THE ROSALIA.
About a mile northwest from the Victor is the Old Rosalia, now the Santa Rosa, which is opened along the surface for over 1,000 feet by cuts and shafts. The upper portion of the vein was worked out years ago, but new capital has been interested and a new shaft was being sunk at the north end of the property.
The inclosing rock on either side of the vein is very soft and much decomposed, requiring more timber than had ever been used by the former operators. The mine has produced a large amount of gold, which was extracted by working the quartz in arrastras, and in later years in a mill, which still stands on the mine. At the north end it was understood that the shoot of pay rock was still intact, and it is to recover this that the new work was being inaugurated. The balance of the shoot to the south has all been worked out down to the water-line.