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Silver Mountain, Monitor, Mogul, Kaymoml, A Ipine, Webster, Silver King, 

 Mokelumne, Highland, and Woodford ; the latter extending into the State 

 of Nevada, r'^nfortunately for the interest of the region, the principal 

 jiortion of those for whom the locations were made were men of small 

 means, unable to proceed with the development of the mines, and at the 

 same time unwilling to sell to those who were able and desirous to pur- 

 chase and develop them. The consequence was that but little work was 

 done in the three 3'ears following the first discovery, and iwne of a char- 

 acter to permanently oj^en or benefit the different claims. In Silver 

 Mountain, Monitor, Mogul, i\Iokelumne, and Eayinond Districts, a con- 

 siderable amount of work has been done within the past two years, of 

 which I have obtained the following data in relation to the principal 

 lodes and companies. 



SILVER MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. 



Mountain Company No. 1 — Amount of tunnel run. seven hundred t''eet. 

 Amount required to cut the ledge, one thousand one hundred and fift}'" 

 feet; will open it nine hundred and fifty feet deep. 



Pennsylvania Company — Amount of tunnel run. two hundred feet. 

 Amount required to cut the ledge, seven hundred and fifty feet ; will open 

 it six hundred feet deep. 



Buckeye No. 1 — Depth of shaft, one hundred feet, and very rich ore 

 obtained. 



1. X. L. Company No. 1 — Amount of tunnel run, three hundred and 

 fifty feet; has furnished a considerable amount of fine ore. 



Washington Compan}' — Amount of tunnel run, four liundred and fifty 

 feet; su]3])0sed to be very near the ledge. From a shaft sunk to the 

 depth of one hundred feet, black sulphuret ore, assaying three thousand 

 dollars to the ton, was taken, when the iijflux of water prevented fur- 

 ther working by shaft. 



MONITOR DISTRICT. 



Winchester Series — Amount of tunnel run, eight hundred and thirty 

 feet. Struck a ledge at six hundred feet, and four hundi'ed leet deep, 

 which it is thought will pay. Still running for others. 



Superior Comjjan}' — Amount of tunnel run. six hundred and fifty feet, 

 and near the ledge; will get it at a depth of three hundreil feet. 



American Tunnel and Mining Company — Two hundred and forty feet 

 of tunnel run, and running to open tlie American belt at seven hundred 

 feet deep. 



Monitor Consolidated Compan}^ — Amount of tunnel run, five hundred 

 feet, and expect to tap the first ledge of the series in two hundred feet 

 more, at a depth of four hundred feet. 



Work is progressing on a number of other claims. 



MOGUL DISTRICT. 



Morning Star Company — Amount of tunnel run. nine hundred and 

 fifty feet; have a paying ledge, and are sinking a shaft to furnish air, so 

 that t)re may be taken out. 



Mullan Com]>any — Amount of tunnel I'un, three hundred and fifty 

 feet; have cut a lode at two hundred and fifty feet depth, containing a 

 body of eight feet of rich ore. 



