The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05
Many Transfers of Prospects
Reported at Various
Points.
REVIVAL OF FOLSOM PLACERs
Miners Are Waiting for the Opening
of the Uncompahgre
Reservation.

and that one of the richest and largest ore
bodies ever found in the State is being
worked.
Arrangements have at last been made to
work the low-grade ores of the Cover
mine in Amador County. The milling
facilities are to be greatly increased at
once. The people who have taken hold of
the mine have ample capital to carry on
extensive operations.
The Alaska mine, Sierra County, was
sold, as recently reported, and has been
closed down for the present.
Small placer claims, where one or two
men can make wages, are in demand IN
these days. Ground that has lain idle Tor
twenty or thirty years is now considered
worth working.
a week ago half-column telegram from
Shasta County announced the discovery of
large bodies of peculiar black ore, which
would average $50 per ton. Assays of this
ore made at San Francisco show yield of
40 cents per ton. This is even more OF
"come down" than usual.
Some extensive improvements are con-
.templated by one of the large mining COM
panies of Calico, San Bernardino County.
The proprietors OF the Golden Cross mine
at Ogilby, San Diego County, claim to
have ore enough in sight to keep hun
dred stamps running for year.
They have taken to finding half-ton sill
yer nuggets down in Arizona, gold ones
being SO common.
R. G. Brown of Butte, Mont. takes the
place of Thomas H. Leggett, who has re-
signed, as manager Of the Standard mine
at Bodie.
A man by the name of Davis, who owns
a quartz ledge about a mile from the Klam-
ath River, between Badger Creek and
Shasta River, recently pounded out $500
in one week with a hand mortar.
From thirty-four tons of quartz crushed
by Williams & Wadhams of Greenhorn,
Siskiyou County, $1,000 in gold was real
lied, the sulphurets to be worked here
after.
The Lucky Boy Gold Mining Company
have absorbed the properties and the
mill of the Dickens-Custer Mining COM
pany, limited, in Custer County, Idaho.
This was originally one of that list OF bo-
nanzas that have heaped their riches into
the pockets of j. B. Haggln and was sold
by him to the English syndicate, by which
1t was worked for several years, until its
output reached a value Of about 81 100000.
After an idleness of several months the
Commercial mill of Bingham, Utah, is
again in full operation.
The idea seems to prevail very generally
in the eastern part OF Utah that the min
eral lands of the Uncompahgre reservation
are to be speedily thrown open to location
and as a result there is considerable ex-
citement manifested at Vernal, Price and
several other cities of that district. There
are some valuable mineral districts IN the
Uncompahgres. and these the daring pros
pectors have been carefully watching for
wears in the hopes that the authorities at
Washington would see nit to open them to
the outside world, for they are valueless to
the natives of the reservation.
The Old Dominion mine at Globe, AriZ.,
has closed down. There is no work at
present at Globe for miners. The streets
are filled with idle men. So says the Sill
yer Belt.
The $500 employees of the Calumet and
Hecla Copper Mining Company will have
their wages restored 10 per cent, the
laborers there receive but little more
than dollar a day.
A quartz mill is to be erected at the
Montgomery mine, in Sailor Canyon, four
teen miles south of Cisco. J. B. Campion
is superintendent.
P. 6. Eastwick, an attache of the United
States Engineers Corps, has just returned
to Portland from the suspended Govern
ment work on the Upper Columbia. This
gentleman believes that the coming season
in the mining regions of the Cascades will
be the liveliest known for years. He says
that prospectors are arriving daily, and
that there are already some 200 men on
the ground.
The Cove and Golden Gate quartz mines
in Spartan district, Or, have been sold to
Salt Lake parties.
Kings River is a new mining district on
the line between Nevada and Oregon,
thirty miles east of Stems Mountain and
seventy miles from Winnemucca, the near
est railroad station A number of loca-
tons have recently been made there.
1t is reported that 7-foot ledge of pay
ore has been uncovered in the Zirn &
Schultz mine in Pine Nut, New. The new
discovery runs east and west, while all
former finds were thought to range north
and south.
With the advent of capital now assured,
in Silver Star district, Esmeralda County,
New, many properties Will be developed.
Los Angeles men are about to operate a
mining concession in Lower California. A
party has gone to investigate the probable
cost of bringing water to the placer ground.
At the Lost Horse Mine, forty miles east
of Banning, they are running two stamps
with gasoline engine. Five more stamps
are to be added. The ore assays $50.
Stephen Roberts, James f. Tickenor, W.
de R.tBenenict and W. NJ. Robinson, min
ing experts of San Francisco and New York,
are at Mono Lake to push work in their
mines on Copper Mountain, where they
Humbug district Arizona, has a mine.
Ell Perro Bonito, which is yielding some
phenomenally rich gold ore. 1t is the
richest ever found in the district.
Farrell's claims in the ella Mountains,
sixteen miles south of Blaisdell station,
Ariz., have been bonded by California
company. Water has to be hauled sixteen
miles to the place.
More men are now working for wages in
Mojave County, Ariz., than at any time
within the past two years.
The Little Jessie, Chaparral, Ariz., is
having ten stamps added to its mill. When
completed the plant will have twenty
stamps.
H. NJ. Hassett and Joseph Palmer of La
Grande are interested In the development
of body of free-milling gold ore, which is
located about eight miles from Sanger, Or,
and which may be designated as lying
within the Sanger district. The parties
have purchased five-stamp mill.
The Mokelumne Hill Chronicle says that
the Coffee-Mill mine, owned by James
Gleeson, made a cleanup Friday last, after
a nine days run-the yield being $500.
This is pretty good for "worked-out''
gravel deposit.
c. D. Lane, one of the owners of the
Utica mine, has been examining mines
around Canyon Creek and Stuarts Fork,