Volume 13 (1866) (424 pages)

198 Be Blining and Scientific Press. Mining Summary. CALIFORNIA. Alpine County— From the Afiner of Sept. 22d, we clip the following : In the Schenectady, the week has been principally“occupied in clearing out the old tunnel and getting ready for operations in the face. Six meu are at work.In the American, the vein of gray and black ore is from ten to twelve feet in thickness. Assays of the ore vary from $56 to $128 per ton. It is believed that work will soon be commenced on the I. X. L. clain.Most of the machinery for the mill at Davidson’s has arrived. .Some time since a claim was located on a ledge lying four or five hundred feet east of the Buckeye No. 2 and called the Accacia. Mr. 0. F. Thornton, in examining this lode, recently found some very fine specimens of quartz, bearing ruby silver nnd ntiargyrite in large quantities, one sample asseying over one hundred dollars per ton. In Silver Mountain district, the contractors on the Kohinoor yesterday struck a stream of water and are appnrently in close proximity to the ledge.The Washington company are pushing nhead on their ledge and taking out seme very fine ore. . Work has heen resumed on the Balaklava.The Mountain, Pennsylvania, Buckeye No. 2, X-10-U-8, Maine aud Olive Branch are all working. The New York purchasers ofthe James Barrett company’s lodes will soon opeu them, The Silver Mountain Bulletin of snme date says:. ‘he Maine company cut their ledge last week, bnt the point intersected being immediately under the bed of a ravine it was somewhat broken up. We learn that they will commence drilting south in a few days. Two shifts are being worked in the George ‘Washington claim, taking out pay rock. The ledge is increasing in thickness, and the ore in quality as they penetrate the mountain. The lower level is at a depth from the surface of obout two hondred feet. Amador County— ij The Ledger of the 22d inst., has the following: The owners of the William wine, near Sutter Creek have, at last, been rewarded for their perseverance—they have found a lode that pays teu to twelve dollars a ton. . Billy Smith & Co.,on the first north extension of the Uuion mine, are now down sixty-five feet, have a large vein, and a recent crushing paid eight dollars.The My Mary Ann Co., at Pine grove, cleaned up a ruu of forty odd tons, the other day, that paid ncarly.sixtecn dollars to the ton. . I'he Union, near the same place, have again resumed operations, and will sink their shaft fifty feet deeper.The Paugh lode is looking fine. The shaft is now down below a permanent water level—ninety-five feet—and the ore looks better than ever. ‘The mill will be ready for work the coming week. .-The Independent is the name of a-new mine between the Paugh and Clinton. The main shaft is down about eighty-five feet, and some of the ‘rock appears well.The Ana conda, Golden Kagle, Italian, and others, arc all in a prospering condition, yielding an abundance of frce ores.he Railroad, at Sutter, has fnlfilled all our predictions. Shares are now worth on/y teu thonsand dollars. Extensive steam hoisting works are under way. Eagon & Co., of Fiddletown, have commenced work on the old Slaughter House Gulch lode, long siuce abandoned by the original owners, and are taking out exceedingly rich quartz. ‘Uhey are uow hauling rock to the Richmond mill forthe purpose of having it crushed..[n the Newton mine, last week, at the depth of two hundred and fifty-five feet, in the lower tunnel, they struck a vein of exceedingly rich ore, six leet wide. ‘he owners, C. T. Meader & Co., have erected steam-hoisting works on the niine, and are takiug out large quantities of ore which is shipped to Sano Francisco. Quite a towu is growing up in the vicinity of the mine. Butte County— { The Record of Sept. 22d, has the following items: ‘he wing dam of J. Clark & Co., on Feather river, near White Rock, is proving very rich, yielding as high as 25 and 30 ounces of dust per day. . We understand that a ledge yielding some exccllent surface quartz, has been found near the Buffulo ranch, iu Wyaudotte township. The Appeal of 25th. says: Mr. Kneeland, Supériutendent of the quartz mill on the Sher wan ledge, near Oroville, exhibited to me on Saturday several very rich specimens of quartz rock. * Humboldt Coanty— . The Times’ correspondent of September 15th says: Mr. John V. Hunter has returned from San Francisco with orders to resume operations at the Davis well, and is now engaged in erecting more substantial machinery for that purpose. Work will doubtless be continued here as long as they have any indications whatever of oil.Mr. Wentworth bas purchased the machinery of the Jeffrey company. He will now commence operations in another locality.Work will be suspended at the Fenner Farm well after to-day, for a short time, in order to get machinery. It has attained the depth of 300 feet—indicatious excellent. A meeting was called ofall citizens interested in the Elumboldt