The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-15
WHERE THE NEW FINDS OF
GOLD ARE TAKING PROS
PECTORS.
NEW NOTIONS OF VALUE
ALL THROUGH THE COUNTIES, Up
AND Down THE WESTERN
SLOPE OF THE SIERRA.


two l0-stamp mills are at work steadily
and their operations are carefully watched
by mining men. One of these mills is built
on the Colorado system, and one on the
California plan. Thus far the California
mill is doing much the best work.
Numbers of men are going to Mariposa
County to mine and prospect, being at
tracted by the means of development work
around Coulterville.
The gold excitement in and about the
vicinities of Ukiah and Willis, Mendocino
County, still prevails. The papers from
those places report weekly of the finding
of more rock thought to contain gold in no
small degree.
San Diego is to have cyanide works for
treating tailings from the Cedros Island
mines.
Mining prospecting will commence in
Siskiyou in full earnest pretty soon, and
there will be a good deal of it. Some pros
pectors have started to work already, but
there's little too much snow on the
mountains vet for general work.
At the Wide West gravel mine, Lowell
Hill, Nevada County, twelve Cinnamon
have been steadily at work for five years
running bedrock tunnel to tap the chan
mel. They still have about 200 feet to go to
reach it.
The placer miner is on the qui vive and
will be prepared to take advantage of the
early run of water. A good season is ex-
pected, and if it is realized the amount of
dust extracted will assume large proper
tons before the season Is at an end.
The case of the Keystone Mining Com
pany VS.. the South Spring Hill Mining
Company, a suit for $1,000, 600 damages,
and the case of the Argonaut Mining Com
pany VS.. the Kennedy Mining Company
Tor $3.50, 900 damages, will probably both be
tried this summer in the Superior Court of
Amador County.
The Cover, in Amador County, will
probably find an owner after awhile who
will keep it pumped out long enough to
make mine out of it.
A San Francisco syndicate is said to have
in contemplation the purchase of group
of mines west of San Andreas, Calaveras
County.
The Rawhide mine, Tuolumne County,
after four years steady work has mad its
first accident, by which a miner named
John Popevale was killed. The Coroner's
jury exonerated the company from all
blame.
The desert country" in the southern
part of the State is showing UP well as a
mining region. A good deal of prospect
ing is going on and several new discoveries
have recently been made.
A great many quartz and placer mines
are being operated around Baker City, Or.
None of the bills introduced in the Ore
gon Legislature affecting the hydraulic
mining interests of the State were passed.
Word comes from Denver to several of
the chief mining operators in Salt Lake
City TO the effect that already have the
SmelterS OF the Centennial State tired of
the cruel competition which was inaugu-
rated on the 18th of the past month, and
are now negotiating for the reorganization
OF the Colorado SmelterS' clearinghouse.
The recently completed electric light
plant, whose motive power is furnished by
Pelton wheels driven by the flow of water
from the Ontario drain tunnel, at the On
tario mine, Utah, is now in full commits
sion and doing splendid work. All of the
connections have been made with the sys-
TEN except those for the machine-shop.
There the motors have not yet arrived and
it Will be several days before the machin-
cry in the shops can be operated by the
electric current.
Captain John R. de Lamar OF the De
Lamar mines in Idaho, has a new process
for working gold and silver ore, which has
proven satisfactory on a small scale and
experiments in larger way are being
tried. AS usual with all the new processes,
it is to save more and cost less than the
old ones.
There will be much prospecting in the
mines OF Sierra County this spring. Many
OF the old hydraulic miners will return,
and with rockers or a few sluice-boxes
they will prospect in the placer regions as
soon as the snow disappears.
Another company, this time at Sterling
San Bernardlno County, has found after
putting up mill, that there is not ore
enough in the mine TO keep its mill run
ming. This is number a thousand or so of
this kind of mining company.
The Redlands Citrograph says that the
big suits against the Waterloo Mining
Company, which have been in court for a
long time, have been compromised. The
suits were fifteen in number and aggre-
gated over $1,000,000. The mines are
situated near Calico, in San Bernardino
County, and are very rich. We may now
expect to see large force of men put at
work.
The Nevada Transcript says that John
7. Bradley of San Francisco has sued
Samuel ?. Dorsey of Grass Valley for a
$4,000 commission due for finding a hacker
to the extent of $125,000 to assist the
defendant IN operating the Maryland
mine.
One does not often find any humor in
the ceurt's decisions on mining case, but
In his decision in the case of Dibble vs.
the Castle Chief Mining Company ct. al.
Judge Gardner of South Dakota facetiouslv
says: For the purpose of enabling myself
to more intelligently weigh the testimony
in the case l have visited the premises in
controversy. And while there is much
testimony to show that the value of the
labor performed on each of said claims for
the year 1892 exceeded 500, since inspect
ing said claims l am quite clearly OF the
opinion that if said opinion is true the
labor of miners at that time commanded a
much higher compensation than does the
labor OF lawyers or circuit judges"
The recent closing of the Everett wash }
smelter is the unsatisfactory outcome of a
$1,000 600 investment by Standard Oil
millionaires in it and the Monte Cristo
gold quartz mines, which proved too rebel
hous even as smelling proposition.
In letter from Paris William H.
Townsend says: There is now consider
able boom in Paris, in London and in
Berlin in gold mines. At present it is con-
fined entirely to South Africa, but be-
lieve that before midsummer it will extend
so as to take in the newer gold districts of
the United States. The center of the move
ment is in London, but Paris is rapidly
warming up and Berlin is just beginning.
During the last four months the French
men have sent over zoe, 900 900 francs to
London for the purchase of mining shares. +"