The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-07
NEWS FROM COAST MINES,
interpretations and Reorgani-
cations Reported From
Various Points.
MINERAL VALUE OF VEINS
An Official Decision Rendered by
the Secretary of the Interior
on the Subject.

At the Jackson and Lakeview mine, neal
Lundy, Mono County, which produced
about $53, 600 last year in gold, there is q
profitable percentage of sulphurets in the
ore. These have been saved on Frue con
centrators, and a Buckner furnace and
chlorination plant have been erected to re-
duce them at the mine instead of ship
ping.
The Princess Mining Company has been
incorporated at Oroville, Butte County
with the following directors: Henry j
Milburn, Detroit, Mich; George H. Thorn
as, Detroit, Mich; John Gale, Oroville
Cal. Frank o. Goodwin, San Francisco
Ed Hardness, Oroville, Cal.
The Humboldt Mining Company has
been reorganized at Eureka to engage IL
placer mining in Northeastern Trinity
County, an extensive district at present
little worked. Two more companies will
be organized Tor the same purpose.
skThe Golden Gate Mining Company, San
Diego County, has purchased 6O-stamp
mill large pumping plant, and has put
in power for 100 stamps.
Amalie district in Kern County, about
fourteen miles from Caliente station on the
Southern Pacific Railroad. is said to be a
very good place to prospect IN
Coal has been found IN western 4oio
County. two and a quarter miles north OF
Tancred, near the Big Rock, in the deep
ravine of a creek which flows from Caseys
Flat into Cache Creek. 1t is being pros
pected.
A new mining company called the Uto-
pia has been organized at Lakeport, Lake
County, with the following directors NJ.
S. Sayre, A. H. Spur and J. j. Sheridan.
Hugh Davey is superintendent
The mine discovered by l.. Albert on the
Blaisdell ranch, twenty-five miles north of
Yuma, between the Colorado and ella riv-
ers, is to have dry crusher worked by a
gasoline engine. Water is scarce in that
section of country.
There is some talk of opening up the
most promising of the mines on the San
Jacinto estate, belonging to the English
company, where the remescal tin mine is
located.
There is renewed activity among the
mines at Hildreth, MADEIRA County.
Ore shipments from Baker City, Or, to
the Everett smelter are increasing.
Among the many who have been in
speeding the mineral resources of Southern
Oregon lately was Governor Mcconnell of
Idaho, who was accompanied by DIR. j. K.
Cardwell OF Portland.
The Jacksonville or Times says:
Nearly all of the miners, excepting those
whose bitches are fed by snow in the
mountains, have cleaned up. Owing to
the dry winter the result has not been as
favorable as usual, although the ground
washed off paid fully as we'll as ever.
Last fall man named Springer gave
another man named Lewis verbal permits
sion to sell Trail Creek claim, keeping
all he got over $1,000. After some time
Lewis got $4,000, but Springer refused TO
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bring $4,000. The County Court has held
that Springer must make the transfer.
1t is reported that large and rich silver
ledge has been discovered up the Santiam
River, in Marion County, Or.
Reports from the Pierce gold district in
Arizona are that many prospectors are at
work there.
Considerable attention is now being paid
to the nickel ore deposits in Peshaston dis
trict, Washington The lodes are said to
be from eight to twelve feet apart, and 4
number of claims are being opened.
The Trail Creek (B. ca mining region
includes a known area of thirty miles
square. The ore being taken from the
mines is of high grade.
The ella Monster mine, in Winifred dis
trict, sixteen miles north of Phoenix, Ariz.,
has been sold for $4,000 to David Kelsoe
of Atchison. A ten-stamp mill will be
erected at once.
The famous Casey mine at Dos Cabezas
Arlz., a high-prlce property, for which
$751; 900 has been refused, is again under
bond, in the sum of $4,000.
The New Year group of mines, in the
Judith Mountains, Idaho, will soon have
the mill started. A half interest in the
group has been sold for $25, 600.
Considerable placer mining is going on
in the Black Fork district, Latah County,
Idaho.
River dredging is still occupying the
minds Of many in the Cariboo district,
Is. c. Two dredges are about to COM
mence on the Quesnelle River near the
forks, and third is being constructed at
Soda Creek. Another dredger will shortly
be constructed to work a rich portion of
the river between Quesnelle Mouth and
Fort George. River dredging has seldom
been success in California, never on a
large scale, though in other countries it
has paid we'll in places
The miners up in the Northwest at Nei-
hart, are much incensed over the trade
store" question. The company store be-
longs to the Broadwater mine. and the
miners object to being compelled to trade
there. The Miners Union has ordered a
boycott.
Reduction works which will cost $50, 900
are being erected at the Homestake mine.
near Kamloops, B. G.
Many mines on Trail Creek, B. c.. are
beng bonded.
Renewed activity is being shown in the
mines at Cariboo, B. C.
1t is reported that the War Eagle Com
pany, British Columbia, has contracted to
supply $4,000 tons of ore TO the Montana
Ore Purchasing Company in Two years
and that the latter company will build a
smelter at Northport to treat it.
Should all the companies agree to ioin
hands to develop the Brunswick lode near
Virginia City affairs in that region will be
sure to liven up at once.
The London Mining Journal has taken
of its South African spectacles for one
edition and acknowledges that there are
some gold mines in California and also
some merit in them
Mineral Value of Veins.
The Secretary of the Interior has rem