Show I 1 california skidoo news ad B M mehler will begin work at once upon his little AR alt group of eleven claims lying one mile northeast of skidoo joining the queens group recently sold to salt lake parties the little alf claims owned by mr mehler show upon the surface a 25 foot ledge carrying good values across this width 1 I am confident says he that a little development work will show up a large body of rich ore for upon the surface the ledge carries good values I 1 I 1 in gold silver and copper 1 I skidoo news A B sharp has been doing some work on the jockey group of claims downed owned by himself mike lane and H B taylor he has opened a four foot ledge of quartz carrying silver lead and iron and at a depth of twelve feet it gives fine bannings pann ings of gold clear across its width A tunnel has also been started upon the ledge the property is located about 2000 feet east of the well known cashier property and is in the same formation the boys think that they have struck a bonanza and will keep on digging tor for the bullion yreka areka journal noel E graves superintendent in of the sheba or patterson creek quartz mine on patterson creek in scott valley who was in yreka areka last week says the ledge is widening out and pays handsomely the mill is to be started up this week by electric P power ower from the Sis klou E electric company the poles being all planted and the wires ex expected pecked to make connection with the motor ye yesterday st erday electric power will also be utilized in the tunnels for hauling out quartz pumping and providing compressed air for drilling with machine drills yreka areka jo journal we were shown some exceedingly rich bugge nuggets ts 0 of f gold weight last week by charley paper in a t glass morrison of the franco A american ine rican hotel valued at 80 80 they were taken from creek worked by quartz seams on indian ia W R SC scott ott who has about forty ar or fifty acres of ground impregnated with little quartz stringers he washes off the top ground by the hydraulic process when having plenty of water and then digs out the gold from the small seams called it is probable that there must be ba an extensive ledge deep down or somewhere in his claims in fact rich pockets are common on all of indian creek fr from omits its head down toward scott valley near fort jones and some day a great bonanza may be opened up the golden eagle new york and several other claims on the same creek have shown rich prospects and pay handsomely as far as developed nevada city miner transcript superintendent maltman of the ethel mine in gods country stated today that operations would be resumed there within the next two weeks if the weather veather continued favorable in the early part of january the supply of lagging at the mine became exhausted and on account of the depth of the snow no ho more could be obtained As the underground work could not be carried ahead without it the management decided to also hang up the stamps the ethel has a prosperous career so far and its future is even brighter it has been in process of development for two years extensive underground operations have been carried on and thirty thousand dollars has been expended on surface improvements the mine has produced all the money required for this work the ledge has an average thickness of two feet and much of it is high grade there are at this time large bodies of this ore ready for extraction so that no delay will occur in the matter of keeping the mill busy when it resumes |