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Volume 033-2 - April 1979 (10 pages)
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The pump, stamp mill and hoisting
works were consistenly listed as assets
when each new group of partners
undertook to begin mining activities.
The whole operation was described as
very efficient after the Pelton system
was set up. It ran pump, stamp mill and
“™oist and with the addition of a
namo, supposedly cost only $2 per
ay to run and provide light. In spite of
the advantages of the system however,
the mine was constantly opening and
closing. Perhaps because of limited
financial resources of its promoters,
limited yields from its veins and
pockets, limited capacity of the pump
itself or a combination of several of
these factors, the mine promised more
than it delivered. The name Phoenix
does not seem to be inappropriate fora
mine with such a fluctuating career.
1) Rodman W. Paul, Mining Frontiers of
the Far West, 1848-1880. Albuquerque,
University of New Mexico Press,
ieee 1974. See pp. 12-109, 135Elisabeth L. Egenhoff, The Cornish
Pump, Part One. Mineral Information Service, 20 (June 1967). See pp.
59-63.
Anonymous, Another First for
Nevada County. Nevada County
Historical Society Bulletin, 3
(October 1950). See p. 2.
2) Interview with Mr. Phil Keast,
__ former head mechanic of the
Empire Mine, Nov. 19, 1977. Tape
on file at Sierra College Library,
Rocklin, Calif.
3) Egenhoff, p. 59
4) Tom Armstrong, Famous Cornish
Pump. The Union (Grass ValleyNevada City, Calif.), Nov. 6, 1975.
5) peonhaty, The Cornish Pump, Part
ne.
Otis E. Young Jr., Black Powder and
Hand Steel. Norman, University of
Oklahoma Press, 1975.
Otis E. Young Jr., Western Mining.
Norman, University of Oklahoma
Press, 1970.
6) Young, Black Powder and Hand Steel,
p. 135.
7) Young, Western Mining, pp. 166-171.
8) Young, Black Powder and Hand Steel,
pp. 135-138.
9) Ibid. p. 141.
10) Egenhoff, pp. 56-60, and Young,
Black Powder and Hand Steel, p. 142.
11) Young, Black Powder and Hand Steel,
pp. 142, 148-149.
12) Egenhoff, p. 57.
13) Young, Black Powder and Hand Steel,
p. 157.
14) Ibid. pp. 146-147.
15) Interview with Phil Keast, Nov.
19, 1977.
16) Arthur B. Foote (with George Starr
collaborating), Men and Mines of
evada County and Adjacent Territory
for 40 Years, Unpublished typescript
‘in Nevada County Mining Museum
Collection, pp. 2-3.
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LEATHER BELT CONNECTED TO POWER SOURCE
TURNED WHEEL ON LEFT. IT IN TURN MOVED THE
HEAVY CROWN WHEEL. PHOTO BY BROOKS
BEESLEY.
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