Show california bridgeport chronicle union J W weaver has taken a bond on bob sawyers interest in the weaver sawyer strike made last summer at masonic has purchased the merriman home built a road to the mine and moved the building 0 to the mine bridgeport chronicle union A B D H hall a 11 who purchased the golden gate mine recently cen aly has ten men at work in a new tunnel which is in twenty five feet in ore the telephone line was put in commission yesterday and communication established bishop herald the white mountain mining company has taken over the property known as the sacramento mine in mono county the company is composed of porterville capitalists at the present time they have secured the services or of john henry an expert mill and mining nan man formerly of colorado who is on the 6 ground round arrain arranging ing to start the mine about the first of the month yreka areka journal the gold nugget that was sold to the county by james hibbard was found nearly two years ago by him shortly after a heavy rainstorm he happened to be walking through his garden back of the yreka areka laundry and picked up the nugget that weighs 1625 there is never a year that goes by that after the spring freshets fresh fres liets ets but what there are not several nuggets and pieces of quartz carrying gold found on the surface of the lawns and streets of yreka areka bishop herald at the eureka mine which is owned by park city utah people and has been bonded and leased to jack black and A S lochrie of big pine a rich free gold ore has been struck in the drift on the 80 foot level jack black has sub leased his interest to W S mcdougal of keeler who is now working the property with A S lochrie the specimen sent to the chamber of commerce by lochrie and mcdougal is full of free gold it was brought up by cal everett they have three feet of orl ore e in the drift that will average about per ton si six tons of this ore is ready for shipment nevada city transcript A drift which was driven from the lower crosscut tunnel toward the red star goes through a pay shoot of ore on horizontal lines that is over feet long and the ledge averages 10 feet wide the edge of the ore shoot vias vas encountered feet north of the johnson bonanza chi chimney niney and is all in virgin I 1 ground with over feet of backs on the dip of the vein manager abe hall is quote as asserting that the tight ner red star consolidation is the biggest gold mining proposition he has ever been connected with and he has been identified in many years of service with the principal mines of grass valley and nevada city the statement is taken as a most exalted endorsement of the richness of southern sierra county mines it is calculated that there is is now over worth of ore in sight in the fightner Tight ner ready for sloping all blocked out only since the resent present operating company obtained contral central of the mine 0 |