The San Francisco call., 1895-07-19
Reports of Interest From All
of the Principal
Camps.
THE WEEKS RESUME OF NEWS
Capital From Foreign Countries
Seeking Investment in Gold
Properties.


He lived for many years at Grass Valley,
and was among the first to apply the
chlorination process successfully on a
large scale. He made special study of
the Plattner system, and was thoroughly
posted in all its details. His article de-
scribing the process, published in the re-
port of the United States Mining Commls-
sioner many years ago, was very thorough
and complete, and for q long time he and
the late Guido Kustel divided the honors
as the best-posted men on chlorination IN
this country. Mr.. Deetken has been super
intending mine near Auburn Tor some
years past.
A company is being organized at Vol
cano, Amador County, to work some OF the
large gravel claims in that vicinity.
The Pioneer nnne, Placer County, owned
by Fair & Davis, will soon belong to
Massachusetts, company.
1t is thought the Stonewall mine, San
Diego County, which belonged to the late
Governor Waterman until it came into
possession of the Sather Bank, will shortly
be sold and work resumed.
Frederick Joubert of Comptonville, Yuba
County, has been granted permit by the
California Debris Commission to mine by
the hydraulic process.
1t is denied that w. A. Clark of Montana
has disposed of his mining interests to the
Anaconda Company. 1t is true he has
very extensive mining interests in Arizona,
but will continue his holdings in Montana
also.
Judge BicknelI of Los Angeles has put
the cyanide process in at the Fraser mine
and says it is giving good results.
1t is stated that the mill at the famous
Silver King mine, near Florence, AriZ.,
will be started up again next month. The
mine has been closed down for long time.
Two six-foot concentrators are being put
in at the ". Y. O. D. mine Grass Valley.
Humbug District, Ariz., has now about
200 men at work.
William c. Ralston. secretary of the
State Miners Association, has been visit
ing some mines in MaripoSa County dur
ing the past week.
Some seven months since a party of
thirty prospectors started from Yuma to
hunt up mines in Sonora. -Four OF them
have come back to Tucson, the others hav
ing given up the trip long time ago. No
discoveries of note were made.
Around Juneau, Alaska, there are now
395 stamps at work crushing about 700 tons
a day.
Little prospecting for quartz has been
done in the Yukon River country, Alaska,
the main drawback to prospecting being
the great depth of moss which covers the
ground in that heavily timbered region.
A meeting OF the executive committee OF
the State Miners Association will be held
in this City on Monday, July %.
At the Confidence mine, Tuolumne
County, many improvements are being
made, the total cost OF which will be
$4,000
Belgian capitalists are making invest
ments in the mines of TuoIumne County.
An electric process" is to be applied in
working the ores of Kennedy district,
Nevada.
The Comstock payroll for the month of
June amounted to $71 526 &C., which is
about $1,000 less than for the same month
in 1894.
Nickel ore has been discovered on Indian
River, near Sitka, Alaska.
The Marshfeld (Or.) Mail says: Some
two months ago a miner was rocking"
along the border of Rogue River and tried
q pan of dirt from a wheatfield near by.
He tried another, and still another, with
good results, and at the close of his days
work he had 81 10 for his labor. A Chicago
syndicate has bonded that wheatfeld-
100 acres-and will erect huge pumping
plant thereon.
The Merced Star says ten-stamp mill
was shipped last week to the mining prop
erty OF Cox e. Roberts of MADEIRA.
The Quincy Bulletin learns from J. w.
Corderry that several capitalists in the
Gold Bar Consolidated Mining Company
propose to develop on a large scale their
mine at Cleghorn Bar, on the Middle Fork
OF the Feather River. Considerable ma
chinery will be put in.
r. 6. Burton has discovered gold-bearing
quartz on William Boards land Dry
Greek Valley, ten miles northwest of
Healdsburg, Sonoma County.
There are more men prospecting in
Trinity County for quartz this season than
l.f, ,@1,, -
of Trinity Center are teeming with quartz
prospectors-
There are number of high benches of
gravel along the Lower Trinity River,
some of which would undoubtedly pay
well if they were prospected thoroughly by
men who are not afraid to do a little hard
work and are not too easily discouraged
a number of new locations have been
made recently in Sheep Creek district.
Alaska.
The Blain Mining Company will build
a smelter at Leavenworth Or, with 100
tons daily capacity, to be in operation in
side of twelve months.
Hill and Allen, locaters of the big ledge
in Grant County. Or, have bonded the
Voss, for the sum of $4,000. Two other
locations have been bonded for $4,000
each
Many claims are being prospected near
Quartzburg, Grant County, Or, with good
results.
The Oregon placer season is nearly ended,
the yield being good for the scarcity OF
water.
The Susanville (Or.) diggins are yielding
fully up 20 the anticipations of the new
owners, some of the old time chunks be-
ing picked up recently.
Some of the miners on the Upper Yukon
River, Alaska, do not want the route to
the mines to be made too easy so they say,
as they say it would bring a class of men
who will not work for living, but who
would come in simply to prey on those
who do. They refer more particularly to
gamblers and men of that class.
P. D. Barnhart has taken a twelve
months bond for good round sum op
McNary's quicksilver mines in Copper
Basin, Arizona, and it is said will not only
develop the mines, but will put up fur
mace soon for the reduction of the ores.
The Columbia Gold Mining Company
has recently purchased a group of eighteen
mining claims in Humbug district, Ari-
zona, ard will at once commence develop
ment work on them on an extensive scale.
The Tom bstone Mill and Mining Com
pany is about to put in a cyanide plant to
work over the tailings dump.
The Old Dominion copper mines at
Globe will resume work BY August on a
more extensive scale than ever and Globe
will have bO0u of M small r1rpfansione