Weekly Calaveras Chronicle

West Point Mining Items.

West Point, Aug. 6th, 1866.

MR. EDITOR:--Why can't we coax the great gold-bearing quartz range through Calaveras county? We are told often that this county is not on the great range; consequently the mines of this district are the "spots" and "bunches" where "gold is where you find it."

Meekly we submit a brief description of a few "bunches" situate within one mile of West Point:

Chas. Ghoulson & Co.: width of vein, 2 feet; depth, 50 feet; length of bunch, 100 feet. Two hundred feet south of this, discovered bunch No. 2 last Saturday: width of vein, 2 feet; depth, 100 feet; better quartz than bunch No. 1, worth $120 per ton. Mr. Ghoulson is the principal owner of this claim and a first-rate quartz miner. Johnson & Willis: width of vein, 1 foot; depth, 80 feet; length of bunch, 30 feet; $140 per ton. Hare & Valencia: width of vein, 1 foot; depth, 30 feet; length of bunch, 40 feet; $50 per ton. Lenhard & Co.: width of vein, 2 feet; depth, 25 feet; length of bunch, 90 feet (drifting); $60 per ton. Chino & Cruz: width of vein, 1 foot; depth 50 feet; length of bunch, 45 feet; $30 per ton. Reed & Hillary: width of vein, 2 feet; 70 per ton. Baggalupi & Co.: width of vein, 20 inches; depth, 45 feet; $60 per ton. Reed & Co.: width of vein, 15 inches; depth, 80 feet; $46 per ton.

The above are only a part of our paying quartz claims; time prevents me from mentioning many others at present. Last Saturday Mr. F. Morris discovered a vein, in the bed of Bear Creek, which promises to be a "peculiar spot;" it is three feet wide, and will average over $100 per ton. The writer saw a piece of quartz, taken from the vein 3 feet deep, weighing 1 pound; offered $20 for it, and was refused. Your old correspondent, "R.," is busily prospecting at Big Flat: indications said to be very flattering.

TRUE.