Show THE UNION HILL MINES special correspondence grass valley cal june 25 union hill one of the old time mines of this district has been put back on the pr producing educing list and bids fair to develop into a dividend payer beyore the end of the year union hill mines the company operating operate ng the property recently sank the main shaft from tl the le to the SOO foot level and started to prospect the union hill vein about feet west of the shaft a fault fissure was encountered which crossed the vein and has a reverse dip af after te r passing through this fault the drift entered a body of quartz showing specks of galena scheelite and occasionally casio nally some free gold A raise was put up just at the west edge of the fault fissure and at a height of twenty five feet fee t it struck a seam going off into the foot wall which showed free gold one round of holes drilled into the foot wall opened up two feet of specimen ore the raise has since been continued to a height of sixty five feet in a solid body of rich quartz and drifts have been extended east and west for seventy five feet without reaching the limitations of the ore shoot the quartz has an average width of thirty inches with stringers of good ore making off into the the vein breaking eight to nine feet wide in some places the specimen ore is fed into the batteries by hand mixing with the mill ore resulting in a product varying from 15 to 25 per ton As mine and mill costs are about per ton this product shows a handsome profit fifteen of the twenty stamps of the mill are in operation and the output is between and per day by amalgamation in addition to the gold recovered by amalgamation there are some concentrates of good value which later will be shipped to the smelter the union hill is a consolidation of the union hill lucky and cambridge all old producers which embraced embrace one mile along the strike of five distinct veins the property is well equipped for deep mining the equipment including a large air compressor and the largest cornish pump on the coast the pump and hoist are operated by water power and the compressor and 20 stamp mill by electricity the mine was taken over september 1 1914 by union hill mines a san francisco company of which G S jonhson is president and C F spilman vice president the superintendent dent A D cox is from nevada where he was very successful in the development of the nevada packard mine at rochester the which superintendent cox found is west of the shaft in a part of the mine which former managers neglected to prospect work below the foot level having been confined to known ore bodies east of the shaft hence the company has a large area above the SOO foot level |