Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

= —— “Blining aud Scentitic Birgs, ia ecm oe atin “Binary. ve) a CALIFORNIA. Nevapa Counsy.—The Hartery Company ill pr tobably commence crashing stich, rock . . aniiog, next week,, , The new mill is said to work to perlection. short’ distance from the Alison Ranch? “ ~ Phe’ Lone: 'Jeck Co. are down on the incline . 531 feet/and ten feet “into the ledge. They are, taking ont rock that will ie seventy: five ‘dollarsiper ton. un -"Beveral’ new dis coveries Isage been récently, . y aii fhe vicinity of these two mines. ior cq Mr. EL, Mitchell, of Grass Valley, bas saaill $11,800 “for two shares and ‘three. a oni in the Stockbridge fine. Po. bgt party of prospectors, “the other" day, fouind a, ll ‘defined quartz Inde, from 12:to 14 feet, thick “and showing “somegold, six miles. from } Nevada City, and, tivo iniles, from any, previoiis . workings.” They y were a gommence sinkiny a shalt,at once. j oA bar of gold, from the Lost Hill claims,’ weighing 317 “ounieds, and worth $6 042, is Spoken « of by the Ne evada Gazelle. des on ‘Reports from the Excelsior district sum ‘up ; as follows: Sdow seven feet deep, rapidly tnelting. ‘I All are ype active preparations: to commence work at the earliest pessible moment, The ‘one hundred, ‘and fifty. people who wintered at Summit’ Gity has now: increased to . ! font hundred. «The Enterprise mill is ‘now ‘Working “they . have ‘atrack Pieter ore than . De ie Ae , The Nevada ! Transeript of eager “20th, ‘thiée ‘and 4 filf ‘idiles above Moore's Flat: The Star. Compeny, Junietta and one or two ‘others i in that vicinity, are running tunnels and sinking shafts. Some. of the rock taken out j. “of thése claims, it is believed, will pay $40 or p00 per ton. = The, Knickerbocker Company, (on, ‘North San Juan Bill, struck dirt on Mon-: “day. last which _is ‘perfectly yellow with gold: At Buckeye Hill, in the Birchville mining dis: “trict, threetwentieths of the Evans & Co.'s . , ‘clairas waa sold on Monday last by Joseph “Grant to, Michael Marpby. pnd . Denuis ee ‘for the sum, of $7,000 in‘ gold coin. ‘lc Prager County. —The Pacific silver ledge, hear Ophir, is held at higher prices.’ Mr. “Hathaway . refused $6 per foot for his, interest ithe qther day. , Most of the shareholders, at . . present, are San Francisco men. They in‘tend’ to prosecute the work of developing’ the -mnine with energy. "The Stars and’ Stripes gays: To ate" ‘Hathaway ‘edge ' is sitnated near the Pacific, and shows every indication of besing -eqnal to the latter in valne, and that the Gold Blossom is in the same range with the Pacific-“Hathaway and Ad Valorem silver ledges ‘situated near “Ophir, and is without a donbt as )tich + as any of them, . A careful nssay from thie mine returned at the rategof $286 in gold and ailver to the ton. ‘The ledge, nt the depth of thirty feet, is from two and a half to six feet“in “width,” “being widest toward He eastern’ end.” A number of gold qnartz claims in the vicinity of Auburn have been sold to erties in New York city. Reamer’e mill—tor cement crushing—on the Big’ Spittig’ Co.’3 ground, between For est Hill and: ‘Todd’ a Valley,'is to be increased iu capacity from thirty to sixty stamps. m ‘The Dutch Flat Exgquirer says, in ‘regard to mines: cat Gold Ran: . “Among ‘the most “prominent claims we visited, mayibe enumerated the Cedar, owned by Mesere:: Brognn, Johnson and others; Home Tiéket, owned . ‘by: Captain Rathburn « vand. G. L. Slocumb’; Perseverance, owned by Messrs. Hanger, Robins and Bartlett, nnd the’Huycks’ claitis. The Cedar recently cleaned up $600, the result of twenty days’, -washiog, while the . , others we'hnve mentioned will yield each, ou “an‘average, about $f00 per day.’ It is also a well established-fact-that the celebrated blue cement lead, found i in the vicinity of You Bet and Red D. asses directly through these claime. ¢ . 3 , CALA VER, nae _Corrett —The « Infia” itable“’ Copper’ “Mfining Company,” whose sground adjving, that of "the celebrated Vio Comhpany, tb 5 ed the latter'to recover the value. of 150, 000: tons of ore estimated at’ $1, 500, 000 ; they: shaving, as they claim, en. croach ed npon their ground. @ ebipments. of ore from the. Union mine, fo, ithe six'days ° “ending April. 