Volume 13 (1866) (424 pages)

The Mining and Beientitic Dregs, canes Kining Simaaiy. : CALIFORNi. Alpine County— From the Silver Mnnntain Bulletin of Jone 23d, we clip the following items: The Balaclaya vein is gradually iacreaeing in thickness, and the ore improving.The Pennsylvania are etill cutting across their ledge, and are in some fifteen feet, without any indication as yet ofa hack wall. ‘There is a portion of this ledge, ealled the “ boulder strata,” that yields by fire assay over $600 per ton.The Kob-inoor company have heen engaged, the forepart of this week, in construeting a road for the purpose of getting down ore to he worked.’ They are making good progress.For the past twn weeks Charles Uzay, Esq., assayer aud metallurgist from San’ Francisco, has heen testing ores from yarious ledges in our district, and the reeults nbtained are, that we have three claims npen, the ores from which yield by fire assay from $250 up to $467 per ton. Amador County— The Ledger of June 30th, says: The proprietors of the Coney lode at this place, have commenced ‘sinking nn their claim with very favorable results. As they go down the rock increases in richness and the vein widens. The rock they are now hoisting produces from a ton to a ton and a half of sulphnrets per day, and these sulphurets are’ sold as faet as they are got nut for one. hnndred and sixty dollars . _ per ton, at the mill. The Dispatch.ofsame date has this item : We learn that Mr. S. W. Bright and others in thie place, have found a very rich quartz vein near Scottsville, about a mile from Jackson. A ehaft is heing sunk on the-lead, and the company will soon commence taking out rock for the purpose of having it crushed to test ite worth. : Butte County— The Oroville Kecord of June 16th, says : The work of erecting a millon the Sherman ledge ie now in progress and will he pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. The company have taken out and now have ready for cruehing ahout 100 tons of rock. Calaverns Connty— Vhe Chronicle of June 30th, says: Messrs. Gouldsen & Co’s quartz mine, situated abont one mile east of West Point, hae proved to he one of the richest ever worked in Calaveras county. Kighty tons of rock from this claim, ernshed at Smith’s mill, yielded at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per ton, amounting in the aggregate to twelve thousand dollars. This amount of rock wae taken from the mine, hauled to the mill and crushed, at an expense of lees than eight hundred dollars, counting the lahor of the owners, who are all working men, at four dollare per day for all labor performed. The first lot of rock crushed from the new quartz mines at Railroad Flat, was taken from the Two Dollar (fulch lead, and was crushed at the mill of Messrs. Harris & Co., at Sanny Gulch. Five tons of unassorted rock yielded at the rate of forty-five dollars per ton, and was taken from the mine at au expense of less than five dollare per ton. Add to this five dnilars per ton for crushing and amalgamating in a mill at the lead, and a clear profit is realized of thirty-five dollars per ton. Mr. Bevers’ claim, at Rich Gulch, which has heen worked by the last holders for three years past, only enough to hold it, promises to be extremely rich. Hesunk a shaft two or three hundred feet from the old one, and at the depth of forty feet struck rock which astonishes every hody in this region. The San Andreas Register says: Mr. McGlynn has crushed five or eix hundred tone of tailings for Wm. Mills, which are said to have paid ahout eight dollars per ton, He-is now crushing eome cement gravel, from ah adjoining claim, which paid at the first clean-up, twenty dollars per ton. There is a large hody nf this gravel, and from preseut indications it will he u hig thing. El Dorado County— The Folsom Telegraph, of June 30th, has this item: A ehort time eince, T. Jenkins, and other Folsom miners, struck a very rich cement claim, at Weaver Hill, El Doradn county, that prospects from ten to fifteen ceuts to the pan. Already a tunnel is rnn iu over one hundred feet. A mill is to be put up at once. A quartz ledge near Clarksville, in El Dor. ado county, owned by E. G. Winchell and othere, assays over $200 perton. ‘I'he shaft is sok fifty feet and quartz bas heen crushed for the past two weeks. Humboldt Connty— From the Trivity Journal, of June 14th, we clip the following: Irwin Davis Well, down 90U feet; have struck a emall quantity of water. It ie to he rememhered that at this well they have not had any water down to this depth from ite surface.Jeffreys down 500 ‘cet and upwards, witb prospects rather imomving.The Fonner Farm, down 125 feet. some eay thie company, at this inconsiderahle \epth, have better prospects than the majority of wells operated.The Union Well yieldsa constant supply of oil, when