Volume 17 (1868) (428 pages)

N The Mining and Scientific Press. Mining Summary. Tux following information is gleaned mostly from Journals published in the interlor, in close proximity to the mines mentloned, CALIFORNIA. Alpine County. Silver Mountain Chronicle, June 20th: In the immediate vicinity of this town, claims are being worked with energy, and the prospects of having rich paying mines in the Silver Mountain district were never go good as they are at this time. We hear rumors of contemplated mining operations in other portions of the county. Preparations are being made for commencing work on claims that have not heen worked for years. Amador Count;. Jacksou Ledger, June 27th: Everything in the viciuity of the Kennedy mine is hurry and bustle. They have a good portion of the timher and lumber on hand for the new mill, and the men are busy framing it, The mill will be located immediately below the grade, eonvenient to the mine, so that rock ean he rnn in a ear and placed in the dump at a very trifling expense. Their new shaft is going down rapidly. Dispatch. June 2th: The new 20-stamp mill that is being erected at the Kennedy mine, near this place, by Fleming, Langford & Co., is progressing finely, and will be ready to commence erushing rock in about six weeks, : Calaveras County. Chronicle, June 27th : One hundred tons of rock from the Shear ledge, near the May’ Pole Houso, are now being hauled to the Water Co’s mill, in Chili Gulch, to be crushed. This claim is owned hy parties in San Francisco, and should tho rock pay as well as the prospects made have indicated, a mill will he erected at once. Inyo County. Les Angeles News, June 23d : Several teams arrived in this city from Owens River on last Friday, bringing down as freight 3,500 ths. of silver and lead hars, which had been extracted by the furnace process from the mines of that locality. Mr. Westerville, just from Owens River, says that the miners have a good thing in the Cerro Gordo district, as the veins are large, the ore easily extracted, and the mines paying all the way down—some of them over 100 ft. deep. Thero are many mines in the Cerro Gordo district, mostly worked by Mexicans, who sell the ore to the furnaces, and who require but little capital to start with, but the principal mines are the San Ignacio, Belmont, San Louis and Union, owned by energetic companies, who are developing the mines and erecting furnaces with great activity, The Kearsarge mine, Camp Independence, is putting up furnaces. It is estimated that the lead contained in the metal will pay all expenses of getting out the ore, smelting, freight, separation, etc., leaving the silver as profit. The Independence correspondeut of the Aurora Union of June 20th, speaking of the Silver Sprout mill, says: It isa large furnace with a roasting floor 10x12 ft., and being 18x20 ft. from out to out, built in such a manner that the Colorado Terrace or the Stetefeldt furmaces ean be attached with very little additional expense. With its present capacity ahout eight tons of ore can he oxidized in 24 nours. By nll the experiments on the Kearsarge or Silver Sprout ores, oxidation is the only thing necessary to make them pay from $175 to $250 per ton, as all the lead is oxidized and floats off with the water, and all the chlorides can then he saved hy precipitation. The miners in the Alahama district averaged $12 per day to the haud last week, and are still “averaging.” Mariposn County. Gazeite, June 26th: Bogau & Co., of the Pedro Goza mine, on Bear Creek, struck a very rich lead a few days since. The garden formerly known os Powell and Allison’s, at Mormon Bar, has been sold to Chinamen for $460. ‘ Nevada County. Transcript, June 24th: The English Co. has made arrangements with Pheled and Mrs. Turney, who own the bed of Shady Creek, near the Oak Tree Ranch, to drift under the bed of the creek for the purpose of getting at the rich gravel deposits on the bed rock. Martin Jauch is prospecting for quartz at Badger Hill. He has found some excellent croppings, and he is now running a tunuel to the center of the hill, for the purpose of ‘striking the ledge. Some excellent specimen quartz, containing a large amount of free gold has heen found in that vicinity. The Badger Hill and Cherokee Gravel Mining Co. have been busily engaged since they pnrchased the gravel claims at Badger Hill, in building their flumes and preparing for work. This company expect to run a bed-rock tunnel from Badger Hill to Cherokee Flat, opening it to the bottom. In a short time they will employ qnite a force jn washing off the surface. 