The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-25


good place for the dry-washing machine
men to test their inventions.
hoist is being put up on the Gwin
mine which will be capable of hosting
from depth of 1000 feet. Sinking in the
mine ia going on rapidly.
The magnitude of the shipments of sui
phurets and tailings from the Colfax freight
depot is not generally known says the
Sentinel. For the month ending March 81
more than l 100000 pounds of sulphurets
were loaded. They were consigned to the
Selby Smelling Works and to Everett,
Wash.
Spring mining operations will commence
at an earlier date this year than has been
the custom heretofore about Juneau,
Alaska, as the small snowfall and mild
ness OF the winter will permit of this early
start. Not for years have the mining COM
panies enjoyed such long working season
as this one gives promise.
The new compressor for the Helena and
Frisco mine, Occur d'Alene, is very large
one and intended to run forty drills.
The Spokane Chronicle says that the
Kansas City Smelter Company has offered
81, 900, 600 for the War Eagle, a third of a
million for the lie Roo and an unknown
sum for the Josie mine-all in the Trail
Greek country.
Granite Basin, Butte County, is expected
to be very lively camp this year.
The Donallan mine, Calaveras County,
has been bonded by E. S. de Golyer and
n. E. Haskell and active work is to be
carried on.
Quite a number of men formerly en-
ployed in the mills and logging camps of
Humboldt County will. on account of the
low rate of wages, go into the mountains
this summer and prospect, believing that
they can make more doing that than if
they worked in the camps or mills. There
is a large scope of rich mineral country in
Del Norte that has never been thoroughly
prospected.
An important strike has been made at
the Murchie mine, Nevada County They
have six-foot ledge, and it is said that the
rock assays away above the average. Near
this ledge is another ledge of good size and
quality.
More money was paid to miners in
Nevada City during the month of March
than during any single month for years
previously. This indicates. OF course. that
more men are employed. The outlook is
said to be particularly encouraging for
the coming season in the Nevada City dis
trict.
A very rich strike has been made in the
Helena and Frisco mine, Coeur d'Alene
Idaho. The vein where struck is very
large, and runs nigh in lead and silver
New machinery to cost $4,000 has been
ordered. The mine is now netting about
$4,000 per month to its owners, who are
residents of Helena, Mont.
The old Silver King mine, north of
Florence, Ariz., shows up another body of
very rich ore.
Eastern people are looking after Arizona
gold mines.
ht1r ~ hoo
mill for working the rich gold ores of the
surrounding mines.
The new thirty-stamp mill of the
Juneau Mining Company, Alaska, will be
running by July l, and will have twelve
concentrators. This company is COM
posed of: Alvinza Hayward c. G. Lane
and Archie Campbell. They own the
Fuller First, Montana, California and
other claims.
Mr.. James, superintendent of the Uncle
Sam mine, reports mining matters in
Shasta as somewhat active, especially in
connection with the famous Iron Noun
tain mine, recently purchased by an Eng
fish syndicate.
If Oregon papers are to be believed
good many California capitalists are exam
lining mines in that State with view to
purchase.
The africa mine, Arizona, has been sold
to Colorado and New York parties The
new owners will put on force of men
and push work as fast as men and money
can do it. The intention is to build a
narrow-gauge railroad from the mines to
the Colorado River, distance of twenty
three miles; also twenty-five stamp mill
at the river, and to build and operate
steamboat on the river.
Prescott, Ariz. needs smelter and steps
are being taken to build one there
The Redding Democrat says that the
quicksilver mines at Cinnabar, Trinity
County, it is understood, will employ
Japanese labor hereafter A dozen Japs
left Redding last Thursday for the mines.
Only few whites will be employed.
A good strike has been made on the
Daisy Bell mine, Nevada County
The Grass Valley Tidings says that re-
Gently rich pocket or chimney was found
at Bowman's, near Clipper Gap, in Placer
County, which has been yielding from $4,000
to $4,000 per day, with prospects of