The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14

Idaho, shows unprecedented activity
among it's mining camps, and foretells a
big midsummer boom.
At Fittsburg, Ariz., not far from Tomb
stone, the miners are boring for water,
having usually to convey it about seven
| miles to camp.
One hundred miners are at work in and
around the Crowned King mine, in
Arizona.
The section of country surrounding Fort
Bowie, Ariz., has long been known to con-
tain both gold aid silver, but as this is a
Government reservation and covers the
greater portion of the range known to hold
the hidden treasure, and hence was not
! open to location and development, but
little has been heard of it as a mining
country. However the old fort has been
abandoned by the Government as mill
tarv garrison, and the reservation will, III
ali probability, ere long be thrown open
to settlement, when we may confidently
look Cor a mining boom in this quarter.
The new gold district near Tombstone,
ArlZ., has its center at town called Fits
burg.
Over So 600 was paid out by the King
man Sampling Works, Arizona, for ore
last week. This is the best showing made
since the panic of Jnly, 1893.
The Anchor mine, Park City, may have
new concentrator shortly.
The Snow Shoe group of lead-silver
mines, sixteen miles south of Libby, Mont,
on the line of the Great Northern Railway,
bids fair to afford the basis of the first ex-
tensive mining operation on the line of
that road west of the Rockies.
If the Anaconda mine, Montana, has
been sold to the Rothschids for $50, 600, 900,
! as represented, it is the largest mining deal
that has ever taken place in the world.
The Homestake mine near Kamlcops,
B. c.. has been sold to officials of the
Canadian Pacific. Reduction works to cost
$4,000 are to be erected.
In Stevens County, Wash, below Kettle
Fails, the placer ground along the Column
bia River is rapidly being located, and in
SOME instances by men who were there fif-
teen years ago, and left, hoping to find
richer ground, but now return.
1t is said that if the Coeur d Alene miners,
Idaho. would have been satisfied TO work
for 81 80 and So day, there would now be
from 1000 TO 5000 men at work ut Mullers,
Wallace and Wardner instead OF the few at
present.
From the Anaconda mines, Montana,
there are at present being shipped to Ana
conda 100 cars of ore each day, each car
containing about 30 tons, making the total
5000 tons per day. or 10000 tons per
month. The Mountain Con. is at present
the largest producer, turning out about
1000 tons OF ore per day. AT Camp Creek
ali is activity on the surface with prepare
tons for the development of that new
camp. All of the Anaconda properties in
this section are being worked as fully as
possible.
The big copper companies around Butte,
Mont, have been working on q mammoth
scale lately, and in addition there is vast
amount of leasing going on. With so
much activity going on in the innumer-
able mines in and around Butte, the city is
bound to be most prosperous.
Three more Bryan mills and eight John
son concentrators have been ordered in
this city for the Lambe Gold Mining Com
pany at Gibbonville, Idaho.
The tunnel on the Black Jack has struck
at depth of 1860 feet the largest and rich
est ore body vet found in Florida mount
ain, Idaho. Florida Mountain is between
War Eagle Mountain, the great early ore
producer of Idaho and De Lamar.
The mica mines at Rioville, Utah have
been bonded to Salt Lake men for $4,000
Kettle River district. B. c., is coming to
the front. Much prospecting and consid-
cradle development work is being done by
thorough mining men, who come from
Butte, Montana, and other mining centers.
A mum Der OF very rich mines have already
portant camps OF which great things are
expected are: Greenwood, Providence,
Deadwood, Copper, Smiths, Atwood 5.
Whites, Wellington and Summit Of
these the Summit and Greenwood show
the largest veins. At point four miles
from Grand Forks very rich discovery has
just been made.
The placer diggings in Josephine and
Jackson counties, Southeastern Oregon,
are largely worked by men who farm in
summer and mine in winter The country
is rolling, there being a hill and then a
gulch, and then another hill and another
gulch, and in these gulches the settlers
have farms or ranches. In the spring,
summer and fall they devote their time to
stock-raising and farming, and in the win
ter, when there is lots of water from the
rains, they do placer work along the
gulches, each family taking out from $500
to $4,000 in gold year, and thus you can
see they make good thing out of it, and
are prosperous and have sufficient ready
money for all their needs, also something
for the future.