Volume 17 (1868) (428 pages)

70 The Mining and Scientific Press. Mining Summary. Tue following information is gleaned mostly from jourgals published in the interior, in close proximity to the Mines mentioned. CALIFORNIA. Alpine Count». : Markleeville Jliner, July 25th : The machinery for the new Kennedy qnartz mill will all be finished this week, and the most of it is now on the ground. ‘The boiler is being set, and all parts of the work is being pushed forward as fast as possible. Amador County. Dispatch, July 25th: The arch of the fnrnace at the Coney & Bigelow mine, used for roasting sulyhurets, fell in a few days ago, causing considerablo delay and expense to the proprietors. It will be repaired and putin operation as soou as possible. Mariposa County. Gazette, July 24th: The Oaks & Reese Co., Hunter’s Valley, have heen taking out some very rich rock lately. Snediker & Co. are prospecting a quartz elaim on the point of the mountain east of Mount Bullion. The vein is abont ten inches wide, and welldefined. In working it with an arastra the prospect is good. We were shown hy Mr. Brownfield, of Hornitos, two exceedingly handsome specimens of gold-bearing quartz. They weigh about $80, and were taken from the Duncan lead, near Hornitos, by Barcroft & Co. Dave Morrow and Jerry Fenton are working aclaim on Saxton’s Creek, which would deter less energetic men. They havo to use a derrick to move the boulders, the smallest of which is about the size of a flour barrel, The claim pays, however, abont $4 a day to the hand, and occasionally they pick np a chispa of some ounces. The Alia of this city, says: The Ryerson process continues to give the utmost satisfaction at the Bear Valley mill, and would have been in use at the Bentou mill but for the destruction of the Merced dam, and the financial tronbles of the Mariposa Co. The success of the Bear Valley millin extracting $35, andeven $45 per ton, by the Ryerson amalgamator from the Josephine ore, which had not paid more than $8 by the old process, was on a scale too small to prove therichness of an extensive body of quartz. Nevada County. Transcript, July 238d: Mr, Hazlett has sold the Kansas claim -to A. D. Allen, for $2,500. Work will commence immediately. A friend writing from You Bet informs us that Capt. Atkins & Co., at Little York, have started up two sets of hydraulic claims and are working with fair prospects of taking out a large amount of money. At You Bet, the Yuba Canal Co., itis expected, will shut the water out of their ditch in a few days, and afterwards mining operations will be confined todrifting in the blue lead. G. §, Brown’s claim is paying as large as usual. Neece & West arc also doing well. Ed. Williams has got good pay in the old Mallory claim, and at Hunt's Hillthey are taking outconsiderable money. There will be a great deal of prospecting done this season, and no doubt many good mines will be opened. July 26th: We saw at the banking honseof Geo. W. Kidd & Co., yesterday, a beautiful bar of gold, valued at $5,600, which came from a set of diggings at Chalk Blnff, in Little York Township. The Banner mine has shut down for the purpose of putting a new boiler up at the hoisting works. The old boiler commenced leaking so badly as to be unfit for use. The new one will be four ft. in diameter. Peters & Co. have located 15 claims, each 20 ft. front, and rnnning from the Main Gulch to the center of Mooney Flat Hill. The ground is west of Mooney Flat Ravine, and adjoins Cook & Co’s ground. July 27th: The Rothschilds Mining Co., composed of David Stevens and others, have located a claim of 3,000 ft. on a quartz ledge, at Lawton’s Ranch, six miles south of Grass Valley. Millenbrock & Co. have located 400 ft. on the extension of the Ypsilanti ledge at Randolph Flat, Rongh & Ready Township. A Chinese company, working a short distance below the suspension bridge, in the bed of Deer Creek, seem to be doing well. They have conveycd the water of the creek through a flume, and use it for a motive power to keep the bed of the creek upon which they are working dry. They have a large number of men employed, and are cleauing out the tailings to the bedrock very fast. ‘The miners about Birchville and French Corral are begiuning to run short of water. The ditch supply of this locality carries abont-4,000 iuches, and the Americau Co. alone is running 1,100 inches, and a larger part of the water