oil matters, the object of which was to cousolidate interests, and orgaaize for a therough test for oil. Kern County— The Havilah Courier of 22d says: The Pioneer mill, which has been idle for the last two weeks, commenced crushing rock on Monday last. Messrs. Taylor & Erskin now have an interest in the mill. They crush reck lrom the . Unele Abe ledge, and will shortly operate on that from the Boomerang. Mr. John F. Tulley and friend struck a very ich vein of quartz, not long since, in the new Washingtdn district, on Kern river. ‘They have already taken out a dozeu tous of what is prenounced “hundred dollar rock,” which will speedily be run through an arastra. Los Angeles County— The News of September 21st has the following : Accounts from San Fernando and vicinity continue to be of the most flattering character, as regards both yield and quality of oil. ‘The Pico Springs, under the superintendence of Mr. S. Lyen, are giving the most satistactory results. Mr. M. lf. Hughes, of the San Iernando Petroleum company, has bored to the denth of about 200 leet, and is obtaining a constant iucrease of fine oil. The Moore Springs are also progressing finely. Whe Wiley aud ‘Lousley works are fairly overflowing, on accouut of the lack of barrels and capacity of means to contain their yield. * * Mr. R.G. Surdam, at Wheeler’s camp, near San Buena; Ventura, writes that the Philudelphia company are employing over twenty men, and want more hands. The works are now producing forty barrels daily. Nevada County— The Grass Valley National has these items : The Ophir company arc now working in their third level, which strikes the old shaft ut a depth of 570 feet, struck their ledge the other day in the level aud found it to be two leet thick. Several’ candle boxes of very rich specimens were taken out, and, in fact all the rock at this poiut shows well.Vhe Inkermann ledge is producing at present some very pretty rock, which yields by crushing $20 per tou. The ledge is now being worked atn depth of only flty feet from the surface, and is visible the whole length ef the tunnel, which is uow in some 375 teet. The ledge varies from six inches to two anda balf feet iu width, and tock taken from any portion of it shows more or less free gold,.Sonte fine specimens were recently taken from the Old Collins claim, near Boston Ravine. The Gazetie has this item: The engine and hojstiog works formerly used by Bever, ut Willow Valley, have been tuken down and are to be erected on the old Cuuningham ledge, above the Wigham. <A portion of the miachiuery is already ou the ground, and will be put up immediately. Excetsior.—From the Sun we gather the following : tbe following are the correct figures of the clean-up of the Mohawk rock recently crushed ut Winton’s mill: Forty-cight tons of rock gave a yield in free gold of $1,633.02—which is $34.40 per ton. To this the sum of $600—the produee of the sulphurets—must be added, making no gross result of $2,233.02, iu forty-eight tons of ore. Tbis company, at their quarterly mecting, resolved to build a mill, and will commence its ercetion immediately.. We were shown some very fine specimens of white quartz, a few days since, from the Lake company’s ledge, southwest of the Excclsior.Four days’ run of the U. 8. Grant company’s mill, which, by tbe way, is a small 5-stamp affair, yielded 114 ounces of amalgam from the copper plates. The mill is now running day and night. Tbe Eclipse company are nbout to have fifty tons of their ore reduccd at the Winton mill. . The Mayflower company have sunk n shaft 20 feet, and are getting out very fine sulphuret ore. .Che Aurorn company, Wagner ledge, are about to bave ten tons of tbcir ore crushed at Nevada. We were shown on Saturday a small button weighing about $4.50, obtained from 240 pounds of croppings of the Alhambra company’s claim. Weare informed that Messrs. Parsons & Co. contemplate erecting a mill about one and a half miles seuthwest of town. They think they can have it in running order by the first of November. The Gazette of 22d September savs: We had a conversation yesterday witb O. Crandall, one of) the owncrs of the Enterprise mine, near Meadow Lake. He informs us that they are now taking out and reducing a cousidernble quantity of ore, which . yields an uverage of about thirty dollars a ton in free gold, besides the amount contained in the sulphurets, which are saved to be worked by the chlorinizing process. The mill is now working satisfactorily, nlthough they have not yct pans cnough to amalgamate as much rock as tbey can crush. They have not yet ascertained the size ef the mine, having found but one wall; hut they are now working with the view of taking out ore, rather than of exploring the mine. Placer County— The Herald of 22d instant has the following: Yesterday we were sbown a ball of amalgam, weigh-! ing between ten and eleven eunces, the product of free geld frem teu tens ef quartz from the Wells’ lead, which was crushed at