Volume 12 (1866) (428 pages)

Tie Wining and Scientific Dress, Bling Simary. * a * CALIFORNIA. . Trinvry.—The Journal is calling attention to the undeveloped mines of Trinity, and says: ‘Only a short time since’some miners discov_ered acclaim opposite Junction City which pays from $50 to $80 a day. And how was the elaim found? Simply by disregarding the advice of “nld miners.” and working faithfully to. npen a claim which had been deserted by men who did not possess the same energy und perseverance. ™) ; . . We do rot hesitate to affirm that this county nffers hundreds of just.such opportunities, if we had the right kind of population and enough of it to develop them. “No other ‘county offers auch inducements to a large mining popnlation ias Trinity. A county as large as the State of Massachusetts, every foot of which is more or léss auriferous, with uiitold Wealth in quartz, yet, with not a single mill, or even arastra, and. this extent of territory occupied hy some twelve hundred miners. Five thousand. could easily find employment, independence :and riches within our borders, and even then it would take yeas to exhaust, the surface diggings.” » Puomas.—The Quincy Gazette says: A friend informs us that the region of country around the Premium and Crescent ledge is lit4 erally covered with paper titles. sometimes two . ur three deep. It is undoubtedly a rich section . nf country, and those who locate should perfect their title ‘by labor and actual occupancy ; . otherwise, they may have tn call in the aid of, the law to decide ownership—and lawis an expensive luxury now-a-days in this climate. — The Yreka Jowrnal says: More Chinamen . are heing employed this year in this county by . white men than. ever before, from the desire to get claims worked cheaper. Scott river, which used to be agreat field forwhite lahor, is now overrun with Chinaman, who work at sn low rates that white men cannot compete. Nevaps.— We ubderstand that several mines in Grass Valley, and among others the Union, have heen compelled, in part at least, to sus-. pend operations for the present on account of. the great influx of water fenm the late heavy! rains. Their pumps were inadequate to the ‘task of keeping them free of water. Some of’ the mills are alsn running short of rock on accnunt of the impossibility of hauling by reason -of the-bad condition of the roads.“ * We6 would call the especial attention of our . readers,to the summary of miniug news from. this county, given.in another place, in to day’s . issue, from our Nevada and Grass Valley! correspondents. . ° <° > a) Pracer.—We ‘learn that quite an improve. ment in the placer mining prospects are beginning to, appear about, Yankee Jims and . Sarahsville, by reason of the iutroductiou of . machinery to work the cement ground, which . it has heen found impossible to work by the ordinary method of sluicing, Much of the gravel fonnd here is of that peculiar cement, character which itis necessary to work over five nr six times, at great expense of hauling, etc., allowing itto lay in the meantime through one or more entire season to slack. Even then a large amount of gold was lést. Something overa year ago, Mr. C. H. Dewey,: the conducting manager of one of the principal mines uear Sarahsville, decided to put upacrushing-mill, eimilar to those employed in Nevada county. After a year’s trial the plan has been fonnd. to:sneceed well. Crushing the gravel has heen found here, as elsewhere, decided success. This mill employs twentystamps, _driven by a 40-horse eugine, although but ten stamps are employed at present. ‘These ten stamps reduce from thirty to forty tons nf cement every twenty-four hours. * The Rough Gold company, near by, have also erscted a mill which went. into operation about, three months since; so late‘in the season, however, that the company have as yet scarcely ‘been enahled to“give’ the new process a fair. test. No doubt, however,.is eutertained with regard to its nltimate success. There are numerons other claims in this vicinity, all of “which feel a renewed conlidence since the above-mentioned. mill experiments, and no doubt is etertained hut that other mills will soon be put up, 23 fast as the different claims, are properly npened. Caraverss.The San Andreas Register says Messrs. Knapp, Wilcox & Co., have just; comploted a mill of six stamps to crush the: ditt from their claim, at Yaqui Camp, about a mile and a half from that place. They have . some very rich dirt, but it is a kind of cement, . so hard that theyare unable to save all the . gold hy the ordinary method of washing. . But. by the use of* the stamps they will be able to’ make a good. thing. . “Amanor.