MINES NEW DIGGINGS DISTRICT. 7H 



of 150 feet. They are worked only in the whiter; and produce 40,000 pounds per 

 annum. 



Craig, Sanders and Campbell. Work was commenced by this party in the fall 

 of 1874, on the east end of the Simpson Pump range. Tha mining is carried on in 

 the first opening. The product has been 258,000 pounds, the greater part of which was 

 produced this year (18T6). The extreme west end of this range has been worked by 

 Craig, Stephens & White, during the past year, but has not yet produced anything. 



Craig Level Company. A company consisting of several persons residing in New 

 Diggings and the adjacent towns, and representing an extensive capital, have been en- 

 gaged for several years in running a level on the south side of the New Diggings ridge, 

 for the purpose of unwatering the extensive east and west ranges on and near the sum- 

 mit of the ridge. It is already so far advanced that it has lowered the water in the 

 mine several feet, sufficient to admit of the production of enough lead ore to more than 

 defray its expenses. Mining is now carried on on Pump range, the Mitchell range, and 

 several others; the company are making several "crosscut drifts " for the purpose of 

 prospecting their ground. The following are the principal mining operations now 

 (Oct., 1876) in progress here. 



On the ground owned by Mr. Craig there are two men working the level; two men 

 working south on a cross cut from the pump shaft range; and two men working a cross 

 cut north from the same range. 



On the ground owned by Mr. March are four men working westward, and producing 

 lead ore from the pump shaft range, and two men working a cross cut from the same 

 range southward. 



On the ground owned by Mr. Bird there are four men prospecting on the eastern part 

 of the Mitchell range, and four men working on an opening of that range, raising ore; 

 also two parties of three men each prospecting on the east end of the pump shaft range. 



On the Dutch lot are two men drifting from the Mitchell range southward; two men 

 cross cutting from the same range northward; three men working westward on the 

 range, and producing ore; two men working a sheet of ore on a north and south range. 



On the ground owned by Craig and Dunlap are three men working an old east and 

 west range on the ridge; and three men prospecting and raising ore. 



The mining operations of the Craig Level company have been very productive of lead 

 ore. The amounts produced previous to 1874 could not be ascertained. During the 

 year 1873 it was 70,000 pounds, and from March, 1874, to October 1, 1876, the product 

 was 2,075,470 pounds. 



Brown, Dodge & Co. This party, consisting of four men, have been working on 

 the west end of the Mitchell range, on land owned by Col. S. Scales. The product has 

 been 10,400 pounds, all raised within the last year. 



Harper, Hird & Co. Situated on the New Diggings ridge, a short distance west of 

 the Craig diggings, on two east and west ranges, known respectively as the Wiley and 

 Engine, on which the water has been reduced about four feet by the Craig level. They 

 were quite large ranges, and were extensively worked many years since. Work was re- 

 sumed on them by the above parties in February, 1873. Since then, the product has 

 been 303,000 pounds. The crevice of the Engine range is here about three feet wide, 

 and the ore makes in the first opening; while on the Wiley range the crevice is ten 

 feet wide, and the ore makes in the crevice and not in the opening. The ground is 

 owned by Col. Sam. Scales, and four men are employed. 



The existence of lead and zinc ore in the upper pipe-clay opening (upper surface of 

 the Blue limestone) is also known at New Diggings. A mining company, known as 

 the Occidental, was in operation in 1873, by whom a level had been run on this open- 

 ing, which resulted in the discovery of a flat sheet of blende or lead ore. No work has 

 been done here recently, but the prospect is considered good. 



