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Collection: Newspapers > Nevada City Nugget

August 12, 1932 (6 pages)

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THE NEVADA CITY NUGGET, CALIFORNIA “TRINITY CO. VEA ERVILLE_ (Trinity. _Co.)— _ There is more activity in this district among miners than for many years, Ithougzh many of the hydraulic op@rations are shut down for lack of . Water, or are about to shut down; and several placer operations are temporarily suspended in obedience to the debri slaw affecting the Klamath river. There are, it is estimated, ‘some 500 men panning the river beds and creeks in this district, and perhaps 200 men employed by the larger @oncerns. This is essentially a placer istrict. On the edge of town A. C. Mac‘Millan (Trinity Exploration Co.) is experimenting with a shovel outfit, which is just being completed. If this machine is successful, others will be built and used extensively here, as well as in other districts of ethe state. The shovel’ dumps into a hopper on the machine, and the dirt and gravel is fed into the center of two revolving screens. Water under high pressure is sprayed against the inside of the inside screens, breaking -—{rp—and—washing the-—material -thoroughly . Boulders and debris are carried out the side by a delivery belt, the sands and gold going into a 50-foot sluice, where the gold is recovered. The machine is. small enough to be moved by the shovel, and will take care of some 700 yards daily, or more, according to the ground. Three men can operate it. Many mining men from all parts of the west have inspected the machine the past week. The Trinity Dredging Co. is op. erating a regular dredge at Lewiston and the Chenoweth dredge is soon to start, it is said. Lee Nafszgar is working a shovel outfit at French Bar. United Placers, Ltd., operating on Canyon Creek, have made two very successful clean-ups on their placer claims. If this company is successful in obtaining the amount of wate: desired, being negotiated for, it will employ many men. E. E. Frick, superintendent of the Brown Bear, is employing some 20 men, it is said, in development work. This is a quartz property, and has produced several millions in gold in the past. Under the present able management, it will probably again become a steady producer. : On Eastman Gulch the Palace of the Oaks, a quartz property, is being developed by J. R. Blair and V. S. McClellan, with a promising outlook. The Enterprize quartz mine, near here, is taking out ore in sufficient quantities to pay expenses of deve! opment,.it is said. Some people from Portland, Ore., ‘have worked the dump on the old Shasta-Trinity, cleaned up’ and de parted for parts unknown, it is said, leaving local men looking for wages due. However, this mine has gooa prospects, if handled properly. There are a number of dea $s pendmining properties, ‘Trinity Center, to J. M. in the transatcion. erect buildings on the properties and expect to put on men soon, The company will install hoisting machinery “where it did\ _hydraulicicking last spring. Hunter ‘has: for some time been running tunnels and sinking shafts on the property. Channels deeper than the creek make it necessary to work on a larger scale, but it will be some time before more men are employed. SEARCY DEVELOPING CLAM Walter Searcy, owner of Gasoline ‘Alley in Auburn, has been doing considerable prospecting work on a “jedge of quartz that he struck on his property recently while digging for a __ well to irrigate the upper portion of his property. The ledge in some porpe bore considerable gold and he here is a good opportunity ‘the vein. 2 ‘two pumps taking care of ‘the water and is going down further than he originally intended to do. present he has struck a side wall shaft as he went down. ~NEW FIND BELOW OLD ing on proven mine ea naples from a : hich it fis certain: there will be iff, with a fair chance of uncovhic! is r [Ener vi e mn e ey 2 : e ore. The tunnel has. been more activity in the near future. : oan beck This section has produced. many miilNan CS ‘ : : 5 Se pole Pob Summers is opening 2 proslions of dollars in gold. The quality 3 : 1ins 1 va : ‘ : on es pect above town and naulinge the of ihe metal in this district compares . — he Daniel Wet : mE : OF tne anie vy eoscer,; nere e favorably with Alaskan gold, bring-. . ¢ 9 . = ae age mM Se oe Sp BTOUNE $19: is using.the mill..So0.farhis work A mining deal is reported near i . ite es — at et Trinity Center. A. G. Hunter and OUR SONS SEALE -Otio Morgan and Oliver are Dora Taylor have turned over half of the interest they owned in various four miles from Heady and _P. G. Heady, who represent Rich‘mond and San Francisco capital. S. Williamson