Show california san diego news A M arnold superintendent in of the rich gulch gold mining company writes to the home office in this city that he has struck the big betsie lead thirty feet east of the winz that the ore is very rich and the ledge much larger than at any place yet opened up an ingot special says an electric hoist and motor has just arrived at bella vista for the great western gold company and is ia waiting to be hauled to the pany where it will be installed in the main tunnel level nearly half a mile in the mountain from its mouth and three hundred and thirty feet below the surf surface ace hoist the new hoist is to develop the immense ore body below the main tunnel level A weaverville Wea verville special says all the riveting on the large siphon being constructed ted across the trinity river by the union hill mining company has been finished s all of the pipe necessary for the other two siphons with the exception of feet is now on the ground but as this pipe will all be placed with slip joints it will only require a few wees weeks time to install the siphons superintendent C E goodyear has begun the fitting up af odthe the mine proper and will be ready to mine when the water is turned through the ditch the flumes blumes have already been installed A special from yreka areka says J E me fadden of callahans callahand Call ahans was in town today having come for the purpose of extending the bond on the mine which he and others are interested in parties to whom the bond was given did not reach the ledge with their foot tunnel so an extension of time was granted to enable them to do additional work before meeting the payment the mine is in section 14 township 39 north range 9 west and on the west slope of the mountain forming the boundary line between siskiyou you and trinity counties several carloads of ore were shipped from the mine to vallejo and netted each after the ore was packed seven miles hauled in wagons twenty seven miles and by rail three hundred miles and the smelting smelling sm elting charges were paid where the work has been done on the mine the ledge is eleven feet wide yreka areka journal there is considerable work now carried on in the ahe blue ledge copper mines in the elliott creek and joe creek sections just over the siskiyou you mountain in this county near the oregon line the lower altitude of that section makes the weather much warmer than on this side of the mountain and there is not much snow but considerable rain quite a large number of miners are kept busy which makes the new town of hutton on joe creek a lively little mining camp when spring opens for easier trav travel i el and hauling there will no doubt be a mining boom to employ a large number of men all the copper ledges in that section are extensive and there is also a large number of gold quartz and placer claims throughout the creeks and gulches tributary to oregon and california streams on both sides of th tho 0 mountain the eilliott creek joe creek and headwaters of beaver creek are destined to become an important copper producing sections as the famous keswick kennett coram and other copper districts in shasta county nevada city miner transcript an important strike has just been made in the telegraph Fele graph mine at fir cap six miles north cf downieville Downie ville ore having been encountered which assays essays 1000 in gold to the ton it is of a quartz gangue heavily charged with arsenical pyrites closely resembling the ore occurring in the fightner Tight ner bonanza in alleghany allegheny Alleg hany the telegraph is in fact considered an extension of the fightner Tight ner it being on the same serpentine contact although thirteen miles north the telegraph was originally worked as a drift mine it ft being a north extension of the ancient channel on which the old monte cristo and new white bear bonanza d de posits are situated while cutting across the channel through the slate bedrock un der the lava cap the serpentine contact was come upon unon the contact was then run upon both ways and a sunk upon it indications being round found frequently of the coming in of a ledge the present strike proves that uio the miners were correct in their theory theon th that at a blind led ledge lede e existed in the telegraph |