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Updated: June 27, 2025
"This," said Van, who had waited for the girl to ride once more to his side, "is the Monte Cristo mine the worst false alarm that ever disfigured the map." The Monte Cristo mining property comprised a tunnel in the hill, a glory hole, a little toy quartz-mill five stamps strong the bunk-house, kitchen, blacksmith-shop, stable, corral, and four human beings.
The Sierra Buttes quartz-mill, twelve miles from Downieville, yields about fifteen thousand dollars per month. These last mills run night and day, and crush and amalgamate ten thousand tons of rock a year, or twenty-eight tons per day.
The sluice used in quartz-mills is similar to the placer board-sluice, but the amount of matter to be washed is less, and there is no dirt to be dissolved, and there are no larger stones, and therefore the sluice is not so large, so strong, or so steep in grade, as the placer-sluice, and the riffle-bars are not so deep. In some quartz-mill sluices there are transverse riffle-bars.
The pulverized sulphurets are decomposed by exposure to the air, and after the tailings have been preserved for a time, they may pay better at the second amalgamation than at the first. A mixture of common salt assists the decomposition of the pyrites. Chief Quartz-Mills. The most productive quartz-mill in the state is the Benton mill, on Fremont's Ranch, in Mariposa county.
"You bet your patent leathers!" said Gettysburg. "You just go over and globe-trot the quartz-mill while I'm gone, and we'll fix things right in a shake." He strode off in haste. Beth watched him go. She made no move towards the quartz-mill, which Gettysburg had indicated, over on the slope. She soon grew restive, awaiting his return. Elsa came out and sat down. The old miner failed to reappear.
"But where are we likely to find accommodations?" faltered the preacher, doubtfully. "Is there any hotel or boarding-house in camp?" "Well, not exactly is there, Webber?" replied the teamster. "The boardin'-house is over to the mill the quartz-mill, ten miles down the canon."
Most of the mining is done along the banks of the Klamath River, which runs about twenty miles through the south-eastern portion of the county. There are some miners on the head-waters of Althouse Creek, which runs northward into Oregon. The county assessor, in his report for 1860, does not mention the existence of any quartz-mill or mining-ditch in the county.
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