Volume 13 (1866) (424 pages)

150 : he Biining snd Scientific Press. —Blining Sumnary. CALIFORNIA. Aipine County— The Miner of Sept. 1st, has thesé items: The Mowyer tunnel is to he run from this oa until the ledge is cut, with an increased force. ‘Water is now coming iu nt the fuce, and the sound of water ahead gives hope tliat the lode is near at hand.Aa additional torce was this week put to the work of getting out and assorting ore from the Morning Star. .The furnaces for the Davidson mill are well under way, the superstructure and furnaces proper being finished and the main flue or cbimney more than half completed. The hight of the whole will be forty-eight feet, and it is being built in the hest manner.'‘he ledge of the Washinzton is understood to he improving in size and quality. ‘he Muuntain tuonel is being pushed ahead. The Lady Elgin company, owuing ou the Kohinour lode, are about letting a contract for seventy-five feet of tunnel. ‘The Silver Muuutain Buckeye No. 2, Maine und Pennsylvania companies, are at work with usual progress. Amador County— From the Ledger of Sept. 1st, we clip the following: The owners of the Anaconda, at Pine Grove, resumed work some two weeks since, and found rich ore from the begianing in tbe lower south drift. It has grown richer daily. Weare informed that the mine is for sale.The Coney & Bigelow mill, at this place, now under the managementof C. 'T. Meader & Co, has been refitted with Mr. Amhler’s conceatrators, aimaleamators, etc,, and is again runoing. Everything about this mill seenis like earaest work. Same paper hae an editorial again urging the point that a few hundred dollars expended in develoning a niine, is almost sure to give one @ property of many thousands. Butte County— The Appeal of 2d inst. says: We saw yes. terday » very fine specimen rock from the Sherman ledve, at Cherokee, three miles from Oroville. We had eeen other specimens from this ledge, and our confidence in its richness, after looking at this last, is greatly increased. The owners, Messrs. Binney, Kimball, aud others, have a sinall prospecting mill on the ledge, aad feel greatly encouraged. : Calaveras County— : The Courier of Ist of September says : The Gold Hunter, in which sucb a very rich etrike was made last week, is uader process of thorough development, being worked night and day. We have conversed with reliable persous who have facilities tur beiag thoroughly posted in the mine, and the deduction is that the reports are correct, and that the Guld Hunter is indeed a “ big thing.”..Frow present indicatioas, the Fair Play, located near Saa Andreas, will prove very rich at ao very distant day. The company have an arastra at work crushing rock which yields twelve dollars to the hundred pounds, or $240 per ton. The workmen in the quartz claim of Wm. Irvine, at El Dorado, says the Register of the 28th, strack some very rich rock during the past week. ‘hey have drilted some forty feet north ou the lead, and from two blaste, it is believed that the rock taken out will yield three thousand dollare. The Chronicle says of the West Point mines: Barnes & Karstner cleaaed op $4.500, the result of sixty five tons of rock taken from their lowest tunnel, 150 teet below tbe surface. After working the lead some seventy feet deep, the value of the ore decreased trom $100 to fourteea dollars per ton, but still paying the owners a handsome profit.. Carlton & Co, have a vein six iaches wide, prospecting $200 per ton. .Gouldson & Co. have struck a vein described as “‘bully”.. Wilson & Matthews are profitably working a veia Irom two to four iaches in width; the rock will pay $130 per ton. Fields & Uo are still siuking ; the vein is fifteen inches wide at the depth of fifty feet, and will probably yield $70 per ton. * * “Ip view of the natural facilities ass'sting the ininer, the high quality of ore extracted. and the enormous net yield of mining operations, the quartz nines in the vicinity of West Point are probably second to none on this coast.” Humboldt County— Mattole correspondence of the Times, dated August 20th, says: ‘The Davis well haa attained a depth of 1,180 feet; the Jeffrey well 840—indications in bott unclinnged, except, perhaps, a little more gas than usual. ‘The #onner Farm is progressing finely. very one agrees that prospects here are very flattering. Some of thestock in the Yosemite has changed hands, and the company are going to resume work iinmediase'y.The Uuion Mattole Oil company has levied an assessment of fifteen dollars per share on all the shares of stock assessable as well as unassessahle of the com pauy. Kern County— The Havilah Courier of the 25th has the following items: Tbe Soyola mill will soon he -about two anda half tons. } from recent experiments upon the large piles at work upon the ore from the Delphi.We are continually hearing of tbe discovery of new