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.