Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

358 She BMining and Srientitic Press, Mining Summary. CALIFORNIA. Alpine County— , : The Alpine Ifiner (late Monitor Gazeite,) says: So many claims are now being worked hereabouts, that hardly an hour passes that we do not have fine ore, rich rock, splendid specimens, ete., presented for our admiratiou and dnspection..The drift running for the second chimney in the Morning Star, is now 180 feet from the point where the ledge was first strack, and has only ahout seventy feet more to run. .-The Pioneer niill is working over the tailings which accumulated from the run last year of IXL, Bnekeye and Wild Yankee. We learn that the saving in quicksilver amounts to about ten dollars per ton. . .Good rock is now . coming out.of the Carson lode, eituated at the lower end of town, and supposed to he an extension of the Little Monster lode. Everything indicates a permanent vein of first-class ore.The work of catting across the lode by the American Company, is progressing finely, the eut being in about twelve feet. Several strata of fine looking ore have been discovered. .In the George Law, two shifts are pushed ahead the work night and day, and having picking roek ” they are getting underground and toward the ledge very rapidly. ‘They are now in over 240 feet. .'The Good. Hope Gold -and Silver Mining Company has, nnder the enabling act of 1864, removed its office from San Francisco to Markleeville.The Mountain Company No. 1, continue to push work, and now have their tnnnel in over eight hundred feet. The new fnrnace for ventilating isn perfeet success.Buckeye, No. 1, has heen leased to an Eastern company for six years; the Buckeye. company to receive thirty per cent. of the net proceeds.Buckeye, No. 2, is husily engaged in timbering and preparing a dump for ore.:The Silver Mountain company are running alongside their ledge, which will be cut after going twenty-five feet further. . Work will soon be resumed by the Lady Frovklin company, on the same lode of the Buckeye, No. 2.The Pittshurgi company are driving their work in good style. Work is temporarily suspeuded on the Rippon comer Calaveras County-The Chronicle of Jnne 2d says: We learn that two of the richest quartz leads ever struck in this county were discovered at ‘Railroad Flat one day last week. We have not heard the particulars in regard to the width, etc., but our informant tells us that the surface rock is perfectly “lousy ” with gold. Messrs. Post and Parks are the fortunnte locntors.We learn that Mr. Depew, who owns the fine mill in Spring Gulch, which he erected for the purpose of crushing the dirt from his tunnel claim, has procared the machinery necessary for qnartz crushing, and is now prepared to do eustom work. We understand he has already taken a contract to crush one thousand tons of rock for Lamphear & Co. Fresno County— The Mariposa Gazette of June 2d says: We have been shown some heautiful specimens of pure native copper, taken from the Bachman vein in Fresno county, at a depth of one hundred nnd fifty feet. It is found in thin layers, imbedded in the ore. Similar specimens have recently heen found in the Washington vein in the same county, near Bachman.Vhe New Idria Quicksilver mine is now producing five hnndred flasks (thirty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty pounds) of quicksitver per month. This metal 1s all hauled to San Jose hy teams, a distance of ahont one hundred and thirty miles. Mariposa County-The Gazette says: A rich specimen of gold bearing quartz from Snow & Co’s vein, has heen presented ns. The vein is located near Sebastopol. Correspondent same at Buchanan Hollow, says: This moruing two wagons left here for the San Joaquin, with four tons of smelted copper. ‘The point on the river where they ship the ore and lund the goods is only about thirty miles froin here. Steamers of seventy and eighty tons hurden can run up there regularly nt this season, acd hoats of lighter draft can maké the trip at any season. To-day, I visited the Buchanan vein, in company with Mr. Haskell, one of the proprietors. .'The furnace is capable of smelting abont twenty tons of ore per day. ‘The vein, or veins, for there are several of thein rnnning parallel with each other, appear to be all converging to 2 common center, and it is thought that they will all unite in one vein. ‘Tbe ore changes, as the depth increases, from carbonates to sulphurets, and the latter will probably he the character of the vein at the depth of 150 or 200 feet. ’ Monterey County— A marhle quarry has reeently heen discoyered near Carmelo, and preparations are making to work it. Nevada County— The Wational has these items: Fhe Kennebec cnmpany, Birchville, cleaned up after fifteen days run, $3,315.A ledge, supposed . to he a very