leads in the various mining districts of the county. ‘The latest discoveries have heen made 10 the new Washington District, on Kern River, and they are represented as being very rich. Claims are duubly valuable on this river, because of the great water-power it affords. Probahly the fucilities for water-) power mills are better on Kern river than any place ia the State. Same paper of September Ist, says :—Mr. Joseph Ruberts of Long ‘Tom District, superinteadent of the Log Tom Mine and Mill, vives very flattering accounts of that section of our county.Some fine specimens of rock from the Delphi mine, taken at the depth of one hundred teet, were left witb us and _prospected well. Some ore from the. Washingtou fode, in the Rio Bravo district, discuvered by John Poe, also showed a fine prospect.The Cape Horn has beeu opened to the depth ol forty-two feet, and shows a lode of three feet in thickness. It bids fair te prove the best inine ot the “ Bigler Purchase.” ‘The French Friend shows a ledge of two leet at tbe depth of forty.The new mill of tbe. Rand compauy is coinpleted, and is at work croshing the ore lrou the Relief and Fame lodes. ‘Ihe former bas a ledge of four leet at the depth of. two hundred feet. .'the Jupiter company are energetically at work upon their mine. ‘Vheir No. 2 is seventy five feet in depth,and the vein trom two tu six feet in width. The tunnel is in two hundred and tweaty feet. ‘Twenty feet more will strike the ledge at the depth of one bundred and fifty feet..“be Venus is in sixty feet. with a three-foot vein. Rock yielded $38 per ton.'‘’he Delphi lode has! beea sunk upon to the depth of three hundred feet. Vein averages nver lour leet. ‘Vhis will, we predict, prove a valuable mine. It has ju-t been opened. A large quantity of rock has heea worked, all of which paid well. This and the Countess of Tyroae are owned by McKeadney, ‘lreadwell and others.. Yhe Bamboo and Boomerang lodes, owned by James Eldridge, are promising. The latter is three feet thick. Several crushings from it gave a result of $25 to $30 per ton. A letter to the ‘lulare Times of September Ist, says :—T'he Long ‘fom company have a tea-stamp mill, about one fourth of a mile from the mine,and crushing Irom fifteen to eighteen tons per day. ’be ledge is one ol the lnrgest aad finest . have ever seen, and from what the Superintendent tells me, and from tbe “prospects” I have inade froin it, pays better than auy in Southern Califoruia. The} main shaft is aow down 165 feet on tbe ledge. They are driving their work, sinking, drifting and stopeing night and day. Last week the gale ol a one-balf interest in the Isabella, . Mary Wallace wine was made to a San Francisco capitalist. This ledge is ahout one mile north of the Long Tom, and is very rich. A sale of tall of the Rohert E. Johnson mine was made last week. ‘This claim is but a lew rods seuth of the Loug ‘Tom, fas paid from $25 to $90 per ton,and has been worked avout five months. ‘The Mary McDonald mine, ahout one-fourth of a mile south of the Long ‘Ton, has been worked successfully and profitably for the past fifteen months. Klamath County— The Humboldt Times of Aagust 25th, says « The Red Cap Copper Mining Compuny have just received another installment of ore from their clnim in Klamath county, in quantity The quality ol this ore is still very superior. ‘I'bere is hut little doubt now tbat they have a claim of great valne. One thiag is certain, the ore they are taking from it is of surpassiag ricbness. Mariposa County— * William T. Bourne, who was sent on from New York by the compaay now running the Fremont estate, reports August 3d on his return, after having speat two and a half months on the estate, that he finds it an extremely valuable property, and that the company would be warranted in making an immediate appropriation for its furtherdevelopment. He names each of the mines in tnra, and states that every one of these can be made to pay at once. with but a small outlay. He says there are 150 stamps in good working order, capable of crushing 250 tons per day. He alludes “to a new process introduced at the Benton mills during his visit, by which it is claimed that a yield of $28 per ton was obtained from rock which as previously worked, would not pay expenses, and recomiaends its introduction at the other mills on the estate. He states that of tailings at the different mills, it is evident tbat the owners of the property bnve in sight at least oae million of dollars, which can be realized at a cost of less thaa one-half that amount. Nevada County— From the Gazette we clip tbe following items; Captain Fleming, wbo some time since resunied work on lis ledge, has struck through into the works of the Italian Company. We were shown, yesterday, a specimen of very rich sulphuret ore from Fleming's tnonel..We understand that a rich strike was made recently in the incline of the Union ledge. ‘The rock taken out the past two or three days shows much tree gold, and will pay largely.'