represented the Headys Hunter and Williamson plan to PIUTE WORKING LEVEL W. J. Quackenbush, manager of the Piute Mining Company, a Seattle-financed organization, operating at the héad of Kelso creek, one and one-half; miles from the St. John “mine, brought down the news of; their bringing-in a 5-foot vein at a depth of 148 feet, recently. _ The new find is below all of the old workings made in the old days by. the Moore family, who have owned and held the property since the early sixties. The large chunk of ore is a dead ringer for the Keyes mine ore, the same White iron, the telluride showings and free gold visible to the naked eye. The bottom of the shaft is all ore. Assays will be made at Los Angeles; pannings show free gold simiiar to the Keyes pannings made on a visit to the Keyes mine last spring. It is believed that the ore will break better than $100 to the ton. ALPINE COUNTY MILL WORKING Grant Marsh of the Colusa Mining Comzany in Alpine county recently reported that the new mill is ‘being tunéd up-and will soon be ready for capacity operation. Minor adjustments are being made during the crushing of small tonnage of ore and thus far the results have been most encouraging. A new body of. ore has been encountered in the mine and while assays have not been made, it is believed to be the richest ore yet encountered, which gives promise of developing into a great deposit of exceptionaliy fine milling rock. SUBLEASE WEST, EXTENSION M. L. Mitchell of Nevada City, who has been developing the Western Extension, just west of the North Star mine at Grass Valley, has subleased the property to a Mr. Hill, mining engineer of Jackson, who is working the tailing of the famous Argonaut at that place, Mr. Everett and Mr. Beckley of Gold Hill, and Mr. Carpenter of Nevada City. Mr. Hill thinks highly of the property, which produced years ago. The men are reopening an old shaft, whicn has not been worked since 1924. MICHIGAN BLUFF RENEWING SCENE OF ITS HISTORY Many men are prospecting in the vicinity of Michigan Bluff, on the Foresthill divide, once supporting 500 white people and some 400 Chinese, and several of the old mines, once dividend payers, are being reopened and prospected, both quartz and gravel. 3ert H. Rogers, Kansas newspaper man and father of the famous “Buddy” Rogers, has turned go! miner and, with a crew of three men, is opening up the old Golden Sheaf quartz mine just below Michigan prospecting in the old Turkey Hili, which has a record of $200,000 ina short time before it was abandonea. This preperty is just north of Michigan Bluff. ELECTRO AMALGAMATOR RECOVERS GOLD VALUES “pyrite that may -bring in some ying goid. He is down approximately 30 feet and has timbered the Rock Creek district (placer For the past 18 months, San Bernardino ‘county, This property Bagdad. separate the gold from ‘vice to handle this ore. erty. testing plant in Los Angeles. B.d. Jackson and associates at Barstow, have been working on a device to recover gold from their property at Bristol Lake. _is located south of To date there has been tried 16 diffierent devices to separate the gold ore and it was not until ihe past few weeks that-an electro amalgamating device was perfected which wouid the other minerals found. About°$18,000 has been spent so far, according to Mr. Jackson, in developing this property and inventing the amalgamating deThe company tried an electro plating system but it failed to save the values. The company has 3200 acres and has tested their ground by drilling nine holes scattered about the propThe holes are eight inches and drilled to a depth of 60 feet. They have shipped 16 tons to their The lowest recovery reported by Mr. Jackson was $1.40 in gold and the
highest was $298 and eight ounces y-. of quicksilver, _ ; Drag lines will be used to bring e YUBA RIVER CANYON COUNTRY . The steep road to Alleghany, after leaving Foote’s Crossing, follows the canyon of Kanaka Creek in a more or: less crazy fashion. Along the ridge and off‘in the distance across the canyon toward the high Sierra’s are visible the yellow scar of the” ished the mining camp of Moores Flat. Just beyond are the high peaks of the Sierra Nevada divide. The road now drops away steeply to fross. one of the many small streams which flow toward Kanaka Creek after which it proceeds to climb once more. This process is repeated numerous times during which the stage station is passed where in winter changes are made from automotive equipment to horese and sleds; past heavy deposits of shining green serpentine rock; past glory holes, where many years ago gold seekers dug down in the hope .of finding gold veins; past deserted mines that can bee seen far up the ravines; and past properties such as