The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-14
Copper Locations Made in
Del Norte and Men,
dOCino.
ITEMS FROM VARIOUS SECTIONS
Capital Is Now Seeking Southern
Oregon as Good Field for
Investment.
The mines at Enterprise, Butte County,


Of $4,000O01 gold produced, being soon
started up again. The proprietors are
reported as settling their differences by
compromise.
Both copper and quicksilver locations
have recently been made on Diamond
Creek, Del Norte County.
4 copper mine has been located by w.
S. Thomas near the county road 20 Round
Valley and about forty-five miles from
Ukiah. The claim Will be developed at
once.
The Rising Sun mine near Colfax has
been leased TO Judge Cleary, 4 New York
capitalist.
Goldstone. out near the State line, beyond
Vanderbilt, is said to be now quite a lively
mining camp.
Wolf & Campbell of the FOCUS mine,
Volcano district, Amador County, have or
Gered ten-stamp mill.
The leila IS the largest employer of labor
of any mining company in Amador
County.
The agreement between S. w. Bright
and the proposed purchasers of the Bell
wethcr mine, Jackson, Amador County,
has been recorded. The purchase price is
$4,000 and a mill of 100 tons daily capac-
ity is to be pat up. 1t is said Chicago
company is the purchaser
The Jackson Republican is enthusiastic
over the prospects of the mines on the
east or greensboro vein of the mother lode,
which It says promise to play by far the
most important part in The upbuilding OF
the mining industry.
The striking OF an eight-foot ledge on
the Mascot at 800 feet depth and a four-foot
one in the Standard at 200 feet is, to the
Oroville Mercury, sure indication of the
permanency Of the mines and 1t means
much for the future of the mining indus
try in that section and of Butte County in
general.
Yreka, Siskiyou County, now has Gus
tom mill. This should cause more pros
pecting and development of the numerous
quartz lodges in the Humbug range on
west side of Yreka, also at Hawkinsville
ana vicinity on the north, and at Green
horn, Cherry Greek and Deadwood on the
south.
At Scott River, Siskiyou County, several
new and rich discoveries of gold mines
have lately been made, and good times are
anticipated this summer.
There is some little hydraulic mining
going on in Gold Canyon, New, between
Dayton and Silver City.
Never in the history of Southern Oregon
was the outlook Tor the mining industry
so promising as now. Capital from out
side of the State is coming in considerable
quantities to develop mines, prospectors
were never so abundant. and the output of
the precious metals is steadily increasing.
About sixty miners are at work in
Steamboat district, Oregon. opening up
placer mines, and the prospect is good for
turning out considerable gold.
A Nevada City miner, visiting Trinity
County, writes from Weaverville to his
town paper that most of the hydraulic
mines up there used No. Giant with
IL or inch stream, and a pressure that
the Nevada City Fire Department would
be ashamed Of" All the mines are not
hot hnIx ha for I-ISIt aH
one, not far from Weaverville. near juno
ton, where they had nine Giants, none
smaller than inch, two of 9 inch and one
OF IL inch each. There are very few mines
in the State with such an equipment, and
11-inch muZZles are exceptionally scarce.
At the mine referred to suspension
bridge, costing $4,000, carried the pipe
across the river
Superintendent of the Mint John Dag
gett has gone on a short visit to his mine,
the famous Black Bear, in Siskiyou County.
His son, Ben Daggett, is now superintend-
ent Of the mine.
The first cyanide-proce plant was
started in South Africa in 1891, with a
California man in charge, by the way, and
in 1894, or four years later, over $50, 600
ounces of gold we're extracted by the pro-
cess in the Transvaal alone. This is a
pretty good record for any metallurgical
process.
IltI6 10 SItdl ludoS VI llltldIQ Oli Vic
cyanide process now being brought out,
but the London Mining Journal says cit is
difficult to see that the very exhaustive
and complete description in the Bulletin
of the California State Mining Bureau
from the pen of DR.. Schiedel leaves room
just at present for papers by others. He
has brought German thoroughness and
American acuteness to bear on the subject
and the monograph leaves little to be de-
sired This is a com liment from high
authority not only TO the author but to
our State Mining Bureau.
There are four claims, knows as the
August, Star, Bernstein and Golden Gate,
10 miles due east of San Bernardino on
the Yuma desert and twelve miles east of
the McHarney mine, from which the
owners are taking out $500 a day with a
one-stamp mill.
On the farm of B. A. Knots, in the
middle of his wheat field, about two miles
quartz was discovered last month from
which they took $500 in gold in one day.
That will pay much better than the
wheat.
Cameron & Ellis have sold their Galice
Creek (Or.) hydraulic property to Bent e.
Alexander of Colorado for $25, 900.
Lardo mining district, British Column
bia, is again attracting considerable at
tentlon. Many people predict that the
Lardo country is fully as rich as the Trail
Creek, and has as great future before it..
Most of the miners now Quitting at
Colville, Washington, for the summer s
prospecting are directing their attention
and efforts to the upper Kettle River
district, and large numbers of them are
going out. The country is essentially a
gold region, and the mining interests
there during the past year have developed
to remarkable extent.
The Columbia Gold Mining Company
properties in Humbug district Ariz, will
soon have large mill. The owners are
Kansas City men.
The main shaft of the Congress mine.
Arizona, is now down to depth of 1900
feet and fine body of ore is exposed at
that depth. The mine employs 300 men,
The sale of three of NJ. w. Bremen
mines in Lost Gulch, Arizona, at large
figure, to Major A. G. Brummel and J. B.
Brown of Washington City, d. c., has
been consummated.
Though the Harqua Hala mine, Arizona,
has been shut down, few men are kept
prospecting for the ledge which has been
lost.
The capacity of the Honorine mine,
Stockton, Utah, has been doubled, being
now nearly $50 tons day.
The Parnell mine at Brigham, Utah, has
commenced shipping ore to the smelter.
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