BALD MOUNTAIN MINE.
This mine is situated at. Forest City, I Sierra county. It ia perhaps the richest [' gravel mine in the State. The mine is t worked by drifting, and the drift is taken, j.from the breast to the place of washing in cars through the tunnel. These cars run on a track of 20 inches gauge, laid with T rail, and are drawn by a steam locomotive. The tunnel is between 3000 and ,4000 feet long, and the grade in it is" ■ from 160 feet to 216 feet to the mile; , The average yield of the mine per year is' about 0400,000, of which about $18,000 are paid over in dividends. Just now there is a acarity of water at Bald Mountain, but soon there will be plenty.* , The c j mine and works are under the superintendence of Mr H. W. Wallace.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1341, 11 August 1877, Page 3
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