5 The English Co. are at work washing off a good deal of ground and obtaining excellent pay. They havedischarged some heavy blasts of from 200 to 300 kegs of powder this spring. Driscoll & Co., whose claims bave been idle for several years, ar2 now cleaning out their tunnel and will commence washing next week in the same hill, ' a McCarty & Hunter are working their elaim hetween Columbia Hill and Cherokee with first-rate prospects. The Ditcli Co. are working the Lewis diggings in the same locality. More mining is being done in this viciuity than for many years before, and -the miners are greatly encouraged by their prospects. FE. D, Dean bas claimed the waters of Bloody Run, to be taken ont hy a diteh below the old Bloody Run ditch. He also Joaated 200 feet from the old ditch, down thé creek, foradam aud for mining puroses. June 25th : The miners in the vicinity of Moore’s Flat are wasbing away at a lively rate with excellent prospects. The eompanies will clean up about the middle of July. Tho Boston Co, at Woolsey’s, made a clean up, after a run nvon pipe clay, on last Saturday, and got $2,900, At Moore’s Flat a company made a partial clean-up last week, taking out $2,200. . June 27th: We were shown a specimen yesterday from the Selena ledge, which was literally filled with flakes of pure gold. Perrin & Co., at Forest Springs, is now ' and have heen for the past eight months, taking out $45 rock. An incline has been sunk about 125 feet, and thecompany is now runing for the fourth level. The ledge lies very flat and is easily worked—averaging in thickness ahout three feet. Palmer & Everingham are putting up a 5-stamp custom mill on the South Fork of the South Yuha River, uear Enreka. There is a large amount of prospecting in this locality and no custom mill. At the depth of 30 feet on the Phonix ledge, eight loads of rock have heen taken out and crushed, paying $73. Poquillau & Clark-have started up their new 10-stamp quartz millat Eureke, It is estimated that 300 tons of rock ean be obtained in the vicinity. Another mill, to be run by water power, is being built on Poor Man's Creek, by Richmond. Grass Valley National, June 25th: Tho Shamrock ledge, owned by Harrigan, Tieruey & Co., have had several very good crushings—the last one avoraging about $25 per ton. Rock is now being taken ont which the owners are confident will run as high as $30 per ton. In the lower tunnel of tho Gen. Grant Co., which is 60 feet in length,90 tous of rock were taken out about two weeks ago, and crushed at the Forest Springs mill, yielding$61 per ton. In the second tunnel yery good ore has also been taken out, which paid about $46 per ton, while rock from the upper tunnel has paid on an average abont $40—the last crushing consisting of 200 tons. A short time ago 275 fect in the Grant sold for $5 per foot. Grass Valley Union, June 23d: The New York Hill Co. are taking rock from their shaft which shows richly iu free gold. Transcript, Jane 380th: The shaft of the Kentucky Bme Gravel Co. has been sunk 142 feet, aud a bed of gravel struck, which has the appearance of being a river channel, and is supposed to cover a strata of pipe clay, and under the clay is the strata or channel of pay dirt, which it is expected will he reached after sinking 125ft. deeper. So soon as the channel is struck by the Kentucky Co., a large amount of propecting will be done upon the channel. Placer County. Dutch Flat Enquirer, June 27th: The miuers about Towa Hill are roported to be taking out moro money than for several seasons past. The great drawback now, as it always has been, is the want of water ; with a good supply of water Iowa Hill would be one of the most flourishing mining camps in the country. We learn that the claim of Mr. O. Harkness, situated in Cation Creek, cleaned up a short time since, after a run of seventeen days and nights, $4,700. The claim employs ten men, five on a shift, and uses 550 iuches of water. Carr, Miner & Harriman, cleaned up, in their claim at Gold Run, after a run of ten days and nights, $2,865. ‘The company use 315 inches of water and three pipes, and work three men on each shift, and havea pressure of 150 feet. The Colfax correspondent of