Welty’s mill. The amalgam being wertb $17 per ounce, made this crushing average $17.50 per ton. From this let ef quartz 800 ‘peunds of sulphurets were cencentrated, which are yet to be worked.A friend writing us frem Yankee Jim’s, says several cement mills are heing erected in that section. Mr. Ambruster is new building one en Geergia Hill. The claims on this hill years age were fameus fer their richness. The mill on .tbe Missouri claim, in the same vicinity, is said te be making money. We clip these items frem the Stars and Stripes of Sept. 26th: The Suffrage Company found richer reck at twenty feet than at the surface, and have centracted for sinking the shaft another twenty feet.The Civil Rights Company, near Newcastle, are still progressing with their shaft, and taking eut excellent reck.Captain Mallett is pushing work witb energy, and every day mere fully develops its richness. Messrs. Glankmon and Wahlgreen, we are infermed, have made anether ricb strike in the Friday lead, near Ophir, taking out reck which liternlly sparkles with free old. ? Same paper says: ‘There is much activity in mining and prospecting in this section. Many new leads have been discovered, and eld enes are being werked with unusual energy. The evidences daily multiply that the quartz mines in this sectien of Plncer county are as rich as these in any other part of the State. Capitalists begin te learn this truth, and there have been some censidcrable investments made in our mines by partics from San Francisce and Sacramente, within 2 few wecks. We predict that within a year from this time the Placer county quartz mines will attract as much attention as these ef any other ceunty in the State. Plumas County— The National of the 15th, says: We learn that the Bull-Frog Compuny, near Rush creek, have recently struck their ledge by a new tunnel at a depth of 19u feet, and discovered cxcellent pay.Mr. C. Cahalan, who has been prospecting for several years upon a ledge near the Crescent Mills, in Indian Valley. has struck a very rich vein of quartz. The Quincy Union of 22d inst., says: We learn that Messrs. Peel & Co’s claims near Grizzly Creek, are paying an‘ onuce per duy to the hand. They have just put up over 2,000 feet ol iron pipe, to conduct the water to their claims, at the expense of over $3,000. Correspondent of the Appeal of 26th, writing from Nelsen Point, says: River mining thns far has not proved very remunerative. They have worked out one set of claims, and ace now shilting their water-derrick, wheels, etc., to another. White & Fell, are putting in a wing-dam two miles below the “ Point,” where they expect to find new.ground. Tichards & White are not down yet; they have in three wheels and four pumps, which is thonght by some to be suffivient, but by ethers uot. Jimmie, on Nelson Creek, has done as well, if not better than any of them. ‘She Chinese claims are oll well under way, and fromthe two and three ounce pieces that we get to see eccasionally, judge that they are doing pretty well. Messrs. Jackson, Jelly and Mitchell have completed their preparations for another run in their hydraulic cluims Quartz mining has commenced in Mohawk Valley. Fred. King & Co., of the Sulphur Spring Raneh, have put up a small mill. They commenced with four stainps, and made a ran of ten days, which, from cleaning the apron ulone, paid $500. Shasta County— The Courier of 22d inst., has the following items: At Lower Sprinzs, Mr. George recently reworked some of the tailings rnn through Peart’s mill last winter and lound that they paid at the sate of ten dollars, per ton. He has also just finished crushing three tons of rock taken lrom a ledge which has once heen pronounced worthless, and the clean up shows a result of eighteen dollars to the ton. .Long’s old quartz mill, which has been standing idle near Middletown for several years, hns been purchased by Kelly & Co., and will bé removed to the Jollie claims, near Mulctown.. We understand that the Dog Creek mines are paying unnsually well this season, aud that it is a common thing. for miners*to find good sized nuggets in their sluices, some of which weigh from forty to niuety dollars. New and rich placer diggings have recently been discovered ou Hall's Gulch, which lics in Trinity county, and just over the Dog Creek divide. Quite a number of miners have gone there from Portuguese Flat and Hazel Creek, in this county.Mr. MeCall-recently shipped forty-seven huudred pounds of picked rock from the Chicago ledge to San Francisco, where he disposed of it for about $500. Since this shipuient parties at the Bay are anxious to purchase the Chicago, bot have not yet offered a sum sufficient to induce the present owners to sell. Sierra County— The lollowing items are from the Messenger of the 22d inst.: The Madison quartz ledge, situated betweeu China Flat and Jim Crow Canon, some three or four miles above town, has been sold to New York and Chicago parties, Joseph Voshay, principal, for