is used above Birchville. On Wednesday morning about 10 o’clock, the flume of the South Yuba Caral Co., across Steep Hollow,came down with acrash. The flume was 275 ft. long and 60 ft. high. As it conveyed water forthe supply of mming in this as well as other localities, operlations have to be suspended until a new flume is huilt. The ditch conveying water from Deer C:eek, will bring sufficient water to supply the town. The flume will be rehuilt in about eight or ten days. Gazette, July 27th: Work was resumed on the Lucky mine last Thursday. The mine has been idle for some months. July 28th: The spur wheel at the hoisting works of the Sneath and Clay mine, broke down yesterday moruing. Mulloy, who has charge of the works, has made arrangements to have another wheel cast at the Nevada Foundry, which will be completed ina few days, when the works will again he started up. Grass Valley National, July 21st: Kaiser & Co, have located 1,000 ft. on an extension of the Garden City ledge, and organized the Nevada Mining Co, for the purpose of working the claim. July 25th: We were shown to-day some samples of quartz taken from the seventh level of the New York Hill mine, which were the richest with which our eyes have been blessed for many aday. The mine is a splendid one, and is daily improving. Excreusiorn.—A Meadow Lake correspondent of the Dutch Flat Exguirer, of July 25th, says: The Enterprise furnace and mill is ready for operation; the Trustees are expected here daily, and will appoint a Superintendent, and take into consideration other matters preparatory to a season’s operations. They haye at the mill two mouth’s run of good ore, hut the ability of the furnace to work it thoroughly or even profitably, is as yet uncertain. The U. 8. Grant Co. have struck a fine looking ledge in their lower tunnel, at a depth of 80 ft. The Trustees are expected from San Francisco in a few days, to decide regarding the erection of a mill. The Kentneky Co. has also tapped the ledge 100 ft. deep, eight feet wide; prospects flattering. The Gold Run Co. have levied an assessment suflicient to pay all indehtedness, taxes, ete. Thcir mine is well prospected, by a tunnel running on the ledge 300 ft., and is not surpassed in richness hy any mine in the district. The Trustces have determined to suspend work until some process is put into operation that will work the ore thoroughly. The Mohawk and Montreal Co, have a fine body of decomposed fvee-gold ore, at a depth of 230 feet, and the prospects throughout the mine are very flattering. They are putting a new 48-flue boiler in the mill, and another 5-stamp battery will be ready to start in a few days. The Empire Co. will resume work tuis week. Their shaft is 35 ft. deep, the ledge five feet wide and very rich in free goldand sulphurets. Free gold can be seen in the pure sulphurets as taken from the mine. They have out about 75 tons, of which, they will work 30 tons at the Enterprise soon. The Green Emigrant Co. are at work day and night. Their shaft is 65 feet deep, the ledge five feet wide, the rock white, free gold and some sulphurets. It paid last season from $26 to $31 per ton, and the in-. dications are better now than ever. Many other mines in the district are jnst as good as those above mentioned, some of which have been located and partly prospected, others are subject to location. _ There are five mills in the district which haye proven that the ordinary process will not work this ore. Placer County, i Dutch Flat Enquirer, Inly 25th : A correspondent at Gold. Run furnishes the following interesting items: Moore, Taylor & Co., after a run of 20 days, cleaned up qnite a handsome sum .O. Harknes, of Cation “Creek, after a 20 days’ run, cleaned np hetween $7,000 and $8,000. This is the largest clean up ever made in this District in the same length of time. Abeel, Dnnn & Co., after running 10 days, . cleaned up at the cate of $50 per day. There are quite a number of claims that! have stopped work for the present season, on account of their ground being nearly . worked out.Carr, Harriman & Co., cleaned up after a run of twenty days the. sum of $2,800, This claim is under the supervision of J. G. Brown. Sierra Gounty. Downieville Messenger, Inly 25th: The Good Hope Co. are running the Montpelier Mill, to crnsh about 50 tous of rock from their ledge. We understand that the boys mining iu Woodchuck Ravine, Mohawk