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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.
The peculiar concentration of gold
in the high-grade shoots was one of
the principal objects of a study of
the Alleghany district by H. G. Fer.
.
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