the Auburn Herald of June 27th, says: The Risiug Sun Company continue to yield good returns at each clean up. PKPlumas County, . Quincy National, June 20th: Mining matters at Rush Creek are prosperous. Several companies are at work, piping and ground slnicing, but none have cleaned up yet. Rush Creek is one of the oldest mining eamps in the county, and has been yery rich. Sierra County. Downieville Afessenger, June 27th: The Wehe Co.: have got their tunnel into the ledge, and find the rock as rich as it was ahove. The prospects are excellent for a paying miue. The “American Mining Co., at Morristown, having found the pipe elay in their diggings too expensive to work by the hydraulic process, have set in drifting with several gangs of men, and are confident of making it pay much greater dividends, . They will pipe no more except near the brow. Vast excavations are being made by the hydraulie miners, this season, at Hureka,: . Craip’s Flat, La Porte and other diggings, where large streams are playing upon the banks. This has necessitated the removal of several buildings, and it seems prohable that the profits of the season’s work will he double that of ordinary seasons. The Howland Flat correspondent writes : The mines seem to be ina very prosperous condition, and justify the hopes of paying better than for some time past. The eoldness of the Spring has kept the snow from melting very rapidly, and the water season for sluicing in the hydraulic claims will be hetter than it has been for years. Already a large quantity of dirt has been run off, but as no clean-upshave been made, there are no figures. Tho tunnel claims are paying very well, The Monumental, at Potosi, is turning out about 175 ounces weekly. The French Co. is paying as well, in proportion to the hands employed. The Union, Down East and other Compauies are generally making good returns. Siskiyou County. Yreka Union, Inne 20th : The Black Bear ledge on Salmon, keeps np its reputation as one of the best ledges in the northern part of the State. There are but few miners on Suda Creek at present, hut most who are there are doing pretty well. The only hydraulic company on the ereek has taken out reccntly some pretty good clinnks, one piece weighing $40, another $17.50 and another $10, besides several others of smaller size. Tuvolunine County. . Sonora Democrat, June 27th; A 40-ounce lump of gold was found yesterday in the Daley claim, Main Gulch, Columbia. Arrangements have beeu made for the iutroduction of water into Chinese Camp. The Stanislaus Gravel Co., having comleted their mill, commeuced work last Thursday. They have been engaged for the last two months in building the mill, running the main tunnel into the claim and hreasting out gravel. The channel has heen opeued at three different poiuts by hranch tunnels, connecting with the main tunnel, showing a large bed of gravel which prospects well. They intend working 40 tons per day, ample provision having been made to take out more thau that quantity. Hanson & Boyer are making preparations to hydranlic the surface of a portion of Bald Mountain. The dirt is over 16 ft.deep and contains a little gold. The dirt appears likely to pay for working, but the main object is to lay the ledge bare and cxpose to view the unmerous small quartz veins, that run in all directions over the mountain. In years past many very rich pockets have been found at that portion of the mountain. The same gentlemen are also going to work another hydraulic claim, in the vicinity of Sonora and Bald Mountain, where the dirt is over 30 ft. deep and pays small wages for ground sluicing. Wuba County). The Brown's Valley correspondent writes to the Marysville Appeal of June 26th, as follows: The Jefferson claim seems to he improving every day. They are crushiug good quartz and are ont of debt. The Pennsylvania men talk of starting all their stamps again next week, and runniug them on good quartz, The Rattlesnake continues to crush rich quartz. They have to pan a sufficient supply for their 10 stamps in day time, but they have reason to hope that within a few days they will be running day and night, and on ricber quartz than ever before erushed in this valley. The Appeal of the same date says: We were shown yesterday a telegram to W. H. Knight, from Brown’s Valley, stating that the Pennsylvania Co. had struck very rich : quartz in level No. 10, incline No. 