Valley, are getting a fair prospect, Judging from appeavances the diggings in that valley will be valuable when developed. The Monumental mining claim at Howland Flat, recently struck excellent pay, having taken out last weck for the work of four shifts, 9£ ounces, and forthe following two shifts, 92 ounces of gold. The Nip and Tuck Mining Co., near Mt. Pleasant, have their shaft down 250 feet, which takes them to the bed-rock. The bottom shows good gravel, and all their prospects are favorable. They have their main tunnel in 200 feet, and expect to getin the coming winter. They have fine steam hoisting works in first rate order. We saw at the Banking House of H. Scammon, on Monday last, a nugget of gold from the Gold Lake diggings of Watson & Co., weighing over 23 ounces. This piece, together with ahout 25 ounces in pieces, weighing from one ounce down to pennyvweights, was the result of one week’s work of nine men. The Kingom Bros., of Poverty Hill, have done remarkahly well in their mining claim this year, having taken out ahout $20,000. There is a large amount of good ground in this vicinity, and when the drain tunnel is finished, 60 or 70 companies can work to good advantage. By another Spring the St. Louis Water Company will have their ditch in, which will make Poverty Hill, beyoud a doubt, one of the richest and liveliest mining camps in the mountains. , The Alia, of this city, says : The Ryerson process is to he introduced at the Gold Valley mine, in Sierra County. Thatmine has for years proved rich in the assayers’ erucihle, but poor in tho ordinary mode of amalgamation. It is said that the royalty of $5,000 demandcd in advance for the privilege of using the Ryerson has stood much in its way. The general opinion of intelligent miners is that it is excellent for quartz in which the gold is fonnd in extremely fine particles. Siskiyou County. Yreka Union, July 25th: John C. Klimper, who mines on the South Fork of Humbug, took out of hisclaim one day this weck & handsome nugget weighing eleven ounces. A few weeks since Mr. Klimper found one weighing $50. These nuggets are very handsome and entirely frec from quartz or other forcign substance, Tuolumne Counts. Sonora Democrat, July 25th: We saw recently at Kelly’s mill some very rich rock from tho Van Tromp mine, near Columbia. The rock is of a whitish hlue color, with black strata running through it, and shows a great deal of gold to the naked eye. Indced we have seldom seen richer or better looking quartz. A shaft has becn sunk on the mine to a depth of 75 fect, and the rock, to that depth, is all of the same character. Several tons has been crushed at the Summit Pass and Shanghai Mills, and has paid from $638 to $100 per ton. The vein is ahont two feet wide and very accessihle. The flume of the Golden Rock Water Co’s ditch, near Big Oak Flat, fell on the 9th, with a tremendous crash, crushing everything in its way, and creating a total wreck. The flnme was the most magnificent structure of the kindin this State. It was designed by G. W. Holt, and erected by Holt and Conrad in 1859, under contract with the G. R. W. Co., at a cost of $80,000. The water first passed through it to Big Oak Flat on the 29th of March, 1860. It was built of sugar pine mainly. The flume was 2,200 feet in length. COLORADO. Georgetown finer, July 4th: The Herkimer is yielding a large quantity of rich argentiferous galena.Work will soon be conimenced on the Anglo Saxon lode.A tunnel ii being driven to strike the Summit lode, on Griffith Mountain. Bellamy, Hatch and Vance uncovered four fissure veins at East Argentine last week by washing the debris off the mountain. . Harris and Campbell are workiug the White lode, on Sherman Mountain. Their labors are being well repaid by the prodnetion of a large quantity of first classore.Theshaft on the Comet lode is now down betweeu 50 and 60 ft., carrying a body of yery rich ore. Dvifting willsoon be commenced. .Stewart's smelting furnace is rapidly approaching completion. Herrick, of the smelting works, has commenced the erection of anew cupel furnace.Juo. T. Harris is raising some very valuable argentiferous galena from Elijah Hise lode, on Sherman Mountain.C. J. Goss is engaged in developing a new discovery, the Geo. B. Walker lode, on Brown Mountain. The vein is large and well dehas commenced on the Henry Ward Beecher lode on Democrat Mountain.We have been shown some very