Show california bodle bodie miner wm win davidson who has a lease on the dumontelle mill in the mount grant county has started it up and it is now pounding on ore from his mines in the mount grant district the last run made was on fifty tons of ore which obtained was 40 per ton on the plates and eighty five dollars per ton for the concentrates lots of good ore is being taken from the mines and the stamps will be kept steadily dropping on the ore sufficient being blocking out on the dumps to keep it busy both the mill and ore have proven a success and it has added materially to the fame of the mount grant district yreka areka journal john garvey was in town yesterday from his claim on klamath river a short distance above the mouth of humbug creek and says he has it in complete readiness for the machinery now on the way from san francisco the apparatus consists of a new style of elevator to raise the gravel from the bed rock like the stacker of a dredger with hydraulic pipe and giants to sluice the gravel into the elevator a dyste mithat works fine wherever tried he showed us a bottle containing some coarse gold taken from the ground across the river near the surface adjoining nearly as large as wheat this is the old hutchins claims now being reopened by the graham consolidated mining company of san francisco nevada city miner tran transcript scrip work vork at the union mine located on the west slope of banner mountain will soon be resumed with a good force of miners the property is own owned ed chiefly by local men the president of the company being N J weber the management was doing well in the way of un watering the old shaft when the winter came on and retarded the work the bottom had almost been reached when there was a cave in the drain tunnel of one hundred feet this dammed the water back into the shaft and caused it to fill rapidly it took some time to clear the cave the work being slow and tedious but success finally rewarded the efforts of the miners and then the business of pumping began this was pursued vigorously and a day or two ago W black the foreman came in from the mine with the glad intelligence that the water waz was at last out redding mineral wealth A run recently completed in the two stamp mill on the gambrinus Gamb rinus mine near stella in shasta county california resulted in a 2385 bar the ore was taken out in the progress of development work under the direction of foreman charles worth and averaged over 60 a ton in free gold and concentrates the concentrates run a ton the mill will be started up again agai early nearly in april on another crush considerable work has been done on the old levels but the owners propose to sink during the present year and have in view putting in an electric hoist and pump it is possible ghatan electric plant will be installed at a point where water is available to supply the needed current edward riebe and charles earner barner own the gambrinus Gamb rinus mine mr riebe has taken an option on the west end mine in the same vicinity from mitchell anderson and kessler the west endias about feet of opening which discloses a ledge of ore three feet thick |