Show california nevada city miner transcript the shaft of the murchie mine has encountered a seven foot ledge of highly ted ore which is coming from the east so far as can be judged from the work done so far on it it is an entirely new discovery georgetown gazette the bacchi col lins mine was sold last week to some nevada capitalists who recently bonded the mine we understand that was the price half of which has been paid down of this the lessees lessels les sees lon beck and john breen get 1000 apiece sam collins and will bacchi were the owners of the mine henry haedrich La edrich is superintendent f for 0 r the new owners who will put on a force of men to further develop the property this mine is about three and one half miles below georgetown on the road between the lone jack and esperanza mines and about a mile from garden valley redding free press the biggest strike in the history of the fairview mine was made thursday when an immense body of 30 ore was encountered a few feet above the lower level the miners were drifting between the lower level and the one above when they encountered a body of ore that made their eyes fairly bulge out superintendent charles dibeler was notified and he is highly elated over the new find the ore assays essays on an average of 30 to the ton and the new strike is said to be the biggest made in the history of the mine the fairview mine is in trinity county and for a long time was under the of joseph porter now of the bonanza king nevada city miner transcript robert johnson who lives southwest of town on the old colfax road has been doing some mining on his place and according to his story he has a find of no small proportions A day or two ago he brought a large piece of ore to town and had it examined by several men who professed to have a knowledge of mining none of them appeared to know what the mineral was until finally mr johnson took it to A cooper the assayer he said after an examination that it was antimony and if there was a large deposit of it the metal was quite valuable the piece brought to town by mr johnson weighed about twenty three pounds the ledge will be further explored and there will be no trouble getting a company to operate the mine if there is a sufficient amount of the ore to warrane carrane it there is another antimony ledge in the vicinity of graniteville Granit eville that is owned by dr mclean of graniteville Granit eville but it never has been fully prospected |