fine specimens of ore from the Wm, Penn lode, on Democrat Mountain. igshy informs us that the vein is opening up finc with a large hody of first class oro. . Work has been resumed on [the Parr lode, on Sherman Monntain . David 4. Griffith & Co, are engaged in driving a tunnel in Alpine Mountain. Jt is now in some 50 ft. and has already cuta galena bearing vein. The tunnel is named Daniel Drew. .Hill and King are opening a new discovery on Burrell Monntain, called the Woodhine, At a depth of 10 ft. they have from four to six inches of fine appearing mineral, that is increasing in quantity as work progresses.Gnitens & Co. are actively working the Hercules lode on Brown Mountain. ‘The vein has averaged, to a depth of 20 ft., 18 in. of argentiferous galena, and on Saturday last opened out to four feet in width of the quality of ore. The ore will yield $500 per ton, dressed. Denver Herald, July 11th: In Gilpin County, gulch miners are wanted at $3.50 to $4, and lode miners at $3.25 to $5 per day. Denver News, July 8th: The Antona mines are located about 40 miles west of Fort Sauders, and near the line of Colorado on whatis called Antana river, about ten miles from its mouth. There had been four gulches discovered up to the 380th of June last, named as follows: Antana river, Beaver Creek, Horse Gulch, and Elk Gulch. The first has been prospected abont eight miles; the second about fonr miles; the third about two miles, and the last about one mile. Timber is plenty, grass ahonnds,and there is a good road to the mines. Spicer & Co. at tho mouth of Horse Gulch, make $7.50 per day. The placer claim of Taylor, Thompson & Co., at Helena, is worked night and day. A car load of dirt is washed every minute and ahalf. The pay streak presents a square front from 80 to 35 ft. deep, and no nnderlying bedrock yet nor the slightest indication of any. The weekly expenses average $2,200 in currency, and tho net proceeds $6,000 in gold. Forty-five men aro constantly empo;ed. Ahont $100,000 was taken out of the claim last year; that amount will, of course, be greatly increased tho present. DACOTAH. New Mexitan, July Tth: Fonr or five arastras are being constructed and a quartz mill] will he in operation hy the middle of July. Several parties have gone east to purchase mills for the rednction of the quartz, which will be working by next fall. . The placer diggings are being worked at considerable profit, paying from $5 to $380 per day to the hand, Rich placer diggings -have recently been discovered 12 miles south of South Pass City, which are attracting considerable attention, and bid fair to yield a large quantity of gold. That the country has great mineral wealth, there is not a particle of doubt, bnt it will take time to develop it. The Virginia Lxterprise has the following, dated South Pass City, July 22d: Tho Pioneer quartz mill of the Sweetwater mining country, Tozer & Eddy, proprietors, commenced crushing rock this afternoon from their claim on the Cariso ledge. The Swectwater Mines of July 3d, says: The first crushing of ore ever done in Sweetwater was done Friday, June 26th, at the splendid power arastra of Messrs. Fairfield, Bronson & Marshall. IDAHO. Lewiston Journal, July 4th: During the weck, a 10-stamp mill, manufactnred by Goddard & Co., San I'rancisco, was shipped to Warren’s Camp, for the Pioneer mill Co. The capacity of the mill will enable the company to crush 20 tons in 24 hours. A party of five started for a prospecting trip in the mountains to the east of Oro Fino. This part of the country has been left unprospected, and there is every indication of a good mining district in that direction. Both the Pioneer and Hic Jacet mills are now running. The Pioneer will soon have new and much larger machinery, with complete apparatus for the reduction of the ore. The Hic Jacet has a road already constructed to 1£ of the best leads of thecamp, and is ponnding away at the rock as fast as brought to them from these leads. The Sanderson & Co’s arastra mill, will be on the ground next week. The Miners’ mill is still in this city awaiting shipment. The same paper states that C. A. Robeson has made another raise in San Franfined, carrying a lurge body of ore.The cisco, and induced a party to prosecnte a Policy lode, on Democrat Mountain, willbe actively worked during the season. Work search for his fabulons quartz lead. The editor thinks such expeditions a detrimegt