‘[he name of the Star Spangled Banner Mine has heen changed to “ Banner.” .-The shaft in the Fox Copper inine is down 45 feet. has been struck.We saw yesterday (Sept. lst) some extraordinary rich specimens of gold bealing quartz. They came Ironia ledge belonging to Lethe & Cressy, aear Wood's ravine. Some fifteen or twenty pounds of the rock, hronght ia from the ledge yesterday, we should thiok would pay five or six dollars a. pound, and we are informed that a lnrge tub tull of the saine kind had been taken from the mine.Arrangements have heen made for erecting listing works on the Mattingly ledge.'The certificate of incorporation of Ancient River Channel Blue Gravel Mining Coinpany has been filed in the Clerk’s office at San Francisco. ‘The claim of this company is situated on the Chalk Bluff ridge, commencing at the upper end of the claim of the Chalk Bluff Conipany, and extending up the ridge ten miles. Tbe locators, D. O. McCarthy, and others, will comnieuee operatioas at Bear ValJey, aud siuk for the bottom of the ancient channel. Tne Grass Valley Union of August 30th, says: The Washington ledge on the Ben Franklin Will, is looking better than ever. An interest of one hundred feet was sold during the present week for $1,500 cash,and the trade is here regarded as an excellent one for the purchaser. The same has a series of articles cntitled “ Our Title-Regulators.” The series extends through former issues, and handles rouglily tbose who. make it their business to throw doubt upon titles, and to trump up bogus or hring forward obsolete claims to mining eround. ‘Lhe editor says: “ Go in whatever direction you may from Grass Valley—for our town is a center-set jewel in quartz and gold— discover a ledge, commence working on it, and if it shows the least indication of being rich, yon either at once have a lawsuit to fight, or you are cajoled or frighteaed into giving up your location.” A paid wituess makes oath to the twenty days’ work yearly required by law, and you are either ousted or black-mailed. “These uuprincipled adveaturers have done much toward retarding the prosperity of our mines. We have it on good autbority, that a gentlemen representing oae of the heaviest moneyed firms in the East, who has twice visited Crass Valley with the intention of 1uvesting in our quartz mines, left the town in disgust, hecause in almost every case he had the assurance of somes ‘knowing oaes’ that he was about to purchase [or himself an extensive lawsuit or series of lawsuits.” The National has these items: The ledge was struck this morning in the northern extension of the Ophir mine on Ophir Hill. .The old shaft,in the Ophir, which is now nearly six hundred feet deep, is yielding some beautilul rock, most every piece containing more or less gold visible to the eye. ‘The new shaft is now some three hundred and twenty-five teet deep and is producing some very pretty rock. At Osborne Hitl, Woodworth & Co.are now down on their ledge about three bundred and forty feet. In tbe incline rock is now being taken out ore which yields about $115 to the ton. The Transcript learns that an exccedingly tich ledge waa struck near Allison’s Ranch on Satarday, August 18th. The vein is six inches wide, and is nearly one-third gold. It is called the Red White and Blue. Exceisior.—The Gazette says: A number of Meadow Lakers have been sojourning in Nevada for the past few days, and bring, on the whole, favorahle reports of the iainiog prospects of the township, ‘be transient population, aad those who went there to speculate and buy and sell stocks, have inostly left, while the mine owners in general, having giyen up the idea of making sudden fortunes, have gone to work systematically to develop aad prove the value of their claims. The fvllowing items are from the Sun of Ang. 30th: Tne Excelsior mill starts up on next Monday. The machinery is being rapidly put in readiness. . Bullion, to the amount ol $1,716.37, from tbe Western Company, Pennsylvania ledge, near Carlisle, was received here lor sh pmeut yesterday.The Moscow Company, Moscow ledge, in the immediate vicinity ol the Pacific, are sinking a shalt. ‘They have gone down only about six feet, hut have made alrangements to descead forty feet lower. The mine prospects well.Tbe Pacilic Company. Pacific ledge, have a working shalt down forty feet. The campuny is ruaaiug a drift along the ledge from the bottom of the shalt, in a southeasterly directioa, and are taking out an abundance of ricb ore..'The Galena Company are inaking a cut across their ledge. Placer County— The Stars and Stripes ot Sept. 5th bas these items: ‘The Norfolk company, whose Ore averaging thirty per cent. claini is located near Ophir, are hard at work, and taking out