pumped. We are not aware that they are any deeper than formerly mentioned. The Times of 23d ult., eays: The coal re‘eently discovered near Areata, is stated hy those who have tested it, to be of an excellent quality, fully eqnal to the hest Cumherlaud cnal. It ignites readily and hurns freely. Mariposa County— The traveling correspondent of the Mag, writing from Hunter's Valley, says: “La Victoire, the most famous of the copper mines here, hasa vein of ore whichis, in eome places, 160 feet wide. This mine is worth, perhaps, $3,000,000 ; hut it will not add much to the wealth of the State till the ‘ freeze-out ’ game now in progress shall be played ont.” Nevada County— The Gazette has the following items: M. W. Ross showed us some very handsome rock yesterday, taker from the Enterprise ledge, located some four miles above Omega, in this county. The rock is full ot free gold and very rich aud haudsome sulphorets.’he mill at the Star ‘Spangled Bauner mine was started up again on Monday, having been stopped for some time for the nurpose of putting in new pans. They have running now five Varney pans and two large settlers, dnd the ore is worked in the same mauner as silver ore is worked iu the mills at Virginia City.On Saturday evening last, Robert Smitb purchased of E. Henderson a one-eighth interest in the consolidated Wisconsin and Illinois claim, paying therelor $8,000. Six weeks ago, an eighth interest in the same nrine was sold for $3,200. This claim is located near the Allison Ranch.A waltzing or planetary pan, designed for the mill now heing erected by the owners of the Hureka mine, at Grizzly Ridge, was taken out to the mill yesterday.A conditional sale of the Pralus claims, at North Bloomfield, has been made for $12,000. . Very rich specimens have heen recently taken out of the quartz ledge in the rear of the Natioual Exchange. ‘Two or three shafts have been sunk, and the ledge traced a distance of ahout filty feet. ‘Three or four tons of rock has heen raised to the surface, which we should judge would yield forty or filty dollarsaton. Itis called the Italian ledge.The Star company have now conmenced ‘‘hreasting out,” having backs sufficient to take out three or four hundred tons of rock. At the intersection of the tunnel with the ledge, they have commenced an ineliue, which) will he opened and suoplying rock by the time the ahove the tunnelis exhausted. Men were sent up a few days ago to put the mill in ronning order, and when once started itis the intention to keep it runuing without interruption. The Grass Valley Union says: From an ounce and a half of rock taken from the celebrated Stockton ledge, crushed in a common mortar yesterday morning, oue dollar and seventy-five cents was realized. Therock was not selected, but taken promiscuously trom a pile that lay on the grouud.We saw yesterday afternoon, at the office of Wells, Fargo & Co., three massive bars of gold, which had jnst been brought in from the Hureka mine. ‘hese hars or hricks were valued at ten thousand dollars each, and were the results of twelve days yield of that extraordinary claim. Vhe National haetheee items: Capt. S. W. Lee informs us that work at the Ophir mill has heen suspended fora week or tcn days, in order to make a change in the amalgamating pans and other repairs necessary.The Ione mine still continuee to yicld handsomely, ‘I'he company are now working at a depth of ahout 170 feet helow the surface of the ground, ou the second level. They intend to go ahout thirty feet further down, when they will hegin work on the third level. A gold har worth $5,000, was the result of two days’ run of the mill.A gold brick, valued at about $6,000, was shipped yesterday, from the banking house of Findley & Co., the gold hcing the proceeds of a tew days’ run from the Sncky mine. The Transcript says: A new shaft, three hy six feet has been sunk in tbe Big Blue ledge filty-five feet, and isnow opened into the old tunnel. A fine engine for hoisting and pumping is heing pnt up, which will be completed iu about three weeks. The company will then commence taking out rock.Yesterday a spleudid ledge was struck in the vicinity of Gold Flat. The rock from the croppings. shows lots of free gold. and it is estimated by those who have examiued it, tbat it will pay fifty or sixty dollars to the ton. It has heen named the P. P. ledge.S. ¥. Butterworth, Superintendent of tbe Almaden quicksilver mine; L. L. Rohinson, of Pioche & Co., and a number of capitalists, have purchased several extensive gravel claiins upon Humbug creek, near the town of North Bloomfield. One set of clainis were purchased for $200,000, and an adjoining set hrought $150,000. The Dutch Flat Lnguirer has the followiug in regard to the progress of cemeut mining iu Little York township. Doring the time that Lrown Grothers, of You Bet, have been running their mill, they have averaged ahont twenty-three hundred dollars for every ninety honrs. Last week they cleaned pp twentythree hundred, yet there were occasions that they have realized as high as forty-five hnndred for a little over four days and nights, and we believe never less than seventeen hundred since their mill was put in good running order. Niece & West are also doing a good husiness, their claim aud mill being located near the Brown mill, and yielding equally as well, as are in fact all the mills engaged in crnshing cement. either iu the locality of Yon Bet, Red Dog or Indiana Hill, in our own eounty. : Exeristor.