70 The Mining and Scientific Press. Mining Summary. Tue following information is gleaned mostly from jourgals published in the interior, in close proximity to the Mines mentioned. CALIFORNIA. Alpine Count». : Markleeville Jliner, July 25th : The machinery for the new Kennedy qnartz mill will all be finished this week, and the most of it is now on the ground. ‘The boiler is being set, and all parts of the work is being pushed forward as fast as possible. Amador County. Dispatch, July 25th: The arch of the fnrnace at the Coney & Bigelow mine, used for roasting sulyhurets, fell in a few days ago, causing considerablo delay and expense to the proprietors. It will be repaired and putin operation as soou as possible. Mariposa County. Gazette, July 24th: The Oaks & Reese Co., Hunter’s Valley, have heen taking out some very rich rock lately. Snediker & Co. are prospecting a quartz elaim on the point of the mountain east of Mount Bullion. The vein is abont ten inches wide, and welldefined. In working it with an arastra the prospect is good. We were shown hy Mr. Brownfield, of Hornitos, two exceedingly handsome specimens of gold-bearing quartz. They weigh about $80, and were taken from the Duncan lead, near Hornitos, by Barcroft & Co. Dave Morrow and Jerry Fenton are working aclaim on Saxton’s Creek, which would deter less energetic men. They havo to use a derrick to move the boulders, the smallest of which is about the size of a flour barrel, The claim pays, however, abont $4 a day to the hand, and occasionally they pick np a chispa of some ounces. The Alia of this city, says: The Ryerson process continues to give the utmost satisfaction at the Bear Valley mill, and would have been in use at the Bentou mill but for the destruction of the Merced dam, and the financial tronbles of the Mariposa Co. The success of the Bear Valley millin extracting $35, andeven $45 per ton, by the Ryerson amalgamator from the Josephine ore, which had not paid more than $8 by the old process, was on a scale too small to prove therichness of an extensive body of quartz. Nevada County. Transcript, July 238d: Mr, Hazlett has sold the Kansas claim -to A. D. Allen, for $2,500. Work will commence immediately. A friend writing from You Bet informs us that Capt. Atkins & Co., at Little York, have started up two sets of hydraulic claims and are working with fair prospects of taking out a large amount of money. At You Bet, the Yuba Canal Co., itis expected, will shut the water out of their ditch in a few days, and afterwards mining operations will be confined todrifting in the blue lead. G. §, Brown’s claim is paying as large as usual. Neece & West arc also doing well. Ed. Williams has got good pay in the old Mallory claim, and at Hunt's Hillthey are taking outconsiderable money. There will be a great deal of prospecting done this season, and no doubt many good mines will be opened. July 26th: We saw at the banking honseof Geo. W. Kidd & Co., yesterday, a beautiful bar of gold, valued at $5,600, which came from a set of diggings at Chalk Blnff, in Little York Township. The Banner mine has shut down for the purpose of putting a new boiler up at the hoisting works. The old boiler commenced leaking so badly as to be unfit for use. The new one will be four ft. in diameter. Peters & Co. have located 15 claims, each 20 ft. front, and rnnning from the Main Gulch to the center of Mooney Flat Hill. The ground is west of Mooney Flat Ravine, and adjoins Cook & Co’s ground. July 27th: The Rothschilds Mining Co., composed of David Stevens and others, have located a claim of 3,000 ft. on a quartz ledge, at Lawton’s Ranch, six miles south of Grass Valley. Millenbrock & Co. have located 400 ft. on the extension of the Ypsilanti ledge at Randolph Flat, Rongh & Ready Township. A Chinese company, working a short distance below the suspension bridge, in the bed of Deer Creek, seem to be doing well. They have conveycd the water of the creek through a flume, and use it for a motive power to keep the bed of the creek upon which they are working dry. They have a large number of men employed, and are cleauing out the tailings to the bedrock very fast. ‘The miners about Birchville and French Corral are begiuning to run short of water. The ditch supply of this locality carries abont-4,000 iuches, and the Americau Co. alone is running 1,100 inches, and a larger part of the water is used above Birchville. On