some very fine rock. Walters has takea uut of his claim in the saine vicinity about a hundred tons of eplendid rnck, and frequently picks up fine specimens rich with free gold.. Twenty-bve tons of rock—selected as the poorest taken from the ledge— from the Civil Rights claim, have just becn crushed at Welty’s steam mill, below Ophir, and the yield is some four or five ounces of free gold, and ahout 600 pounds of sulphurets, valued at from $500 to $600.The Wells’ lead at Bald Hill is an exten-ion of the famons “Green Jimigrant,” and, in the language of oae of the lortunate locators, is “the hizgest thing in the county,” according to preseat appearances. The company sunk a shnit on tha ledge to tbe depth of eigbteen feet, following the casing down beside the ledge, and on Monday put ina blast to the depth olf fifteen incbes, which displaced a large quantity ol rich rock, but did not go through the ledge. Plumas County—-: The National of Sept. 1st says: We learn that Mr. H. C. Bidwell, who has been sinking a shaft upon the’ Unioa ledge. in Iudian Valley, has struck the ledge, and discovered an excellent prospect. Letter to same from North Fork. dated August 27th, las these items: QOshorn & Brewer’s claim is paying wages.. Ball, Brown & Co. are not down vet, but will strike bed rock this week.. Richards, Self & Co. have strnck bed rock and obtained good prospects. Morris & Clarke have the hest claim on the river, if not in the county. ‘Their claiin is paying one ounce per day to the hund.. The French company have beer taking out large pay—as much as $3,000 per week—hut it weakened on them a little the last week. The Jaw Bone company have taken ont some good pay, obtaining as high as five dollars to the pac.Lynn, Cook & Co. are on bed rock making wages.. Levatt & Davis struck big pay, ranning out $4 in ove ufternoon.. Benham, Wagner & Co. are taking out good nay in the old Vansickle claim. .'Thompson, Reed & Co. are still piping in the Osborn ravine, and expect to make a big clean-np in a short time.. At ‘T'welve-Mile Bar, York, Messner & Co. hinve iu 400 feet of flume. ‘Yhey have just got their claim dry, and expect to do well..Qn Ding Bat, Kiser & Co. are still piping..On the Yo'rey Hill, Hallsteud & Davis lave strippe@ two or three acres of hed rock. but have not cleaned up yet.Rich Gulch has dried up for the season. The correspondent of the Appeal, under date of August 23d, from Nelsoa Point, says: Richard & White are not down yet. They have three large pumps running, which does not keep the water out. Shubert & Co., in Nelson Creek, are wasbing tailings and all, from top to hotton. I hear that it pays well. Some of the Celestials have worked out their first claims, and now have other wing-dams in. Bonner & Haidy’s hydraulic claim, at Chip Flat, has proved a fizzle. San Bernardino County— We clip the following from the Los Angeles News of Augnst 21st: Our townsman, Mr. P. Beaudry, one of our largest and most enterprising merchants, has hrought from the Rochester mine, siluated in the Slate Range district, gold bullion weighing twenty-three ponndg, of a value of $4,410, the product of 120 tons of quartz, showing aa average of $35 per ton. The mine is located in the most western portion of San Bernardino county, Slate Range district, about one hundred and filty miles from Los Angeles. ‘This mine has beea in product for nearly four years, aad above 5,500 tons has heen reduced on an average of $16 per ton, but through the many improvements, incident expenses for roads and running tnnnels, the owners berame embarrassed, and this miae, with the Albany, Cattarangus, Knickerhocker and Philadelphia, known as the Rochester Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Conipaay, with all its appurtenances, thirteenstamp steam mill, ete., were sold by the Sheriff on tbe 10th of February last, to Mr. P. Beaudry, whostook possession and was appointed receiver hy the Conrt, until the expiratioa of its redemptiou which was until the lutb of August. Shasta County— The Courier of Sept. Ist, gives these items : Mr. L. A. Kelly has just completed a 4 stamp mill on one of the Jollie ledges, at Muletown, and will commence crushing rock immediately. .The assay from the two tons of Mammoth reck, spuken of last week, showed a resalt of $202.The Potosi is doing better than its most sanguine stockholders anticipated. After erushing thirty-five tons of rock, the superintendent partially cleaned up, with a resnlt of $1,987.18.Among the mnny mining enterprises inaugurated of late in Shasta couuty, one of the most notahle is the Horse Shoe Beud, on the Sacramento river, about thirty niles above here. At this place the river makes a hend of about three niles in the shape of a horse shoe. At the “ heel” is a mountain 500 feet through. A company was organized last yeur for the purpose of tunneling througb