—The Gazette says : Five tons of Enterprise rock'has heen shipped to Swansea, on which the company received an advance in . San Francisco of $110 a ton, and five tons worked at the French mill in this place, which yielded $700, hesides the tailings. Twenty. four hundred pounds of the rock has heen sold at the mine for $1,322, or over half a dollar a pound. The Meadow Lake Sun says it is estimated that there are now eniployed in the mines of . that district over three hundred men, and it is . confidently asserted that this lorce will ewell to ) two tbousand withiu sixty days. Placer County— The Stars and Stripes,.of June. 27th, says: A shaft sunk on the Bonlder ledge, to the depth of fifty feet on the side of the hill, struck the ledge three feet wide ahout 130 feet helow the croppings. The rock looks well, the Ophir district. ‘The Herald, of the 30th, has the following : Within a few weeks, four or five different locations have heen made and companies organized, in this district, from one to two miles ‘The locators, who are all working men, and practical miuers, are confident that this section of country offers superior inducemeuts to quartz men. Plumas Coanty— The Quincy Union, of June 30th, has these items: The Crescent Company, Indian Valley, are getting large returns from thetr mine. The Premium and Plumas ave crushing rock iu one of the Crescent Company’s mills. ‘This, also, is paying handsomely. .Judkins & Kelloge started the old Round Vallcy: mill on Wednesday last. ‘They crush rock from the Kittle ledge, which already shows well. .The Caledonia Company, on the ‘extension of the Kittle, are crushing their quartz iu the Dixie mill, and are getting good pay.The Green Mountain ledge, in the saine locality, is also paying well.The Wiles mill is working quartz from the old Wiles ledge, with good success.The Murphy & Company ledge, an extension of the Pcnosylvania, was lately discovered, and shows a width of nine feet, and gold visible to the naked eye.Waterworth & Tracks are rauning their mill on rock from their lower tunnel, with pay beyond their anticipations.‘The Iudian Valley Company are making hetter pay than ever heretofore. . Bidwell & Company have sunk a shaft on their Union ledge, an extension of the Indian Valley, two hundred feet deep, and will strike the ledge in a few days. Bidwell, Meginnis & Co., ave crushing rock from the Meginnis ledge, with fine auccess.The Cosmopolitan Copper Company, at Geuessee Valley, are within five feet of their ledge, already getting lurge lumps of rich copper sulphurets.The . Peacock Company are packing their copper ore to Chapman’s Smelting Works, which will be fired up in a short time.The Gifford Company were offered $10,000 for five-sixths of their copper ledge, a-few days since, which they refused.Lovejoy & Jackson, Kelly & Co., aud Bickford Bros., on Grizzly Creek placer mines, are all busy and doing well. Shasia County— The Courier, of June 30th, haa these items: Four new lodes have been discovered and located in South Fork district. Two of them, the Cincinnati and Tewauwan, show very rich. The first named is about Iifteen inches wide, and shows good mineral clear across and down soine three or four feet—as far as sunk. ‘The Chicago has heen stripped over a thousand feet. Tor that distance, the ledge shows the }same as wheu first opened.The Maminoth mill will soon be ruuuing on rock from the Harrison lode, at Quartz Hill. There is already out lifty tons of first-class rock, from auy of which good prospects can be obtained by the mortar aad pau process. . Sicrva Connty— . The Downieville Aessenger, of June 30th. says: ‘here is considerable excitement at Poker Flat, over a rich quartz lead lately discovercd there. The ledge is called the Mere. dith, aud althougb the rock shows no free gold, every ounce is shown extremely rich when once crushed. .A large number of lvcations were made.The Sailor company has a tunnel in some 75 or 80 feet. ‘hey will commence crushing in a lew days.The Lone Star, at Pine Grove, hae lately got into a new range of pay that yields much richer than usual. . One day latcly one of the men found a small and the mino is one of the