DEEPEST GOLD MINE IN THE WORLD.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 452, 14 January 1869, Page 3

DEEPEST GOLD MINE IN THE WORLD.

The great exemplar of quartz mining, not only for wealth or production, but as shedding more light upon the real nature and condition of quartz mining than most others, seems to be that of Mr A. Hayward, of Sutter Creek, Amanda County. His mine is 1,300 feet perpendicular descent from the surface, probably 300 feet below the ocean. It is by far the deepest gold mine in the world, and also the most productive, yet the conditions of its yield are such as to indicate that its powers are barely developed, that it settles the question of deep mining, and that the wealth of gold contained in the mountainous ridges is far beyond the wildest dreams of the most sanguine Californian hitherto. From this mine, which has been worked for the last 13 years, there has been extracted gold probably to the amount of six to seven millions of dollars ; but what is more important to the public, a still greater fact presents itself—that quartz veins increase in width and value in proportion to depth. The mine in question shows a true fissure— an injection of gold-bearing quartz from below, and which tapers off in size and value as it approaches the surface. Following it down a distance of 1300 feet has demonstrated this fact. There are no other mines that approach this in depth. The Eureka Mine in Grass Valley is 300 feet down, but is of a richer rock than was the Sutter Creek mine at that depth. The ore is of the same appearance in both.