ton. Certain it is that we can take the rock and hy burning it iu a comaion stove, coat the rock all over with globules of silver and gold. We have got the richest specimeas from this ledge that I have seen in the district, not exceptiag the far fnmed Amador. The ledge is from ten to twelve feet wide, and can he easily traced for nearly or quite its whole distance. I think more of it than nny other interest I havein the Territory, aud that is saying n good denl, as I have an interest in the first and also the second northern extension of the Amador. SquEaKino Boots—A Rzemenr.—Who has not been annoyed, time and again, by squeaking hoots? A correspondeut of the Scientific American hns been experimenting for a reinedy. After trying several, he thinks ho has hit upon one which will never fail. He'saturated the soles with hoiled lioseed oil, keeping the soles as hot, during the application, as can be doao without iajury to the leather. As much oil is npplied as the lenther will take np. He had previously tried.several other oilsin the same manner, but without snecess. Boiled linseed oil is the only remedy he has tried without failure. Lecturers and public speakers, generally, as well as their hearers, will unite in a vote of thanks to that correspondent. A rire was discovered in the Mint, on Monday, hut speedily extiuguished, -

The Blining and Scientifie Press, dL claim. Mr. Adam llaag and Mr. Riel, members of this company, both subscrihed to the Press. To Mr. Haag I tender my acknuwledginents for much assistauce,uad muny civilities. Adjoiuing tho Germauia, hut pu auether vein, is the BURNA BURDA. T have nlsa lost my memorandum of this clnim. The mnin shaft is, howevor, somewhnt deeper thnn thot of its neighbor. Monch already said of tho Germnnia is applicable here. I can only spenk of tho character of the rock, a3 I did not gn down the shaft. Work has since been resumed. The rock is good, enrrying heavy sulpliurcts of copper and a large quantity of mundie und sulphates of iron. Nevertheless they hnve to sink considerably yet. Below this claim, a few yards, on a third parallel vein, is the DALLARAT. Of this claim I wns unable to learn aay particulars —work: having been suspended uatil next Spriug. ‘Neither, to my knowledge, did 1 make the acqunintance of any of the proprietors. All I enn say is, the rock looks well. Proceediug hence to Jamestowa, a little more than half a mile uorth of the town, I came to the NORTH STAR. It coatains 3,600 fect, in single foot shares, Main shaft 50 fect, with two drifts, one 30 aad the other 55 fect. Both of theso, ia my opiuion, are cntirely useless. They nre ulso unfortuaate, for the labor expended on them, put upon the shaft, aecording to present nppearances, would certainly have given this claim tho honor of first striking copper. It opens well upon rich carbonates; on these giving out the rock looked hlank and dead, as it always does. Hence tho first drift. But, to on “expert,” it shows no more of the existence of the vein than the evidences in the shaft at the same depth. hud they known where to look for them. They then went down to their present level, carrying the foot-wall nearly all the way, epleadidly developed, with the hanging wall just coming ia at the hottom; aad now comes the incomprehensible error of drifting north between the two walls to strike ths veia they are really all the time on. All they will ever find in that drift is what they have fouad—places here and there, where to the inexperieaced eye the indicatioas lock hetter than at tho foot of the shaft— thnt’s ull, ond a poor reward it is for so great an expeuse nnd delny. This is really a sad hlnnder, though the present Snperintendeat is aot to hinme for it. Here isn splendid vein, 6 or 7 feet wide, with hoth wolls developed with fluckun, carrying the hnudsoinest slate possihle, profusedly impregnated with copper pyrites, yellow sulphurets, sulphates of iroa nad mundic. Surely all that constitutes a copper vein, if nnything does ; and, therefore, by going down at the hottom of the shalt, they were equally certain to strike ore, hy drifting on the vein aorth or south 60 feet and then sinking at the other extreme. This is a self-evident proposition, which admits of no argument. Leyond douht the North Star is a magaificent claim, as it stands now. All