the Madden mine which Ambrose Madden, an elderly man who spends his winters in a San Francisco hotel and his summers at his mine, some day hopes to sell for the price that he feels he should get. The road now follows close along the bottom of the canyon but soon final ascent to Alleghany. It is here the country becomes rock bound as the road climbs and glimpses are had of many gold: mines down below —the Rainbow, ‘the Oriental. We have now commenced to penetrate well into what is acknowledged the most fascinating gold mining territory in the United States, the worla hydraule—mines, where once flour-. it begins to climb once more on its . famous “Alleghany district. Here are mines by the dozen that produced from fifteen to twenty thousand dollars for the small ones to many millions out of the more successful ones. The character of the district is such that gold is found in pockets -Authentic reports show: where one sheet has produced within a few thousand of one million dollars; where one chunk of ore weighting 163 pounds has brought: $27,000 from the mint; where thousands of feet of work has been done along the vein and in raises that has produced a return of as much as $235 a foot for the entire distance. Here a mine has produced $80,000 in one pocket, has had the tunnel caved and like the Spanish galleon loaded, with gold has. been lost. Even like the sunken treasure these mines have been searched for, tunnels have been driven in various places in various directions but in vain. The old workings, due to faulty surveys, were never again located. It is therefore the motorist finds himself in a region where every gold mine and every tunnel is surrounded with a fascinating mystery. For who knows but that history will repeat and that a property once given up as being mined out may fall into the hands ow those who will drive it further and in a comparatively few) “years be rewarded with dividends running into millions. Another short mile and we pass a most unique baseball diamond, somewhat short in area, the entire— of about 15 per’ cent grade. It was the only available . field on a hillside spot for the great American game and the people of Alleghany were) thankful to have it. a RICH ORE IN THE PARAGON FOREST HILL (Placer Co.)— George Buell ,of Sacramento, who is doing extensive prospecting work on the old Paragon quartz claims, recently uncovered two very rich ledges while crosscutting from a tunnel to an old shaft. One vein Was found just after the cut was begun and the other was tapped while the old shaft was being extended down. This property is a few miles below Foresthill and was discovered and worked by Breese and Wheeler some 75 years ago. Later the property was sold.to Tom Brown, who worked it for a while, and since has passed through a succession of owners until Buell took it over last September. Buell is planning not to touch these ledges until he has further . prospected the mine. <A crew of ‘seven men have been rebuilding the old Hendy‘two-stamp mill, and considerable new machinery, including an air compressor, has been installeu. If the proposition warrants, which it undoubtedly will, the mill will be enlarged later. Mr. and Mrs. Buell are living near the property, which is in the ola . Bath mining district. Some beautiful specimens, white. quartz with leaf; gold and stringers, have been taken from the new ledges. GEOLOGICAL REPORT ON. ALLEGHANY ISSUED The: Alleghany district, in the southern part of Sierra county, has been a producer of gold since the earliest days of gold mining in the state. The district differs from other . eoid-quartz_distrietsin_California in that nearly all the production, which has probably exceeded $20, 000,000 from the lode mines only, has been derived from small shoots of_very high grade ore. The veins occur “in metamorphic rocks that are intruded by serpentine, gabbro, and granite. A large part of the area is covered by andesitic breccia that is later than the veins. Below the breccia in places orcur old stream channels, which carry auriferous gravel deposits that were formerly mined for placer gold. The veins in general follow two systems of fissures, both of which have northerly strikes. In one system, which has yielded the greater production, the veins dip gentiy te the east. The veins of the other system dip steeply to the west. several other. minerals, of which arsenopyrite, pyrite, and other sulphides and feldspar, carbonate, sericite, and mariposite are the, most abundant. The gold was introduced comparatively late_in.the process of~ mineralization, distinctly later than the quartz and contemporaneously with the carbonate, sericite and mariposite. 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