rich one, was struck by Tom Cloonan, on Daisy Hill, last Saturday. The ledge is eighteen iuches thick, at a depth of eight feet. Free gold and sulphurets in ahundance can be seen in the rock. It prospects at the rate of one hnndred and fifty dollars to the ton. Quite an excitement exists in conse. quence of this discovery..Two hundred . nore dwellings could be let in less than a week's time, if they were only to he had. Brown & Brother, near You Bet, are said to be making three hundred dollars a day with their mill, crushing hlue cement. From the Gazette we gather the following: The work of putting up the machinery for the hoisting and pumping works oo the Barrington mine is progressing rapidly. ‘The engine will probably be ready to start on Tuesday or Wednesday next.A miners’ meeting had been called at You Bet, to take into consideration the propriety of action in regard to the mineral lands in connection with the railroad grant.We understand their plan is to make out a large number of affidavits, showing . that the entire township of Little York is mineral land, and file these affidavits with the Register of the Land Office in Marysville. Tbere has never been a time within the past ten years when the general prospeets of this eountry were more flattering than at present .Tbe yield of the placer mines, though less than in early days, is considerably in excess of what it was three or four years ago, while the yield of the quartz mines has been steadily increasing, and this increase bids fair to be permanent.The Hagle company, organized at Hartlord, Connecticut, for mining purposes, and incorporated under a special act of the Legislature of that State, is uow commencing operations in Nevada county. The California claim, owned by the company, is now being opened. Steam hoisting and pumping works of the most approved churacter are being erected. .'The owners of the Deadwood niiue, near the Oriental mill, have been engaged for some weeks in erectiug works for hoisting and pumping. ‘lhese are nearly completed, and tbey will commence operations some time this week. .John Yonng has completed arrangements for the erection of a 10-stamp quartz till on his ledge, near Eureka. The ledge is two feet in width, and rock enongh has been taken out and in sight to pay for the mill.The Grass Valley Union has just paid a visit to the Allison Ranch mine, and says the company are working at n depth of four hundred and seventy-five feet, incline. We were shown one thousand ounces of amal-. gam, the result of four days run of the hatteries. ‘he amalgam is valued at seven dollars and a half nn ounce, making the nice little sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars for four days rnn. Eixeetstor‘—The Transcript says the 1st of July will be carly enough for prospectors to go to this district. During the late snow storm, about five feet of snow was ndded to that already on tbe ground at Summit City. Previous to the last storm some few spots in the district were hare. In Meadow Lake City, a short distance from the lake, the snow was ahove the fences.Snme of June 34d, says: ‘The warm weather of the past week is rapidly melting the snow at the Summit. The weather dnring the day is almost as warm ns it is at this place. Large parties of emigrants from Nevada and this place are going into the district every dny.A Stock Board has been organized at Meadow Lake.A correspondent of the Lyon county Sentinel, writing from Meadow Lake, May 25th, says: The Ohio, in Old Man Mountain, is said to be very rich in free gold, also the Grant and Mohawk. The Excelsior mine is the deepest in the district, and shows rich in free gold one hundred and thirty-five feet from the surface. ‘There arc, I am inforined, about six hundred nnd seventy-five locations made, and if only fifty of the number are as rich as they represent all to be, it is un‘douhtedly a big thing, and this is zhe country. Placer County— The Herald says the cement mills at Bath and Forest Hill are a decided success, gravel is a decided success, and the renewed prosperity-of that portion of the county is fixed beyond a peradventure.From the Good Friday claim was taken the other day, three-. fourths of a flour sack full of rock, which yielded $1,400.The Stars and Stripes says: Some specimens of float rock. picked up on Anthouy Flat, helow Neweastle, are exceedingly ricb in small, free gold. Parties are in search of the ledge from which it eame. We . have heen presented witb a sample of rock from the Polaud lead—tlocated about a mile and a half southwest of town—which shows considerable free gold. The ledge on which the Poland company claim 1,600 feet, is about three feet in width, and shows free gold iu most of the surface rock. ‘lhe company have gone to work to open their ledge. San Joaquin County— A