it required was depth ; aud the length of the lower drift added to the shaft, would have given Tuolumne connty a live and reliahle copper mine. aad I believe a rich one. I explained these views to Judge Preston and Mr. Calloway, the Superivtendent, iu a conversation with them upon the subject, and the probahility is, they will sink a new shalt at the end of the drift, or go down oa the old one. I haye to acknowledge the cordial politeness of the Judge and Mr. Calloway. These nre all the mines in the neighhorhood of the towns mentioned, lying on the soutb side of the celehrated Tahle Mountnin, of which I shall speak hereafter in the proper place. I must now proceed to the nortb side of the mountain, some three miles, to the continuations of these claims. The first is the PACIFIC. It contains 2,250 feet, in 15 shares. Mnin shaft 20 feet, opeuing with a strong vein, carryiug yellow sulphurets, copper pyrites aud mundic. When I first euw this claim with Mr. Ilulsey. its strong ndmixture with serpeatine gaye me an unfavorable opinion of its future success, in spite of its fine ojiening. By singulur good fortune, they have lost, at their present depth, nll serpentine connections, and rua inte a remnrkably huudsome taleoso formation, with streaks of good shipping ore—fine, pure, yellow sulplmrets. At one time I thought they were on the verge of opening tho vein, but from rock J havo since seen I conclude, from these sudden changes, it will tuke considerahle depth to free it lrom all corrnptiou, and open it reliahly. Tho cluim is managed by Mr. Halloc, who subscribed to the Press. Near this clnin, soaiewhat lying uorth, is the NE PLUS ULTRA. It contains 1,800 feet, in 12 shares. Monin shaft 20 feet, showiag hoth walls well developed. I saw an exccllent chnracter of rock from this claim, very pure iu formation, with stroag yellow sulphurets and heavy cast of umundie. I did not visit the shaft. At present they cannot work on account of water. A wile and a half or two miles helow the Pacific is the COPPERHEAD. It contaius 3,300 fect, in 11 sliares—at least it appears soin my notes, hut I think they must he wrong. Main shaft 50 feet. This clnim made quite a aoise at one time, because, like mony others, the splendid surface indications were over estimated iu character and duration, aud aow they hove given out, as they generally will. Itis not valued as much as it onght tohe. Apart from its spleadid openings, both walls were reliably developed with fluckan, at first 20 fect apart. From the badly chosen site of the shaft, as usual too much west, and in a low rugged ravine, the walls linve been sadly bolted, and sow pinch together close. ‘The vein, however, is strong ond healthy, of splendid rich, dark hlue slate, showing yellow sulphurets, hlack oxides, aad eulphates of

iron, ond mundic—so stroag, indeed, that it is impossihle for it to give out. At 10 or 15 feet more, I ani satisfied, it wi] widen again from 5 to 7 feet; the walls will become regular, and no further trouble experienced. At the snme time I do not think anything less than 100 feet will open the mine properly. There is more in a nawe than some people imagine. Had this heen enlled “Republican” iustead of “Copperhead,” it would, no doubt, have gone straight down, like any other decent, well-behaved copper mine, and aot have cut up the didos it did. Towever, 1 am glad to say,I have readly great faith iu this claim. It is owned by a spleadid set of fellows, to whom the Press is uuder many obligations. They aot only took two copies, but rendered me much valuahle assistance. To District Attoraey Brown, Messrs. Gardner and Potter, County Clerks, our thanks are especially due. ‘The only fault I find with them is, that about Christmas nud New Years they were just a eed/e too heavy on turkey and chicken-pie. Adjoiuiug this claim, ou the same veiu, is the oso. It contains 1,500 feet, in I0 shares. Maiu shaft 40 feet. In this shaft, from its more advantageous location, the vein shows itself straighter, more haudsomely, though not more healthily thnn in the copperhead. It is some 5 feet wide, with hoth walls developed, nnd flucknn. ‘he description of one answers the other, only, I think, from the advantage of position, and the settled and regular course the lead shows in this claim, it will prohahly be the