Show california A crew of men under the management of hal T payne is actively engaged in the development of the gold quartz quart mine some eighteen miles from PI aderville placerville ac erville it is understood that a royalty lease has of 0 been obtained on the extensive deposits silica in white rock canyon near placer ville by R T stone and that shipments will be made to san francisco A recent cleanup clean up at the monte carlo ls gravel claim yielded ten ounces or quarto about 2 per car the columbia mines at armonda have closed down account of the difficulty in keeping a crew ere tunnel in the spotwood potts in extending an old rich quartz claim near graniteville Granit eville a the gold old strike was made a short time ao ago S through the metal is liberally distributed ore and portions are heavy in att gold colt coi to claim is under bond from samuel cushman adams of san cisco E anderson of oakland who has a re ord of many years of inspection work in the mining districts of australia and thi the e transvaal in the interests of english capital spent considerable time the past month making a thorough investigation of the country in the mosquito and one eye creek localities near placerville erville A working bond and lease has recently been given on the alturas alburas mine located forty miles east easa of placerville erville the mine formerly known as the old billy rogers was the first in which copper was discovered in california or on the pacific coast the ore is malachite and copper glance as says of which show 1 in gold twenty eight ounces of silver and 32 per cent copper after years of searching the gravel in the lost channel claim near banner was found a few days ago tunnels have been run on both sides of the ridge but nothing was uncovered until now all the work done has been on the theory of an old miner since deceased the gravel runs 2 per pan the property belongs to the ahern bros and is under bond to G M hoff and others preparations are being made to mine all winter at canada hill and at an elevation of feet after years of effort H J snyder has succeeded in consolidating some fifteen claims and turned them over to the metals exploration company of new york city the claims are practically undeveloped but a number of promising veins cut through the property A long tunnel will be run to intersect them and prove their value james W marshall the original discoverer of gold in california predicted sometime before his death that the gold quartz veins close by his placer discoveries would prove of great value if followed to depth his predictions of seventy years ago were last month confirmed by the discovery of a four foot vein carrying values as high as 50 per ton the property Is known as the marshall group of claims some of them having been located by the originator of tran transcontinental continental travel |