The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-15

Jacob H. Neff, president of the California
Miners Association, and William G. Rails
ton, secretary of the same organiza ton,
will both leave for the East on Monday
next.
The big smelter for the Iron Mountain
| mine, Shasta County, is to be erected on
the Skillen place, a couple OF miles from
| Shasta. The site is now being graded.
The mineral paint works near Heads
burg is now milling six tons per day with
| its new stamp mill.
Forest City, Sierra County, is the center
of one of the richest gravel deposits in the
State. These are the Bald Mountain,
North Fork, South Fork, Ruby, Wisconsin,
| Bald Mountain extension and many other
| good gravel claims.
Work is rapidly progressing on the Bar
ker Flat cyanide plant at Bodie.
The old Browns Valley mines in Yuba
County, from which millions were taken
| years ago, are being once more looked into
| by mining men.
The Yreka Journal says that the water
supply in that region for hydraulic mining
| is getting short owing to continued hot
and dry weather. The miners are now
cleaning-up along the bedrock with its
| light supply SO as to finish before the
bitches and small streams are completely
dry.
1eadville, Colo, is now turning out
about 1000 tons of ore per day..
James McHaney's Desert Queen mine
| yielded him recently s4416 in four days
| run with five-stamp mill.
An increased force of men has been put
on at the Rush Creek granite quarry of
] or1o de no
ing shipped to Redding.
AT Minersville, Trinity County, in adj
dition to the property now operating under
the auspices of the French company, there
are other properties which. in all proba-
bility, will sooner or later be worked ON a
| larger scale.
Some men have filed on 400 acres of
coal land along the north folk of Scott
Creek, six miles from Lakeport, Lake
County. The coal is said to extend nearly
to the Mendocino boundary line and to be
Of fairly good quality.
In the Gibsonville-La Porte section of
Plumas County a few large properties are
being worked and most of the holdings in
that neighborhood are on the hands of
poor men, who are unable to properly de-
velop them.
The Slate Creek Company, few miles
| east of La Porte, Piumas County, are
handling their tailings by means of n.y.
drauIic elevators. Packer and Rendel. on
another part of Slate Creek, have forty
men at work and WORK two hydraulic ele-
! vators.
Work has lately been resumed on the
Gold Bluff mine, on the north fork of the
Yuba River, mile above Downieville.
| Up to 1890 the mine produced $3.50 900,
when it was sold to a New York company,
who went to work in an extravagant
manner and failed. John Costa of Downie-
| vi 10 popu hos tho mine md haq W
men at work.
If the Union copper mine at Low Divide,
Del Norte County, is purchased by Eastern
parties, as anticipated, after the tunnel
and shaft are cleaned out for inspection, a
revival of old times may be expected in
ing mining camp there, and in its i'm
mediate vicinity are good deposits of
chrome and copper.
From the new discovery of cinnabar ore
at New River. Trinity County, much is
expected, though facilities for transporta-
ton are very bad in that section.
Some men from Red Rock, Kern County,
who have been prospecting about ten miles
north of Mojave have found small seam
of coal.
Coulterville, Mariposa County, is not
quite SO lively just at present as it has
| been, few large companies having tenn
| porarily reduced their working forces.
]. B. Moore of Oakland has dry-washer
in successful operation about three miles
above Cool Ell Dorado County, near the
| Georgetown road, on what has been known
as "Five Cent HILL" in Greenwood min
| ing district. 1t is run by hand and works
one ton of gravel per hour.
! A fine set of hosting works is being
made for Billiard q Neviu of the App
mine. Tuolumne County.
| The ore from the Blazing Star mine,
| D,,iy Fa1a is lad
in several ways. That of high grade is
shipped to San Francisco, the medium free
| milling is worked at its own five-stamp
mill and good quantity is treated by the
cyanide process.
The old Sciefford mine, mile north of
San Andreas, Calaveras County, has been
bonded for $2O,0 900 by San Francisco COM
pany. Phil Deidesheimer, formerly of the
Comstoek and of Sierra County, and of
other mining sections, who is well known
| to the miners of this coast, is to take
charge of the development work to begin
at once. Mr.. Sclefford has worked his
mine off and on for the past thirty-six
years. but has been unable to develop it
satisfactorily.
Mariposa County mining men expect to
have 500 stamps at work in that county by
the first of the year.
A great many new mining locations are
being recorded in Mariposa County.
| The mining interests around Volcano,
Amador County, are said to be decidedly
looking up. There are many small veins
of quartz as well as marble, granite and
cement rock in that section of country,
| though much of the resources are unde-
veloped.
This time it is Los Angeles man who
thinks he has solved the question of work
| ing the rebellious ores of Meadow Lake
district, Nevada County. Mining men
from all over the West have "had a hack"
at the proposition.
The resumption of work at the Cover
mine, Amador County, is an important
be vigorously pushed.
At the Bogard mine, Amador County,
Alvinza Hayward is putting up buildings
machinery, etc, to open the property on a
large scale.
| While there is no 'boom' in Amador
County the mining interests there are in a
| good and prosperous condition.
Senator Perkins and Captain Goodall
have thirty-fve men at work on the Golden