first to strike copper. Still further north, nenrly a mile, on tho same vein, is the MEADE. It contains 3,750 feet in siagle foot shares. This was ouly just opening when I visited it. Since then T hnve understood it looks promising and healthy. Beyond the Meade, continnations on the same vein to the river Stanislaus, are the Break-of-Day Canon, Mount Washingtoa and DGouquet, at present simply locations. Considerahly north of all these, on anotker vein, is the DOWNEY, OR FRENCH CLAIM. It contains 1,950 fect in 13 glinres. Main shaft 20 feet, showing very pure nnd rich rock. ‘here is something very singular in this claim. The vein was first found iu a ruvine hy men workiug their pincer cluim, and so they foolishly sank right there, ahout 50 feet helow the ledge whero it crops on the mountain. In the shalt the vein rans enst uad west almost, as if sometime or other n portiou of it hnd heeu dislodged from ahove nnd thrown down the ravine. There is no evidence whotever of its heing a cross-veiu, so that I think as they go down, rich as it looks at present, they will have trouble. One thing is certuin, it has ao right running as it does; aad, if it does uot come rouud to its proper course as they descond, there is surely something wroag somewhere. Such, I helieve, are all the copper mines in Tuolumue connty at present in operation. Few people helow,I take it, imngined there were so many, or that they looked so prosperous. Wus J wroag in saying $100,000, judiciously invested, would accomplish wonders? Some of theso claims are goiag to equal the hest copper miaes we have in the country. Jf, by hriuging their merits hefore the puplie, reliahly, as I have endeavored to do, you succeed in nrresting the flow of money and meu to distaut, outlandish places, your paper will confer a greater henefit on the State at large than all the others put together, and eveatually renpa proportionate reward. T hnve another letter to prepare, on the qnartz interests of this section; and, I thiak, I can show that in this respect, as well ns copper, Taolumae county is not hehiud any other in her claims upon the notice of capitalists. L. H. Reese River Letter. ‘We are permitted to make the following extracts from a recent letter written hy J. E. Bowe, at Amador, Lander, Co., N. T., to Mr. B. J. Hull of this city, relating to the Aspiuwall and Biglow ledges. The ledges are located on “Forty-nine Hill,” ahout one and one-half miles uorth of this place. The “ Aspinwall,”.upon which the most work has beeu done, is without douht oue of the hest ledges iu the district. We have had two lots of rock tried at the same mill, Varney’s. The first lot proved so rich that the mill man thought there was certainly a mistake, and of the aext lot, all that we could get him to say was thntit would work over twenty-five dollars to the ton. A Mr. Wilson, who claims to represcut your company here, has tried it and he says that it assays from thirteen to fourteen hundred dollars per ton. Certain it is that we can take the rock and hy burning it iu a comaion stove, coat the rock all over with globules of silver and gold. We have got the richest specimeas from this ledge that I have seen in the district, not exceptiag the far fnmed Amador. The ledge is from ten to twelve feet wide, and can he easily traced for nearly or quite its whole distance. I think more of it than nny other interest I havein the Territory, aud that is saying n good denl, as I have an interest in the first and also the second northern extension of the Amador. SquEaKino Boots—A Rzemenr.—Who has not been annoyed, time and again, by squeaking hoots? A correspondeut of the Scientific American hns been experimenting for a reinedy. After trying several, he thinks ho has hit upon one which will never fail. He'saturated the soles with hoiled lioseed oil, keeping the soles as hot, during the application, as can be doao without iajury to the leather. As much oil is npplied as the lenther will take np. He had previously tried.several other oilsin the same manner, but without snecess. Boiled linseed oil is the only remedy he has tried without failure. Lecturers and public speakers, generally, as well as their hearers, will unite in a vote of thanks to that correspondent. A rire was discovered in the Mint, on Monday, hut speedily extiuguished, -