Wednesday morning about 10 o’clock, the flume of the South Yuba Caral Co., across Steep Hollow,came down with acrash. The flume was 275 ft. long and 60 ft. high. As it conveyed water forthe supply of mming in this as well as other localities, operlations have to be suspended until a new flume is huilt. The ditch conveying water from Deer C:eek, will bring sufficient water to supply the town. The flume will be rehuilt in about eight or ten days. Gazette, July 27th: Work was resumed on the Lucky mine last Thursday. The mine has been idle for some months. July 28th: The spur wheel at the hoisting works of the Sneath and Clay mine, broke down yesterday moruing. Mulloy, who has charge of the works, has made arrangements to have another wheel cast at the Nevada Foundry, which will be completed ina few days, when the works will again he started up. Grass Valley National, July 21st: Kaiser & Co, have located 1,000 ft. on an extension of the Garden City ledge, and organized the Nevada Mining Co, for the purpose of working the claim. July 25th: We were shown to-day some samples of quartz taken from the seventh level of the New York Hill mine, which were the richest with which our eyes have been blessed for many aday. The mine is a splendid one, and is daily improving. Excreusiorn.—A Meadow Lake correspondent of the Dutch Flat Exguirer, of July 25th, says: The Enterprise furnace and mill is ready for operation; the Trustees are expected here daily, and will appoint a Superintendent, and take into consideration other matters preparatory to a season’s operations. They haye at the mill two mouth’s run of good ore, hut the ability of the furnace to work it thoroughly or even profitably, is as yet uncertain. The U. 8. Grant Co. have struck a fine looking ledge in their lower tunnel, at a depth of 80 ft. The Trustees are expected from San Francisco in a few days, to decide regarding the erection of a mill. The Kentneky Co. has also tapped the ledge 100 ft. deep, eight feet wide; prospects flattering. The Gold Run Co. have levied an assessment suflicient to pay all indehtedness, taxes, ete. Thcir mine is well prospected, by a tunnel running on the ledge 300 ft., and is not surpassed in richness hy any mine in the district. The Trustces have determined to suspend work until some process is put into operation that will work the ore thoroughly. The Mohawk and Montreal Co, have a fine body of decomposed fvee-gold ore, at a depth of 230 feet, and the prospects throughout the mine are very flattering. They are putting a new 48-flue boiler in the mill, and another 5-stamp battery will be ready to start in a few days. The Empire Co. will resume work tuis week. Their shaft is 35 ft. deep, the ledge five feet wide and very rich in free goldand sulphurets. Free gold can be seen in the pure sulphurets as taken from the mine. They have out about 75 tons, of which, they will work 30 tons at the Enterprise soon. The Green Emigrant Co. are at work day and night. Their shaft is 65 feet deep, the ledge five feet wide, the rock white, free gold and some sulphurets. It paid last season from $26 to $31 per ton, and the in-. dications are better now than ever. Many other mines in the district are jnst as good as those above mentioned, some of which have been located and partly prospected, others are subject to location. _ There are five mills in the district which haye proven that the ordinary process will not work this ore. Placer County, i Dutch Flat Enquirer, Inly 25th : A correspondent at Gold. Run furnishes the following interesting items: Moore, Taylor & Co., after a run of 20 days, cleaned up qnite a handsome sum ..O. Harknes, of Cation “Creek, after a 20 days’ run, cleaned np hetween $7,000 and $8,000. This is the largest clean up ever made in this District in the same length of time.. Abeel, Dnnn & Co., after running 10 days, . cleaned up at the cate of $50 per day. There are quite a number of claims that! have stopped work for the present season, on account of their ground being nearly . worked out..Carr, Harriman & Co., cleaned up after a run of twenty days the. sum of $2,800, This claim is under the supervision of J. G. Brown. Sierra Gounty. Downieville Messenger, Inly 25th: The Good Hope Co. are running the Montpelier Mill, to crnsh about 50 tous of rock from their ledge. We understand that the boys mining iu Woodchuck Ravine, Mohawk Valley, are