the sum of $5,000. We learn that parties up the South Pork'some vight miles have struck excellent prospects in a tunnel they are running iuto the hill lor gravel diggings. The correspondent of the Messenger gives an account of a rich mine in Sierra, now lying idle, from which we condense: ‘The Primrose mine was located in 1858. It was for a time worked successfully. Some $240,000 was taken from it in the course of three years. In 1861, the southerly extension was purchased for $30,000, borrowed at a ruinous rate of interest. The will was enlarged, and injudiciously removed. Creditors became pressing, ‘and the property was sold under the hammer, Much of the rock isrich. The writer observed several men selecting pieces and working them with a small hand mortar. ‘They realized $5 or $6 per day to the man. The placer ground in the neighborhood will yield, where watercan he had, about an ounce of gold to the hand. Sisktyou County— The Yreka Union of the 22d says: Fort Jones is improving rapidly. ‘The place has hoth agricultural and miniug advantages. ‘The best quartz leads in the country are situated only a few miles from town, and some of them are heing profitubly worked, and only need machinery and capital to develop the vast wealth which they undoubtedly contain. Where gold can be seen in quartz, and good wages can be made by pounding it up in a mortar, we do not understund why they do not resort to some more extensive wode of obtaining the gold. Yuba County— The Nevada Gazetle says of the Blue Gravel mines: These mines are situated at the foot of the ridge which extends nearly the whole length of Nevada county, starting near the head of Greenhorn, forming the divide between that stream and Deer Creek, and running to the nght of Grass Valley and by Rough and Ready. The ridge is cut in two at Quaker Hill, and a riffle appears to have been formed by some cnuse at Smartville, near where the ancient stream decbouched into the valicy, which accounts for the immense deposit of blue gravel at that place. “I'he Alta shaft, near the Rouvh and Ready rond, from which an immense quantity of gold has been taken, and ave helieve is still being worked, is situated on this ancient channel; und there is cvery reasun to believe that the chanucl fora distance of forty or fifty miles is rich in gold, and will eventually be worked.” The Appeal says: ‘The two boilers, smokestack and breeching, lately arrived from below for the Pennsylvunia Mining Company, were shipped yesterday (all but ene boiler weighing 3,300 pounds) to Brown's Valley. The owners of the Blue Lead Gravel Clain, at Suiith’s Flat, cleaned ap last week $1,700, after a ran of about three weeks, working eight hands. NEVADA. Washoe— The yield of ore frem the Yellow Jacket mine, for the month of August, was nearly a thousand tons, which yielded, under the stamns, the sum of $379,699.92, averaging about $38 to the ton. ‘This mine is now in fine condition.The Crown Point mine, at Gold Hill, yiclds at the rate of a hundred tous of ore per day. Reese River— From the Reveille we clip the following items: ‘The Cortez, Giant ledge, belongs to the Mount Tenabo Company, wlnch is the present style of the originul Cortez Co. Two days ago, a lot of crude bullion was brought in from this lode. We saw this morning at the assay office four bars of silver, obtained from this bullion, which were of the following weight, fineness, und value: No. 1, 943 ounces, 910 fine, $1,102.53 ; No.2,916 ounces, 916 fine, $1,084.61 ; No. 3, 903 ounces, 893 ine, $1,043.46; No. 5,492 ounces, 824 fine, $524.87. We learn that the ore was worked up to thirteen per cent. of the pulp assay. The new mill of the New Hugland and Nevada companies, located at Kingston, will columence operations with ten stamps next week. The inill is supplied wilh four furuaces. The first work will be done for the Silver Mining Company, which will furnish ore frony its Mother Ledge, in the Santa Fe District, about five miles from the mill.The Diana inine is again yielding bullion, after a long interval of quiet. A bar of bullion, valued at $1,010, was obtained from five tous of ore reduced at the Keystone -nill.A pack-train left Austin on the 18th, to bring in aload of the rich ore from Danville district, which is to be thoroughly tested by mill process. .It is probable that a mill will be put up this fall in Hot Creek district. ‘The value of the mining prospects in .that district has been increascd by the discovery of a large tract of fine timber.1Jn the Danville‘district eight or ten mnen were prospecting with fiue suecess.The fanie of the riches of the Reveille district’ was attracting the attention of prospectors. We were shown to-day (19th) a large pill box full of specimens of horn ghd native silver from the ‘I'win Ophirs of the La Plata Company, in the North Twin River district.OQn the 19th a bar of bullion, weighing 3,000 ounces, was reported from the Diana. .The Old Domivign, Se ee

