Show california san die diego 0 o news dr J D hammonds president of the golden harvest milling and mining company expects to start for the mines with a gang of men in a few days to operate the mines which were temporarily closed down last summer on account of the heat on the desert and the serious illness of capt phillips who was at that time in charge of the mine yreka areka journal foderl roderick belz A murphy the well known mining man of etna was in yreka areka late in the week on a business visit mr murray has interested san francisco and oakland capital in the finley brothers mine on the salmon river a few miles up stream from sawyers bar the first payment has been made and the new people taken possession the gravel deposits are extensive and a good water right goes with the mine skidoo news we have struck better ore than any we have had yet the new discovery carries gold values away up in the pictures so says T E crawford the principal owner of the harrisburg mine A shaft was sunk through the surface wash about feet west of the disappearance of the big ledge and at a depth of fifteen feet encountered solid formation with the result stated above it is impossible to tell anything about the size of the ledge for the bottom of the shaft is entirely in ore this ore is even richer than that taken from the developed portions of the big ledge nevada city miner transcript it is believed that a large and valuable deposit of galena ore has been discovered in the lower portion of nevada county and so far as can be ascertained it is the first find of the kind yet made in this part of the state samples that are said to represent the average value fairly give returns of 16 per cent in lead and 4 a ton in gold and the nevada city man who is back of the work of exploration feels very much encouraged over the developments so far the find was made recently in a hundred foot limestone fissure vein lying between walls and very clearly defined A shaft has been sunk for some distance and is steadily going down and old time lead miners who have been on the ground and have examined the ore express the opinion that the property will prove a valuable one if it holds 0 out ut at the present quality for any great distance skidoo news the skidoo contact has struck rich ore while crosscutting cross cutting to catch the main ledge a blind lead of quartz was broken into this week which carries rich values in free gold superintendent G W paine says that the new ledge is 1 s a dandy the breast of the tunnel feet in has just reached the opposite wall and shows the ledge to be three feet wide the ore is honeycombed quartz and pans gold quite freely the main ledge of the property which is on the contact between the granite and lime formations is still eighty feet ahead the unexpected encounter of the new ledge makes it almost a tossup toss up whether to stick to the original purpose continuing the crosscut cross cut or to develop the newly discovered ore shoot however it has been decided to continue the tunnel to the contact ledge superintendent paine speaks very enthusiastically of the property and says he thinks it is going to make a good mine needles correspondence to san bernardino index one of the promising mining districts that many of our citizens are interested te in is the I district close to bagdad and about miles west of here fred robie and J L medlin of this place were among the heaviest owners in this fast becoming rich district robie sold to denair and his associates in the orange blossom mining 0 company one claim later he and medlin sold the claims now comprising the orange blossom extension to a san diego syndicate he is still holding a number of very valuable claims there the orange blossom mines are the best developed over a thousand feet of work of which over five hundred feet of it is in shaft has been done at the four hundred foot level a crosscut cross cut in the foot wall encountered a ledge as high as in gold and copper this ledge has been drifted for over feet and the values still hold good and strong with promises of increased values there theme are stations at the 55 foot foot foot and foot levels which are in good ore |