most promisiug in north of town, hy Nevada county prospectors. . honlder in which ahout an ounce of gold was visible, and on ponnding it tp, panned’ out one hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-nine cents.The first meeting of the Central Sierra Quartz Prospecting Association is to be held July 7th. The object of the Association is to further the quartz interests of the county io a more effeetnal manner than it is likely to he done by private enterprises. The total amount which has heen taken from the Eureka mine, 25 miles north of Downieville, is said to he over $1,400,000. Siskiyou County— The Yreka Union says: The mines ‘on Hnmbng are paying well. The ininere have plenty of water, and have made some hig “clean ups ” lately. A very richdead of gold-hearing quartz has heen discovered in Siskiyou eounty. Free gold can he seen hy the naked eye in most of the rock. The averave yield is $600 per ton in gold and $30 in silver.—_R. B. Independent. Trinity Connty— J The Journal of the 30th of Jnue says: The Pony Creek diggings, at New River, are yielding rich returns. The two Portuguese miners, who bought the claim of O’Brien and Mcllvane . last winter, for $1,200, have a regular daily income from it of filty to sixty doliare. Our oldfried Foulke is having a good time all to himself, in his claim, which is good for fifteen dollars a day. ‘ Tulare County— : . From the Havilah correspondence of the Mariposa Free Press, we gather the following items: Piper’s mill has suspended operations for a time.Several others in the vicinity are in successful operation.‘Mhe Piute district is turning out ricb.At Agna Caliente several parties are working with arastras, among them, Tangate & Worthington, tormetly of Mariposa. I visited thé Joe Walker vein this morning. ‘They are down 106 feet with their shaft, and have a goad , well-detined vein, varying in thickness from three to seven or eight feet. Tuolumne Connty— The Courier, of June 30th, has these items : Less than five tons of rock taken from the Birchfield claim, near Uniontown, last week, yielded forty-two ounces. .The Ixcelsior nill is ‘being put in prime order hy’ Mr. Owen, who is adding another pan and settler. It will be running again ina few days.The Sonora Gold Company's new mill,on Bald Mountain, etarted up on hursday. Everything goes like a clock, and the proprietors express satislaction,.'ne Old Mississippi claim, in Wood’s Creck, has been improved in its working fucilities hy the erection of a derrick and waterpower, for hoisting. This has heen a rich placer claim.The Mount Vernon mine has of late been “giving out” after the way and manner of the days of yore. Last week we saw ten pounds of retorted gold from this nine, which was ohtained from thirteeu tons of rock. Last Tuesday we saw thirtecn ponods of the precious metal from the same source— the proceeds of fifteen tons of rock. Yuba Connty— Another engine of 60-horse power is to he added to tbe one of 30, already running in the works of the Jefferson company. NEVADA. Wrashoc— The Gold Hill News of the 23d June says: Tbe Yellow Jacket company, yesterday, in their north shaft—old works—at their 520-feet level, struck a most extraordinary and very rich deposit of ore, for the Comstock lode. Gold perforated, and was to he seen all through this rock, and its assay per ton must be enormous. _.At the Uuion mill carpenters have heen engaged for along timein getting out, framing, and otherwise ptepariug the timbers for the new hattery about being introduced in this mill. Twelve stamps are now worked, and for some time past the mill has heen running on Chollar-Potosi rock. The crushing capucity of the battery is from twelve to sixteen tous per twenty-four hours. BKeese Kiver.— The Reveille says: There is at this time hat little doing at Silver Peak; but such a condition cannot long endure. ‘here is ore here of the highest grade in surprising quantities, and easily attainable. I leara that the Grand Salt Basin company will soon commence building roasting furnaces, preparatory to starting their mill again, and expect belore another year to lay the foundation for one of the most costly reduction works in tle State, with tramways from the mines to the mill, involving an expenditnre of from one to two millions.The little 3-stamp mill at Red Mountain is again at work upon gold-hearing rock, averaging a yield of eighty dollars per ton..The New York aud Silver Peak company, it is said, are soon to commence operations upon their mill again, having, purchased in San Francisco the inachinery for a first-class 40-stamp mill. T’be Pioneer mill was to commence on July 1st, on ore from the Lee, Potomac, ete.The machinery from the Richland mine had arrived. .The Asteroid has au iucline down. 150 fect, and three shifts of laborers are daily em-