correspondent of the Neynda Gazette says Mr. L. Cook has discovered an oil spring on Mokelumne river, in San Joaquin county, near Amador and Calaveras. It exndes through the pores of sott blue rock, and floats on the water, presenting precisely the same appearance that kerosene oil does when poured upon water. All who have seen it prononnee it real petroleom. Mr. Cook expects to prospect it thoroughly. Santa Cruz County— . The Sentinel says that the Petroleum company, in that place, is driving ahead in bue style. Four new retorts nre uow at the landing, and they will shortly he delivered at the works. ‘ Shasta County— The Courier ot June 2d, has these items: 931 feet, and are in six feet on what appears to be a lead thatis 26 feet wide iv the upper tunuel, and assays $50 per ton We learn that the Chicago have sent an agent below with a quantity of the rock to show its wealtb, and to buy a mill and machivery, if satisfactory terms can he made The erection of the flame from the Clear Creek ditch on to the di. vide, between’ Oregon aud Olney gulches, is progressing, and will soon be eompleted.. Rector & Wright, whose discovery ou Ross’ Gulch, on the cast side of the river, we noticed last week, are working with the most flattering Steady work is being done on the Bunker Hill claim, with fair rempneration for capital and labor invested, but of late no rich pockets have been struck Accounts continue to eome from South Fork district of a natore eqnally flattering and startling with those of the first discovery The Chinese have been admitted into the Spring Creek district,and large nombers are working there upon ground that pays two dollars per day Correspondence of same from Whiskytown says: ‘he Pitchpine Co., are running a tunnel on their ledge. “Phere is a company at work on the head of Mule Canyou on a quartz lode. The rock is decomposed.. Williams & Co. have completed their aqueduct, and it works splendidly. ‘This conipauy, under instructions trom Messrs. Hallidie & Co., of San Francisco, have made a wire cable and suspended to it an irou pipe, seven inches in diameter, conveying the waters of Brandy Creek to their mine on Sawmill Flat.. Nate Farrington took his mill dam out last winter, and has formed a company to work the ground, which they suppose is rich. 1 have heard of n claim on it being sold as high as $500. Sierra County— Goodyear’s Bar correspondence of the Messenger says the miners were anxiously wniting for the completion of the Water Vo’s flume and dain. Meauwhile, work was suspended. Siskiyou County— The Yreka Union of June 2d,says: Henry Wricht, of Oro Fino, took out $8,000 in six weeks at that place. Tulare County— The Visalia Delta’s Havilah correspondent says: Mining still goes on briskly, and all the inills whieh are working, with one exception, are paying well. The Pi Ute district grows iu importance every day, and will doubtless prove exceedingly rich. New and rich lodes of copper, copper and gold, nnd copper and silver, are being brought to light, and some of the rock is so rich in these metals as to be mnileable. Yuba County— The Marysville Appeal has these items: Specimens of rich rock from femplar No. 2, were hrought down from Indiana ranch yesterday. Wesawa small piece of rock; perhaps four ounces in weight, which, after heing pulverized, showed nbout ten or twelve cents in gold.A small number of shares in the Pennsylvania company changed hands yesterday at $10 per share. The mill will begin erushing to-morrow on the new rock nnd run ten days before cleaning up.A year ago shares in the Jefferson mine, at Brown’s Valley, could have heen bought for $5. . One gentleman owning 100 feet offered the lot at $1,000. This stock is now paying $10 per share per month, or $1,000, and the stock is now held at $300 per foot. The Pennsylvania stock has gone through similar mutations. It was sold a year and a half ago at $40 per foot. It then receded to $2 and $3 per foot. Onc gentleman gave away about 150 feet. To day $30 and $35 per foot is offered forit, and uo sellers. It is worth $100 or uothing. . Wi hout particular reference to the Brown's Valley ledges. we predict that in less than two years the foothills of Yuba county will become as celebrated for paying quartz ledges as those of Nevada county. The county above Brown's Vniley, is interlarded with hundreds of ledges, some of theni seratched over, and others untouched. We know some of them are rich, and believe thot theirdevelopment will prove tbem valuable. There is one ledge we have in particular view, which ought not to lie idle for want of capital. A shaft has heen sunk on this ledge seventeen feet deep, and several tous of quartz crushed, which paid $20 in gold L The Kellinger are in with their lower tunnel . mine, Gold Hill, Joha Blight, was killed by and $20 in silver. If this ledge was in the vicinity of Virginia Cityor Gold Hill, it would be at once pounced upon by speculators, aod stock held at an enormous figure. NEVADA. ‘Washoe— ; The Carson Appeal says Mr. Ash, who for some time past bas been engaged in prospecting some quartz leads in the hills west of this city, got a return on ‘I'uesday from one hon-: dred pounds of quartz which he had worked at the Merrimac mill. The resalt shows an assay of $20.63 per ton. Dr. Gabbs had some rock subinitted to a like process, and gets a return of $14 per ton.At the North Overman falling into the shaft, 430 leet deep. Extensive improvemeuts are heing made at the Rhode Island mill. Reese River— From the Reveille we gather the following : E. 8. Davis and Russell Scott, while taking a walk over the hills in North Twin River district, found, cropping above the gronnd, over which perhaps 500 men had passed, n huge ledge, ten feet thick, of richest silver-hearing quartz, which they located under the name of “ Canada.” We saw the assay, made to-day by J.5.Cnrrie, which shows the splendid figures of $5,705.14 per ton. Same paper gives fore ther partienlars in the next day’s issue, con: firmatory of the ahove; and adds: Vhe same parties had previously discovered and located in the vicinity three ledges, which they named tbe Flora Temple, Potosi, and Enterprise. ‘The first named is ahont 150 feet east of the Buekeye mine, and is five feet thick, regular and well defined. ‘The Potosi lies two hundred feet west of the Canada, and has a vein seven feet thick. The Enterprise lies on the same side of Summit Canon as the Canada,and half aimile west of it. Phe ledge is apparently twelve feet thick, but its walls are undeveloped. .In the Confidence, located by same parties: in the South ‘Pwin River district, and which is believed, from its croppings, to be twenty feet thick, the ore obtained from the surface yielded hy assay $113 per tou; but later developments in the croppings, which have heen penetrated to the depth of seven feet. exhibit greatly superior ore, in which myriad flecks of — native silver are easily discernible hy the eye. .In the Old Colony mine, about ten days ago, at the depth of 270 feet, the ledge suddenly widened to the handsome proportiuns of eighteen inches, displaying a mass of finegrained, dark sulphuret ore, interspersed with occasional delicate tints of ruby. ‘The gangne is pure quartz, holding largely silver, iron, sulphor and antimony.T'wo bars of bullion ohtained from chloride ore of the Roanoke mine, were valued at $2,017 41, and were the product of six and a half tons of ore, which yielded at the rnte of over $310 perton. The Nye county News has these items: The Sucecor mill, which has been ronning for some -time past, closed down a few days since, in order to give the mibers an opportunity to get ahead with ore. We are infornied thnt the fomous Buckeye claim, of Nort Twin River district, has been sold to the Sterling Mill company, whose fine large mill was erected nt Kingston, Bunker Hill District, the past season.The Pleaides hoys struck it richer than ever on Thursday last, while working in their mine, and are now getting out ore which it is caleulated will pay $1,200 to the ton. The Franklin has nbout seventy-five tons out. .The Storm King about ten.The Atlantie and Pacific company will next week have a large force at work. Humboldt County— The Register of May 19th has these items: During two weeks past several parties have been making discovery, or re-location, rather, of very promising auriferous quartz veins in the range which terminates, some thirty miles down the valley,in ‘Table Mountnin.The Ruby Silver company, owning in Pine Forest District, thirty miles above Black Rock, has an excellent ledge. The entire ledge is infused with ore, which works, without assorting thirty dollars in silver, nnd shows by assay fifty per cent. copper. . Two assays made this week of quartz from the Silver Bullion claim show $140 and $198 per ton. . The American Basin com pany has been considerably encouraged this week. Ata distance of 600 feet in, and nta perpendicular depth of 350 feet below the croppings, n small «‘ feeder” was struck, composed of the finest quality of Shebnore. A small lot of quartz from the Volunteer was worked this week at Holt’smill. It turned out n good-sized brick of ernde bullion, in which gold shows plentifully. Black Rock— The Chico Courant says these mines are increasing in richness as they nre developed to a greater depth, and considerable excitement exists regarding them, indpeed by the reports of their fahulons wealth. Assays have heen made ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 per ton. They are situated directly on the Chico and Idaho stage ronte, about half way hetween Chico aud Owyhec. i , .