-The Dispatch saysthat an exten-' sive cinnabar mine has lately been discovered near the. Boston ranch; about ten miles from . Jackson,.in this county, which is pronounced very rich by those who profess to be judges of the article ; and a company has heen organized and will shortly.be incorporated for the purpose of working it. Should it turn out to be as rich as it is supposed to be, it would he dificult to estimate the value.it would be to this section of the country. ; TuowwmNe.—The editor of the Tuolumne Courier recently visited the Bacon mine, at Calder’s ranch, about ten miles. from Sonora, owned by Messrs. Bacon & Leonard. This claim is'‘a’ recent’ location, but considerable money has already been spent in developing it. A tunnel has beeu driven in 185 feet to the length running all tho way up the vein, and. disclosing a-large amountof rock. To this. level five chutes have been opened from the . surface downward, ahout 100 feet distant from . each other, and connected by stopes at convenient intervals. An incline is being sunk from the, northern drift, which is now «down j. . about sixty-five feet. Over 400 tons of rock have been extracted, which will now be crushed, and an immense qudntity is also in sight. All the work of opening, timbering and ventilating is described-as having been done iu a superior manner. Good results are confidently expected from this mine. 1. . The same. paper, in speaking of the Sugar Pine District, some eighteen miles from Sonora, says it has for several years been noted for the number and wealth of its quartz ledges, some of them haying yielded a vast amount of gold, while many others in a legs forward state of development give evidance of becoming quite as productive. One of the most promising claims in the district is the Mouut Moriah, located in: November, 1862, and containing . 2,400 feet, situated ahout half'a mile trom the famons Excelsior, and about the same distance from Uniontown: The vein hag heen prospected for the distance of 1,800 feet. Considerable quantities of rock have hecn crushed, and proved to be rich, and more, of a still better quality, is being daily taken out. This claim willno doubt prove a valuable one. A mill will be put upon the ground in the spring, or sooner, if roads and weather permit. Gillis Bros, & Co., struck a pocket in the decomposed slate about their ledge, near ‘Tuttletown, from which they have already taken several hundred dollars. The stresk is three nr four inches wide, aud yields from twelve to forty dollars to the pan, and getting richer. ‘Cheir-claim ison the “big lead,” aud is being prospected with energy. The rock presents a fine appearance, and samples taken ‘from any portion of the ledge show free gold, beiug almost: precisely like the quartz from the Raw Hide-Ranch lode.One-half of the Shanghae quartz mine, near Yankee Hill, Tuolumne county, has been sold toa San Francisco party for $25,000. Gen. . Morgan and J.-B. Douglass, of Columbia, were amoug the owners. Amapor.—The Jacksonville Sentinel says: A few days ago, Sam and John Jaylor commenced to prospect a bar on Applegate, a short distance ‘below the Fowler quartz ledge, by cutting a race from the creek. ‘hey cut through the rim rock, aud in so doing took’ out about fifteen ounces of coarse gold, varying from the size of a wheat grain to an ounce in weight. They ohly worked four days. W.B. Floyd has sold his quartz vein and. millin Hnnter's Valleyto a San Francisco company for the nice little sum of $24,500. The vein has been paying very well and is considered good property. A correspondent of the Mree Press writing from Hunter's Valley ‘says that there are a great many influential men of capital from San Francisco among us, who seem to take an interest. in the mines of that region. The “La Victoire” mine looks well, as does the “Blue Lead.” ‘The latter, you will hear of in a-short time. Mr. Wilson of San Francisco, has purchased the Floyd vein and all the machiuery, tools, etc., connected therewith. ‘The Superintendent of the La Victoire, is afloat, through the hills and ravines, negotiating for . Wilson & Co. Itis to be hoped he will sue: . ceed iu his endeavors to bring to a successful . issue what it has taken months to bring down . to so lowa figure. The Potts, atthe Jemisal, . looks well, and also the Barrett vein. In fact our Valley is full