198 Be Blining and Scientific Press. Mining Summary. CALIFORNIA. Alpine County— From the Afiner of Sept. 22d, we clip the following : In the Schenectady, the week has been principally“occupied in clearing out the old tunnel and getting ready for operations in the face. Six meu are at work..In the American, the vein of gray and black ore is from ten to twelve feet in thickness. Assays of the ore vary from $56 to $128 per ton.. It is believed that work will soon be commenced on the I. X. L. clain..Most of the machinery for the mill at Davidson’s has arrived.. .Some time since a claim was located on a ledge lying four or five hundred feet east of the Buckeye No. 2 and called the Accacia. Mr. 0. F. Thornton, in examining this lode, recently found some very fine specimens of quartz, bearing ruby silver nnd ntiargyrite in large quantities, one sample asseying over one hundred dollars per ton. In Silver Mountain district, the contractors on the Kohinoor yesterday struck a stream of water and are appnrently in close proximity to the ledge..The Washington company are pushing nhead on their ledge and taking out seme very fine ore.. . Work has heen resumed on the Balaklava..The Mountain, Pennsylvania, Buckeye No. 2, X-10-U-8, Maine aud Olive Branch are all working. The New York purchasers ofthe James Barrett company’s lodes will soon opeu them, The Silver Mountain Bulletin of snme date says:. ‘he Maine company cut their ledge last week, bnt the point intersected being immediately under the bed of a ravine it was somewhat broken up. We learn that they will commence drilting south in a few days.. Two shifts are being worked in the George ‘Washington claim, taking out pay rock. The ledge is increasing in thickness, and the ore in quality as they penetrate the mountain. The lower level is at a depth from the surface of obout two hondred feet. Amador County— ij The Ledger of the 22d inst., has the following: The owners of the William wine, near Sutter Creek have, at last, been rewarded for their perseverance—they have found a lode that pays teu to twelve dollars a ton.. . Billy Smith & Co.,on the first north extension of the Uuion mine, are now down sixty-five feet, have a large vein, and a recent crushing paid eight dollars..The My Mary Ann Co., at Pine grove, cleaned up a ruu of forty odd tons, the other day, that paid ncarly.sixtecn dollars to the ton. .. I'he Union, near the same place, have again resumed operations, and will sink their shaft fifty feet deeper..The Paugh lode is looking fine. The shaft is now down below a permanent water level—ninety-five feet—and the ore looks better than ever. ‘The mill will be ready for work the coming week. ..-The Independent is the name of a-new mine between the Paugh and Clinton. The main shaft is down about eighty-five feet, and some of the ‘rock appears well..The Ana conda, Golden Kagle, Italian, and others, arc all in a prospering condition, yielding an abundance of frce ores..he Railroad, at Sutter, has fnlfilled all our predictions. Shares are now worth on/y teu thonsand dollars. Extensive steam hoisting works are under way. Eagon & Co., of Fiddletown, have commenced work on the old Slaughter House Gulch lode, long siuce abandoned by the original owners, and are taking out exceedingly rich quartz. ‘Uhey are uow hauling rock to the Richmond mill forthe purpose of having it crushed...[n the Newton mine, last week, at the depth of two hundred and fifty-five feet, in the lower tunnel, they struck a vein of exceedingly rich ore, six leet wide. ‘he owners, C. T. Meader & Co., have erected steam-hoisting works on the niine, and are takiug out large quantities of ore which is shipped to Sano Francisco. Quite a towu is growing up in the vicinity of the mine. Butte County— { The Record of Sept. 22d, has the following items: ‘he wing dam of J. Clark & Co., on Feather river, near White Rock, is proving very rich, yielding as high as 25 and 30 ounces of dust per day.. . We understand that a ledge yielding some exccllent surface quartz, has been found near the Buffulo ranch, iu Wyaudotte township. The Appeal of 25th. says: Mr. Kneeland, Supériutendent of the quartz mill on the Sher wan ledge, near Oroville, exhibited to me on Saturday several very rich specimens of quartz rock. * Humboldt Coanty— . The Times’ correspondent of September 15th says: Mr. John V. Hunter has returned from San Francisco with orders to resume operations at the Davis well, and is now engaged in erecting more substantial machinery for that purpose. Work will doubtless be continued here as long as they have any indications whatever of oil..Mr. Wentworth bas purchased the machinery of the Jeffrey company. He will now commence operations in another locality..Work will be suspended at the Fenner Farm well after to-day, for a short time, in order to get machinery. It has attained the depth of 300 feet—indicatious excellent. A meeting was called ofall citizens interested in the Elumboldt oil matters, the