The Mining and Beientitic Dregs, canes Kining Simaaiy. : CALIFORNi. Alpine County— From the Silver Mnnntain Bulletin of Jone 23d, we clip the following items: The Balaclaya vein is gradually iacreaeing in thickness, and the ore improving..The Pennsylvania are etill cutting across their ledge, and are in some fifteen feet, without any indication as yet ofa hack wall. ‘There is a portion of this ledge, ealled the “ boulder strata,” that yields by fire assay over $600 per ton..The Kob-inoor company have heen engaged, the forepart of this week, in construeting a road for the purpose of getting down ore to he worked.’ They are making good progress..For the past twn weeks Charles Uzay, Esq., assayer aud metallurgist from San’ Francisco, has heen testing ores from yarious ledges in our district, and the reeults nbtained are, that we have three claims npen, the ores from which yield by fire assay from $250 up to $467 per ton. Amador County— The Ledger of June 30th, says: The proprietors of the Coney lode at this place, have commenced ‘sinking nn their claim with very favorable results. As they go down the rock increases in richness and the vein widens. The rock they are now hoisting produces from a ton to a ton and a half of sulphnrets per day, and these sulphurets are’ sold as faet as they are got nut for one. hnndred and sixty dollars . _ per ton, at the mill. The Dispatch.ofsame date has this item : We learn that Mr. S. W. Bright and others in thie place, have found a very rich quartz vein near Scottsville, about a mile from Jackson. A ehaft is heing sunk on the-lead, and the company will soon commence taking out rock for the purpose of having it crushed to test ite worth. : Butte County— The Oroville Kecord of June 16th, says : The work of erecting a millon the Sherman ledge ie now in progress and will he pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. The company have taken out and now have ready for cruehing ahout 100 tons of rock. Calaverns Connty— Vhe Chronicle of June 30th, says: Messrs. Gouldsen & Co’s quartz mine, situated abont one mile east of West Point, hae proved to he one of the richest ever worked in Calaveras county. Kighty tons of rock from this claim, ernshed at Smith’s mill, yielded at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars per ton, amounting in the aggregate to twelve thousand dollars. This amount of rock wae taken from the mine, hauled to the mill and crushed, at an expense of lees than eight hundred dollars, counting the lahor of the owners, who are all working men, at four dollare per day for all labor performed. The first lot of rock crushed from the new quartz mines at Railroad Flat, was taken from the Two Dollar (fulch lead, and was crushed at the mill of Messrs. Harris & Co., at Sanny Gulch. Five tons of unassorted rock yielded at the rate of forty-five dollars per ton, and was taken from the mine at au expense of less than five dollare per ton. Add to this five dnilars per ton for crushing and amalgamating in a mill at the lead, and a clear profit is realized of thirty-five dollars per ton. Mr. Bevers’ claim, at Rich Gulch, which has heen worked by the last holders for three years past, only enough to hold it, promises to be extremely rich. Hesunk a shaft two or three hundred feet from the old one, and at the depth of forty feet struck rock which astonishes every hody in this region. The San Andreas Register says: Mr. McGlynn has crushed five or eix hundred tone of tailings for Wm. Mills, which are said to have paid ahout eight dollars per ton, He-is now crushing eome cement gravel, from ah adjoining claim, which paid at the first clean-up, twenty dollars per ton. There is a large hody nf this gravel, and from preseut indications it will he u hig thing. El Dorado County— The Folsom Telegraph, of June 30th, has this item: A ehort time eince, T. Jenkins, and other Folsom miners, struck a very rich cement claim, at Weaver Hill, El Doradn county, that prospects from ten to fifteen ceuts to the pan. Already a tunnel is rnn iu over one hundred feet. A mill is to be put up at once. A quartz ledge near Clarksville, in El Dor. ado county, owned by E. G. Winchell and othere, assays over $200 perton. ‘I'he shaft is sok fifty feet and quartz bas heen crushed for the past two weeks. Humboldt Connty— From the Trivity Journal, of June 14th, we clip the following: Irwin Davis Well, down 90U feet; have struck a emall quantity of water. It ie to he rememhered that at this well they have not had any water down to this depth from ite surface..Jeffreys down 500 ‘cet and upwards, witb prospects rather imomving..The Fonner Farm, down 125 feet. some eay thie company, at this inconsiderahle \epth, have better prospects than the majority of wells operated..The Union Well yieldsa constant supply of oil, when pumped. We are not aware that