of mineral and all it needs is thorough development. ‘ in VIRGINIA CITY AND VICINITY. It has long beeu a a pretty generally conceded fact that a large amount of loss attended the.working of the mills in Gold Hill; but.we were scarcely prepared for: anything ‘like the following, which we clip from the Gold Hill News of the 27th ult : Last night we were shown about an ounce of soft amalgam which wastaken trom one pan of the tailings caught in the Dayton reservoir. ‘Mr. Andrews is principal owner, we believe, and McLaughlin -& Root own one-fourth. This reservoir wis put ‘in for the putpose of catching the tailings that flow down Gold Cafion, and the amalgam we saw was taken from one pau of .the tailings in this reservoir, by Mr. Root himself. He states that they have already accumulated several hundred tons of those tailings,which are: equally rich with those from which the prospect we saw was taken. There is’ but little doubt that thousands of dollars pass dowu Gold Canon every ‘mouth, and ‘wé “cinnot see why the owners of mills do not catch their own tailings and save them; for in time the tailings that pass down Gold’ Canon’ will be worth more than what is extracted from the ore at the present working. . The Granite mill, Gold Hill, has heen closed up, the owners having suuk some $20,000 in cash, aside from their own labor and attention, The News, after stating that the proprictors had struggled imanfully to make the mill pay, intimates that there must he a screw loose somewhere in the mill, for it isso conveniently located that its profits should be much largor than those located remotely. , It is said that there are about 1,700 inen engaged in the mines of Gold Hill proper, extracting about 950 tons of ore per day, which, at 430 per,ton, would give a yield of $28,500 per day, or $855,000 per month. ; Oursine Mines.—The Enierpriseisinformed by Hon. Felix O'Neil, of the Assembly, that the mines in the Peavine district, uear the Truckee, bid fair to prove of no inconsiderable importance in the mining interests of Nevada. There are in that district five principai claims known as the Great Eastern, Develhymer’ American Eugle, Enterprise and Metropolitan, which are being worked .steadily by the Me. tropolitan Tunnel and Miuing company. The first of these wines located was the Develhymer, in the spring of 1862, by Mr. O'Neil and his associates, and the others are a series of parallel ledges. No work of any account was doue on these ledges until last August, after the return of Mr. O'Neil from Austin, wheu the Metropolitan Tunnel company, in running for the Devethymer, struck the ledge now known as the Great Eastern, which, on being stripped 40 feet hy 250 feet, at a depth of 25 feet, disclosed a large body of ‘sulphuret ore, intermingled with desulphurized ore. From this ledge the company are now furnishing the English Mill company, on the Truckee river, with ore which yields from 80 to 108 ounces of bullion tothe ton. The mine is but seyen miles from the mill, and keeps the latter steadily employed in working its ore. The Clan Alpine district is about 130 miles east of Virginia and 45 miles west of Austin. It is four miles west of the Overland Mail route. It isa bold, rugged, and mountainous district, but fortunately well wooded and watered—advantages which niany other districts do not possess. Until recently but little work has been done in.this district. Now, however, New York capital is beginning to make itself seen and felt. ‘The Silver Lode Mining company are sivking w’shalt ou the McGregor ledge. They are now down 185 feet, and find a ledge between seven and ten feet in thickness, which assays all the way from $80 to $160 per ton. Such rock as‘ ‘this, at such a depth, is certainly encouraging. They cau probably sink 100 to 150 feet turther before the water level is reached. ‘This company have also a mill in progess of construction. It is a suhstantial stone building, large enough for twenty stamps. But ten stamps will be put in at the preseut time. ‘The mine and mill arc under the supervision of Mr. J. Ingalls, and will be in running order early in the spring. There are several other companies which will commence operations there in the spring. REESE RIVER. A mammoth mining association, known as the Consolidated Silver Mining company, has recently been organized under the laws of the State of New York, to carry on the business of silver mining chiefly in the Reese River dis. trict and vicinity. ‘he compauy already own thirty-six ledges, a larger