1. June 30th: The Brown’s Valley correspondent writes under date of June 29th to tho Marysville Appeal as follows: The Rattlesnake Co. cleaned up last week $1,400, and the Pennsylvania $1,700, The Pennsylyania is now setting more men to work in order to geta more regular supply of quartz for their mill from different places. They have finally reached again, in level 10, their former rich pay chimney, which, with other resources, will carry them over ail their present difficnlties. Mr. Gaskin of this city, has recently erected a 4-stamp quartz mill at Scahby Hill, on the ola Jackson ledge, abont two miles southeast of Brown’s Valley, near Long Bar. The mil] is run hy water power, and we are informed that itis crushing very good rock. COLORADO. Georgetown Miner, June 11th : Professor Dibbiu is making active arrangements for working his mines in Hast Argentine district. : There is a project on foot to run a tnnnel go as:'to strike tho Flora McLain lode at a depth of 500 feet. . The shaft on the Ashley Franklin lode is now down 25 feet, and 18 inches of splendid galena, earrying a large per cent, of ruhy silver is being worked ont. Two men mined and raised three tons of this ore ina single day. The Boom Ditch Co. have discovered some six or eight very promising lodes. Central City Herald, June 10th: Mr. Herrick will fyrnish another hutton to-day. He has now plenty of good ore. The Polar Star mill is kept constantly pounding away on ore from the Foote and Simmons lode, for Mr. Lindsley. The crevice matter continnes to improvo in quality as they continue to sink, We saw some fine silver ore from the Do Profundus lode, Monntain House district, this morning. It was taken from a depth of about 40 feet, where the crevice is 634 feet between walls, with a vein of pay ore 20 inches wide. Moores aud Myers are working the Canandagua lode, night and day. Of late, they have had a heavy cap-rock to sink through, but from present indications they are led to believe that they are about through it. Barret & Co. have the water drawn out of their claims, on the Winnehago lode, and have put ona strong force of hands, who are sinking their main shaft to a greater depth, ° Afriend who has been visiting Idaho, informs us that Lowe & Co. are working on Illinois Bar, and have a shaft down 18 feet, and expect to strike the hed rock shortly. Also that Skinner & Co., who are working ou the same bar, have their water wheel and pump in position, and have now reached a depth of ten feet. He represents Idalio, at this time, as being Jivelier than at any previous time since the palmy days of The cupel furnace of the Georgetown Silver Smelting Furnace was heated at two o’clock on the afternoon of June 7th, and 10a. a. of the Sth a button of 105 pounds was ready forshipment. ~ We were shown on Saturday last the result of an assay made by Mr. J. Smith, from the U. S. Bank lode, seleeted ore. Character of ere—qnartz mixed with black sulphide and small specks of ruby silver. Result—one tou—2,000 pounds, gold, a trace, silver, $3,948.10. John Kendall has recently made the discovery of a lode, which prospects yery rich. From a run of half a cord made last week, under stamps, the surface quartz yielded at the rate of $30, gold, per cord. Miller & Co., who are working a claim on the Hunter or Bates lode, last week, had 21% cords of ore crushed, yielding 46 ozs. of gold, sold for $975.86, making the product at the rate of $290 currency per cord. Denver News, June 17th: About 600 stamps are runuing in Gilpin Connty. Men say they never saw it so lively at Black Hawk before. Mr. Clark, one of the owners of the Terrible lode, writes that we did his lode great injustice in saying that the highest run of its ore was $400 per ton. The last fivo tons run, showed a yield of $658 per ton, coin value in silver. One and one-fourth tons worked at Newark, N. J., returned $720 per ton, Ten tons now ready forsmelting show an average assay of $754 per ton in coin. The owners of the Ten-Forty silver lode, at Buckskin, have out about 100 tons of fine ore. N. Newlin, running one arastra ou tailings from the Orphan Boy, took out $200 worth of gold in a week. Capt. Bates is getting some arastras ready to run. Two mills have been taken over into Grauite from Buckskin, and are expected to bo in operation by the first of July. In Granite they, continue to find rich things, Central City Register, June 11th: Tho

