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duct. At the bottom of the vertical shaft, 320 feet deep, a cross-cut, at right- 

 angles to the general course of the veins, had been run in each direction, hav- 

 ing an aggregate length of over 1,000 feet ; one end of this cross-cut is 500 

 feet vertically below the surface. Excepting the vein vv^orked by the com- 

 pany, this cross-cut is said to have developed nothing important. The hoisting 

 machinery has been sold since the suspension of mining operations, and re- 

 moved to a mine in the eastern part of the State. 



Whitlatch Union. — The Whitlach Union, on Union Hill, produced in the 

 early days of its development, considerable bullion, amounting to about $45,000, 

 coin, since June 30, 1865, according to the returns of the assessor. The vein 

 is large, strong, and very well defined, but is faulted in manner similar to that 

 shown in the section of the Savage mine, so that the ore-ground of the mine is 

 bounded on the one side by the fault, cutting it off in depth, on the other side 

 by the boundary line of the property, leaving a triangular-shaped piece of vein 

 about 200 feet in length at surface and the same in depth, measured on the dip 

 of the ledge at the boundary line. All attempts to recover the vein have so 

 far been fruitless and the property has been idle a long time. Its neighbor, 

 the Camargo, owns the continuation of the vein in the undisturbed part, but 

 the ground is less rich, and although worked to some depth its operations have 

 been suspended. A large quantity of low-grade ore is thought to be available 

 in the mine. 



Yankee Blade. — This is the most developed and probably one of the most 

 promising of a group of mines opened in the so-called Yankee Blade district, 

 two or three miles north of Lander Hill. It is a strong, well-defined vein, 

 trending generally northwest and southeast, though not without some irregu- 

 larity in its course. The dip of the vein, so far as yet developed, is westerly, 

 about 60° from the horizon; the vddth varies from six inches to two feet. 

 The vein was opened several years since by an incline and a vertical shaft 150 

 feet deep, and explored, at that depth, for a distance of 500 feet or more, in the 

 Yankee Blade mine, besides similar work in the neighboring mine on the same 

 vein known as the Whitlatch Yankee Blade. Both mines were quite produc- 

 tive for a time, but, having exhausted the patience of their owners before 

 reaching a self-supporting basis, work was suspended and they remained idle 

 for a long time. In 1868 the development of the Yankee Blade mine was 



