The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-21
New Gravel Prospects Opened
at Trinidad, Humboldt
County.
EXCITEMENT IN SONORA.
Reported Discoveries of Ancient
Mines East of MinaS
PrietaS.

ment WOrk 20 speak OF mas ever Deen uOue
on them it is hard to tell what value they
have.
The promoter and manager of the Barnes
mine on the Oneta ranch, Amador County,
is Mr.. Fletcher, who a few months ago
came out from Wisconsin. He was for
mery in the pulpit, and even low has not
abandoned his former profession alto
gether. A couple of times a week he
closes down the mine and goes up to the
little schoolhouse at Rancheria and
breaches the gospel to the people who
gather from the ranches and mining
claims thereabout.
The, Catskil gravel mine at Bangor,
Butte County is running steady and en-
ploys about fifty men. Mr.. Bareford, the
superintendent and owner, seems much
encouraged over the outlook.
A number of good mines are being
worked in the vicinity of Oroville, Butte
County, and several new ones are being
opened.
A correspondent of the CALL sends the
following item: THE d. I. Duncan IL
Co. mine four miles west of Barstow, is
showing up well. Ore from the original
find assayed as high as 755 ounces of sill
yer, while 600 feet away on the ledge a
shaft down thirty-seven feet has yielded
over thirty tons of ore assaylng 68 per cent
lead and ninety-eight ounces silver. AT
an intervening point the ledge has been
uncovered and the ore assays relatively
we'll"
The locality where some large nuggets
were recently reported found, twelve miles
east OF Cargo Muchacho, is said TO be the
most dangerous on the desert, and IL
would be suicidal for any one not familiar
with the trail and location of water holes
TO 90 there without having competent
sd hn h Of
nuggets and that kind of a country ought
to make many people believe all the
stories they hear about the region.
Butte is attracting much attention as
mining county and many prospectors are at
work searching for new and valuable
hedges.
The tunnel being run at the Gold Bank
mine Forbestown, Butte County, will be
1900 feet long when completed. The mine
belongs to the w. w. Stow estate.
A number of Salt Lake capitalists have
recently purchased several mines at An
gels Camp, Calaveras County, this State.
New gravel mines are being opened nea
Trinidad, Humboldt County, by the Trim
idad Gravel Mining Company of this City.
G. \. Moore, B. Moore and John Mercer
have commenced mining with Gold King
amaleamator on the beach sands at the
mouth OF the Klamath River.
The Ameie mine, Kern County, uses a
tons of ore per hour, with three pints of
gasoline.
The old mining camp at Kelseyville,
Kern County, is again commencing to
liven up, and quite a number of the old
mines, once good paying propositions, but
which were abandoned during the silver
excitement, are again being opened up.
Some very large nuggets have been
found in The districts around Galen, Kern
County. The mines in that region, how
ever. are hard 10 work on account OF the
lack of water. Unless the claims contain
q streak of very coarse gold il is impossible
to save enough of ii with dry-washer to
pay. Nevertheless, considerable money is
being taken out of some OF the claims.
One of the new and promising locations
in the Pinyon district in Southern Cali
fornia, is the Bouquet, owned by Dan
Hayes and Thomas Monroe. The ledge is
said TO be 81 feet wide, with II inches of
quartz carrying fine gold ali through.
AT the Morongo King mine, in Southern
California, all the work is being concen-
trated on the development of a new vein,
which promises TO prove very rich. Judge
Campbell, who visited the mines last
week, thinks the new discoveries and the
work being devoted to developments will
make of the Morongo King q fine paying
property.
y great deal Of mining work is being
carried on in Riverside County and many
prospectors are seeking new claims.
J. Y. Brighton of Los Angeles, who To-
Gated several claims in the Morengo dis
trict, north of lndio, last March, has lately
sold them TO some Butte County capitalists
for $4,000.
Speaking of the receipts of gold dust and
bullion from Lower California, the San
Diego Union says: There is $40 in gold
brought to the city from Lower California
to 81 received from mines in this county.
of hn riot,a
old miners have lately come from the
peninsula, where rich strikes are continu-
ally being made, and the predictions made
some years ago regarding the enormous
mineral wealth of Lower California appear
to have better foundation than ever"
j. -. Dunlap, says the Orange (Cal. J
Post, will have crusher running soon at
his mine near Silverado. The mill is up
and it will be run with water furnished by
ditch about half mile long, with a fall
OF ninety feet.
A great excitement is reported by the
discovery of some very rich ancient mines
east of Minas Prietas, Sonora.
The Times correspondent at Riverside
writes that the reports from the Desert
Queen mine are to the effect that the ore
is improving the deeper it goes. The
statement is made that six tons of ore
cleaned up 14S ounces of gold, valued at
1920. an average of $3.50 per ton. At pres
u.
The Hedges gold placers, near Yuma,
are attracting some attention, but the
claims are under uncertain title
Extensive preparations are being made
to develop the AFRICA mines on the Colo
RADIO River, below Ehrenberg, which have
recently passed under control OF wealthy
syndicate.
Something unprecedented befell Robert
Kinsman OF Tombstone. He recently
shipped d batch of ore to Deming and re-
ceived $3.50 more than expected This is
one of the most marvellous things ever
heard of in Arizona.
The Kingman (Ariz.) Miner says it is
rumored that large reduction works are to
be erected at the King Solomon mines, and
that mills and mines will be run by water
power.
The Desert mine, about fifteen miles
west of Harrisburg, Ariz., recently pur-
chased by Eastern capitalists for 10000, is
being actively operated and machinery for
20-stamp mill is on the way.
The Bonanza mine at Harqua Hala,
Ariz., has resumed operations, but with a
comparatively small force of men. 1t is
not known whether the ore body has been
again uncovered, but it is thought not as
the prospecting drills are still at work and
the Superintendent day or two ago was