Show california yreka areka journel TJ S hicks took out about eighty ounces of gold from his quartz claim in china gulch above hornbrook from two months work alone he crushed the quartz in an ar astra and brought it to yreka areka last week to di dispose spose of he has plenty more of same rich quartz in sight and if it continues holding out in similar manner will probably put up a mill nevada city miner transcript that the big guggenheim smelter will be located at san bruno point is now an assured fact over worth of contracts have already been let for grading and construction and it is stated authoritatively that within sixty days more than 1000 men will be employed on the site constructing buildings wharves and docks over acres have been secured and will be occupied by the smelter there are now on the ground 2003 tons of heavy steel rails to be used in the construction of a ten mile series of tracks yreka areka journal the yreka areka creek dredger has about five or six months work yet in digging up the antone foster garden to line of the mcnulty ranch on the yreka areka townsite border after cleaning up the bed rock there the dredger will probably be moved down the creek to and below hawkinsville Haw kinsville the company owns the miller booth and solus grounds and will most likely purchase the perry ranch for mining the dredger works fine often running eight hours wit without stoppage and then only resting to shift the boat for new excavations adjoining old dugout dug out spots ts sa san n bernardino index reports from eastern san bernardino county california indicate that a strike of much importance has been made on the standard mines property feet southwest of the main working shaft and on the strike of the vein A cropping discovered at this point has been opened by a surface cut revealing an ore body 25 feet wide and of high grade samples brought to los angeles this week are of heavy oxide ore carrying sulphides sulp hides As says of two samples taken by the manager yielded 2128 and 2256 per cent copper with low gold and silver values redding courier free press the fact that a rich strike of high grade ore in the gold king group on Mule town peak was made in the foot crosscut will be good news to the mine owners and al also so pleasant intelligence to the quartz m miners iners 1 of mule town centerville Cent erville middletown and south fork and shasta sections the ore is said to be of exactly the same character as that taken from the noted mt shasta the mt shasta lies several miles north up clear creek and in a short time shipped A in high grade ore to the keswick ta smelter its total product ran above that figure figart fact that the same ore has been struck san th Mule town looks good to mining men on redding courier free press the north N 01 ern california power company is ig having i busy times just now work is hu in in 11 g I 1 every direction and superintendent johnson johns has about all the business that he car can co c leniently attend to A new sub substation station vill at once be erected at the mammoth mine heretofore the power for the mine was sup sun plied through the substation sub station at kennel work on this building will begin at once next week the work on the new substation sab at the balaklava Balak lala smelter will begin the transformers are now on the way from cincinnati cin nati A new line will be built from the balaklava Balak lala substation sub station to the new saw mill about a mile distant i nevada city miner transcript acou en cour aging reports continue to come from the republic mine in the graniteville Granit eville district under the of william melean of that town who is one of the principal owners good headway is being made in the construction of the five stamp mill and rock breaker room will be made in the mill for ten stamps and the second battery of five will be put in as soon as the developments seem to warrant it there are two tunnels the upper being in feet and the lower one backs of feet have been obtained on the vein which is a large one and is heavily mineralized there is no water to be contended with and the general conditions at the mine are such that it can be operated at a comparatively small expense |