150 : he Biining snd Scientific Press. —Blining Sumnary. CALIFORNIA. Aipine County— The Miner of Sept. 1st, has thesé items: The Mowyer tunnel is to he run from this oa until the ledge is cut, with an increased force. ‘Water is now coming iu nt the fuce, and the sound of water ahead gives hope tliat the lode is near at hand..Aa additional torce was this week put to the work of getting out and assorting ore from the Morning Star.. .The furnaces for the Davidson mill are well under way, the superstructure and furnaces proper being finished and the main flue or cbimney more than half completed. The hight of the whole will be forty-eight feet, and it is being built in the hest manner..'‘he ledge of the Washinzton is understood to he improving in size and quality. ‘he Muuntain tuonel is being pushed ahead. The Lady Elgin company, owuing ou the Kohinour lode, are about letting a contract for seventy-five feet of tunnel. ‘The Silver Muuutain Buckeye No. 2, Maine und Pennsylvania companies, are at work with usual progress. Amador County— From the Ledger of Sept. 1st, we clip the following: The owners of the Anaconda, at Pine Grove, resumed work some two weeks since, and found rich ore from the begianing in tbe lower south drift. It has grown richer daily. Weare informed that the mine is for sale..The Coney & Bigelow mill, at this place, now under the managementof C. 'T. Meader & Co, has been refitted with Mr. Amhler’s conceatrators, aimaleamators, etc,, and is again runoing. Everything about this mill seenis like earaest work. Same paper hae an editorial again urging the point that a few hundred dollars expended in develoning a niine, is almost sure to give one @ property of many thousands. Butte County— The Appeal of 2d inst. says: We saw yes. terday » very fine specimen rock from the Sherman ledve, at Cherokee, three miles from Oroville. We had eeen other specimens from this ledge, and our confidence in its richness, after looking at this last, is greatly increased. The owners, Messrs. Binney, Kimball, aud others, have a sinall prospecting mill on the ledge, aad feel greatly encouraged. : Calaveras County— : The Courier of Ist of September says : The Gold Hunter, in which sucb a very rich etrike was made last week, is uader process of thorough development, being worked night and day. We have conversed with reliable persous who have facilities tur beiag thoroughly posted in the mine, and the deduction is that the reports are correct, and that the Guld Hunter is indeed a “ big thing.”...Frow present indicatioas, the Fair Play, located near Saa Andreas, will prove very rich at ao very distant day. The company have an arastra at work crushing rock which yields twelve dollars to the hundred pounds, or $240 per ton. The workmen in the quartz claim of Wm. Irvine, at El Dorado, says the Register of the 28th, strack some very rich rock during the past week. ‘hey have drilted some forty feet north ou the lead, and from two blaste, it is believed that the rock taken out will yield three thousand dollare. The Chronicle says of the West Point mines: Barnes & Karstner cleaaed op $4.500, the result of sixty five tons of rock taken from their lowest tunnel, 150 teet below tbe surface. After working the lead some seventy feet deep, the value of the ore decreased trom $100 to fourteea dollars per ton, but still paying the owners a handsome profit... Carlton & Co, have a vein six iaches wide, prospecting $200 per ton.. .Gouldson & Co. have struck a vein described as “‘bully”... Wilson & Matthews are profitably working a veia Irom two to four iaches in width; the rock will pay $130 per ton. Fields & Uo are still siuking ; the vein is fifteen inches wide at the depth of fifty feet, and will probably yield $70 per ton. * * “Ip view of the natural facilities ass'sting the ininer, the high quality of ore extracted. and the enormous net yield of mining operations, the quartz nines in the vicinity of West Point are probably second to none on this coast.” Humboldt County— Mattole correspondence of the Times, dated August 20th, says: ‘The Davis well haa attained a depth of 1,180 feet; the Jeffrey well 840—indications in bott unclinnged, except, perhaps, a little more gas than usual. ‘The #onner Farm is progressing finely. very one agrees that prospects here are very flattering. Some of thestock in the Yosemite has changed hands, and the company are going to resume work iinmediase'y..The Uuion Mattole Oil company has levied an assessment of fifteen dollars per share on all the shares of stock assessable as well as unassessahle of the com pauy. Kern County— The Havilah Courier of the 25th has the following items: Tbe Soyola mill will soon he -about two anda half tons. } from recent experiments upon the large piles at work upon the ore from the Delphi..We are continually hearing of tbe discovery of new leads in the various mining