Show ORE AT GREAT DEPTH Rich Strike Made in the Famous Old Gin Mine They have struck it rich in the old Gwln mine of Calaveras county fourS four-S and a half miles southwest of Moke lumne hill by going deep into the bowels I bow-els of the mother lode says the San Francisco Call Now Senator Voorheis of Sutler Creek Assemblyman i homas I Beldhanv F F Thomas and Stewart McClure of Oakland will be richer than they ever expected to be I I This strike is a new and significant evidence that wealth lies deeper in the mother lode than has been believed Advices from Senator Voorheis testify that the find is rich I lies in the biggest known ore body or pay chute yet found in California The story of I the Gwin mine is the story of the Champion Providence and other great motherlode mines of the present in that it was worked extensively a generation gen-eration ago and then abandoned as unprofitable un-profitable until men with money and confidence came along dug deeper and found wealth Many years ago it was owned principally by the late Senator Gwin of Broderlck duel fame and I while tune he operated it i yielded a for I In those days mining machinery was not so efficient as now methods were less perfect and the cost of operations was greater in all directions The I water vas an exoensive impediment and wihen at the lowest level reached the value of the ore a consumed by the cost of getting out the gold operations I tions were suspended I joined the great group of silent workedout mines that have dotted the mother lode so long to be recently reopened Its idleness lasted 16 years though its owners held to it for its known value as a property that might be profitably prof-itably developed Two years or so ago F F Thomas a capable mining man Senator E C Voorheis Thomas Bel shaw and Stewart McClure son of Dr McClure of Oakland bonded the mine for it 200000 and proceeded to develop In doing s they spent money A new shaft was sunk to a depth of 1500 feet at a cost of 100000 and a 40stamD mill was erected the total investment being about 150000 Drifts were run and it was early discovered that below the old workings the great ore body increased its length to 1300 feet being there 200 feet longer than it had before been found to be Milling operations were got fairly going go-ing late last fall and since then work has been vigorously prosecuted Work has recently been pushed mainly in the 1300 and 1400 levels anti sloping and upraising have been going on in all directions di-rections A few days ago a dividend of 6000 the first in a great many years was paid and now comes the discovery that the mine is richer than ever I The Gwin mine Is another evidence I of the new confidence of California mining men in deep mining I is I I gratifying too to know that this luck I has come to California men as a reward I re-ward of California enterprise i |