N The Mining and Scientific Press. Mining Summary. Tux following information is gleaned mostly from Journals published in the interlor, in close proximity to the mines mentloned, CALIFORNIA. Alpine County. Silver Mountain Chronicle, June 20th: In the immediate vicinity of this town, claims are being worked with energy, and the prospects of having rich paying mines in the Silver Mountain district were never go good as they are at this time. We hear rumors of contemplated mining operations in other portions of the county. Preparations are being made for commencing work on claims that have not heen worked for years. Amador Count;. Jacksou Ledger, June 27th: Everything in the viciuity of the Kennedy mine is hurry and bustle. They have a good portion of the timher and lumber on hand for the new mill, and the men are busy framing it, The mill will be located immediately below the grade, eonvenient to the mine, so that rock ean he rnn in a ear and placed in the dump at a very trifling expense. Their new shaft is going down rapidly. Dispatch. June 2th: The new 20-stamp mill that is being erected at the Kennedy mine, near this place, by Fleming, Langford & Co., is progressing finely, and will be ready to commence erushing rock in about six weeks, : Calaveras County. Chronicle, June 27th : One hundred tons of rock from the Shear ledge, near the May’ Pole Houso, are now being hauled to the Water Co’s mill, in Chili Gulch, to be crushed. This claim is owned hy parties in San Francisco, and should tho rock pay as well as the prospects made have indicated, a mill will he erected at once. Inyo County. Les Angeles News, June 23d : Several teams arrived in this city from Owens River on last Friday, bringing down as freight 3,500 ths. of silver and lead hars, which had been extracted by the furnace process from the mines of that locality. Mr. Westerville, just from Owens River, says that the miners have a good thing in the Cerro Gordo district, as the veins are large, the ore easily extracted, and the mines paying all the way down—some of them over 100 ft. deep. Thero are many mines in the Cerro Gordo district, mostly worked by Mexicans, who sell the ore to the furnaces, and who require but little capital to start with, but the principal mines are the San Ignacio, Belmont, San Louis and Union, owned by energetic companies, who are developing the mines and erecting furnaces with great activity, The Kearsarge mine, Camp Independence, is putting up furnaces. It is estimated that the lead contained in the metal will pay all expenses of getting out the ore, smelting, freight, separation, etc., leaving the silver as profit. The Independence correspondeut of the Aurora Union of June 20th, speaking of the Silver Sprout mill, says: It isa large furnace with a roasting floor 10x12 ft., and being 18x20 ft. from out to out, built in such a manner that the Colorado Terrace or the Stetefeldt furmaces ean be attached with very little additional expense. With its present capacity ahout eight tons of ore can he oxidized in 24 nours. By nll the experiments on the Kearsarge or Silver Sprout ores, oxidation is the only thing necessary to make them pay from $175 to $250 per ton, as all the lead is oxidized and floats off with the water, and all the chlorides can then he saved hy precipitation. The miners in the Alahama district averaged $12 per day to the haud last week, and are still “averaging.” Mariposn County. Gazeite, June 26th: Bogau & Co., of the Pedro Goza mine, on Bear Creek, struck a very rich lead a few days since. The garden formerly known os Powell and Allison’s, at Mormon Bar, has been sold to Chinamen for $460. ‘ Nevada County. Transcript, June 24th: The English Co. has made arrangements with Pheled and Mrs. Turney, who own the bed of Shady Creek, near the Oak Tree Ranch, to drift under the bed of the creek for the purpose of getting at the rich gravel deposits on the bed rock. Martin Jauch is prospecting for quartz at Badger Hill. He has found some excellent croppings, and he is now running a tunuel to the center of the hill, for the purpose of ‘striking the ledge. Some excellent specimen quartz, containing a large amount of free gold has heen found in that vicinity. The Badger Hill and Cherokee Gravel Mining Co. have been busily engaged since they pnrchased the gravel claims at Badger Hill, in building their flumes and preparing for work. This company expect to run a bed-rock tunnel from Badger Hill to Cherokee Flat, opening it to the bottom. In a short time they will employ qnite a force jn washing off the surface. 