object of which was to cousolidate interests, and orgaaize for a therough test for oil. Kern County— The Havilah Courier of 22d says: The Pioneer mill, which has been idle for the last two weeks, commenced crushing rock on Monday last. Messrs. Taylor & Erskin now have an interest in the mill. They crush reck lrom the . Unele Abe ledge, and will shortly operate on that from the Boomerang. Mr. John F. Tulley and friend struck a very ich vein of quartz, not long since, in the new Washingtdn district, on Kern river. ‘They have already taken out a dozeu tous of what is prenounced “hundred dollar rock,” which will speedily be run through an arastra. Los Angeles County— The News of September 21st has the following : Accounts from San Fernando and vicinity continue to be of the most flattering character, as regards both yield and quality of oil. ‘The Pico Springs, under the superintendence of Mr. S. Lyen, are giving the most satistactory results. Mr. M. lf. Hughes, of the San Iernando Petroleum company, has bored to the denth of about 200 leet, and is obtaining a constant iucrease of fine oil. The Moore Springs are also progressing finely. Whe Wiley aud ‘Lousley works are fairly overflowing, on accouut of the lack of barrels and capacity of means to contain their yield. * * Mr. R.G. Surdam, at Wheeler’s camp, near San Buena; Ventura, writes that the Philudelphia company are employing over twenty men, and want more hands. The works are now producing forty barrels daily. Nevada County— The Grass Valley National has these items : The Ophir company arc now working in their third level, which strikes the old shaft ut a depth of 570 feet, struck their ledge the other day in the level aud found it to be two leet thick. Several’ candle boxes of very rich specimens were taken out, and, in fact all the rock at this poiut shows well..Vhe Inkermann ledge is producing at present some very pretty rock, which yields by crushing $20 per tou. The ledge is now being worked atn depth of only flty feet from the surface, and is visible the whole length ef the tunnel, which is uow in some 375 teet. The ledge varies from six inches to two anda balf feet iu width, and tock taken from any portion of it shows more or less free gold,..Sonte fine specimens were recently taken from the Old Collins claim, near Boston Ravine. The Gazetie has this item: The engine and hojstiog works formerly used by Bever, ut Willow Valley, have been tuken down and are to be erected on the old Cuuningham ledge, above the Wigham. <A portion of the miachiuery is already ou the ground, and will be put up immediately. Excetsior.—From the Sun we gather the following : tbe following are the correct figures of the clean-up of the Mohawk rock recently crushed ut Winton’s mill: Forty-cight tons of rock gave a yield in free gold of $1,633.02—which is $34.40 per ton. To this the sum of $600—the produee of the sulphurets—must be added, making no gross result of $2,233.02, iu forty-eight tons of ore. Tbis company, at their quarterly mecting, resolved to build a mill, and will commence its ercetion immediately... We were shown some very fine specimens of white quartz, a few days since, from the Lake company’s ledge, southwest of the Excclsior..Four days’ run of the U. 8. Grant company’s mill, which, by tbe way, is a small 5-stamp affair, yielded 114 ounces of amalgam from the copper plates. The mill is now running day and night.. Tbe Eclipse company are nbout to have fifty tons of their ore reduccd at the Winton mill. .. The Mayflower company have sunk n shaft 20 feet, and are getting out very fine sulphuret ore. ..Che Aurorn company, Wagner ledge, are about to bave ten tons of tbcir ore crushed at Nevada.. We were shown on Saturday a small button weighing about $4.50, obtained from 240 pounds of croppings of the Alhambra company’s claim.. Weare informed that Messrs. Parsons & Co. contemplate erecting a mill about one and a half miles seuthwest of town. They think they can have it in running order by the first of November. The Gazette of 22d September savs: We had a conversation yesterday witb O. Crandall, one of) the owncrs of the Enterprise mine, near Meadow Lake. He informs us that they are now taking out and reducing a cousidernble quantity of ore, which . yields an uverage of about thirty dollars a ton in free gold, besides the amount contained in the sulphurets, which are saved to be worked by the chlorinizing process. The mill is now working satisfactorily, nlthough they have not yct pans cnough to amalgamate as much rock as tbey can crush. They have not yet ascertained the size ef the mine, having found but one wall; hut they are now working with the view of taking out ore, rather than of exploring the mine. Placer County— The Herald of 22d instant has the following: Yesterday we were sbown a ball of amalgam, weigh-! ing between ten and eleven eunces, the product of free geld frem teu tens ef quartz from the Wells’ lead, which was crushed at Welty’s mill. The amalgam being wertb $17 per ounce, made this