they are any deeper than formerly mentioned. The Times of 23d ult., eays: The coal re‘eently discovered near Areata, is stated hy those who have tested it, to be of an excellent quality, fully eqnal to the hest Cumherlaud cnal. It ignites readily and hurns freely. Mariposa County— The traveling correspondent of the Mag, writing from Hunter's Valley, says: “La Victoire, the most famous of the copper mines here, hasa vein of ore whichis, in eome places, 160 feet wide. This mine is worth, perhaps, $3,000,000 ; hut it will not add much to the wealth of the State till the ‘ freeze-out ’ game now in progress shall be played ont.” Nevada County— The Gazette has the following items: M. W. Ross showed us some very handsome rock yesterday, taker from the Enterprise ledge, located some four miles above Omega, in this county. The rock is full ot free gold and very rich aud haudsome sulphorets..’he mill at the Star ‘Spangled Bauner mine was started up again on Monday, having been stopped for some time for the nurpose of putting in new pans. They have running now five Varney pans and two large settlers, dnd the ore is worked in the same mauner as silver ore is worked iu the mills at Virginia City..On Saturday evening last, Robert Smitb purchased of E. Henderson a one-eighth interest in the consolidated Wisconsin and Illinois claim, paying therelor $8,000. Six weeks ago, an eighth interest in the same nrine was sold for $3,200. This claim is located near the Allison Ranch..A waltzing or planetary pan, designed for the mill now heing erected by the owners of the Hureka mine, at Grizzly Ridge, was taken out to the mill yesterday..A conditional sale of the Pralus claims, at North Bloomfield, has been made for $12,000.. . Very rich specimens have heen recently taken out of the quartz ledge in the rear of the Natioual Exchange. ‘Two or three shafts have been sunk, and the ledge traced a distance of ahout filty feet. ‘Three or four tons of rock has heen raised to the surface, which we should judge would yield forty or filty dollarsaton. Itis called the Italian ledge..The Star company have now conmenced ‘‘hreasting out,” having backs sufficient to take out three or four hundred tons of rock. At the intersection of the tunnel with the ledge, they have commenced an ineliue, which) will he opened and suoplying rock by the time the ahove the tunnelis exhausted. Men were sent up a few days ago to put the mill in ronning order, and when once started itis the intention to keep it runuing without interruption. The Grass Valley Union says: From an ounce and a half of rock taken from the celebrated Stockton ledge, crushed in a common mortar yesterday morning, oue dollar and seventy-five cents was realized. Therock was not selected, but taken promiscuously trom a pile that lay on the grouud..We saw yesterday afternoon, at the office of Wells, Fargo & Co., three massive bars of gold, which had jnst been brought in from the Hureka mine. ‘hese hars or hricks were valued at ten thousand dollars each, and were the results of twelve days yield of that extraordinary claim. Vhe National haetheee items: Capt. S. W. Lee informs us that work at the Ophir mill has heen suspended fora week or tcn days, in order to make a change in the amalgamating pans and other repairs necessary..The Ione mine still continuee to yicld handsomely, ‘I'he company are now working at a depth of ahout 170 feet helow the surface of the ground, ou the second level. They intend to go ahout thirty feet further down, when they will hegin work on the third level. A gold har worth $5,000, was the result of two days’ run of the mill..A gold brick, valued at about $6,000, was shipped yesterday, from the banking house of Findley & Co., the gold hcing the proceeds of a tew days’ run from the Sncky mine. The Transcript says: A new shaft, three hy six feet has been sunk in tbe Big Blue ledge filty-five feet, and isnow opened into the old tunnel. A fine engine for hoisting and pumping is heing pnt up, which will be completed iu about three weeks. The company will then commence taking out rock..Yesterday a spleudid ledge was struck in the vicinity of Gold Flat. The rock from the croppings. shows lots of free gold. and it is estimated by those who have examiued it, tbat it will pay fifty or sixty dollars to the ton. It has heen named the P. P. ledge..S. ¥. Butterworth, Superintendent of tbe Almaden quicksilver mine; L. L. Rohinson, of Pioche & Co., and a number of capitalists, have purchased several extensive gravel claiins upon Humbug creek, near the town of North Bloomfield. One set of clainis were purchased for $200,000, and an adjoining set hrought $150,000. The Dutch Flat Lnguirer has the followiug in regard to the progress of cemeut mining iu Little York township. Doring the time that Lrown Grothers, of You Bet, have been running their mill, they have averaged ahont twenty-three hundred dollars for every ninety