majority of which are located within three miles of the city of Austin. It is the intention of the company to have, at least, four mills running by the first of July next, each with a capacity of reducing twentyfive tons of rock per day. ‘They propose to have two other mills in operation by the first of November next. The capital stock’ of the company is fixed at $8,000,000, divided into 80,000 shares, of $100 each. Their principal office will be at 73 Broadway, New, York. with branch offices in Boston, Philadetphia, Chicago, and Austin. The officers and directors of the company are said to include some of the most substantial men of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York. The most able metallurgical and scientific talent will be employed in directing the works. We should judge, from all accounts, that the association: has been» started upon o substantial basis. We trust that future eveuts may prove that such is the fact. ; We have been able of late to obtain hut few items of intcrest from the mines in the immediate viciuity of Austin. Favorahle accounts continue to come in from the ontside districts, which appear to be seattered, at intervals, over an immense tract of country, indicating that the mincral resources of that part of the State, when they hecome properly developed, and provided with roads, facilities of communication, etc., must prove of incalcnlable extent and importance. We shall endeavor, at some future time,{to give sone connected and intelligible description of thesc outside districts— their localities. their degree of mineral development, mill facilities, ete., ete. yn ESMERALDA, The Visalia Delia, of arecent date, reports Mr. Wn. Fleniing, Superintendent of the Oro Fino Co., of New York, as having lately passed throngh town, en rowe to Owen’s Raver. A 8-stamp inilland provisions for forty men for six months is ou the way in their own teams. ‘They expect to commence operatious in the beginning of April next. . fhe Esmeralda Union. is informed by parties lately returned Irom the Hot Springs District, that there have heen several large aud auriferous ledecs discovered in that vicinity. ‘hero is a great deal of work being done in that section, and from the loads of bullion they bring up quite often, we should judge that companies there were well remunerated for their labor. HUMBOLDT. According to the Register the Arabia mines have been sluggish, of late, the boys heing somewhat pinched by the extreme cold weather. The ledges, however, have suffered no pinch. ‘Times will he lively as soou as the wiuter lets up a little. : The last working of Montezuma ore, eighty tons, shows an average yield of $96.04 to the ton. By smelting process, an improvement of about seventy-five per cent. on this rate will be made. Between the lower drift and theone next above, a large mass of their best millable ore has been exposed. The owners of the “ Bald Hornet” (!) have resnmed work, and the ledge looks well. Jersey and Daisy have both struck for better weather. Under the head of Bullion from Oreana,” the Register says that Webber & Co., shipped, by Moyer's express, on the 15th inst., 428.27 ounces, value $371.51. Montezuma Co., sent, by same, 8,078.28 ounces, value $7,683.40. ' : A favorable report is made with regard to the, progress of work on the Monticello tuunel ; the foreman, Mr. J. F. Cole, is reported to have given excellent proof of his ability to conduct a work of that kind. Muinino Prospects 1n Anisona.—Coulter & Tyson’s quartz mill, at Wickenhurg, crushed thirty tous of rock’ from the Vulture lode the first week in December, aud cleaned up $2,700. The mill of Bowers Bros., on Lynx creek, is doing well. They are crnshing -rock.of the Accidental lode, which pays about $80 per tou. Everybody is in good spirits at the prospects of the mines. Every indication of richness is showu by the many-quartz odes that ure,tried. New lodes are being discovered every week, and all show well. : The rich mineral districts, as yet but partially prospected ,»re the Big Bug, Lynx Creel, Turkey Creek, Hassayamp and Quartz Mountain. Iu all these there’ are rich gold and silver mines; but, with very few exceptions, work has been suspended in these districts, and many are now waiting for the time when they can pursue their labor with safety. That there are millions in treasure in those: localities there is no doubt, and itis the opinion of all who know anything of mining that superior natural facilities exist here for working the mines to great advantage.