19th, amount, in This: claim is doly;ingays, in regerd to the°mines‘ at ‘Stow Point, i total; to'1,124, 070 pounds, equal to 562 tons, 70 pounds. Daring the twenty days ending Aptil 20th. the Keystone Compang. ‘shipped ~ from their mine 245 tons of No.1 ore, and 30 tons No. 2. Good Shipping ore ls now ‘being taken out of the ‘Empire shaft.” an : The Copperopolis, Courier says: Never singe the tdiscovery of . copper in this district, have our mines looked 80 promising ns ‘at present. The Union and Keystone, which head the list of’ our Valuable claims, are being placed in condition for extensive operntions, and; will yield immense quantities of ore the « coming summer. Gotp, fhe Son, Andreas Register says that Mr, ©. ‘horn. obtained $3 from half a pound . ol quartz taken from the Tate discovery pear" Willow Creek. .; McGlynn’s quartz ail near San Andreas, will he completed by, the Ist of May. “AmABOR Coonry. —Another gold bearing ledge has! been, discovered one mile and'e balf above ‘the Big. Bar Bridge on the Mokelumne river, 10 1” Wee 9 ‘The Keystone Mining Cone ore faca lwenty’ stamps to their battery. said to be paying well. hy ' An eight stamp mill is tobe erected by ekrainer and Flahart on the bank’of the creek jnst ‘helow the village of Jackson. The Ledger of April 21st, speaks of having seen’’$1,082 in gold, which was the result of three days’ ernshing, in a ten stamp aill, of ‘rock from the Jead’ rol A. W.Rose, called the b Number. One,” ‘and ‘located near Sutter Creek. ALPINE ‘cbt —The Rippon Company, in Silver Mountain district, have struck rock ‘which jields. at the rate of $150 per ton. They ore drifting: on thé ledge, which becomes’ better defined as they pénetrate the mountain. . The Monitor Gazette of April 21st, says: The Monntnin Company have struck a very large .body of water in their tunnel, now in ‘over 750 feet. At the delinquent sale of stock of this company on Thursdny, only 72 feet ‘were sold, and it averaged two dollard fe ‘share over the assessment. Tbe Pennsylvania Company have partially edt their ledge in the upper tunnel, ond it shows some fine mci Bonne tg ruby and ents monial:silver. > The Active: Conipany cee ‘settled most ‘of its indebtedness, nnd it is Spe apcatcd will soon resume operations. 1 The tunnel running in on the ledge of the Mowyer Mining Companpi is progressing finely, being now in over 40 feet, the vein of ore becomiug wider and better ies as depth i is attained. The General Grant Po ae in Raymond district, have cut a small spur of fine looking rock. The Gazette hes been shown, during the week, two assays which it tbus describes : The first { is from Leopold Kuh, Virginia, ; of}. a parcel of ore from the american mine, in the upper end of the town, end shows it to contain silver’ $58.68, gold $4.03, total $62.71 per ton, and’‘n large ner centage of copper. ‘Ihe sec‘ond is from Dr. Waters, of Markleville, from an average. sample of ‘an eight feet lode in the Winchester tnonel,and givee a return of silver $9.56, gold $79.37, total, $88.93 per ton. The Buekeyé No. 1, has been leased for six’ years to a compnny of New York capitalists,, which is expected, to expend upon it, withiu -the next eighteon months, at least $100,000. -The Balaclava: tunnel is now iu ninety feet. They have-a solid ledge of fine looking ore of two feet in ttiickness, ‘and about two feet’ more of loose’ ata, iticluding & gaogue next tbe! loot wall. : — TuoLumne ye —'The stock in the Rat tlesnake Quértz Mining Company, incorporated about three months ago. has been nearly all disposed of at six dollars per share. One ofMoore’s.grinders has been purelinsed. Shonld ‘its operntion prove satisfactory, the company intends to ndd three more, giving them, with their present ten stamp mill, n capacity of, forty stomps. quartz has already been tendered them for ernshing. A writer in the Tuolumne Courier of April 21st, givee the followiug items : The boys of the old Perley claim, which is ‘situated at American Camp, eight miles northeast of Columhia, washed up out of the tail end of their ground sluices, lest week, one thousand dollare. The prospecting shaft eunk upon the Chapporal Hill Mine is now down to the depth of 133 feet, at which point the ledge is ten feet -wide, aud-the rock: looks well, and yields well din the-‘mill. The work is superinteuded ‘by “Mr. Jedhegan for C, I. Meader, who is thus thoroughly « examining the mine with a yiew of purchasing. ,.1t ie on 1 the * mother lead, PD phe ea from the Rawhide. » The American Camp Floditag Company { in: . ; ‘John’ Hite and ‘Ibe mine is} Six hundred tone of custom . . :daily. . few days. “tend to clean