honrs. Last week they cleaned pp twentythree hundred, yet there were occasions that they have realized as high as forty-five hnndred for a little over four days and nights, and we believe never less than seventeen hundred since their mill was put in good running order. Niece & West are also doing a good husiness, their claim aud mill being located near the Brown mill, and yielding equally as well, as are in fact all the mills engaged in crnshing cement. either iu the locality of Yon Bet, Red Dog or Indiana Hill, in our own eounty. : Exeristor.—The Gazette says : Five tons of Enterprise rock'has heen shipped to Swansea, on which the company received an advance in . San Francisco of $110 a ton, and five tons worked at the French mill in this place, which yielded $700, hesides the tailings. Twenty. four hundred pounds of the rock has heen sold at the mine for $1,322, or over half a dollar a pound. The Meadow Lake Sun says it is estimated that there are now eniployed in the mines of . that district over three hundred men, and it is . confidently asserted that this lorce will ewell to ) two tbousand withiu sixty days. Placer County— The Stars and Stripes,.of June. 27th, says: A shaft sunk on the Bonlder ledge, to the depth of fifty feet on the side of the hill, struck the ledge three feet wide ahout 130 feet helow the croppings. The rock looks well, the Ophir district. ‘The Herald, of the 30th, has the following : Within a few weeks, four or five different locations have heen made and companies organized, in this district, from one to two miles ‘The locators, who are all working men, and practical miuers, are confident that this section of country offers superior inducemeuts to quartz men. Plumas Coanty— The Quincy Union, of June 30th, has these items: The Crescent Company, Indian Valley, are getting large returns from thetr mine.. The Premium and Plumas ave crushing rock iu one of the Crescent Company’s mills. ‘This, also, is paying handsomely. ..Judkins & Kelloge started the old Round Vallcy: mill on Wednesday last. ‘They crush rock from the Kittle ledge, which already shows well. ..The Caledonia Company, on the ‘extension of the Kittle, are crushing their quartz iu the Dixie mill, and are getting good pay..The Green Mountain ledge, in the saine locality, is also paying well..The Wiles mill is working quartz from the old Wiles ledge, with good success..The Murphy & Company ledge, an extension of the Pcnosylvania, was lately discovered, and shows a width of nine feet, and gold visible to the naked eye..Waterworth & Tracks are rauning their mill on rock from their lower tunnel, with pay beyond their anticipations..‘The Iudian Valley Company are making hetter pay than ever heretofore. .. Bidwell & Company have sunk a shaft on their Union ledge, an extension of the Indian Valley, two hundred feet deep, and will strike the ledge in a few days.. Bidwell, Meginnis & Co., ave crushing rock from the Meginnis ledge, with fine auccess..The Cosmopolitan Copper Company, at Geuessee Valley, are within five feet of their ledge, already getting lurge lumps of rich copper sulphurets..The . Peacock Company are packing their copper ore to Chapman’s Smelting Works, which will be fired up in a short time..The Gifford Company were offered $10,000 for five-sixths of their copper ledge, a-few days since, which they refused..Lovejoy & Jackson, Kelly & Co., aud Bickford Bros., on Grizzly Creek placer mines, are all busy and doing well. Shasia County— The Courier, of June 30th, haa these items: Four new lodes have been discovered and located in South Fork district. Two of them, the Cincinnati and Tewauwan, show very rich. The first named is about Iifteen inches wide, and shows good mineral clear across and down soine three or four feet—as far as sunk.. ‘The Chicago has heen stripped over a thousand feet. Tor that distance, the ledge shows the }same as wheu first opened..The Maminoth mill will soon be ruuuing on rock from the Harrison lode, at Quartz Hill. There is already out lifty tons of first-class rock, from auy of which good prospects can be obtained by the mortar aad pau process. . Sicrva Connty— . The Downieville Aessenger, of June 30th. says: ‘here is considerable excitement at Poker Flat, over a rich quartz lead lately discovercd there. The ledge is called the Mere. dith, aud althougb the rock shows no free gold, every ounce is shown extremely rich when once crushed. .A large number of lvcations were made..The Sailor company has a tunnel in some 75 or 80 feet. ‘hey will commence crushing in a lew days..The Lone Star, at Pine Grove, hae lately got into a new range of pay that yields much richer than usual. . One day latcly one of the men found a small and the mino is one of the