Tie Wining and Scientific Dress, Bling Simary. * a * CALIFORNIA. . Trinvry.—The Journal is calling attention to the undeveloped mines of Trinity, and says: ‘Only a short time since’some miners discov_ered acclaim opposite Junction City which pays from $50 to $80 a day. And how was the elaim found? Simply by disregarding the advice of “nld miners.” and working faithfully to. npen a claim which had been deserted by men who did not possess the same energy und perseverance. ™) ; . . We do rot hesitate to affirm that this county nffers hundreds of just.such opportunities, if we had the right kind of population and enough of it to develop them. “No other ‘county offers auch inducements to a large mining popnlation ias Trinity. A county as large as the State of Massachusetts, every foot of which is more or léss auriferous, with uiitold Wealth in quartz, yet, with not a single mill, or even arastra, and. this extent of territory occupied hy some twelve hundred miners.. Five thousand. could easily find employment, independence :and riches within our borders, and even then it would take yeas to exhaust, the surface diggings.” » Puomas.—The Quincy Gazette says: A friend informs us that the region of country around the Premium and Crescent ledge is lit4 erally covered with paper titles. sometimes two . ur three deep. It is undoubtedly a rich section . nf country, and those who locate should perfect their title ‘by labor and actual occupancy ; . otherwise, they may have tn call in the aid of, the law to decide ownership—and lawis an expensive luxury now-a-days in this climate. — The Yreka Jowrnal says: More Chinamen . are heing employed this year in this county by . white men than. ever before, from the desire to get claims worked cheaper. Scott river, which used to be agreat field forwhite lahor, is now overrun with Chinaman, who work at sn low rates that white men cannot compete. Nevaps.— We ubderstand that several mines in Grass Valley, and among others the Union, have heen compelled, in part at least, to sus-. pend operations for the present on account of. the great influx of water fenm the late heavy! rains. Their pumps were inadequate to the ‘task of keeping them free of water. Some of’ the mills are alsn running short of rock on accnunt of the impossibility of hauling by reason -of the-bad condition of the roads.“ * We6 would call the especial attention of our . readers,to the summary of miniug news from. this county, given.in another place, in to day’s . issue, from our Nevada and Grass Valley! correspondents. . ° <° > a) Pracer.—We ‘learn that quite an improve. ment in the placer mining prospects are beginning to, appear about, Yankee Jims and . Sarahsville, by reason of the iutroductiou of . machinery to work the cement ground, which . it has heen found impossible to work by the ordinary method of sluicing, Much of the gravel fonnd here is of that peculiar cement, character which itis necessary to work over five nr six times, at great expense of hauling, etc., allowing itto lay in the meantime through one or more entire season to slack. Even then a large amount of gold was lést. Something overa year ago, Mr. C. H. Dewey,: the conducting manager of one of the principal mines uear Sarahsville, decided to put upacrushing-mill, eimilar to those employed in Nevada county. After a year’s trial the plan has been fonnd. to:sneceed well. Crushing the gravel has heen found here, as elsewhere, decided success. This mill employs twentystamps, _driven by a 40-horse eugine, although but ten stamps are employed at present. ‘These ten stamps reduce from thirty to forty tons nf cement every twenty-four hours. * The Rough Gold company, near by, have also erscted a mill which went. into operation about, three months since; so late‘in the season, however, that the company have as yet scarcely ‘been enahled to“give’ the new process a fair. test. No doubt, however,.is eutertained with regard to its nltimate success. There are numerons other claims in this vicinity, all of “which feel a renewed conlidence since the above-mentioned. mill experiments, and no doubt is etertained hut that other mills will soon be put up, 23 fast as the different claims, are properly npened. Caraverss.The San Andreas Register says Messrs. Knapp, Wilcox & Co., have just; comploted a mill of six stamps to crush the: ditt from their claim, at Yaqui Camp, about a mile and a half from that place. They have . some very rich dirt, but it is a kind of cement, . so hard that theyare unable to save all the . gold hy the ordinary method of washing. . But. by the use of* the stamps they will be able to’ make a good. thing. . “Amanor.