up their flue next week, and I hear they expect “ big things. ” ‘hey have been runuing it steady ever since the rains set in. At or near Middle Camp, nbout ten or twelve miles abové Coluinbia, Messre. John Chapman and Mork, ‘Waterhouse have Intely Strack ‘forty-nine diggings.” In ten dnys they took out $600. ‘Teo bundréd “and ‘cighty-nine ounces wére shipped'to the Bay lust’ week, by the Mount Vernon Company, at Sugar Pine. The owners of the ‘Moss lead, situated about five or six miles above this place, are. ._ getting out some exceedingly rich rock, : 'Maarrosa County. —From’ ‘the Press’ Ws glean the following items : Mexicans ovet in the vicinity. of Jimizal, ‘ju in that county, last week, found n howget'of gold worth $4,550, ever found im that county. Bruce & Washbarn cleaned up at their gnartz mill, ou Buckeye, lust week, the result ‘Bhowing that the quartz paid an average of twenty-dollars per ton. . Encouraging, accounts have been lately received from Hite's Cove. ‘Lhe vein owned by Wynaats, continues to yield at its usual ‘tate. They have a vein 8} feet in ‘\ thickness, and paying regularly from $60 to $80 per ton, A writer in the Mariposa Gazette, speaking of the Willamette copper district, in ‘that county, says that n vein fifteen feet in width was struck on the Brummett lode, at the depth of a few feet. Hnskell, at bis works on the Chowchilla, last week, smelted, in twenty bours, 5,122 pounds of copper from the Buchanan claim. ‘he new furnace, at the smelting works of Henry & Co., at James’ Ranch, is in operation. The operator, Desarmen, turned out seveuty-five pigs of copper from Sunday: morning uutil two o'clock Mondey afternoon. ‘he furnace is a complete success, end a number ol others will shortly be erected. Suediker, who is working the Green vein, 18 getting ont the finest and ricbest ore in the district. A furnoce will soon be erected on the gronud for smelting purposes. Prosas ° Cooxry—The pete: Union of April 14th, says’:~ Wood's’ claim has been ‘worked for the past three months, paying on an average of $12 per dny to the hnnd. ‘Moulton’s claims have been paying $14 per day to the huad, for the past four nontbs. Ripple & Bohemo clenned up, a sbort time since, 37,000. ‘They expect to make another run ‘before the winter season closes. ‘They-work but four meu. Anderson & Co., ore making $10 per day to the band. ‘The compavy working the’ Bourbon ” ground are making $8 a day. O’Brien’s claim, on Lost Creek, is paying well. Mallndy & Feeny, on Sly Creek, are everdging $40 perday. A majority of the miners in this locality are pretly well satisfied, so far as ths profits of ulining are concerned. Hussoipt Counry.—The Huimboldt Pires of April 7th, says thnt Jennings’ Oil Well Compaoy have sunk tlieir well 94 feet, and ‘struck a hard sand rock, which yields an uninistakable show of oil. ‘fhe well of the Oil Creek Company is down 170 feet, and the prozpects are very eucouraging. The Fortuna Company have received a large arhount of inachinery for tbe prosecution of operations ‘on Bear river. Srerra County.—* A piéce of gold containing a little quartz” and weighing over eighteen ouuces, was recently taken from some bank diggings near Kanaka creek. ‘Whe digginge are owned by Jolin Montgomery and brother. The gold is all rough, as if reeently mes from the quartz ledge Bape ‘close The Downieville Messenger: of April 13th, says: Messrs. Rhodes &° Murray, last’ week commenced running a tuonel under Mein street, Starting in on the vacant lot between MeDonald’s hotel aud the butcher shop. We. learn that the Monitor claim, at Sawpit Flat, is washing big pay dirt, as high as 100 ounces a day “having been taken el, of the main riffle. © Suasta County.—Two men have made $13,000 during the lat eight weeks, by pounding qnortz iu a haud mortar, ‘I hey have made at the rnte of about one pound of gold each Their claim is some two or three miles irom town. So says the Shasta Courier of pul 14th, ,, CRINITY Counry.—The Journal ot April 21st says thnt reports from all the mining }loealities in tuat region, are cheering ; and quotes as lollows from a letter written by a trader at the Foiks of the New River: b We are.beginning to show signs of life ngain. : Thompson. & Compbell bave . completed their ditch, cony eying water on the hills below this . place, and* will commence ‘sluicing iu a Wm.’Myers & Co., have eleo completed their ditch, carryiog water.to the hills It is one. of the largest a good prospec nhead.