The San Francisco call., 1895-11-14


past summer.
A company is contracting a 70O0-foot
ditch and fiume TO bring water on placer
ground near Salmon River, Idaho, near
the mouth of John Day Creek. This re-
clon was mined with crude appliances as
far back as 1860, but there are now 100 men
in the district and more work being done
than ever before.
There is talk of capitalists making very
thorough examinations with diamond
drill OF the Mercur district country, Utah.
The Last Chance mine in Gold Lake
district, Sierra County, is turning out
some very rice specimens OF coarse gold.
The Hampton-Lewis ditch on Grace
Creek Oregon, has been finished and op-
erations will commence as soon as the
water comes.
A six-foot vein of bituminous coal has
been discovered on the Illinois River, Curry
County, Oregon.
III. G. Widman and Chris Mccoy have
found four-foot ledge of gold-bearing ore
in the coast range in San Luis Obispo
County, between Paso Robles and Cambria
Colonel A. G. Myers has found some
very fine white granite on Marble Noun
tain, Scott Valley, Siskivou County, which
is said to be we'll adapted for building pur-
poses.
The miners on the Klamath River, Siski-
you County, are crowding work and get
ting out gravel as fast as possible before
the winter storms raise the river and drive
them out.
A man in Yreka. Siskiyou County, in
sinking well, came across pay gravel
which yields 81 80 per day to the man, and
may improve on reaching bedrock.
1t is expected that two more well-known
mines in Nevada City district will be sold
this month, and the deals will involve the
construction of new machinery and the
employment of more men.
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trict, Nevada, with its extensions, will
probably be sold shortly to Eastern men
who have recently examined it.
Canadian mica, having driven most
other micas out of the market, is now hav-
ing hard struggle to keep the East Indian
product from taking its place. The latter
is perfectly free from iron and excellent for
use in electrical appliances.
The Blewett mines, Peshaston district,
Wash, are doing well and keeping the 20
stamp mill busy.
Men with rockers are making 81 so per
day on the placers of Snake River, Idaho,
but 1t is now getting too cold for this kind
OF WorK this season.
In the Wood River country, Idaho, a
great deal of development work is going
on and the mines are looking well.
An important find of free milling gold
ore is announced in Newton District,
Beaver County, Utah.
Some very heavy capitalists of Montana
are investing in the copper-gold properties
of Boundary Creek District, on the borders
of Washington and British Columbia. A
large number OF claims have been sold.
but the transportation question is the
most serious obstacle to the miners.
The Canadians do not seem to be invest
ing in Trail Creek mines. B. c., to so large
an extent as Americans are doing.
The quartz lodges recently found in the
Nt,f.,-,, A,,fA
do not come up to expectations.
Los Angeles County has gold mine
called the Big Horn, on Rig Horn creek,
above Almondaie, upon which the Ian
caster Gazette announces 100-stamp mill
Will be built in the spring. In some places
the ledge is said to be fifty feet across.
DR.. c. c. O'Donnell of this City, who has
run for Mayor q few times, owns ranch
on Sonoma Creek, near Glen Ellen, Sonoma
County, on which there is deposit of coal
This he is now about to open and work,
and will purchase the necessary machin-
cry and commence mining.
1t is stated that La Fortuna mine, near
Yuma, bonded for $150,000 to C. D. Lane of
Angels Camp, Is showing a large body OF
$50 rock in the 130-foot shaft
The Helen Mining Company. Mogollon,
n. Mex, is now employing 100 men on its
mine and mill.
John H Talbot of Denver has succeeded
Hugh 81. Price as general manager of the
Helen Mining Company at Graham, n.
Mex.
The Dalton mine, Utah. upon which
great deal OF money has been spent, and
only few pockets found, has at last struck
the true vein, which is four and a half feet
thick and quite rich.
Miners who have not yet attended to
their annual assessment work only have
about six weeks left in which to do the
work or spend the hundred dollars.
Judge w. w. Wallace of Sewer County,
Utah, has taken q bond and lease on the
Butler-Beck mine and mill in the Gold
mountain district, Utah, at a fixed price
of $4,000.
Some thirty-seven claims, in different
parts of Camp Floyd district, Utah, are to
be prospected by diamond and churn drills.
A Chicago COMPANY will do the work.
The Chicago Pumice Company, which
owns the claims at Black Rock, Utah, has
completed arrangements for regular ship
ments of pumice.
clpal owner of the Benz Bar claim at
klamath River, Siskiyou County. and
keeps fourty-four men at work, divided
into tive-hour shifts, day and night.
Most OF the river miners on the Klamath
in Siskiyou County have pulled out for
the season to save their wheels and ap-
paratus before there is danger of freshet
in the river.
Marcus Daily, the Montana Cooper
King" has purchased two large mines on
the boundary section, B. c., for $75 900
and has put gang of men at work. The
Boundary Greek people are delighted with
the transaction, as they think it makes a
new era for their district.
Some good discoveries have been made
in the mining country east of Palouse, in
Whitman County, Wash. Several rich
strikes are reported, and good wages have
been made on placer ground.
Some Utah men have been making a
good thing at the Sweetwater mines in
Wyoming by working over tailings by the
cyanide process.
The dry concentrators at Gold Basin,
Ariz., have proven complete failure, and a
cyanide plant will now be put in, but
water has first to be sunk for.
A new fve-stamp mill is being added to
the Heck's quartz mill at Ashland, Or.
The difficulties about the Desert Queen,
or McHaney, mine have been finally
settled and the mine has again been put in
operation.
If work is renewed on a claim after it
has been open to relocation, but before
such relocation, the rights OF the original
owners stand as though there had been no
default.
Work has been commenced againson DIR.