5 The English Co. are at work washing off a good deal of ground and obtaining excellent pay. They havedischarged some heavy blasts of from 200 to 300 kegs of powder this spring. Driscoll & Co., whose claims bave been idle for several years, ar2 now cleaning out their tunnel and will commence washing next week in the same hill, ' a McCarty & Hunter are working their elaim hetween Columbia Hill and Cherokee with first-rate prospects. The Ditcli Co. are working the Lewis diggings in the same locality. More mining is being done in this viciuity than for many years before, and -the miners are greatly encouraged by their prospects. FE. D, Dean bas claimed the waters of Bloody Run, to be taken ont hy a diteh below the old Bloody Run ditch. He also Joaated 200 feet from the old ditch, down thé creek, foradam aud for mining puroses. June 25th : The miners in the vicinity of Moore’s Flat are wasbing away at a lively rate with excellent prospects. The eompanies will clean up about the middle of July. Tho Boston Co, at Woolsey’s, made a clean up, after a run nvon pipe clay, on last Saturday, and got $2,900, At Moore’s Flat a company made a partial clean-up last week, taking out $2,200. . June 27th: We were shown a specimen yesterday from the Selena ledge, which was literally filled with flakes of pure gold. Perrin & Co., at Forest Springs, is now ' and have heen for the past eight months, taking out $45 rock. An incline has been sunk about 125 feet, and thecompany is now runing for the fourth level. The ledge lies very flat and is easily worked—averaging in thickness ahout three feet. Palmer & Everingham are putting up a 5-stamp custom mill on the South Fork of the South Yuha River, uear Enreka. There is a large amount of prospecting in this locality and no custom mill. At the depth of 30 feet on the Phonix ledge, eight loads of rock have heen taken out and crushed, paying $73. Poquillau & Clark-have started up their new 10-stamp quartz millat Eureke, It is estimated that 300 tons of rock ean be obtained in the vicinity. Another mill, to be run by water power, is being built on Poor Man's Creek, by Richmond. Grass Valley National, June 25th: Tho Shamrock ledge, owned by Harrigan, Tieruey & Co., have had several very good crushings—the last one avoraging about $25 per ton. Rock is now being taken ont which the owners are confident will run as high as $30 per ton. In the lower tunnel of tho Gen. Grant Co., which is 60 feet in length,90 tous of rock were taken out about two weeks ago, and crushed at the Forest Springs mill, yielding$61 per ton. In the second tunnel yery good ore has also been taken out, which paid about $46 per ton, while rock from the upper tunnel has paid on an average abont $40—the last crushing consisting of 200 tons. A short time ago 275 fect in the Grant sold for $5 per foot. Grass Valley Union, June 23d: The New York Hill Co. are taking rock from their shaft which shows richly iu free gold. Transcript, Jane 380th: The shaft of the Kentucky Bme Gravel Co. has been sunk 142 feet, aud a bed of gravel struck, which has the appearance of being a river channel, and is supposed to cover a strata of pipe clay, and under the clay is the strata or channel of pay dirt, which it is expected will he reached after sinking 125ft. deeper. So soon as the channel is struck by the Kentucky Co., a large amount of propecting will be done upon the channel. Placer County. Dutch Flat Enquirer, June 27th: The miuers about Towa Hill are roported to be taking out moro money than for several seasons past. The great drawback now, as it always has been, is the want of water ; with a good supply of water Iowa Hill would be one of the most flourishing mining camps in the country. We learn that the claim of Mr. O. Harkness, situated in Cation Creek, cleaned up a short time since, after a run of seventeen days and nights, $4,700. The claim employs ten men, five on a shift, and uses 550 iuches of water. Carr, Miner & Harriman, cleaned up, in their claim at Gold Run, after a run of ten days and nights, $2,865. ‘The company use 315 inches of water and three pipes, and work three men on each shift, and havea pressure of 150 feet. The Colfax correspondent of the Auburn Herald of June 27th, says: The Risiug Sun Company continue to yield good returns at each clean up.