~ John’ Keach & Co., on Pony Creek; have been'at their old tricks— taking out nuggets. Keach showed me ons piece of pure gold worth over. $200, taken ont of the hill side, one hundred and fifty yards from the creek. Wm. O’Bryen & Co. are do iug well. he miners of Douglas City have just commenced work. One hundred and twenty ounces of gold dnst from the Miuersville region were sold tbe other day at Greenhood's bank. Siskiyou Counry._The Yreka’ Union, gives an account of a great land slide which occurred recently at Deadwood. ‘The monntain aboys that place, for a distance of 120 yards’ in length, and nearly that in breadth, slid into the creek, moking a complets dam, ‘and back ing up the water to’ the eptl of sixty. feet. Some of the clainis in that vicinity nee entirely covered up. WASHOE, NEVADA. Important movements have been mede ip the Mariposa Mill. The old rotery battery has been superseded by three straight batteries, of four stamps each ; the pans have been altered to the Wheeler pattern, ond the Zerritorial Enterprise says that now “ everything appears to go off like clockwork.” Fiom the Territorial Enterprise of April 17th, we clip the following : We yesterday saw, at the office of Bonyngs & Hawxhurst, a block ofore weighing 104 pounds, whicb ‘is nndoubtedly the most value. able single-specimen ever taken from the Qomstock lead. It is almost a solid muss of silver, with a plentiful sprinkling of spangles of gold, » and is worth, according to assny $6 per pound, or 'g624 per ton. The Sierra Nevada Company are vigoronsly driving ahead with the werk on their new shaft, ‘the double engive ‘fornierly nsed in ths old works being used for hoisting. Their new » building is about completed. ‘The new shaft is about three hundred yards eest of the first or old one. ; The amount of bnilion abipped from the Gold Hill Express office,for the month of -March last, was $490,123.89. T'or'the quarter ending March 31st, 1866, the’ shipments reach $1,397,659:70. °° DAYTON, NEVADA. B Tue Harr-Ex Mive.-_This mine ia sitnated about eight miles distant, in Indian Springs ; district, and i is owned b the Turner Brothers, of Dayton. With: few interruptions, work has becn prosecuted nll winter, with the moct . satisfactory resnlts. A shaft is down eiglityfive feet, and a tnnnel pierces three hundred and fifty feet. A well defined ledge, five feet © in width has been found ; amples: ol the ore, crushed at various times during the winter, have paid from twenty to forty-five dollars + per ton.— Dayton Sentinel. REESE RIVER, NEVADA, The Knickerbocker will connnence ernshing : tock about the 15th of May. ‘The mill is nenrly completed ; and it is said by the, Nys County News, to be one of the very nest in ths State. The Pioneer, nfter lying idle for OTS months is about to start again. “ Arrangements have been made with their, creditors.’ ‘A correspondent of the Nye Gantt Neus, gives the following items: The Mount Vernon T amnel; located in Mammoth district, commenced only two weeks . ig now in about one hundred leet. The Bower's have struck a body éf rich ore at the depth of one handred and twenty feet. The American Tlag ig now down ninety feet. The vein i five feet in width. The Josephine shaft is now ninety feet in depth. ‘he ore in sight i ie estimated to yield 150 per ton. The Keystone, Gem, Vigilante, and Cactns, are all yielding ores of high grnde. 2 ESMERALDA, ~ ’ “The New York and Silver Peak Gold a Silver Mining Company, will commence in a few days to build a new mill of the largest size . and of the inoet substantial character.” Two more districts, the .Bnldy and the Myers, have been orgnnized . twenty: five miles east of Aurora. Me "COLORADO, There are 150.-qunrtz’ mills in Coloredo, whicb cost, in the aggregate, $40,000,000. Wages at Deuver are $5 per day. Mr. Leonard is abont to erect’a blast fartiens and rolling miills et Golden City for the monufacture of railroad iron. The Ni-Wot Company's new 50-stomp mill, in Ward district, will start.by the first’ ol May. A Moutgomery correspondent’ of. the Colorado Mining Journal, says the Spring is fairly opening, the snow disappearing rapidly, and mining commenting. The Pioneer Coinpany had got ont ore enough to keep its 30 etamp mill running. for two monthe. Tunnel on the Parsonnge lode 100 feet 1 in; one'on ‘tbe Audes, 50jfeet. The Journtl seys’ Wat the Monitor Co.'s bolow tho mouth of Virgin Creek, Thoy havc! Mill has just staricd, running by water, and