-The Dispatch saysthat an exten-' sive cinnabar mine has lately been discovered near the. Boston ranch; about ten miles from . Jackson,.in this county, which is pronounced very rich by those who profess to be judges of the article ; and a company has heen organized and will shortly.be incorporated for the purpose of working it. Should it turn out to be as rich as it is supposed to be, it would he dificult to estimate the value.it would be to this section of the country. ; TuowwmNe.—The editor of the Tuolumne Courier recently visited the Bacon mine, at Calder’s ranch, about ten miles. from Sonora, owned by Messrs. Bacon & Leonard. This claim is'‘a’ recent’ location, but considerable money has already been spent in developing it. A tunnel has beeu driven in 185 feet to the length running all tho way up the vein, and. disclosing a-large amountof rock. To this. level five chutes have been opened from the . surface downward, ahout 100 feet distant from . each other, and connected by stopes at convenient intervals. An incline is being sunk from the, northern drift, which is now «down j. . about sixty-five feet. Over 400 tons of rock have been extracted, which will now be crushed, and an immense qudntity is also in sight. All the work of opening, timbering and ventilating is described-as having been done iu a superior manner. Good results are confidently expected from this mine. 1.. . The same. paper, in speaking of the Sugar Pine District, some eighteen miles from Sonora, says it has for several years been noted for the number and wealth of its quartz ledges, some of them haying yielded a vast amount of gold, while many others in a legs forward state of development give evidance of becoming quite as productive. One of the most promising claims in the district is the Mouut Moriah, located in: November, 1862, and containing . 2,400 feet, situated ahout half'a mile trom the famons Excelsior, and about the same distance from Uniontown: The vein hag heen prospected for the distance of 1,800 feet. Considerable quantities of rock have hecn crushed, and proved to be rich, and more, of a still better quality, is being daily taken out. This claim willno doubt prove a valuable one. A mill will be put upon the ground in the spring, or sooner, if roads and weather permit. Gillis Bros, & Co., struck a pocket in the decomposed slate about their ledge, near ‘Tuttletown, from which they have already taken several hundred dollars. The stresk is three nr four inches wide, aud yields from twelve to forty dollars to the pan, and getting richer. ‘Cheir-claim ison the “big lead,” aud is being prospected with energy. The rock presents a fine appearance, and samples taken ‘from any portion of the ledge show free gold, beiug almost: precisely like the quartz from the Raw Hide-Ranch lode.One-half of the Shanghae quartz mine, near Yankee Hill, Tuolumne county, has been sold toa San Francisco party for $25,000. Gen. . Morgan and J.-B. Douglass, of Columbia, were amoug the owners. Amapor.—The Jacksonville Sentinel says: A few days ago, Sam and John Jaylor commenced to prospect a bar on Applegate, a short distance ‘below the Fowler quartz ledge, by cutting a race from the creek. ‘hey cut through the rim rock, aud in so doing took’ out about fifteen ounces of coarse gold, varying from the size of a wheat grain to an ounce in weight. They ohly worked four days. W.B. Floyd has sold his quartz vein and. millin Hnnter's Valleyto a San Francisco company for the nice little sum of $24,500. The vein has been paying very well and is considered good property. A correspondent of the Mree Press writing from Hunter's Valley ‘says that there are a great many influential men of capital from San Francisco among us, who seem to take an interest. in the mines of that region. The “La Victoire” mine looks well, as does the “Blue Lead.” ‘The latter, you will hear of in a-short time. Mr. Wilson of San Francisco, has purchased the Floyd vein and all the machiuery, tools, etc., connected therewith. ‘The Superintendent of the La Victoire, is afloat, through the hills and ravines, negotiating for . Wilson & Co. Itis to be hoped he will sue: . ceed iu his endeavors to bring to a successful . issue what it has taken months to bring down . to so lowa figure. The Potts, atthe Jemisal, . looks well, and also the Barrett vein. In fact our Valley is full of mineral and all it needs is thorough development. ‘