358 She BMining and Srientitic Press, Mining Summary. CALIFORNIA. Alpine County— , : The Alpine Ifiner (late Monitor Gazeite,) says: So many claims are now being worked hereabouts, that hardly an hour passes that we do not have fine ore, rich rock, splendid specimens, ete., presented for our admiratiou and dnspection...The drift running for the second chimney in the Morning Star, is now 180 feet from the point where the ledge was first strack, and has only ahout seventy feet more to run. ..-The Pioneer niill is working over the tailings which accumulated from the run last year of IXL, Bnekeye and Wild Yankee. We learn that the saving in quicksilver amounts to about ten dollars per ton. . .Good rock is now . coming out.of the Carson lode, eituated at the lower end of town, and supposed to he an extension of the Little Monster lode. Everything indicates a permanent vein of first-class ore..The work of catting across the lode by the American Company, is progressing finely, the eut being in about twelve feet. Several strata of fine looking ore have been discovered. ..In the George Law, two shifts are pushed ahead the work night and day, and having picking roek ” they are getting underground and toward the ledge very rapidly. ‘They are now in over 240 feet.. .'The Good. Hope Gold -and Silver Mining Company has, nnder the enabling act of 1864, removed its office from San Francisco to Markleeville..The Mountain Company No. 1, continue to push work, and now have their tnnnel in over eight hundred feet. The new fnrnace for ventilating isn perfeet success..Buckeye, No. 1, has heen leased to an Eastern company for six years; the Buckeye. company to receive thirty per cent. of the net proceeds..Buckeye, No. 2, is husily engaged in timbering and preparing a dump for ore..:The Silver Mountain company are running alongside their ledge, which will be cut after going twenty-five feet further. .. Work will soon be resumed by the Lady Frovklin company, on the same lode of the Buckeye, No. 2..The Pittshurgi company are driving their work in good style.. Work is temporarily suspeuded on the Rippon comer Calaveras County-The Chronicle of Jnne 2d says: We learn that two of the richest quartz leads ever struck in this county were discovered at ‘Railroad Flat one day last week. We have not heard the particulars in regard to the width, etc., but our informant tells us that the surface rock is perfectly “lousy ” with gold. Messrs. Post and Parks are the fortunnte locntors..We learn that Mr. Depew, who owns the fine mill in Spring Gulch, which he erected for the purpose of crushing the dirt from his tunnel claim, has procared the machinery necessary for qnartz crushing, and is now prepared to do eustom work. We understand he has already taken a contract to crush one thousand tons of rock for Lamphear & Co. Fresno County— The Mariposa Gazette of June 2d says: We have been shown some heautiful specimens of pure native copper, taken from the Bachman vein in Fresno county, at a depth of one hundred nnd fifty feet. It is found in thin layers, imbedded in the ore. Similar specimens have recently heen found in the Washington vein in the same county, near Bachman..Vhe New Idria Quicksilver mine is now producing five hnndred flasks (thirty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty pounds) of quicksitver per month. This metal 1s all hauled to San Jose hy teams, a distance of ahont one hundred and thirty miles. Mariposa County-The Gazette says: A rich specimen of gold bearing quartz from Snow & Co’s vein, has heen presented ns. The vein is located near Sebastopol.. Correspondent same at Buchanan Hollow, says: This moruing two wagons left here for the San Joaquin, with four tons of smelted copper. ‘The point on the river where they ship the ore and lund the goods is only about thirty miles froin here. Steamers of seventy and eighty tons hurden can run up there regularly nt this season, acd hoats of lighter draft can maké the trip at any season.. To-day, I visited the Buchanan vein, in company with Mr. Haskell, one of the proprietors.. .'The furnace is capable of smelting abont twenty tons of ore per day. ‘The vein, or veins, for there are several of thein rnnning parallel with each other, appear to be all converging to 2 common center, and it is thought that they will all unite in one vein. ‘Tbe ore changes, as the depth increases, from carbonates to sulphurets, and the latter will probably he the character of the vein at the depth of 150 or 200 feet. ’ Monterey County— A marhle quarry has reeently heen discoyered near Carmelo, and preparations are making to work it. Nevada County— The Wational has these items: Fhe Kennebec cnmpany, Birchville, cleaned up after fifteen days run, $3,315..A ledge, supposed . to he a very rich one, was struck by