= —— “Blining aud Scentitic Birgs, ia ecm oe atin “Binary. ve) a CALIFORNIA. Nevapa Counsy.—The Hartery Company ill pr tobably commence crashing stich, rock . . aniiog, next week,, , The new mill is said to work to perlection. short’ distance from the Alison Ranch? “ ~ Phe’ Lone: 'Jeck Co. are down on the incline . 531 feet/and ten feet “into the ledge. They are, taking ont rock that will ie seventy: five ‘dollarsiper ton. un -"Beveral’ new dis coveries Isage been récently, . y aii fhe vicinity of these two mines. ior cq Mr. EL, Mitchell, of Grass Valley, bas saaill $11,800 “for two shares and ‘three. a oni in the Stockbridge fine. Po. bgt party of prospectors, “the other" day, fouind a, ll ‘defined quartz Inde, from 12:to 14 feet, thick “and showing “somegold, six miles. from } Nevada City, and, tivo iniles, from any, previoiis . workings.” They y were a gommence sinkiny a shalt,at once. j oA bar of gold, from the Lost Hill claims,’ weighing 317 “ounieds, and worth $6 042, is Spoken « of by the Ne evada Gazelle. des on ‘Reports from the Excelsior district sum ‘up ; as follows: Sdow seven feet deep, rapidly tnelting. ‘I All are ype active preparations: to commence work at the earliest pessible moment, The ‘one hundred, ‘and fifty. people who wintered at Summit’ Gity has now: increased to . ! font hundred. «The Enterprise mill is ‘now ‘Working “they . have ‘atrack Pieter ore than . De ie Ae , The Nevada ! Transeript of eager “20th, ‘thiée ‘and 4 filf ‘idiles above Moore's Flat: The Star. Compeny, Junietta and one or two ‘others i in that vicinity, are running tunnels and sinking shafts. Some. of the rock taken out j. “of thése claims, it is believed, will pay $40 or p00 per ton. = The, Knickerbocker Company, (on, ‘North San Juan Bill, struck dirt on Mon-: “day. last which _is ‘perfectly yellow with gold: At Buckeye Hill, in the Birchville mining dis: “trict, threetwentieths of the Evans & Co.'s . , ‘clairas waa sold on Monday last by Joseph “Grant to, Michael Marpby. pnd . Denuis ee ‘for the sum, of $7,000 in‘ gold coin. ‘lc Prager County. —The Pacific silver ledge, hear Ophir, is held at higher prices.’ Mr. “Hathaway . refused $6 per foot for his, interest ithe qther day. , Most of the shareholders, at . . present, are San Francisco men. They in‘tend’ to prosecute the work of developing’ the -mnine with energy. "The Stars and’ Stripes gays: To ate" ‘Hathaway ‘edge ' is sitnated near the Pacific, and shows every indication of besing -eqnal to the latter in valne, and that the Gold Blossom is in the same range with the Pacific-“Hathaway and Ad Valorem silver ledges ‘situated near “Ophir, and is without a donbt as )tich + as any of them, . A careful nssay from thie mine returned at the rategof $286 in gold and ailver to the ton. ‘The ledge, nt the depth of thirty feet, is from two and a half to six feet“in “width,” “being widest toward He eastern’ end.” A number of gold qnartz claims in the vicinity of Auburn have been sold to erties in New York city. Reamer’e mill—tor cement crushing—on the Big’ Spittig’ Co.’3 ground, between For est Hill and: ‘Todd’ a Valley,'is to be increased iu capacity from thirty to sixty stamps. m ‘The Dutch Flat Exgquirer says, in ‘regard to mines: cat Gold Ran: . “Among ‘the most “prominent claims we visited, mayibe enumerated the Cedar, owned by Mesere:: Brognn, Johnson and others; Home Tiéket, owned . ‘by: Captain Rathburn « vand. G. L. Slocumb’; Perseverance, owned by Messrs. Hanger, Robins and Bartlett, nnd the’Huycks’ claitis. The Cedar recently cleaned up $600, the result of twenty days’, -washiog, while the . , others we'hnve mentioned will yield each, ou “an‘average, about $f00 per day.’ It is also a well established-fact-that the celebrated blue cement lead, found i in the vicinity of You Bet and Red D. asses directly through these claime. ¢ . 3 , CALA VER, nae _Corrett —The « Infia” itable“’ Copper’ “Mfining Company,” whose sground adjving, that of "the celebrated Vio Comhpany, tb 5 ed the latter'to recover the value. of 150, 000: tons of ore estimated at’ $1, 500, 000 ; they: shaving, as they claim, en. croach ed npon their ground. @ ebipments. of ore from the. Union mine, fo, ithe six'days ° “ending April. 