crushing average $17.50 per ton. From this let ef quartz 800 ‘peunds of sulphurets were cencentrated, which are yet to be worked..A friend writing us frem Yankee Jim’s, says several cement mills are heing erected in that section. Mr. Ambruster is new building one en Geergia Hill. The claims on this hill years age were fameus fer their richness. The mill on .tbe Missouri claim, in the same vicinity, is said te be making money. We clip these items frem the Stars and Stripes of Sept. 26th: The Suffrage Company found richer reck at twenty feet than at the surface, and have centracted for sinking the shaft another twenty feet..The Civil Rights Company, near Newcastle, are still progressing with their shaft, and taking eut excellent reck..Captain Mallett is pushing work witb energy, and every day mere fully develops its richness.. Messrs. Glankmon and Wahlgreen, we are infermed, have made anether ricb strike in the Friday lead, near Ophir, taking out reck which liternlly sparkles with free old. ? Same paper says: ‘There is much activity in mining and prospecting in this section. Many new leads have been discovered, and eld enes are being werked with unusual energy. The evidences daily multiply that the quartz mines in this sectien of Plncer county are as rich as these in any other part of the State. Capitalists begin te learn this truth, and there have been some censidcrable investments made in our mines by partics from San Francisce and Sacramente, within 2 few wecks. We predict that within a year from this time the Placer county quartz mines will attract as much attention as these ef any other ceunty in the State. Plumas County— The National of the 15th, says: We learn that the Bull-Frog Compuny, near Rush creek, have recently struck their ledge by a new tunnel at a depth of 19u feet, and discovered cxcellent pay..Mr. C. Cahalan, who has been prospecting for several years upon a ledge near the Crescent Mills, in Indian Valley. has struck a very rich vein of quartz. The Quincy Union of 22d inst., says: We learn that Messrs. Peel & Co’s claims near Grizzly Creek, are paying an‘ onuce per duy to the hand. They have just put up over 2,000 feet ol iron pipe, to conduct the water to their claims, at the expense of over $3,000. Correspondent of the Appeal of 26th, writing from Nelsen Point, says: River mining thns far has not proved very remunerative. They have worked out one set of claims, and ace now shilting their water-derrick, wheels, etc., to another. White & Fell, are putting in a wing-dam two miles below the “ Point,” where they expect to find new.ground. Tichards & White are not down yet; they have in three wheels and four pumps, which is thonght by some to be suffivient, but by ethers uot. Jimmie, on Nelson Creek, has done as well, if not better than any of them. ‘She Chinese claims are oll well under way, and fromthe two and three ounce pieces that we get to see eccasionally, judge that they are doing pretty well. Messrs. Jackson, Jelly and Mitchell have completed their preparations for another run in their hydraulic cluims Quartz mining has commenced in Mohawk Valley. Fred. King & Co., of the Sulphur Spring Raneh, have put up a small mill. They commenced with four stainps, and made a ran of ten days, which, from cleaning the apron ulone, paid $500. Shasta County— The Courier of 22d inst., has the following items: At Lower Sprinzs, Mr. George recently reworked some of the tailings rnn through Peart’s mill last winter and lound that they paid at the sate of ten dollars, per ton. He has also just finished crushing three tons of rock taken lrom a ledge which has once heen pronounced worthless, and the clean up shows a result of eighteen dollars to the ton. ..Long’s old quartz mill, which has been standing idle near Middletown for several years, hns been purchased by Kelly & Co., and will bé removed to the Jollie claims, near Mulctown... We understand that the Dog Creek mines are paying unnsually well this season, aud that it is a common thing. for miners*to find good sized nuggets in their sluices, some of which weigh from forty to niuety dollars.. New and rich placer diggings have recently been discovered ou Hall's Gulch, which lics in Trinity county, and just over the Dog Creek divide. Quite a number of miners have gone there from Portuguese Flat and Hazel Creek, in this county..Mr. MeCall-recently shipped forty-seven huudred pounds of picked rock from the Chicago ledge to San Francisco, where he disposed of it for about $500. Since this shipuient parties at the Bay are anxious to purchase the Chicago, bot have not yet offered a sum sufficient to induce the present owners to sell. Sierra County— The lollowing items are from the Messenger of the 22d inst.: The Madison quartz ledge, situated betweeu China Flat and Jim Crow Canon, some three or four miles above town, has been sold to New York and Chicago parties, Joseph Voshay, principal, for