Tom Cloonan, on Daisy Hill, last Saturday. The ledge is eighteen iuches thick, at a depth of eight feet. Free gold and sulphurets in ahundance can be seen in the rock. It prospects at the rate of one hnndred and fifty dollars to the ton. Quite an excitement exists in conse. quence of this discovery...Two hundred . nore dwellings could be let in less than a week's time, if they were only to he had.. Brown & Brother, near You Bet, are said to be making three hundred dollars a day with their mill, crushing hlue cement. From the Gazette we gather the following: The work of putting up the machinery for the hoisting and pumping works oo the Barrington mine is progressing rapidly. ‘The engine will probably be ready to start on Tuesday or Wednesday next..A miners’ meeting had been called at You Bet, to take into consideration the propriety of action in regard to the mineral lands in connection with the railroad grant..We understand their plan is to make out a large number of affidavits, showing . that the entire township of Little York is mineral land, and file these affidavits with the Register of the Land Office in Marysville.. Tbere has never been a time within the past ten years when the general prospeets of this eountry were more flattering than at present ..Tbe yield of the placer mines, though less than in early days, is considerably in excess of what it was three or four years ago, while the yield of the quartz mines has been steadily increasing, and this increase bids fair to be permanent..The Hagle company, organized at Hartlord, Connecticut, for mining purposes, and incorporated under a special act of the Legislature of that State, is uow commencing operations in Nevada county. The California claim, owned by the company, is now being opened. Steam hoisting and pumping works of the most approved churacter are being erected.. .'The owners of the Deadwood niiue, near the Oriental mill, have been engaged for some weeks in erectiug works for hoisting and pumping. ‘lhese are nearly completed, and tbey will commence operations some time this week.. .John Yonng has completed arrangements for the erection of a 10-stamp quartz till on his ledge, near Eureka. The ledge is two feet in width, and rock enongh has been taken out and in sight to pay for the mill..The Grass Valley Union has just paid a visit to the Allison Ranch mine, and says the company are working at n depth of four hundred and seventy-five feet, incline. We were shown one thousand ounces of amal-. gam, the result of four days run of the hatteries. ‘he amalgam is valued at seven dollars and a half nn ounce, making the nice little sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars for four days rnn. Eixeetstor‘—The Transcript says the 1st of July will be carly enough for prospectors to go to this district. During the late snow storm, about five feet of snow was ndded to that already on tbe ground at Summit City. Previous to the last storm some few spots in the district were hare. In Meadow Lake City, a short distance from the lake, the snow was ahove the fences..Snme of June 34d, says: ‘The warm weather of the past week is rapidly melting the snow at the Summit. The weather dnring the day is almost as warm ns it is at this place. Large parties of emigrants from Nevada and this place are going into the district every dny..A Stock Board has been organized at Meadow Lake..A correspondent of the Lyon county Sentinel, writing from Meadow Lake, May 25th, says: The Ohio, in Old Man Mountain, is said to be very rich in free gold, also the Grant and Mohawk. The Excelsior mine is the deepest in the district, and shows rich in free gold one hundred and thirty-five feet from the surface. ‘There arc, I am inforined, about six hundred nnd seventy-five locations made, and if only fifty of the number are as rich as they represent all to be, it is un‘douhtedly a big thing, and this is zhe country. Placer County— The Herald says the cement mills at Bath and Forest Hill are a decided success, gravel is a decided success, and the renewed prosperity-of that portion of the county is fixed beyond a peradventure..From the Good Friday claim was taken the other day, three-. fourths of a flour sack full of rock, which yielded $1,400..The Stars and Stripes says: Some specimens of float rock. picked up on Anthouy Flat, helow Neweastle, are exceedingly ricb in small, free gold. Parties are in search of the ledge from which it eame.. We . have heen presented witb a sample of rock from the Polaud lead—tlocated about a mile and a half southwest of town—which shows considerable free gold. The ledge on which the Poland company claim 1,600 feet, is about three feet in width, and shows free gold iu most of the surface rock. ‘lhe company have gone to work to open their ledge. San Joaquin County— A correspondent of the Neynda Gazette says Mr. L. Cook has discovered an oil spring on Mokelumne river, in San Joaquin county, near Amador and Calaveras. It exndes through the pores of sott blue rock, and floats on the water, presenting precisely the same appearance that kerosene oil does when poured upon water. All who have seen it prononnee it real