19th, amount, in This: claim is doly;ingays, in regerd to the°mines‘ at ‘Stow Point, i total; to'1,124, 070 pounds, equal to 562 tons, 70 pounds. Daring the twenty days ending Aptil 20th. the Keystone Compang. ‘shipped ~ from their mine 245 tons of No.1 ore, and 30 tons No. 2. Good Shipping ore ls now ‘being taken out of the ‘Empire shaft.” an : The Copperopolis, Courier says: Never singe the tdiscovery of . copper in this district, have our mines looked 80 promising ns ‘at present. The Union and Keystone, which head the list of’ our Valuable claims, are being placed in condition for extensive operntions, and; will yield immense quantities of ore the « coming summer. Gotp, fhe Son, Andreas Register says that Mr, ©. ‘horn. obtained $3 from half a pound . ol quartz taken from the Tate discovery pear" Willow Creek.. .; McGlynn’s quartz ail near San Andreas, will he completed by, the Ist of May. “AmABOR Coonry. —Another gold bearing ledge has! been, discovered one mile and'e balf above ‘the Big. Bar Bridge on the Mokelumne river, 10 1” Wee 9 ‘The Keystone Mining Cone ore faca lwenty’ stamps to their battery. said to be paying well. hy ' An eight stamp mill is tobe erected by ekrainer and Flahart on the bank’of the creek jnst ‘helow the village of Jackson. The Ledger of April 21st, speaks of having seen’’$1,082 in gold, which was the result of three days’ ernshing, in a ten stamp aill, of ‘rock from the Jead’ rol A. W.Rose, called the b Number. One,” ‘and ‘located near Sutter Creek. ALPINE ‘cbt —The Rippon Company, in Silver Mountain district, have struck rock ‘which jields. at the rate of $150 per ton. They ore drifting: on thé ledge, which becomes’ better defined as they pénetrate the mountain. . The Monitor Gazette of April 21st, says: The Monntnin Company have struck a very large .body of water in their tunnel, now in ‘over 750 feet. At the delinquent sale of stock of this company on Thursdny, only 72 feet ‘were sold, and it averaged two dollard fe ‘share over the assessment. Tbe Pennsylvania Company have partially edt their ledge in the upper tunnel, ond it shows some fine mci Bonne tg ruby and ents monial:silver. > The Active: Conipany cee ‘settled most ‘of its indebtedness, nnd it is Spe apcatcd will soon resume operations. 1 The tunnel running in on the ledge of the Mowyer Mining Companpi is progressing finely, being now in over 40 feet, the vein of ore becomiug wider and better ies as depth i is attained. The General Grant Po ae in Raymond district, have cut a small spur of fine looking rock. The Gazette hes been shown, during the week, two assays which it tbus describes : The first { is from Leopold Kuh, Virginia, ; of}. a parcel of ore from the american mine, in the upper end of the town, end shows it to contain silver’ $58.68, gold $4.03, total $62.71 per ton, and’‘n large ner centage of copper. ‘Ihe sec‘ond is from Dr. Waters, of Markleville, from an average. sample of ‘an eight feet lode in the Winchester tnonel,and givee a return of silver $9.56, gold $79.37, total, $88.93 per ton. The Buekeyé No. 1, has been leased for six’ years to a compnny of New York capitalists,, which is expected, to expend upon it, withiu -the next eighteon months, at least $100,000. -The Balaclava: tunnel is now iu ninety feet. They have-a solid ledge of fine looking ore of two feet in ttiickness, ‘and about two feet’ more of loose’ ata, iticluding & gaogue next tbe! loot wall. : — TuoLumne ye —'The stock in the Rat tlesnake Quértz Mining Company, incorporated about three months ago. has been nearly all disposed of at six dollars per share. One ofMoore’s.grinders has been purelinsed. Shonld ‘its operntion prove satisfactory, the company intends to ndd three more, giving them, with their present ten stamp mill, n capacity of, forty stomps. quartz has already been tendered them for ernshing. A writer in the Tuolumne Courier of April 21st, givee the followiug items : The boys of the old Perley claim, which is ‘situated at American Camp, eight miles northeast of Columhia, washed up out of the tail end of their ground sluices, lest week, one thousand dollare. The prospecting shaft eunk upon the Chapporal Hill Mine is now down to the depth of 133 feet, at which point the ledge is ten feet -wide, aud-the rock: looks well, and yields well din the-‘mill. The work is superinteuded ‘by “Mr. Jedhegan for C, I. Meader, who is thus thoroughly « examining the mine with a yiew of purchasing. ,.1t ie on 1 the * mother lead, PD phe ea from the Rawhide. » The American Camp Floditag Company { in: . ; ‘John’ Hite and ‘Ibe mine is} Six hundred tone of custom .

