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Show 0PHIR DISTRICT. continued. The Chicago mine was purchased by Mr.W.S.Guelbe and sold to an English Eng-lish company who now own it. It has an incline shaft about oOO feet deep, with four side cuts or drifts of about 00 to SO feet each. It is worked work-ed by a stoanr engine, that raises all ores from the mine in cars on a railway, rail-way, from which they arc carried to an ore house and loaded in the buckets buck-ets of their H illidie tramwav, and , .. it to nit Linnuii rn-- riT-j Canon, about one mile distant, where ; it is loaded in wagons and hauled to their furnace "near Stockton. Thisj Hallidie tramway has a capacity ofj fifty tois per day. The mine pro-1 duces and ships twenty tons of ore ' per day, assaying 50 per cent, lead and GO oz. of silver, and sometimes considerable of copper. The Sacramento, owned by Walker Bros., has an inehue about 50 feet with driits.on a strong vein of carbonate carbon-ate ore, of which it has produced considerable. con-siderable. The Fourth of July, owned by Lilly Lil-ly & Leisenriug, of Pennsylvania, has an incline tunnel 4'20 feet on a vein of oehraeeus ores, carrying some galena. gale-na. The ores are sent to Dry Canon over their tramway, a distance of about 1500 feet. The Kearsarge, owned four-fifths by Lilly fc Leisenring of Pennsylvania, and one-fifth by Jno. Tiernan, has an incline 450 feet all the way on a chimney chim-ney of good ore, from four to sixteen feet wide. Jt is now drifting into a body of very rich ore, large in quantity. quanti-ty. 15 tons of thi ore :tveraged 5500 per ton in silver. Tue ore contains black sulphurcts and carbonates. The Mono, owned by Warren Hea-tou, Hea-tou, O. Em botly, Mat. Gisborn and W. E. Miller, has an incline GuO feot with as high :is 4 side drifts. Ore is being sloped down from these drift. The mine has produced large quantities quanti-ties of black sulphurcts or silver glance and several hundred thousand dollars worth of ore, within the last year, and is now producing 10 tons per day that will average $700 per ton. The' ore is r.used by a horse whim. JTr. , Robinson Rob-inson is superintendent. The Ulan Queen, owned by Carson & Buzzo, has an incline about -00 feetin depth. The vein i somewhat some-what broken, the ore appearing in pockets. The character of the ore is much like that ot trie Kearsage. The Emporia, owned by H. B. Brady and F. Gobiu, has an incline 350 feet deep, wiih two side drift about seventy feet each, on a vein oi ore much like tho .Mono It is producing pro-ducing from 5 to 0 tons per day, when in full force, of ore that will average over $300 per ton. Assays run as high as $4,200 silver, $75 gold, and 70 per cent. lead. The I. X. L., recently sold to Sam. Parker &, Co., of Troy,N. Y., has a tunnel of ninety feet on a vein of ore, with fifty tons on the dump that will assay $130 silver and 3u per cent, lead. The Flavilla and Queen of the Hill, has a tunnel about 100 feet on a strong vein of ore, carrying 00 oz. ' silver and 40 per cent. lead. The Mount Savage, owned bv J. D. Feidt, has a tunnel eighty feet into a vein of good ore much like the , I. X. L. The Baltic hits tunnels and open cuts into a ledge of rich milling ore, of which the tunnels have reccnllv developed a large botly. The Nabob hits considerable work on the surface, but has not vet de- , j fined the vein. The ore is good grade, ' and appears in large quantities. ' 1 The Rip Yan Winkle owned bv 1 John Tiernan i Co., has been worked i by tunnels, shalts and oen cuts pro-1 ducing considerable free' milling ore j of the red antimonial variety. I The Green Chloride and the group of mines adjoining, owned by Tier-, nand, Dooiittle Si Co.. is much like : i patch diggings, ' ' considerably ; worked .on the surface, produciii '' cmbolite and other free milling ore. j Besides these three are many other ocations in the district, such ;is the' Norman, Genuine, Duu class. Sweet-i water, Buffalo, Lugene, Nevada, De-1 fiance, Ida Elmore, Nelson, Jim Fisk, ! Rob Roy, Struck It, Perciila, Seneca FaIls,J( phir, KoaringJIJon, Cliff. Rowland, Row-land, Gt. Western, Pioneer, Crown! Point, Antelope, California, Poor ; Man, Silver Tail. Dexter, Rattier, American Flag, Shoo Flv, Alabama, I Ivanhce, Nov-e, Brooklvn, 'Elgin. Yankee Doodle, Belle, Bell Wifiur, I Cadot, Wand. ring J-.mv, Mineral Point . Plymouth Ro ,-k , M iami , Evenging Star, Black Prince, Occident, Occi-dent, 'Home Steak, Mountain Chief, etc. There are two furnaces, four mills and four ar.istr.ts in tho district, as follows: Walker Bns. Mill, fifteen stamp, eighty-horse power eugine.dry crushing, crush-ing, seven large pans for grinding and amalgamating, with an Aikin's roasting roast-ing furnace attached. This mill has all tho modern improvements and is not surpassed by any of its capaeUy on the Pacific Co;ut. I A steam stamp mill, rotary battery, bat-tery, of a capacity of six tons per I day. known as the Brevoort mill. j The Enterprise Mill, five stamps, wa-1 ter power, grinding pans and amal- gamatiug cylinders. A very neat and j creditable mill. j The New Jersey Mill, water power, with rock breaker, arastra pans, and barrel amalgamators. Tue Pioneer Furnace, two stacks, steam power, capacity tliree tons per day of bullion aud leu tons of ore to each cupola. The Ophir Furnace, two stacks, steam power, same capacity u& the Pioneer Furnace. Of the four arastras, only two, that of Horace Bliss and the Baltic Company, Com-pany, have been at work this past winter. They are both water power, with amalgamating cylinders, and have reduced two tons per day wiih good results. Two new mills of ten stamps each are abeut being erected. |