The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-12
New Mills to Be Erected at
Various Points in the
State.
ACTIVITY IN OTHER STATES.
Good Reports Are Received of g
Revival of the Industry of
Mining in Many Places.

titles of cement to contruct two great dams
in Arizona. The company is enlarging It's
plant by putting in another rotary furnace,
Griffin mill and Gates crusher, so that by
August 1 the capacity will be 400 barrels OF
cement every twenty-four hours. These
are the only productive cement works run
in California.
Ernest A. Wiltsee, mining engineer,
who left Grass Valley for South Africa
about two years since, has been appointed
experimenting engineer to the Gold
Fields of South Africa Qimited).
Permission has been given by the Cali
fornia Debris Commission to the Plumas
Imperial Gold Mining Company, near
Quincy, to work its property by hydraulic
process.
The La Grange ditch, Trinity County, is
to be extended from Rush Creek to Stuarts
Fork. distance of twenty miles.
A franchise is sought for an electric rail-
road from the Corral Hollow coal mines to
Oakland. The Oakland terminus will prob
ably be on the Adams property at the loot
of Jackson street, where the marsh land
has been filled in and WharveS built.
The Grizzly Bear hydraulic mine, near
townsville, Piumas County, which was Or
dered shut down some time since, has been
granted permission by the Debris Commits
sion to resume operations.
1t Is said a thirty stamp mill will shortly
be erected on the Golden Summit mine.
Butte County. Another new mill is to be
put up near Merrimac.
At Oregon City, Butte County, extensive
improvements have recently been made
upon several mines, notably the Standard
and Mascot.
A new gravel mine has lately been
lfb Sf nf Rntta
County.
Clark e. Co. have put up a ten-stamp
gravel mill on Texas Hill, El Dorado
County
E. n. Garthwaite mining engineer OF
this City, who has recently been at Sierra
Mojada, Mex, has accepted position
with the Chartered Company at Johannes
burg, South Africa.
Dr. a. Schiedel, who wrote the bulletin
on the cyanide process for the State Mill
ing Bureau, has gone to London, and may
extend his trip as far as South Africa.
After years of protitless labor and the ex
penditure of 1000, the Australasian
Gold Extracting Company. (PoLok' S pro-
cess) has suspended operations The man
who invented it did well, however, for he
was paid $50 900 for his invention by a
Glasgow syndicate, who are said TO have
lost a quarter of million pounds by the
operation in different parts OF the world.
Thomas James, the well-known mining
man, will have the SUPPLEMENTARY of de-
velopment work at the coal fields east of
Medford, Or, work upon which has
commenced.
A 20-ton copper smelling plant is to be
put up on the Brown mine, three miles
east of Waldo, Or, and another on the
Illinois River below Kirby. The mines
both belong to the Siskiyou Copper Min
ing Company and their development will
y for 11tS
The Virtue mine, Baker City, is paying
very handsomely these days.
C. O. White, who has been in charge of
the Tolo mines, Oregon, has been sue
ceeded By w. c. Denoff.
Another machine for working black
sands of our beaches up to 80 per cent has
failed on one of the Oregon beaches.
Quartzmill district, Oregon, is the scene
OF considerable mining activity at present
In Grant County, Or, the p!acers are
mostly worked by Cinnamon, but there
have been many quartz discoveries made
In the past year
There are now more prospectors along
the Trinity River than there have been for
many years and a great deal of work is
being done. That section of country is
more prosperous than it has been for long
time.
The American House mine, located in
Plumas County, has been ordered by the
United States Debris Commission to cease
work. The Cleveland mine, in Sierra
County, has also been directed to close
down. The mines received permits to con-
struct restraining works, and after erect
ing dams commenced work. The work
was not performed as directed hence the
orders to cease.
The Brown Bear mine, Deadwood, Trim
ity County, is running twenty stamps,
mainly on ore from leased ground.
The purchasers of the Washington mine,
French Gulch, Shasta County, are tearing
out the old mill machinery and putting in
new and improved features.
The Redding Free Press says that what
little excitement there was regarding the
new discovery on Kiosk Greek has about
died out. The "black formation carried
only few cents in gold, as THE CALL
stated last week The material is really
aphanite.
There are two known deposits of asbestos
within thirty-five miles of Fresno-one on
Dry Greek, six miles below the dollhouse,
and the other at Fine Gold, MADEIRA
County, the latter about seventeen miles
from the railroad at Pollasky. Neither
mine has been opened, but parties inter
ested in the asbestos business are now ex-
aiming the deposits.
The De Lamar Gold Mining Company
at De Lamar, New, are now running their
whole plant, including mines, cars. and
all the machinery, by electricity.
Gold has been discovered on Anacapa
Island, off the coast of Santa Barbara
County, and the Lodges are being pros
pected.
While the attention of the general public
has been attracted to the mining resources
of San Diego County and Lower California
to a greater extent at other times than at
present, there never was a time when
healthier condition existed nor when a
greater amount of gold was actually being
taken out.
]. B. Harris has bonded the Brunswick
mine, Trinity County, on a sixteen
months working bond.
The Golden Cross gold Mine is the most
important and productive in Southern
California. 1t is in Ogelby mining district
sixteen miles west of Yuma, in San Diego
County, five miles from Ogelby station, on
the Southern Pacific Railroad. The COM
pany is operating a 50-stamp mill, and
sixty more will be put in by August l.
Forty stamps more are ordered, and there
is talk of increasing the mill up to 500
stamps in all.
The last run of six tons of ore at Nc
Haney's mine, on the desert, produced
$500 to the ton.
The mining troubles which have tenn
porarily shut down a couple of mills in the
Perris district are in a fair way of being
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