PKPlumas County, . Quincy National, June 20th: Mining matters at Rush Creek are prosperous. Several companies are at work, piping and ground slnicing, but none have cleaned up yet. Rush Creek is one of the oldest mining eamps in the county, and has been yery rich. Sierra County. Downieville Afessenger, June 27th: The Wehe Co.: have got their tunnel into the ledge, and find the rock as rich as it was ahove. The prospects are excellent for a paying miue. The “American Mining Co., at Morristown, having found the pipe elay in their diggings too expensive to work by the hydraulic process, have set in drifting with several gangs of men, and are confident of making it pay much greater dividends, . They will pipe no more except near the brow. Vast excavations are being made by the hydraulie miners, this season, at Hureka,: . Craip’s Flat, La Porte and other diggings, where large streams are playing upon the banks. This has necessitated the removal of several buildings, and it seems prohable that the profits of the season’s work will he double that of ordinary seasons. The Howland Flat correspondent writes : The mines seem to be ina very prosperous condition, and justify the hopes of paying better than for some time past. The eoldness of the Spring has kept the snow from melting very rapidly, and the water season for sluicing in the hydraulic claims will be hetter than it has been for years. Already a large quantity of dirt has been run off, but as no clean-upshave been made, there are no figures. Tho tunnel claims are paying very well, The Monumental, at Potosi, is turning out about 175 ounces weekly. The French Co. is paying as well, in proportion to the hands employed. The Union, Down East and other Compauies are generally making good returns. Siskiyou County. Yreka Union, Inne 20th : The Black Bear ledge on Salmon, keeps np its reputation as one of the best ledges in the northern part of the State. There are but few miners on Suda Creek at present, hut most who are there are doing pretty well. The only hydraulic company on the ereek has taken out reccntly some pretty good clinnks, one piece weighing $40, another $17.50 and another $10, besides several others of smaller size. Tuvolunine County. . Sonora Democrat, June 27th; A 40-ounce lump of gold was found yesterday in the Daley claim, Main Gulch, Columbia. Arrangements have beeu made for the iutroduction of water into Chinese Camp. The Stanislaus Gravel Co., having comleted their mill, commeuced work last Thursday. They have been engaged for the last two months in building the mill, running the main tunnel into the claim and hreasting out gravel. The channel has heen opeued at three different poiuts by hranch tunnels, connecting with the main tunnel, showing a large bed of gravel which prospects well. They intend working 40 tons per day, ample provision having been made to take out more thau that quantity. Hanson & Boyer are making preparations to hydranlic the surface of a portion of Bald Mountain. The dirt is over 16 ft.deep and contains a little gold. The dirt appears likely to pay for working, but the main object is to lay the ledge bare and cxpose to view the unmerous small quartz veins, that run in all directions over the mountain. In years past many very rich pockets have been found at that portion of the mountain. The same gentlemen are also going to work another hydraulic claim, in the vicinity of Sonora and Bald Mountain, where the dirt is over 30 ft. deep and pays small wages for ground sluicing. Wuba County). The Brown's Valley correspondent writes to the Marysville Appeal of June 26th, as follows: The Jefferson claim seems to he improving every day. They are crushiug good quartz and are ont of debt. The Pennsylvania men talk of starting all their stamps again next week, and runniug them on good quartz, The Rattlesnake continues to crush rich quartz. They have to pan a sufficient supply for their 10 stamps in day time, but they have reason to hope that within a few days they will be running day and night, and on ricber quartz than ever before erushed in this valley. The Appeal of the same date says: We were shown yesterday a telegram to W. H. Knight, from Brown’s Valley, stating that the Pennsylvania Co. had struck very rich : quartz in level No. 10, incline No. 1. June 30th: The Brown’s Valley correspondent writes under date of June 29th to tho Marysville Appeal as follows: The Rattlesnake Co. cleaned up last week $1,400, and the Pennsylvania $1,700, The Pennsylyania is now setting more men to work in order to geta more regular supply of quartz for their mill from different places. They have finally reached again, in level 10, their former rich pay chimney, which, with other resources, will carry them over ail their present difficnlties. Mr. Gaskin of this city, has recently erected a 4-stamp quartz mill at Scahby Hill, on the ola Jackson ledge, abont two miles southeast of Brown’s Valley, near Long Bar. The mil] is run hy water power, and we are informed that itis crushing very good rock. COLORADO. Georgetown Miner, June 11th : Professor Dibbiu is making active arrangements for working his mines in Hast Argentine district. : There is a project on foot to run a tnnnel go as:'to strike tho Flora McLain lode at a depth of 500 feet. . The shaft on the Ashley Franklin lode is now down 25 feet, and 18 inches of splendid galena, earrying a large per cent, of ruhy silver is being worked ont. Two men mined and raised three tons of this ore ina single day. The Boom Ditch Co. have discovered some six or eight very promising lodes. Central City Herald, June 10th: Mr. Herrick will fyrnish another hutton to-day. He has now plenty of good ore. The Polar Star mill is kept constantly pounding away on ore from the Foote and Simmons lode, for Mr. Lindsley. The crevice matter continnes to improvo in quality as they continue to sink, We saw some fine silver ore from the Do Profundus lode, Monntain House district, this morning. It was taken from a depth of about 40 feet, where the crevice is 634 feet between walls, with a vein of pay ore 20 inches wide. Moores aud Myers are working the Canandagua lode, night and day. Of late, they have had a heavy cap-rock to sink through, but from present indications they are led to believe that they are about through it. Barret & Co. have the water drawn out of their claims, on the Winnehago lode, and have put ona strong force of hands, who are sinking their main shaft to a greater depth, ° Afriend who has been visiting Idaho, informs us that Lowe & Co. are working on Illinois Bar, and have a shaft down 18 feet, and expect to strike the hed rock shortly. Also that Skinner & Co., who are working ou the same bar, have their water wheel and pump in position, and have now reached a depth of ten feet. He represents Idalio, at this time, as being Jivelier than at any previous time since the palmy days of The cupel furnace of the Georgetown Silver Smelting Furnace was heated at two o’clock on the afternoon of June 7th, and 10a. a. of the Sth a button of 105 pounds was ready forshipment. ~ We were shown on Saturday last the result of an assay made by Mr. J. Smith, from the U. S. Bank lode, seleeted ore. Character of ere—qnartz mixed with black sulphide and small specks of ruby silver. Result—one tou—2,000 pounds, gold, a trace, silver, $3,948.10. John Kendall has recently made the discovery of a lode, which prospects yery rich. From a run of half a cord made last week, under stamps, the surface quartz yielded at the rate of $30, gold, per cord. Miller & Co., who are working a claim on the Hunter or Bates lode, last week, had 21% cords of ore crushed, yielding 46 ozs. of gold, sold for $975.86, making the product at the rate of $290 currency per cord. Denver News, June 17th: About 600 stamps are runuing in Gilpin Connty. Men say they never saw it so lively at Black Hawk before. Mr. Clark, one of the owners of the Terrible lode, writes that we did his lode great injustice in saying that the highest run of its ore was $400 per ton. The last fivo tons run, showed a yield of $658 per ton, coin value in silver. One and one-fourth tons worked at Newark, N. J., returned $720 per ton, Ten tons now ready forsmelting show an average assay of $754 per ton in coin. The owners of the Ten-Forty silver lode, at Buckskin, have out about 100 tons of fine ore. N. Newlin, running one arastra ou tailings from the Orphan Boy, took out $200 worth of gold in a week. Capt. Bates is getting some arastras ready to run. Two mills have been taken over into Grauite from Buckskin, and are expected to bo in operation by the first of July. In Granite they, continue to find rich things, Central City Register, June 11th: Tho