Show california georgetown gazette at the blue rock mine good progress is being made in the shaft and a crew of men are at work on the ditch and head dam of the blue rock ditch getting into repair the water from the ditch will be used for power for hoisting and pumping georgetown gazette at the alpine mine the development work on the fool level is being pushed along as rapidly as possible under present conditions fourteen men are employed at the mine and more men will be put at work as fast as the developments make room for them A day and night shift are now working skidoo news the american eagle being worked by a private leasing company is not making much noise but it is accomplishing shing great results in the way of opening up ore two ledges are being developed one by shaft and the other by tunnel and most excellent showings are being made maae in both places the tunnel has stripped a threefoot three foot ledge for forty feet and every inch of it is fine ore showing plenty of free gold skidoo news the high grade ore shoot which was struck in the osborne lease a few days ago has been followed for 26 feet and the breast of the drift still showe the bonanza values the ore yields immense bannings pann ings of coarse gold anywhere along the aldge now that the location of the ore shoot has been positively determined another drift has been started to open it from the bottom of the shaft this will open up a good block of ground and establish the success of the lease as a sure money maker skidoo news another ledge of cf excellent ore was struck this week in the double compartment shaft on the skidoo mine the ledge is four feet thick and makes beautiful bannings pann ings it was encountered just eight feet below the one reported 1 recently at feet where the tunnel station has been cut this big shaft is doing much to prove the staying qualities of the values in the ledges of the camp and is also proving that numerous as the crop pings are only a small portion of the gold bearing ledges show on the surface of the ground nevada city miner transcript at the channel gold claim at grizzly hill just across the river from blue tent superintendent A H hart has about twenty five men employed and the developments are highly satisfactory the milling tests that are being made prove the gravel to be of an excellent quality and there seems to be an inexhaustible quantity of it but the channel gold and the old channel are financed by san francisco parties some of the same men being interested in both of them they have large holdings and are splendidly equipped for extensive work nevada city miner transcript at the old blue tent mine now known as the channel gold gravel has been struck by superintendent oscar jones in the lower tunnel which means that the main channel has been recovered this company has a large area of virgin territory along the old blue lead extending towards scotts flat and which was extensively worked many years ago in the immediate vicinity of the south yuba river by the hydraulic king process the hydraulic kers however did not at any time get down to bedrock bed where the coarsest gold has subsequently been found while drifting redding free press the first diamond drill for use in developing the claims of the arizona diamond drill mining alining company that owns an extension of the mcclure group of mines adjoining the bully hill mine has arrived and is now on the ground the machinery reached redding saturday and was taden taken at once to the mine the operations will be under the supervision of oscar H reinholt who is general superintendent in of the company which has its main offices in los angeles mr reinholt went out to the claims saturday it is the purpose of the company to extensively develop its own properties and place drills on other mines whenever the owners make applications the company will take contracts to explore and develop properties using the drills of their own patent in the work |