53 



Superintendent of Workmen, per month $100 



" Amalgamating 150 



First Engineer . . 130 



Second Engineer . 75 



Carpenter 60 



Teamster 50 



2 Stamp Feeders, each $50 100 



Cook 50 



6 Miners, $80 each 480 



$1,195 



In addition to salaries, all the employees are boarded, which costs the establish 

 ment about twenty dollars per month for each man. 



PITTSBURG MINE, NEAR NEVADA, NEVADA COUNTY. 



This mine was located in the month of September, 1850, by the present pro 

 prietor, R. S. Whigham. After its location and during the following year, the 

 engine and appurtenances for reduction were manufactured for this mine in Pitts- 

 burg, and shipped in November of the same year. 



On the 20th of June, 1852, the engines and batteries were erected and ready 

 for running, and during that month went into operation. 



During the erection of the mill, house and machinery, a shaft had been sunk 

 on the vein to the depth of seven fathoms, and an adit driven two hundred and 

 sixty feet, which cut the lode at this point, at right angles to its strike ; a level 

 was then driven northward for two hundred and sixty feet, which gave the same 

 length of backs on the lode ready for excavation. 



In addition to the above, a train-road was laid from the mouth of the adit to 

 the mill, a distance of five hundred and sixty feet. 



From the month of June, 1852, to the end of the year (June, 1853,) the mine 

 was in active and constant operation, obtaining the ore exclusively from the Pitts- 

 burg lode, the yield of which varied from ten to fifty dollars per tun, the aver 

 age for the year being twenty-four dollars and ninety cents per ton. At this time 

 the mine was leased to the West Mariposa Quartz Mining Company for a period 

 of two years, their lease expiring on the 25th of June, 1855. 



The operations of this company were under the principal superintendence of 

 S. M. Murry, the English company's agent, who, with his attaches, commenced 

 operations in their characteristic style, and closed out their labor department in 

 1854, with the exception of such as required the use of ink and paper only. 



At the time this company took charge of the Pittsburg Mine it was well 

 opened, and in good working condition. They had driven an adit but a short 

 distance south of the former workings, when a peculiar idea seized the minds of 

 the Directors, that the lode would run out at some future time, if they persisted 

 in following its legitimate and well-defined course. Accordingly, an order was 

 issued to cease operations on the lode, and to drive in a direction at nearly right 

 angles to the strike of the vein, that they might strike it again at a point some 

 distance ahead, where the merest novice would see that such an event would be 

 a total impossibility, from the line of cutting adopted, and the distinct, well 

 marked course of the river. 



At the point of the new workings they left a lode whose power was sixteen 

 inches, and had increased nearly four inches in twenty-seven feet on the line of 

 strike ; and after driving as directly as possible to the distance. of ninety-three feet 



