Show california georgetown gazette H H ward f foreman ore of the sierra development company who are working the old ralston mine in long canyon was in town sunday mr ward says that the force of thirty men employed will soon be increased to fifty tunnelling Tun nelling is in progress and a boarding house and bunk houses are in course of construction georgetown gazette we hear that the horseshoe bar company will put in 2000 feet feel of new flume before winter to replace the part burned last month and that they will let contracts for supplying poles to carry wires from horseshoe bar to folsom most of the supplies for this mine will go through georgetown this mine was formerly known as the channel bend or old mccall mine san diego news mr burlock president of the gold reed mining company was seen in his office in the granger building clr s week by a representative of the news and seems more enthusiastic than ever over the outlook for the san francisco district in gener general al and the gold reed mine in particular 1 I tell you he exclaimed its going to prove the cream of the whole camp and saying a geat deal for the camp is a bonanza one everything is good he says and the prospects of the gold reed were never better hart enterprise up to yesterday morning the crosscut tunnel being run on the jumbo had exposed the ledge for a width of thirty feet with the heading still in high grade milling ore and with no indication of the hanging wall As stated before in these columns the first twenty feet of this magnificent ore deposit averages better than 30 per ton but the past ten feet will surpass even this high average according to mr mack foster one of the owners the last ten feet samples more than 40 per ton and anyone even casually examining that part of the crosscut cross cut can readily see that the rock is of a very good grade for one can hardly pick out a sample without it showing some free gold nevada city transcript the news has just been given out of a big strike in the gray eagle mine at gold point between sierra city and downieville Downie ville the company has been running a drift along the vein in a northerly direction and about two weeks ago struck a streak of pay quartz on one of the walls this streak gradually widened out until now it is clear across the ledge which Is six feet in width the chute so far has been drifted on for forty feet and the rock improves steadily in appearance right along an assay returns show that samples went and these samples were not picked either A survey disclosed the fact that the shaft is an entirely new discovery as the drift is many feet further north than was ever before reached |