in VIRGINIA CITY AND VICINITY. It has long beeu a a pretty generally conceded fact that a large amount of loss attended the.working of the mills in Gold Hill; but.we were scarcely prepared for: anything ‘like the following, which we clip from the Gold Hill News of the 27th ult : Last night we were shown about an ounce of soft amalgam which wastaken trom one pan of the tailings caught in the Dayton reservoir. ‘Mr. Andrews is principal owner, we believe, and McLaughlin -& Root own one-fourth. This reservoir wis put ‘in for the putpose of catching the tailings that flow down Gold Cafion, and the amalgam we saw was taken from one pau of .the tailings in this reservoir, by Mr. Root himself. He states that they have already accumulated several hundred tons of those tailings,which are: equally rich with those from which the prospect we saw was taken. There is’ but little doubt that thousands of dollars pass dowu Gold Canon every ‘mouth, and ‘wé “cinnot see why the owners of mills do not catch their own tailings and save them; for in time the tailings that pass down Gold’ Canon’ will be worth more than what is extracted from the ore at the present working. . The Granite mill, Gold Hill, has heen closed up, the owners having suuk some $20,000 in cash, aside from their own labor and attention, The News, after stating that the proprictors had struggled imanfully to make the mill pay, intimates that there must he a screw loose somewhere in the mill, for it isso conveniently located that its profits should be much largor than those located remotely. , It is said that there are about 1,700 inen engaged in the mines of Gold Hill proper, extracting about 950 tons of ore per day, which, at 430 per,ton, would give a yield of $28,500 per day, or $855,000 per month. ; Oursine Mines.—The Enierpriseisinformed by Hon. Felix O'Neil, of the Assembly, that the mines in the Peavine district, uear the Truckee, bid fair to prove of no inconsiderable importance in the mining interests of Nevada. There are in that district five principai claims known as the Great Eastern, Develhymer’ American Eugle, Enterprise and Metropolitan, which are being worked .steadily by the Me. tropolitan Tunnel and Miuing company. The first of these wines located was the Develhymer, in the spring of 1862, by Mr. O'Neil and his associates, and the others are a series of parallel ledges. No work of any account was doue on these ledges until last August, after the return of Mr. O'Neil from Austin, wheu the Metropolitan Tunnel company, in running for the Devethymer, struck the ledge now known as the Great Eastern, which, on being stripped 40 feet hy 250 feet, at a depth of 25 feet, disclosed a large body of ‘sulphuret ore, intermingled with desulphurized ore. From this ledge the company are now furnishing the English Mill company, on the Truckee river, with ore which yields from 80 to 108 ounces of bullion tothe ton. The mine is but seyen miles from the mill, and keeps the latter steadily employed in working its ore. The Clan Alpine district is about 130 miles east of Virginia and 45 miles west of Austin. It is four miles west of the Overland Mail route. It isa bold, rugged, and mountainous district, but fortunately well wooded and watered—advantages which niany other districts do not possess. Until recently but little work has been done in.this district. Now, however, New York capital is beginning to make itself seen and felt. ‘The Silver Lode Mining company are sivking w’shalt ou the McGregor ledge. They are now down 185 feet, and find a ledge between seven and ten feet in thickness, which assays all the way from $80 to $160 per ton. Such rock as‘ ‘this, at such a depth, is certainly encouraging. They cau probably sink 100 to 150 feet turther before the water level is reached. ‘This company have also a mill in progess of construction. It is a suhstantial stone building, large enough for twenty stamps. But ten stamps will be put in at the preseut time. ‘The mine and mill arc under the supervision of Mr. J. Ingalls, and will be in running order early in the spring. There are several other companies which will commence operations there in the spring. REESE RIVER. A mammoth mining association, known as the Consolidated Silver Mining company, has recently been organized under the laws of the State of New York, to carry on the business of silver mining chiefly in the Reese River dis. trict and vicinity. ‘he compauy already own thirty-six ledges, a larger majority