petroleom. Mr. Cook expects to prospect it thoroughly. Santa Cruz County— . The Sentinel says that the Petroleum company, in that place, is driving ahead in bue style. Four new retorts nre uow at the landing, and they will shortly he delivered at the works. ‘ Shasta County— The Courier ot June 2d, has these items: 931 feet, and are in six feet on what appears to be a lead thatis 26 feet wide iv the upper tunuel, and assays $50 per ton We learn that the Chicago have sent an agent below with a quantity of the rock to show its wealtb, and to buy a mill and machivery, if satisfactory terms can he made The erection of the flame from the Clear Creek ditch on to the di. vide, between’ Oregon aud Olney gulches, is progressing, and will soon be eompleted... Rector & Wright, whose discovery ou Ross’ Gulch, on the cast side of the river, we noticed last week, are working with the most flattering Steady work is being done on the Bunker Hill claim, with fair rempneration for capital and labor invested, but of late no rich pockets have been struck Accounts continue to eome from South Fork district of a natore eqnally flattering and startling with those of the first discovery The Chinese have been admitted into the Spring Creek district,and large nombers are working there upon ground that pays two dollars per day Correspondence of same from Whiskytown says: ‘he Pitchpine Co., are running a tunnel on their ledge. “Phere is a company at work on the head of Mule Canyou on a quartz lode. The rock is decomposed... Williams & Co. have completed their aqueduct, and it works splendidly. ‘This conipauy, under instructions trom Messrs. Hallidie & Co., of San Francisco, have made a wire cable and suspended to it an irou pipe, seven inches in diameter, conveying the waters of Brandy Creek to their mine on Sawmill Flat... Nate Farrington took his mill dam out last winter, and has formed a company to work the ground, which they suppose is rich. 1 have heard of n claim on it being sold as high as $500. Sierra County— Goodyear’s Bar correspondence of the Messenger says the miners were anxiously wniting for the completion of the Water Vo’s flume and dain. Meauwhile, work was suspended. Siskiyou County— The Yreka Union of June 2d,says: Henry Wricht, of Oro Fino, took out $8,000 in six weeks at that place. Tulare County— The Visalia Delta’s Havilah correspondent says: Mining still goes on briskly, and all the inills whieh are working, with one exception, are paying well. The Pi Ute district grows iu importance every day, and will doubtless prove exceedingly rich. New and rich lodes of copper, copper and gold, nnd copper and silver, are being brought to light, and some of the rock is so rich in these metals as to be mnileable. Yuba County— The Marysville Appeal has these items: Specimens of rich rock from femplar No. 2, were hrought down from Indiana ranch yesterday. Wesawa small piece of rock; perhaps four ounces in weight, which, after heing pulverized, showed nbout ten or twelve cents in gold..A small number of shares in the Pennsylvania company changed hands yesterday at $10 per share. The mill will begin erushing to-morrow on the new rock nnd run ten days before cleaning up..A year ago shares in the Jefferson mine, at Brown’s Valley, could have heen bought for $5. . One gentleman owning 100 feet offered the lot at $1,000. This stock is now paying $10 per share per month, or $1,000, and the stock is now held at $300 per foot. The Pennsylvania stock has gone through similar mutations. It was sold a year and a half ago at $40 per foot. It then receded to $2 and $3 per foot. Onc gentleman gave away about 150 feet. To day $30 and $35 per foot is offered forit, and uo sellers. It is worth $100 or uothing. . Wi hout particular reference to the Brown's Valley ledges. we predict that in less than two years the foothills of Yuba county will become as celebrated for paying quartz ledges as those of Nevada county. The county above Brown's Vniley, is interlarded with hundreds of ledges, some of theni seratched over, and others untouched. We know some of them are rich, and believe thot theirdevelopment will prove tbem valuable. There is one ledge we have in particular view, which ought not to lie idle for want of capital. A shaft has heen sunk on this ledge seventeen feet deep, and several tous of quartz crushed, which paid $20 in gold L The Kellinger are in with their lower tunnel . mine, Gold Hill, Joha Blight, was killed by and $20 in silver. If this ledge was in the vicinity of Virginia Cityor Gold Hill, it would be at once pounced upon by speculators, aod stock held at an enormous figure. NEVADA. ‘Washoe— ; The Carson Appeal says Mr. Ash, who for some time past bas been engaged in prospecting some quartz leads in the hills west of this city, got a return on ‘I'uesday from one hon-: dred pounds of quartz which he had worked at the Merrimac mill. The resalt shows an assay of $20.63 per ton. Dr. Gabbs had some rock subinitted to a like process, and gets a return of $14 per ton..At the North Overman falling into the shaft, 430 leet deep.. Extensive improvemeuts are heing made at the Rhode Island mill. Reese River— From the Reveille we gather the following : E. 8. Davis and Russell Scott, while taking a walk over the hills in North Twin River district, found, cropping above the gronnd, over which perhaps 500 men had passed, n huge ledge, ten feet thick, of richest silver-hearing quartz, which they located under the name of “ Canada.” We saw the assay, made to-day by J.5.Cnrrie, which shows the splendid figures of $5,705.14 per ton. Same paper gives fore ther partienlars in the next day’s issue, con: firmatory of the ahove; and adds: Vhe same parties had previously discovered and located in the vicinity three ledges, which they named tbe Flora Temple, Potosi, and Enterprise. ‘The first named is ahont 150 feet east of the Buekeye mine, and is five feet thick, regular and well defined. ‘The Potosi lies two hundred feet west of the Canada, and has a vein seven feet thick. The Enterprise lies on the same side of Summit Canon as the Canada,and half aimile west of it. Phe ledge is apparently twelve feet thick, but its walls are undeveloped. ..In the Confidence, located by same parties: in the South ‘Pwin River district, and which is believed, from its croppings, to be twenty feet thick, the ore obtained from the surface yielded hy assay $113 per tou; but later developments in the croppings, which have heen penetrated to the depth of seven feet. exhibit greatly superior ore, in which myriad flecks of — native silver are easily discernible hy the eye. ..In the Old Colony mine, about ten days ago, at the depth of 270 feet, the ledge suddenly widened to the handsome proportiuns of eighteen inches, displaying a mass of finegrained, dark sulphuret ore, interspersed with occasional delicate tints of ruby. ‘The gangne is pure quartz, holding largely silver, iron, sulphor and antimony..T'wo bars of bullion ohtained from chloride ore of the Roanoke mine, were valued at $2,017 41, and were the product of six and a half tons of ore, which yielded at the rnte of over $310 perton.. The Nye county News has these items: The Sucecor mill, which has been ronning for some -time past, closed down a few days since, in order to give the mibers an opportunity to get ahead with ore.. We are infornied thnt the fomous Buckeye claim, of Nort Twin River district, has been sold to the Sterling Mill company, whose fine large mill was erected nt Kingston, Bunker Hill District, the past season..The Pleaides hoys struck it richer than ever on Thursday last, while working in their mine, and are now getting out ore which it is caleulated will pay $1,200 to the ton.. The Franklin has nbout seventy-five tons out. ..The Storm King about ten..The Atlantie and Pacific company will next week have a large force at work. Humboldt County— The Register of May 19th has these items: During two weeks past several parties have been making discovery, or re-location, rather, of very promising auriferous quartz veins in the range which terminates, some thirty miles down the valley,in ‘Table Mountnin..The Ruby Silver company, owning in Pine Forest District, thirty miles above Black Rock, has an excellent ledge. The entire ledge is infused with ore, which works, without assorting thirty dollars in silver, nnd shows by assay fifty per cent. copper. .. Two assays made this week of quartz from the Silver Bullion claim show $140 and $198 per ton.. . The American Basin com pany has been considerably encouraged this week. Ata distance of 600 feet in, and nta perpendicular depth of 350 feet below the croppings, n small «‘ feeder” was struck, composed of the finest quality of Shebnore.. A small lot of quartz from the Volunteer was worked this week at Holt’smill. It turned out n good-sized brick of ernde bullion, in which gold shows plentifully. Black Rock— The Chico Courant says these mines are increasing in richness as they nre developed to a greater depth, and considerable excitement exists regarding them, indpeed by the reports of their fahulons wealth. Assays have heen made ranging from $1,000 to $10,000 per ton. They are situated directly on the Chico and Idaho stage ronte, about half way hetween Chico aud Owyhec. i , .