districts of the county. ‘The latest discoveries have heen made 10 the new Washington District, on Kern River, and they are represented as being very rich. Claims are duubly valuable on this river, because of the great water-power it affords. Probahly the fucilities for water-) power mills are better on Kern river than any place ia the State. Same paper of September Ist, says :—Mr. Joseph Ruberts of Long ‘Tom District, superinteadent of the Log Tom Mine and Mill, vives very flattering accounts of that section of our county..Some fine specimens of rock from the Delphi mine, taken at the depth of one hundred teet, were left witb us and _prospected well. Some ore from the. Washingtou fode, in the Rio Bravo district, discuvered by John Poe, also showed a fine prospect..The Cape Horn has beeu opened to the depth ol forty-two feet, and shows a lode of three feet in thickness. It bids fair te prove the best inine ot the “ Bigler Purchase.” ‘The French Friend shows a ledge of two leet at tbe depth of forty..The new mill of tbe. Rand compauy is coinpleted, and is at work croshing the ore lrou the Relief and Fame lodes. ‘Ihe former bas a ledge of four leet at the depth of. two hundred feet.. .'the Jupiter company are energetically at work upon their mine. ‘Vheir No. 2 is seventy five feet in depth,and the vein trom two tu six feet in width. The tunnel is in two hundred and tweaty feet. ‘Twenty feet more will strike the ledge at the depth of one bundred and fifty feet...“be Venus is in sixty feet. with a three-foot vein. Rock yielded $38 per ton..'‘’he Delphi lode has! beea sunk upon to the depth of three hundred feet. Vein averages nver lour leet. ‘Vhis will, we predict, prove a valuable mine. It has ju-t been opened. A large quantity of rock has heea worked, all of which paid well. This and the Countess of Tyroae are owned by McKeadney, ‘lreadwell and others... Yhe Bamboo and Boomerang lodes, owned by James Eldridge, are promising. The latter is three feet thick. Several crushings from it gave a result of $25 to $30 per ton. A letter to the ‘lulare Times of September Ist, says :—T'he Long ‘fom company have a tea-stamp mill, about one fourth of a mile from the mine,and crushing Irom fifteen to eighteen tons per day. ’be ledge is one ol the lnrgest aad finest . have ever seen, and from what the Superintendent tells me, and from tbe “prospects” I have inade froin it, pays better than auy in Southern Califoruia. The} main shaft is aow down 165 feet on tbe ledge. They are driving their work, sinking, drifting and stopeing night and day. Last week the gale ol a one-balf interest in the Isabella, . Mary Wallace wine was made to a San Francisco capitalist. This ledge is ahout one mile north of the Long Tom, and is very rich. A sale of tall of the Rohert E. Johnson mine was made last week. ‘This claim is but a lew rods seuth of the Loug ‘Tom, fas paid from $25 to $90 per ton,and has been worked avout five months. ‘The Mary McDonald mine, ahout one-fourth of a mile south of the Long ‘Ton, has been worked successfully and profitably for the past fifteen months. Klamath County— The Humboldt Times of Aagust 25th, says « The Red Cap Copper Mining Compuny have just received another installment of ore from their clnim in Klamath county, in quantity The quality ol this ore is still very superior. ‘I'bere is hut little doubt now tbat they have a claim of great valne. One thiag is certain, the ore they are taking from it is of surpassiag ricbness. Mariposa County— * William T. Bourne, who was sent on from New York by the compaay now running the Fremont estate, reports August 3d on his return, after having speat two and a half months on the estate, that he finds it an extremely valuable property, and that the company would be warranted in making an immediate appropriation for its furtherdevelopment. He names each of the mines in tnra, and states that every one of these can be made to pay at once. with but a small outlay. He says there are 150 stamps in good working order, capable of crushing 250 tons per day. He alludes “to a new process introduced at the Benton mills during his visit, by which it is claimed that a yield of $28 per ton was obtained from rock which as previously worked, would not pay expenses, and recomiaends its introduction at the other mills on the estate. He states that of tailings at the different mills, it is evident tbat the owners of the property bnve in sight at least oae million of dollars, which can be realized at a cost of less thaa one-half that amount. Nevada County— From the Gazette we clip tbe following