the sum of $5,000.. We learn that parties up the South Pork'some vight miles have struck excellent prospects in a tunnel they are running iuto the hill lor gravel diggings. The correspondent of the Messenger gives an account of a rich mine in Sierra, now lying idle, from which we condense: ‘The Primrose mine was located in 1858. It was for a time worked successfully. Some $240,000 was taken from it in the course of three years. In 1861, the southerly extension was purchased for $30,000, borrowed at a ruinous rate of interest. The will was enlarged, and injudiciously removed. Creditors became pressing, ‘and the property was sold under the hammer, Much of the rock isrich. The writer observed several men selecting pieces and working them with a small hand mortar. ‘They realized $5 or $6 per day to the man. The placer ground in the neighborhood will yield, where watercan he had, about an ounce of gold to the hand. Sisktyou County— The Yreka Union of the 22d says: Fort Jones is improving rapidly. ‘The place has hoth agricultural and miniug advantages. ‘The best quartz leads in the country are situated only a few miles from town, and some of them are heing profitubly worked, and only need machinery and capital to develop the vast wealth which they undoubtedly contain. Where gold can be seen in quartz, and good wages can be made by pounding it up in a mortar, we do not understund why they do not resort to some more extensive wode of obtaining the gold. Yuba County— The Nevada Gazetle says of the Blue Gravel mines: These mines are situated at the foot of the ridge which extends nearly the whole length of Nevada county, starting near the head of Greenhorn, forming the divide between that stream and Deer Creek, and running to the nght of Grass Valley and by Rough and Ready. The ridge is cut in two at Quaker Hill, and a riffle appears to have been formed by some cnuse at Smartville, near where the ancient stream decbouched into the valicy, which accounts for the immense deposit of blue gravel at that place. “I'he Alta shaft, near the Rouvh and Ready rond, from which an immense quantity of gold has been taken, and ave helieve is still being worked, is situated on this ancient channel; und there is cvery reasun to believe that the chanucl fora distance of forty or fifty miles is rich in gold, and will eventually be worked.” The Appeal says: ‘The two boilers, smokestack and breeching, lately arrived from below for the Pennsylvunia Mining Company, were shipped yesterday (all but ene boiler weighing 3,300 pounds) to Brown's Valley. The owners of the Blue Lead Gravel Clain, at Suiith’s Flat, cleaned ap last week $1,700, after a ran of about three weeks, working eight hands. NEVADA. Washoe— The yield of ore frem the Yellow Jacket mine, for the month of August, was nearly a thousand tons, which yielded, under the stamns, the sum of $379,699.92, averaging about $38 to the ton. ‘This mine is now in fine condition..The Crown Point mine, at Gold Hill, yiclds at the rate of a hundred tous of ore per day. Reese River— From the Reveille we clip the following items: ‘The Cortez, Giant ledge, belongs to the Mount Tenabo Company, wlnch is the present style of the originul Cortez Co. Two days ago, a lot of crude bullion was brought in from this lode. We saw this morning at the assay office four bars of silver, obtained from this bullion, which were of the following weight, fineness, und value: No. 1, 943 ounces, 910 fine, $1,102.53 ; No.2,916 ounces, 916 fine, $1,084.61 ; No. 3, 903 ounces, 893 ine, $1,043.46; No. 5,492 ounces, 824 fine, $524.87. We learn that the ore was worked up to thirteen per cent. of the pulp assay.. The new mill of the New Hugland and Nevada companies, located at Kingston, will columence operations with ten stamps next week. The inill is supplied wilh four furuaces. The first work will be done for the Silver Mining Company, which will furnish ore frony its Mother Ledge, in the Santa Fe District, about five miles from the mill..The Diana inine is again yielding bullion, after a long interval of quiet. A bar of bullion, valued at $1,010, was obtained from five tous of ore reduced at the Keystone -nill..A pack-train left Austin on the 18th, to bring in aload of the rich ore from Danville district, which is to be thoroughly tested by mill process. ..It is probable that a mill will be put up this fall in Hot Creek district. ‘The value of the mining prospects in .that district has been increascd by the discovery of a large tract of fine timber..1Jn the Danville‘district eight or ten mnen were prospecting with fiue suecess..The fanie of the riches of the Reveille district’ was attracting the attention of prospectors.. We were shown to-day (19th) a large pill box full of specimens of horn ghd native silver from the ‘I'win Ophirs of the La Plata Company, in the North Twin River district..OQn the 19th a bar of bullion, weighing 3,000 ounces, was reported from the Diana. ..The Old Domivign, Se ee