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BADGER MINE, SUTTER, AMADOR COUNTY. 



The Badger Mine is situated about 1,000 feet south of the Eureka, and is a 

 continuation of the same lode. The reduction works belonging to the company 

 are situated on the creek, half a mile west of the town. 



This mine was opened in 1854. During that year an adit was driven to the 

 length of three hundred and fifty feet, at an average cost of eight dollars per foot. 



Between the latter part of that year and the month of December, 1855, a shaft 

 was sunk to the depth of twenty-nine fathoms on the lode, at an expense of six 

 teen dollars per foot, including timbers and equipments for a whim. At the depth 

 of twenty fathoms from the surface, a level has been carried north twenty feet, 

 and south to the same distance, and at two and a half fathoms below the latter 

 another level has been driven south of the main shaft to the same distance. 



From the bottom of the twenty-ninth fathom shaft, a level has been driven 

 south sixty feet and north fifty feet. A winze is carried from the middle level to 

 the lower one, through the depth of five and a half fathoms from the end of the 

 south level, and the ground intervening between the end of the middle south 

 level is being removed in order to connect the two at the depth of sixty feet south 

 of the main shaft. 



From the latter part of 1854 up to date, the company have erected their reduc 

 tion works and other necessary buildings at an expense of $12,000, and an addi 

 tional expense of $2,500 in the construction of roads and kilns for the conveyance 

 and calcination of their ores. 



The character of the ores of this mine are precisely of the same character as 

 those of the Eureka, next adjoining on the north. 



The average running time of the mine during 1855, amounts to six months 

 only, and a scanty supply of water part of the time. 



The power of this lode has increased about thirty per cent, at the bottom of 

 the shaft over the size at the anterop. The ores are heavily charged with arsenic, 

 iron and molybdic sulphurets, in which free gold is disseminated. 



The amount of assessments called on the opening of the mine and the erec 

 tion of their works, was five hundred dollars per share, of five shares, and the 

 balance of expenses for the period which they have been in operation, has been 

 derived entirely from the proceeds in the opening of the mine. 



The mine has employed during the entire year twelve men, at an average of 

 sixty-five dollars per month and board. 



The following statistics will show the general expenses incurred in getting into 

 operation : 



Cost of Mill and Equipments $12,000 



" Main Adit .... . Y . . ; 2,800 



" Roads and Kilns 2,500 



" Teaming 1,080 tuns ore 1,080 



" Shaft, Timbers and Equipments 2,820 



" Fuel 192 



Total general expenses $21,392 



The average amount of ore reduced per month, with full head of water, is one 

 hundred and eighty tuns. The aggregate for the six months was 1,080 tuns, 

 yielding $35,000, or nearly thirty-'three dollars per tun. 



The condition of the subterranean condition of the mine will be found from the 

 following recapitulation : 



