The morning call., 1895-02-15
Shasta County.

Shasta County.
The following notes are from the Red
ding Free Press:
The Gladstone people at French Gulch
are putting in new mortars in their mill.
Lowdon's mill runs steadily. Conant's
Wheeler mine is liable to commence opera
tions soon, as the lawsuits are in a fair
way to settlement.
At Whiskytown Gray & Woodward
made valuable discovery of six feet of
40 per cent copper ore, running high in
gold.
The seam diggings worked by Hartman
on Mad Ok GulCh are paying handsomely.
The new management at Iron Mountain
propose running the mill steadily. Sur
veys are being made for the tramway,
water rights, etc. The manager says it
will be two or three months before work
will be commenced on the tramway.
AT Squaw Creek the snow is fast disap-
pearing.
The Windy Camp mines have four men
at work.
Jack Stowell's seven claims rest quietly
under fifteen feet of snow, His cabin is
out of sight.
Fostir & Graham, at Flat Creek, have
got lease on the Minnesota mill and will
bid the Huntington mill good by.
Bullard g. Vandeveer had an expert ex-
amining their mine Wednesday.
Some of Mr.. Shannons partners from
San Francisco were looking over the Flat
Creek mine and mill this week. A dose of
lawsuits will be the outcome.
Dave Percent milled ten tons of rock
which yielded $17 per ton.
Bob Small struck some finegold ore near
Spring Creek last week.
The vice president of the Quartz Hill
mine arrived from Chicago on Wednesday
and will try to heal the differences existing
between Mr. Maryanski and the president
of the company. The mill is running night
and day and shipping.
Dan Mccarthy of Copley has struck a
good claim near Quartz Hill, and will have
Hugh Mcdonnell examine and report upon
it Saturday. A deal is on hand.
w. p. Miller is running his ten-stamp
mill at Middle Greek, and after crushing
$50 tons will commence crushing a 500-ton
lot for James Sallec.
The Shearer purchasers contemplate put
ting in dry kiln next week, preparatory
to dry crushing.
The new concentrator men at the Gem
mine pulled up and left last week, declar-
ing that there was no ore to concentrate in
the county.
Muletown will see Charles Jones' new
mill in operation this week.
John Doeblin's hydraulic mine has been
making money for the past month. Plenty
of water means plenty of gold.
F. E. Brightman, manager of the Glad
stone mine, was here yesterday. The first
cleanup under his management is entirely
satisfactory and Mr.. Brightman feels very
much encouraged. He is prosecuting de-
velopment work and opening up some fine
ore bodies. He says that there will be ore
in the Gladstone when this generation
passes away.
The Redding Free Press is quite iubilant
over the recent sale of the Iron Mountain
mine to English capitalists because they
contemplate mining on an extensive scale,
and the production of those metals not be-
fore produced in Shasta County, by the
erection of large plants and the employ
ment OF many laborers and skilled me-
chanlcs. When in operation it becomes at
once an accumulative force, drawing by
the magnetic influence of industry other
enterprises, and making one town in the
county the center for prosperous and
populous territory, which will result ulti-
mately in becoming terminal point. The
prospects for river navigation are thereby
advanced and additional railroad facilities
secured.
The people of Redding and Shasta
| County feel much encouraged; feeling
OF prosperity is in tbs air-all on account
OF this sale. Mining men who understand
the nature of the Iron Mountain deposit
hone and predict great results.
There are now sixty men at work on the
Altoona quicksilver mine In one of the
shafts they recently struck sulphur gas,
and the men could not work for four weeks.
The, mine is looking up finely and lots of
good ore is being taken out.
San Bernardino County.
f. G. Robie came in from the new strike
last Thursday night, says Booths Bazoo,
and gives most glowing description of
what he saw. The new "diggings" are
three miles west of the Ibex mine and were
discovered two or three weeks ago, but
everything in connection with them has
been kept quiet until now Mr.. Robie saws
that the groupings themselves were taken
to the mill and worked up, from which
were realized $12 per ton. From three
prospect holes now being worked they are
taking out ore at the depth of fifteen feet
which runs $50. Ore is being hauled to the
Ibex stampmill, and the mill will com
mence to run day and night He saws the
ore is in well-detined veins in granite and
is free milling
Messrs. Klinefelter, Frank Seaborn and
Fred Schafer are hard at work there and
are enthusiastic over their prospects Some
OF the ore runs as high as $500, but the
average now being obtained and worked is,
as stated before, $50 to the ton.
This promises to be the camp of this sec
ton, and its close proximity to our town
from its prosperity.
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