of which are located within three miles of the city of Austin. It is the intention of the company to have, at least, four mills running by the first of July next, each with a capacity of reducing twentyfive tons of rock per day. ‘They propose to have two other mills in operation by the first of November next. The capital stock’ of the company is fixed at $8,000,000, divided into 80,000 shares, of $100 each. Their principal office will be at 73 Broadway, New, York. with branch offices in Boston, Philadetphia, Chicago, and Austin. The officers and directors of the company are said to include some of the most substantial men of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York. The most able metallurgical and scientific talent will be employed in directing the works. We should judge, from all accounts, that the association: has been» started upon o substantial basis. We trust that future eveuts may prove that such is the fact. ; We have been able of late to obtain hut few items of intcrest from the mines in the immediate viciuity of Austin. Favorahle accounts continue to come in from the ontside districts, which appear to be seattered, at intervals, over an immense tract of country, indicating that the mincral resources of that part of the State, when they hecome properly developed, and provided with roads, facilities of communication, etc., must prove of incalcnlable extent and importance. We shall endeavor, at some future time,{to give sone connected and intelligible description of thesc outside districts— their localities. their degree of mineral development, mill facilities, ete., ete. yn ESMERALDA, The Visalia Delia, of arecent date, reports Mr. Wn. Fleniing, Superintendent of the Oro Fino Co., of New York, as having lately passed throngh town, en rowe to Owen’s Raver. A 8-stamp inilland provisions for forty men for six months is ou the way in their own teams. ‘They expect to commence operatious in the beginning of April next. . fhe Esmeralda Union. is informed by parties lately returned Irom the Hot Springs District, that there have heen several large aud auriferous ledecs discovered in that vicinity. ‘hero is a great deal of work being done in that section, and from the loads of bullion they bring up quite often, we should judge that companies there were well remunerated for their labor. HUMBOLDT. According to the Register the Arabia mines have been sluggish, of late, the boys heing somewhat pinched by the extreme cold weather. The ledges, however, have suffered no pinch. ‘Times will he lively as soou as the wiuter lets up a little. : The last working of Montezuma ore, eighty tons, shows an average yield of $96.04 to the ton. By smelting process, an improvement of about seventy-five per cent. on this rate will be made. Between the lower drift and theone next above, a large mass of their best millable ore has been exposed. The owners of the “ Bald Hornet” (!) have resnmed work, and the ledge looks well. Jersey and Daisy have both struck for better weather. Under the head of Bullion from Oreana,” the Register says that Webber & Co., shipped, by Moyer's express, on the 15th inst., 428.27 ounces, value $371.51. Montezuma Co., sent, by same, 8,078.28 ounces, value $7,683.40. ' : A favorable report is made with regard to the, progress of work on the Monticello tuunel ; the foreman, Mr. J. F. Cole, is reported to have given excellent proof of his ability to conduct a work of that kind. Muinino Prospects 1n Anisona.—Coulter & Tyson’s quartz mill, at Wickenhurg, crushed thirty tous of rock’ from the Vulture lode the first week in December, aud cleaned up $2,700. The mill of Bowers Bros., on Lynx creek, is doing well. They are crnshing -rock.of the Accidental lode, which pays about $80 per tou. Everybody is in good spirits at the prospects of the mines. Every indication of richness is showu by the many-quartz odes that ure,tried. New lodes are being discovered every week, and all show well. : The rich mineral districts, as yet but partially prospected ,»re the Big Bug, Lynx Creel, Turkey Creek, Hassayamp and Quartz Mountain. Iu all these there’ are rich gold and silver mines; but, with very few exceptions, work has been suspended in these districts, and many are now waiting for the time when they can pursue their labor with safety. That there are millions in treasure in those: localities there is no doubt, and itis the opinion of all who know anything of mining that superior natural facilities exist here for working the mines to great advantage.