getting a fair prospect, Judging from appeavances the diggings in that valley will be valuable when developed. The Monumental mining claim at Howland Flat, recently struck excellent pay, having taken out last weck for the work of four shifts, 9£ ounces, and forthe following two shifts, 92 ounces of gold. The Nip and Tuck Mining Co., near Mt. Pleasant, have their shaft down 250 feet, which takes them to the bed-rock. The bottom shows good gravel, and all their prospects are favorable. They have their main tunnel in 200 feet, and expect to getin the coming winter. They have fine steam hoisting works in first rate order. We saw at the Banking House of H. Scammon, on Monday last, a nugget of gold from the Gold Lake diggings of Watson & Co., weighing over 23 ounces. This piece, together with ahout 25 ounces in pieces, weighing from one ounce down to pennyvweights, was the result of one week’s work of nine men. The Kingom Bros., of Poverty Hill, have done remarkahly well in their mining claim this year, having taken out ahout $20,000. There is a large amount of good ground in this vicinity, and when the drain tunnel is finished, 60 or 70 companies can work to good advantage. By another Spring the St. Louis Water Company will have their ditch in, which will make Poverty Hill, beyoud a doubt, one of the richest and liveliest mining camps in the mountains. , The Alia, of this city, says : The Ryerson process is to he introduced at the Gold Valley mine, in Sierra County. Thatmine has for years proved rich in the assayers’ erucihle, but poor in tho ordinary mode of amalgamation. It is said that the royalty of $5,000 demandcd in advance for the privilege of using the Ryerson has stood much in its way. The general opinion of intelligent miners is that it is excellent for quartz in which the gold is fonnd in extremely fine particles. Siskiyou County. Yreka Union, July 25th: John C. Klimper, who mines on the South Fork of Humbug, took out of hisclaim one day this weck & handsome nugget weighing eleven ounces. A few weeks since Mr. Klimper found one weighing $50. These nuggets are very handsome and entirely frec from quartz or other forcign substance, Tuolumne Counts. Sonora Democrat, July 25th: We saw recently at Kelly’s mill some very rich rock from tho Van Tromp mine, near Columbia. The rock is of a whitish hlue color, with black strata running through it, and shows a great deal of gold to the naked eye. Indced we have seldom seen richer or better looking quartz. A shaft has becn sunk on the mine to a depth of 75 fect, and the rock, to that depth, is all of the same character. Several tons has been crushed at the Summit Pass and Shanghai Mills, and has paid from $638 to $100 per ton. The vein is ahont two feet wide and very accessihle. The flume of the Golden Rock Water Co’s ditch, near Big Oak Flat, fell on the 9th, with a tremendous crash, crushing everything in its way, and creating a total wreck. The flnme was the most magnificent structure of the kindin this State. It was designed by G. W. Holt, and erected by Holt and Conrad in 1859, under contract with the G. R. W. Co., at a cost of $80,000. The water first passed through it to Big Oak Flat on the 29th of March, 1860. It was built of sugar pine mainly. The flume was 2,200 feet in length. COLORADO. Georgetown finer, July 4th: The Herkimer is yielding a large quantity of rich argentiferous galena..Work will soon be conimenced on the Anglo Saxon lode..A tunnel ii being driven to strike the Summit lode, on Griffith Mountain.. Bellamy, Hatch and Vance uncovered four fissure veins at East Argentine last week by washing the debris off the mountain.. . Harris and Campbell are workiug the White lode, on Sherman Mountain. Their labors are being well repaid by the prodnetion of a large quantity of first classore..Theshaft on the Comet lode is now down betweeu 50 and 60 ft., carrying a body of yery rich ore. Dvifting willsoon be commenced.. .Stewart's smelting furnace is rapidly approaching completion. Herrick, of the smelting works, has commenced the erection of anew cupel furnace..Juo. T. Harris is raising some very valuable argentiferous galena from Elijah Hise lode, on Sherman Mountain..C. J. Goss is engaged in developing a new discovery, the Geo. B. Walker lode, on Brown Mountain. The vein is large and well dehas commenced on the Henry Ward Beecher lode on Democrat Mountain..We have been shown some very fine specimens