Los Angeles herald., 1892-03-27
Late News About Southern
California Mines.
A Full Report of the Julian
District Prospects.
GOssips About Number of Holes in
the Ground.
The Julian Mines-PrOgress in Their
Development-Temes Valley
Mines-The Rose
Ledge.

The Julian, San Diego county, Senti-
mel has the following about mines in
that district:
The Wilcox mine at Banner is looking
splendidly. 1t is now being opened and
developed by the Ruby Mining and
Milling company, a California corpora
ton, and the work is done under the
immediate supervision of w. d.
Chambers, who, as the miners would
say, has been raised under ground and
knows how to open mine. The mine
is being opened by tunnels run in on
the vein into steep mountain, gaining
at least one loot of backs or stopping
ground for every foot of tunnel run.
This avoids the necessity of hoisting
and pumping works which most mines
require at great expense, both in their
first cost and working them afterward.
On examination we were surprised to
find as much work done as there is in
tunneling, cross cuts, raises and slopes
started, preparing to extract ore. The
lower tunnel is in over 400 feet. and the
upper one between 150 and 200, with a
fine vein of ore, all of which will mill to
good advantage. There is, however,
eight inches to foot OF the
vein that will mill $50 to $50
a ton. In fact, the last ore milled
from this mine turned out seventy odd
dollars per ton. There is now about 100
tons on the dump, taken out in. running
drifts, first openings, slopes for future
mining, which cannot be otherwise than
mixed with waste, yet the miners say it
= r,oJ Co.. 6QO n So,, Ono Uroaf hoo,,fu
about this company is that it never
skips payday. Their checksg 60 as read
lily as greenbacks.
Ready Relief mine and mill in No.
shape for cheap mining and milling.
No mine in this country will be as we'll
fixed in that direction as the Ready Re-
lief when they complete the improve
ments now under way. They are put
ting in 12-foot Pelton water wheel.
which is known to be the best wheel
in use. While the stream of water is
not large, it is from spring always reg
ular, with pressure Of 720 feet, which
will give them 35-horse power, or
enough to run their ten-stamp mill.
two power drills in the mine and fur
nish both mill and mine with electric
lights. The pipe they bought in the
east and is now all on the ground and
being laid to the spring, $500 feet dis
tant. In the meantime they are over
hauling the mill, putting in three
concentrators, large ore bin
short making it plant where mining
can be done cheaply. The mill is also
arranged so that should anything hap
-, ho - tor hax
get up steam, hook on the engine, and
in an hours time go ahead under steam.
This mine, too, like the Wilcox, is
worked by tunnel, the ore run out of the
mine and dumped into the ore bin in the
mill.
D. @. Lane, superintendent of the
Gold King mining company, is moving
along in quiet way, making no partic-
ular fuss about what he is doing. He
is running the mill at Banner for time
on ore from the Cincinnati Belle mine,
and then on ore from the Gold King.
The new hoist at the Cincinnati Belle
works we'll and the mine is really look
ing first-class.
The Hubbard mine is now being
worked by Mr.. Cowels, a San Diego man,
and the mill is running on that ore. We
have no means of knowing how the ore
is milling, but if as usual it cannot help
but be satisfactory.
Current report has it that Mr.. Will
liams of the Owens will be up soon to
start that mine again, and that he has
sold the San Diego mine to parties who
intend to open it up this spring.
Unfortunately for the Helvetia mine
the bank failure in San Diego took that
mine down with it, but it is hoped for a
short time only.