. :daily. . few days. “tend to clean up their flue next week, and I hear they expect “ big things. ” ‘hey have been runuing it steady ever since the rains set in. At or near Middle Camp, nbout ten or twelve miles abové Coluinbia, Messre. John Chapman and Mork, ‘Waterhouse have Intely Strack ‘forty-nine diggings.” In ten dnys they took out $600. ‘Teo bundréd “and ‘cighty-nine ounces wére shipped'to the Bay lust’ week, by the Mount Vernon Company, at Sugar Pine. The owners of the ‘Moss lead, situated about five or six miles above this place, are. ._ getting out some exceedingly rich rock, : 'Maarrosa County. —From’ ‘the Press’ Ws glean the following items : Mexicans ovet in the vicinity. of Jimizal, ‘ju in that county, last week, found n howget'of gold worth $4,550, ever found im that county. Bruce & Washbarn cleaned up at their gnartz mill, ou Buckeye, lust week, the result ‘Bhowing that the quartz paid an average of twenty-dollars per ton. . Encouraging, accounts have been lately received from Hite's Cove. ‘Lhe vein owned by Wynaats, continues to yield at its usual ‘tate. They have a vein 8} feet in ‘\ thickness, and paying regularly from $60 to $80 per ton, A writer in the Mariposa Gazette, speaking of the Willamette copper district, in ‘that county, says that n vein fifteen feet in width was struck on the Brummett lode, at the depth of a few feet. Hnskell, at bis works on the Chowchilla, last week, smelted, in twenty bours, 5,122 pounds of copper from the Buchanan claim. ‘he new furnace, at the smelting works of Henry & Co., at James’ Ranch, is in operation. The operator, Desarmen, turned out seveuty-five pigs of copper from Sunday: morning uutil two o'clock Mondey afternoon. ‘he furnace is a complete success, end a number ol others will shortly be erected. Suediker, who is working the Green vein, 18 getting ont the finest and ricbest ore in the district. A furnoce will soon be erected on the gronud for smelting purposes. Prosas ° Cooxry—The pete: Union of April 14th, says’:~ Wood's’ claim has been ‘worked for the past three months, paying on an average of $12 per dny to the hnnd. ‘Moulton’s claims have been paying $14 per day to the huad, for the past four nontbs. Ripple & Bohemo clenned up, a sbort time since, 37,000. ‘They expect to make another run ‘before the winter season closes. ‘They-work but four meu. Anderson & Co., ore making $10 per day to the band. ‘The compavy working the’ Bourbon ” ground are making $8 a day. O’Brien’s claim, on Lost Creek, is paying well. Mallndy & Feeny, on Sly Creek, are everdging $40 perday. A majority of the miners in this locality are pretly well satisfied, so far as ths profits of ulining are concerned. Hussoipt Counry.—The Huimboldt Pires of April 7th, says thnt Jennings’ Oil Well Compaoy have sunk tlieir well 94 feet, and ‘struck a hard sand rock, which yields an uninistakable show of oil. ‘fhe well of the Oil Creek Company is down 170 feet, and the prozpects are very eucouraging. The Fortuna Company have received a large arhount of inachinery for tbe prosecution of operations ‘on Bear river. Srerra County.—* A piéce of gold containing a little quartz” and weighing over eighteen ouuces, was recently taken from some bank diggings near Kanaka creek. ‘Whe digginge are owned by Jolin Montgomery and brother. The gold is all rough, as if reeently mes from the quartz ledge Bape ‘close The Downieville Messenger: of April 13th, says: Messrs. Rhodes &° Murray, last’ week commenced running a tuonel under Mein street, Starting in on the vacant lot between MeDonald’s hotel aud the butcher shop. We. learn that the Monitor claim, at Sawpit Flat, is washing big pay dirt, as high as 100 ounces a day “having been taken el, of the main riffle. © Suasta County.—Two men have made $13,000 during the lat eight weeks, by pounding qnortz iu a haud mortar, ‘I hey have made at the rnte of about one pound of gold each Their claim is some two or three miles irom town. So says the Shasta Courier of pul 14th, ,, CRINITY Counry.—The Journal ot April 21st says thnt reports from all the mining }loealities in tuat region, are cheering ; and quotes as lollows from a letter written by a trader at the Foiks of the New River: b We are.beginning to show signs of life ngain. : Thompson. & Compbell bave . completed their ditch, cony eying water on the hills below this . place, and* will commence ‘sluicing iu a Wm.’Myers & Co., have eleo completed their ditch, carryiog water.to the hills It is one. of the largest a good prospec nhead.