of ore from the Wm, Penn lode, on Democrat Mountain. igshy informs us that the vein is opening up finc with a large hody of first class oro.. . Work has been resumed on [the Parr lode, on Sherman Monntain .. David 4. Griffith & Co, are engaged in driving a tunnel in Alpine Mountain. Jt is now in some 50 ft. and has already cuta galena bearing vein. The tunnel is named Daniel Drew.. .Hill and King are opening a new discovery on Burrell Monntain, called the Woodhine, At a depth of 10 ft. they have from four to six inches of fine appearing mineral, that is increasing in quantity as work progresses..Gnitens & Co. are actively working the Hercules lode on Brown Mountain. ‘The vein has averaged, to a depth of 20 ft., 18 in. of argentiferous galena, and on Saturday last opened out to four feet in width of the quality of ore. The ore will yield $500 per ton, dressed. Denver Herald, July 11th: In Gilpin County, gulch miners are wanted at $3.50 to $4, and lode miners at $3.25 to $5 per day. Denver News, July 8th: The Antona mines are located about 40 miles west of Fort Sauders, and near the line of Colorado on whatis called Antana river, about ten miles from its mouth. There had been four gulches discovered up to the 380th of June last, named as follows: Antana river, Beaver Creek, Horse Gulch, and Elk Gulch. The first has been prospected abont eight miles; the second about fonr miles; the third about two miles, and the last about one mile. Timber is plenty, grass ahonnds,and there is a good road to the mines. Spicer & Co. at tho mouth of Horse Gulch, make $7.50 per day. The placer claim of Taylor, Thompson & Co., at Helena, is worked night and day. A car load of dirt is washed every minute and ahalf. The pay streak presents a square front from 80 to 35 ft. deep, and no nnderlying bedrock yet nor the slightest indication of any. The weekly expenses average $2,200 in currency, and tho net proceeds $6,000 in gold. Forty-five men aro constantly empo;ed. Ahont $100,000 was taken out of the claim last year; that amount will, of course, be greatly increased tho present. DACOTAH. New Mexitan, July Tth: Fonr or five arastras are being constructed and a quartz mill] will he in operation hy the middle of July. Several parties have gone east to purchase mills for the rednction of the quartz, which will be working by next fall. . The placer diggings are being worked at considerable profit, paying from $5 to $380 per day to the hand, Rich placer diggings -have recently been discovered 12 miles south of South Pass City, which are attracting considerable attention, and bid fair to yield a large quantity of gold. That the country has great mineral wealth, there is not a particle of doubt, bnt it will take time to develop it. The Virginia Lxterprise has the following, dated South Pass City, July 22d: Tho Pioneer quartz mill of the Sweetwater mining country, Tozer & Eddy, proprietors, commenced crushing rock this afternoon from their claim on the Cariso ledge. The Swectwater Mines of July 3d, says: The first crushing of ore ever done in Sweetwater was done Friday, June 26th, at the splendid power arastra of Messrs. Fairfield, Bronson & Marshall. IDAHO. Lewiston Journal, July 4th: During the weck, a 10-stamp mill, manufactnred by Goddard & Co., San I'rancisco, was shipped to Warren’s Camp, for the Pioneer mill Co. The capacity of the mill will enable the company to crush 20 tons in 24 hours. A party of five started for a prospecting trip in the mountains to the east of Oro Fino. This part of the country has been left unprospected, and there is every indication of a good mining district in that direction. Both the Pioneer and Hic Jacet mills are now running. The Pioneer will soon have new and much larger machinery, with complete apparatus for the reduction of the ore. The Hic Jacet has a road already constructed to 1£ of the best leads of thecamp, and is ponnding away at the rock as fast as brought to them from these leads. The Sanderson & Co’s arastra mill, will be on the ground next week. The Miners’ mill is still in this city awaiting shipment. The same paper states that C. A. Robeson has made another raise in San Franfined, carrying a lurge body of ore..The cisco, and induced a party to prosecnte a Policy lode, on Democrat Mountain, willbe actively worked during the season.. Work search for his fabulons quartz lead. The editor thinks such expeditions a detrimegt