items; Captain Fleming, wbo some time since resunied work on lis ledge, has struck through into the works of the Italian Company. We were shown, yesterday, a specimen of very rich sulphuret ore from Fleming's tnonel...We understand that a rich strike was made recently in the incline of the Union ledge. ‘The rock taken out the past two or three days shows much tree gold, and will pay largely..'‘[he name of the Star Spangled Banner Mine has heen changed to “ Banner.” ..-The shaft in the Fox Copper inine is down 45 feet. has been struck..We saw yesterday (Sept. lst) some extraordinary rich specimens of gold bealing quartz. They came Ironia ledge belonging to Lethe & Cressy, aear Wood's ravine. Some fifteen or twenty pounds of the rock, hronght ia from the ledge yesterday, we should thiok would pay five or six dollars a. pound, and we are informed that a lnrge tub tull of the saine kind had been taken from the mine..Arrangements have heen made for erecting listing works on the Mattingly ledge..'The certificate of incorporation of Ancient River Channel Blue Gravel Mining Coinpany has been filed in the Clerk’s office at San Francisco. ‘The claim of this company is situated on the Chalk Bluff ridge, commencing at the upper end of the claim of the Chalk Bluff Conipany, and extending up the ridge ten miles. Tbe locators, D. O. McCarthy, and others, will comnieuee operatioas at Bear ValJey, aud siuk for the bottom of the ancient channel. Tne Grass Valley Union of August 30th, says: The Washington ledge on the Ben Franklin Will, is looking better than ever. An interest of one hundred feet was sold during the present week for $1,500 cash,and the trade is here regarded as an excellent one for the purchaser. The same has a series of articles cntitled “ Our Title-Regulators.” The series extends through former issues, and handles rouglily tbose who. make it their business to throw doubt upon titles, and to trump up bogus or hring forward obsolete claims to mining eround. ‘Lhe editor says: “ Go in whatever direction you may from Grass Valley—for our town is a center-set jewel in quartz and gold— discover a ledge, commence working on it, and if it shows the least indication of being rich, yon either at once have a lawsuit to fight, or you are cajoled or frighteaed into giving up your location.” A paid wituess makes oath to the twenty days’ work yearly required by law, and you are either ousted or black-mailed. “These uuprincipled adveaturers have done much toward retarding the prosperity of our mines. We have it on good autbority, that a gentlemen representing oae of the heaviest moneyed firms in the East, who has twice visited Crass Valley with the intention of 1uvesting in our quartz mines, left the town in disgust, hecause in almost every case he had the assurance of somes ‘knowing oaes’ that he was about to purchase [or himself an extensive lawsuit or series of lawsuits.” The National has these items: The ledge was struck this morning in the northern extension of the Ophir mine on Ophir Hill.. .The old shaft,in the Ophir, which is now nearly six hundred feet deep, is yielding some beautilul rock, most every piece containing more or less gold visible to the eye. ‘The new shaft is now some three hundred and twenty-five teet deep and is producing some very pretty rock.. At Osborne Hitl, Woodworth & Co.are now down on their ledge about three bundred and forty feet. In tbe incline rock is now being taken out ore which yields about $115 to the ton. The Transcript learns that an exccedingly tich ledge waa struck near Allison’s Ranch on Satarday, August 18th. The vein is six inches wide, and is nearly one-third gold. It is called the Red White and Blue. Exceisior.—The Gazette says: A number of Meadow Lakers have been sojourning in Nevada for the past few days, and bring, on the whole, favorahle reports of the iainiog prospects of the township, ‘be transient population, aad those who went there to speculate and buy and sell stocks, have inostly left, while the mine owners in general, having giyen up the idea of making sudden fortunes, have gone to work systematically to develop aad prove the value of their claims. The fvllowing items are from the Sun of Ang. 30th: Tne Excelsior mill starts up on next Monday. The machinery is being rapidly put in readiness.. . Bullion, to the amount ol $1,716.37, from tbe Western Company, Pennsylvania ledge, near Carlisle, was received here lor sh pmeut yesterday..The Moscow Company, Moscow ledge, in the immediate vicinity ol the Pacific, are sinking a shalt. ‘They have gone down only about six feet, hut have made alrangements to descead forty feet lower. The mine prospects well..Tbe Pacilic Company. Pacific ledge, have a working shalt down forty feet. The campuny is ruaaiug a drift along the ledge from the bottom of the shalt, in a southeasterly directioa, and are taking out an abundance of ricb ore...'The Galena Company are inaking a cut across their ledge. Placer County— The Stars and Stripes ot Sept. 5th bas these items: ‘The Norfolk company, whose Ore averaging thirty per cent. claini is located near Ophir, are hard at work, and taking out some very