~ John’ Keach & Co., on Pony Creek; have been'at their old tricks— taking out nuggets. Keach showed me ons piece of pure gold worth over. $200, taken ont of the hill side, one hundred and fifty yards from the creek. Wm. O’Bryen & Co. are do iug well. he miners of Douglas City have just commenced work. One hundred and twenty ounces of gold dnst from the Miuersville region were sold tbe other day at Greenhood's bank. Siskiyou Counry._The Yreka’ Union, gives an account of a great land slide which occurred recently at Deadwood. ‘The monntain aboys that place, for a distance of 120 yards’ in length, and nearly that in breadth, slid into the creek, moking a complets dam, ‘and back ing up the water to’ the eptl of sixty. feet. Some of the clainis in that vicinity nee entirely covered up. WASHOE, NEVADA. Important movements have been mede ip the Mariposa Mill. The old rotery battery has been superseded by three straight batteries, of four stamps each ; the pans have been altered to the Wheeler pattern, ond the Zerritorial Enterprise says that now “ everything appears to go off like clockwork.” Fiom the Territorial Enterprise of April 17th, we clip the following : We yesterday saw, at the office of Bonyngs & Hawxhurst, a block ofore weighing 104 pounds, whicb ‘is nndoubtedly the most value. able single-specimen ever taken from the Qomstock lead. It is almost a solid muss of silver, with a plentiful sprinkling of spangles of gold, » and is worth, according to assny $6 per pound, or 'g624 per ton. The Sierra Nevada Company are vigoronsly driving ahead with the werk on their new shaft, ‘the double engive ‘fornierly nsed in ths old works being used for hoisting. Their new » building is about completed. ‘The new shaft is about three hundred yards eest of the first or old one. ; The amount of bnilion abipped from the Gold Hill Express office,for the month of -March last, was $490,123.89. T'or'the quarter ending March 31st, 1866, the’ shipments reach $1,397,659:70. °° DAYTON, NEVADA. B Tue Harr-Ex Mive.-_This mine ia sitnated about eight miles distant, in Indian Springs ; district, and i is owned b the Turner Brothers, of Dayton. With: few interruptions, work has becn prosecuted nll winter, with the moct . satisfactory resnlts. A shaft is down eiglityfive feet, and a tnnnel pierces three hundred and fifty feet. A well defined ledge, five feet © in width has been found ; amples: ol the ore, crushed at various times during the winter, have paid from twenty to forty-five dollars + per ton.— Dayton Sentinel. REESE RIVER, NEVADA, The Knickerbocker will connnence ernshing : tock about the 15th of May. ‘The mill is nenrly completed ; and it is said by the, Nys County News, to be one of the very nest in ths State. The Pioneer, nfter lying idle for OTS months is about to start again. “ Arrangements have been made with their, creditors.’ ‘A correspondent of the Nye Gantt Neus, gives the following items: The Mount Vernon T amnel; located in Mammoth district, commenced only two weeks . ig now in about one hundred leet. The Bower's have struck a body éf rich ore at the depth of one handred and twenty feet. The American Tlag ig now down ninety feet. The vein i five feet in width. The Josephine shaft is now ninety feet in depth. ‘he ore in sight i ie estimated to yield 150 per ton. The Keystone, Gem, Vigilante, and Cactns, are all yielding ores of high grnde. 2 ESMERALDA, ~ ’ “The New York and Silver Peak Gold a Silver Mining Company, will commence in a few days to build a new mill of the largest size . and of the inoet substantial character.” Two more districts, the .Bnldy and the Myers, have been orgnnized . twenty: five miles east of Aurora. Me "COLORADO, There are 150.-qunrtz’ mills in Coloredo, whicb cost, in the aggregate, $40,000,000. Wages at Deuver are $5 per day. Mr. Leonard is abont to erect’a blast fartiens and rolling miills et Golden City for the monufacture of railroad iron. The Ni-Wot Company's new 50-stomp mill, in Ward district, will start.by the first’ ol May. A Moutgomery correspondent’ of. the Colorado Mining Journal, says the Spring is fairly opening, the snow disappearing rapidly, and mining commenting. The Pioneer Coinpany had got ont ore enough to keep its 30 etamp mill running. for two monthe. Tunnel on the Parsonnge lode 100 feet 1 in; one'on ‘tbe Audes, 50jfeet. The Journtl seys’ Wat the Monitor Co.'s bolow tho mouth of Virgin Creek, Thoy havc! Mill has just staricd, running by water, and