The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
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taken to Grass Valley by John Ferguson
OF San Jose on contract to sink an arte-
sian well hole on the Bryan property, near
Grass Valley, to prospect the ground.
Prospect holes may also be sunk on the
properties of other mining companies.
The Morning Star drift mine, Placer
County, has declared dividend of 81 per
share. This is the ffty-sixth dividend by
this company.
County, leased by Martin Jones of this
City, now employs forty men and is run
ming ten stamps on ore.
Near Mohawk, Plumas County, COM
pany have taken up $50 acres OF land on
which deposit of Ignite is found. This
is gradually being developed.
There is great activity in mining IN
Plumas County in these days.
Denver parties have bonded an extern
sion of the Golden Cross mine, San Diego
County, for $50, 900.
The Oriental mine, we'll known in the
early history of West Point, Calaveras
County, is about to be opened after fifteen
years OF i0leness.
A correspondent of the Stockton Record
writing from Wallace, Calaveras County,
says: I'VE want and have plenty of room
Tor 1000 gravel miners in and around the
vicinity of Wallace and Camanche. Most
OF the people can be satisfied these times
making 81 so per day. your own boss, with
chance Of striking rich pockets"
The Georgetown Gel Dorado County,
Gazette says that the Channel Bend Min
ing Company, near Volcanoville, has now
eighty men at work, forty whites and forty
Chinese, engaged in running drift tun-
mel for hundreds of feet in length into their
immense bed of gravel, building roads,
fumes and other improvements prepare
tory to working the mine on large scale.
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ore near Salmon Falls and Negro Hill.
Also on the road to GAINESVILLE. west of
the Stone house, and in the vicinity of the
Stegeman ranch, below Salmon Falls.
| The deposits may be worked on a royalty,
but at present nothing is being done with
them.
i A correspondent of the San Diego World
says the American Tub gold mine at Cargo
Muchacho has been sold TO an English
company for $120,000.
There is no water to work the gravel
mines at La PanZa, San Luis Obispo
County, but the miners are prospecting for
quartz.
A rich strike has been made by c. A.
Burcham of San Bernardino in Summit
district, eight miles from Goler, Kern
County.
Citizens of Hollister and Salinas have
organized the Yreka Gold Mining Com
pany to mine in Siskiyou County.
At Yreka, Siskiyou County, all kinds of
mining are being carried on, from the old
fashioned rocker to hydraulic and quartz
mining. Old mines are being developed
and new ones located and prospectors are
plentiful.
Silver Peak district, Nevada, is happy
over new rock-crusher. which weighs
! eight and a half tons and will crush from
$50 to 200 tons Of ore every ten hours. The
miners want TO begin crushing SO they
may receive coin instead of checks,
| Some new gold mines are being opened
on HemIock Greek, branch of the Mar
| shall River, Pierce County. Wash, which
are quite promising. They are 58 miles
from Tacoma and eight miles up the Mar
shall River from Eatonviile. The Lodges
are large, but of low grade.
The Sterling Company of Utah, having
spent large sums of money n opening
their coal mines, are now able to furnish
coal in great quantity. 1t is said to be SUI
perior to Pleasant Valley and equal to
Castle Gate and Rock Springs coal.
Chicago dealers are said to have offered
81 per pound for the mica produced by the
Palouse Mica Company, in Voodoo district,
near the boundaries OF Washington and
Idaho.
About $50 miners are now at work in
and around Wardner, Idaho.
Neither the Kansas City nor the Omaha
and Grant Smelling Company will put up a
smelter on the shore of Kootenay Lake, B.
c., as it was expected they would.
The Thistle shaft drift mine, Sierra
County, in order not to have to reduce its
| force this winter, has prepared a large
dump yard to store the gravel mined,
which will be washed when there is an
abundant water supply in the spring
| The Planet and Saturn mines in Fools
GuIch, Ariz., between the Congress and
Yamells mines, have been sold to Boston
parties for $4,000.
The McSorley Bros. have given three
years working bond of the Gwln mine ex-
tensions 1 and 2 to NJ. B. Kerr of this city,
half the net proceeds to be paid to the
owners until the sale is consummated.
| This property adjoins the Gwin mine
(Calaveras County, on the south, and has
never been prospected below depth Of
100 feet
The Malad Idaho) Enterprise tells about
rather queer way of mining going on at
Warm Creek, four miles from American
Falls. The ground is light granite soil,
and is plowed, scraped into a dump and
then shoveled into sluices. Ten men, run
ming two shifts, make SIS per shift. This
is top soil with no stripping where a miner
man who found the diggings was not a
miner. 1t is not often pillow can be used
as a mining tool.
The refined lead product of the United
States last year was 229,0 short tons, or
about 10000 tons less than the previous
year, which was the largest on record.
The actual domestic product-that is, from
our own mines-was 1872, 700 tons, the rest
being sent here in ores from Mexico and
British Columbia. Colorado leads the
other States with $4,000 tons product.
The most skilled and enterprising
among the Cornish miners are emigrating
on account of the depression in the home
mining districts.
The gold miner is producer who is
dead sure" of a market. None of his
product is ever dumped in the bay, as the
| farmers fruit was by tons last week be-
cause it could not be sold.
Natural gas in strong flow has been dis
covered on Marys Island in the Sacra-
mento River, two miles below Knights
Landing.
A Southern Utah man finds a good way
TO destroy the various vapors from powder
smoke In his tunnel is to slack some lime