most promisiug in north of town, hy Nevada county prospectors. . honlder in which ahout an ounce of gold was visible, and on ponnding it tp, panned’ out one hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-nine cents..The first meeting of the Central Sierra Quartz Prospecting Association is to be held July 7th. The object of the Association is to further the quartz interests of the county io a more effeetnal manner than it is likely to he done by private enterprises. The total amount which has heen taken from the Eureka mine, 25 miles north of Downieville, is said to he over $1,400,000. Siskiyou County— The Yreka Union says: The mines ‘on Hnmbng are paying well. The ininere have plenty of water, and have made some hig “clean ups ” lately. A very richdead of gold-hearing quartz has heen discovered in Siskiyou eounty. Free gold can he seen hy the naked eye in most of the rock. The averave yield is $600 per ton in gold and $30 in silver.—_R. B. Independent. Trinity Connty— J The Journal of the 30th of Jnue says: The Pony Creek diggings, at New River, are yielding rich returns. The two Portuguese miners, who bought the claim of O’Brien and Mcllvane . last winter, for $1,200, have a regular daily income from it of filty to sixty doliare. Our oldfried Foulke is having a good time all to himself, in his claim, which is good for fifteen dollars a day. ‘ Tulare County— : . From the Havilah correspondence of the Mariposa Free Press, we gather the following items: Piper’s mill has suspended operations for a time..Several others in the vicinity are in successful operation..‘Mhe Piute district is turning out ricb..At Agna Caliente several parties are working with arastras, among them, Tangate & Worthington, tormetly of Mariposa. I visited thé Joe Walker vein this morning. ‘They are down 106 feet with their shaft, and have a goad , well-detined vein, varying in thickness from three to seven or eight feet. Tuolumne Connty— The Courier, of June 30th, has these items : Less than five tons of rock taken from the Birchfield claim, near Uniontown, last week, yielded forty-two ounces. ..The Ixcelsior nill is ‘being put in prime order hy’ Mr. Owen, who is adding another pan and settler. It will be running again ina few days..The Sonora Gold Company's new mill,on Bald Mountain, etarted up on hursday. Everything goes like a clock, and the proprietors express satislaction,..'ne Old Mississippi claim, in Wood’s Creck, has been improved in its working fucilities hy the erection of a derrick and waterpower, for hoisting. This has heen a rich placer claim..The Mount Vernon mine has of late been “giving out” after the way and manner of the days of yore. Last week we saw ten pounds of retorted gold from this nine, which was ohtained from thirteeu tons of rock. Last Tuesday we saw thirtecn ponods of the precious metal from the same source— the proceeds of fifteen tons of rock. Yuba Connty— Another engine of 60-horse power is to he added to tbe one of 30, already running in the works of the Jefferson company. NEVADA. Wrashoc— The Gold Hill News of the 23d June says: Tbe Yellow Jacket company, yesterday, in their north shaft—old works—at their 520-feet level, struck a most extraordinary and very rich deposit of ore, for the Comstock lode. Gold perforated, and was to he seen all through this rock, and its assay per ton must be enormous. _..At the Uuion mill carpenters have heen engaged for along timein getting out, framing, and otherwise ptepariug the timbers for the new hattery about being introduced in this mill. Twelve stamps are now worked, and for some time past the mill has heen running on Chollar-Potosi rock. The crushing capucity of the battery is from twelve to sixteen tous per twenty-four hours. BKeese Kiver.— The Reveille says: There is at this time hat little doing at Silver Peak; but such a condition cannot long endure. ‘here is ore here of the highest grade in surprising quantities, and easily attainable. I leara that the Grand Salt Basin company will soon commence building roasting furnaces, preparatory to starting their mill again, and expect belore another year to lay the foundation for one of the most costly reduction works in tle State, with tramways from the mines to the mill, involving an expenditnre of from one to two millions..The little 3-stamp mill at Red Mountain is again at work upon gold-hearing rock, averaging a yield of eighty dollars per ton...The New York aud Silver Peak company, it is said, are soon to commence operations upon their mill again, having, purchased in San Francisco the inachinery for a first-class 40-stamp mill.. T’be Pioneer mill was to commence on July 1st, on ore from the Lee, Potomac, ete..The machinery from the Richland mine had arrived. ..The Asteroid has au iucline down. 150 fect, and three shifts of laborers are daily em-