fine rock. Walters has takea uut of his claim in the saine vicinity about a hundred tons of eplendid rnck, and frequently picks up fine specimens rich with free gold... Twenty-bve tons of rock—selected as the poorest taken from the ledge— from the Civil Rights claim, have just becn crushed at Welty’s steam mill, below Ophir, and the yield is some four or five ounces of free gold, and ahout 600 pounds of sulphurets, valued at from $500 to $600..The Wells’ lead at Bald Hill is an exten-ion of the famons “Green Jimigrant,” and, in the language of oae of the lortunate locators, is “the hizgest thing in the county,” according to preseat appearances. The company sunk a shnit on tha ledge to tbe depth of eigbteen feet, following the casing down beside the ledge, and on Monday put ina blast to the depth olf fifteen incbes, which displaced a large quantity ol rich rock, but did not go through the ledge. Plumas County—-: The National of Sept. 1st says: We learn that Mr. H. C. Bidwell, who has been sinking a shaft upon the’ Unioa ledge. in Iudian Valley, has struck the ledge, and discovered an excellent prospect. Letter to same from North Fork. dated August 27th, las these items: QOshorn & Brewer’s claim is paying wages... Ball, Brown & Co. are not down vet, but will strike bed rock this week... Richards, Self & Co. have strnck bed rock and obtained good prospects.. Morris & Clarke have the hest claim on the river, if not in the county. ‘Their claiin is paying one ounce per day to the hund... The French company have beer taking out large pay—as much as $3,000 per week—hut it weakened on them a little the last week. The Jaw Bone company have taken ont some good pay, obtaining as high as five dollars to the pac..Lynn, Cook & Co. are on bed rock making wages... Levatt & Davis struck big pay, ranning out $4 in ove ufternoon... Benham, Wagner & Co. are taking out good nay in the old Vansickle claim.. .'Thompson, Reed & Co. are still piping in the Osborn ravine, and expect to make a big clean-np in a short time... At ‘T'welve-Mile Bar, York, Messner & Co. hinve iu 400 feet of flume. ‘Yhey have just got their claim dry, and expect to do well...Qn Ding Bat, Kiser & Co. are still piping...On the Yo'rey Hill, Hallsteud & Davis lave strippe@ two or three acres of hed rock. but have not cleaned up yet..Rich Gulch has dried up for the season. The correspondent of the Appeal, under date of August 23d, from Nelsoa Point, says: Richard & White are not down yet. They have three large pumps running, which does not keep the water out. Shubert & Co., in Nelson Creek, are wasbing tailings and all, from top to hotton. I hear that it pays well. Some of the Celestials have worked out their first claims, and now have other wing-dams in. Bonner & Haidy’s hydraulic claim, at Chip Flat, has proved a fizzle. San Bernardino County— We clip the following from the Los Angeles News of Augnst 21st: Our townsman, Mr. P. Beaudry, one of our largest and most enterprising merchants, has hrought from the Rochester mine, siluated in the Slate Range district, gold bullion weighing twenty-three ponndg, of a value of $4,410, the product of 120 tons of quartz, showing aa average of $35 per ton. The mine is located in the most western portion of San Bernardino county, Slate Range district, about one hundred and filty miles from Los Angeles. ‘This mine has beea in product for nearly four years, aad above 5,500 tons has heen reduced on an average of $16 per ton, but through the many improvements, incident expenses for roads and running tnnnels, the owners berame embarrassed, and this miae, with the Albany, Cattarangus, Knickerhocker and Philadelphia, known as the Rochester Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Conipaay, with all its appurtenances, thirteenstamp steam mill, ete., were sold by the Sheriff on tbe 10th of February last, to Mr. P. Beaudry, whostook possession and was appointed receiver hy the Conrt, until the expiratioa of its redemptiou which was until the lutb of August. Shasta County— The Courier of Sept. Ist, gives these items : Mr. L. A. Kelly has just completed a 4 stamp mill on one of the Jollie ledges, at Muletown, and will commence crushing rock immediately. ..The assay from the two tons of Mammoth reck, spuken of last week, showed a resalt of $202..The Potosi is doing better than its most sanguine stockholders anticipated. After erushing thirty-five tons of rock, the superintendent partially cleaned up, with a resnlt of $1,987.18..Among the mnny mining enterprises inaugurated of late in Shasta couuty, one of the most notahle is the Horse Shoe Beud, on the Sacramento river, about thirty niles above here. At this place the river makes a hend of about three niles in the shape of a horse shoe. At the “ heel” is a mountain 500 feet through. A company was organized last yeur for the purpose of tunneling througb