The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01
Resume of the Weeks News
From Important Gen.
terS.
BOOM IN BROWNS VALLEY.
Electric Plant Supplied to the Lower
Levels of the Maryland
Mine.


ing well, and some extensive machinery
claims. The mines in that section of
Calaveras County which have laid idle for
years are starting up one by one.
At Goler, Kern County, the "dry dig
ging" district old dumps are being re-
worked with good results, new ground is
being opened and new strikes made.
Ellyson's claim at Black Mountain, one
of the Goler camps, is paying better than
any claim in the district. 1t is forty-two
feet to bedrock, but he gets $40 per hundred
shovels full of gravel.
Lithographic stone from a deposit near
Bundle Bee station, Ariz., is being shipped
to Los Angeles, and is said to be equal to
the German stone. With depth, the sur
face defects of the deposit have disap-
peared. The commercial value is about Is
cents pound.
An attempt is being made to get the
creditors of the Cover mine, Amador
County, to sign an agreement to defer col
lection of their claims for two years and to
consent to accept payment out of the net
proceeds of the mine. The Cover ought to
be one of the big producing mines of ANA
dor, but seems to be always in difficulties.
The Amador Queen people are trying to
arrange terms with the Blue Lakes Water
Company for supply of water to run the
machinery. There is an available pressure
of 400 feet from one side of the gulch.
A new tunneling and ditching machine,
invented by Louis REGARD, is to be tried at
the Gottschalk mine, San Andreas, Gala
veras County. Good, free gold ore is now
being taken out of the mine.
There is quite mining boom in Browns
Valley, Iuba County, at present. Ma
chinery Is being put in place and many
claims are being worked.
The old camp of Star City, Humboldt
County, Nevada, abandoned years ago. is
apt to be repopulated, if the recent gold
strikes in its vicinity prove as good as re-
ported
The Goldbug Mining Company, operat-
ing on Snake River, has completed at Port
land, Or, a new sand and gravel lifting
pump for use in river-dredger mining
plant.
Bourne, formerly Cracker City, Or, is
now quite active. Two years ago the camp
was practically deserted. Now it is bust
ling burg OF a few hundred souls, all en-
ployed at various vocations. The Eureka
IL Excelsior Company has 100 men at
work on its North Pole property, in car
rying on extensive operations.
The mining camp of Acton, Los Angeles
County, has not been very lively for the
y
Acton Rooster says that R. e. Hudson
has purchased the old mill in the Tejunga,
and will remodel it. The Mount Mesa
Company, which started its tunnel about
200 feet below the upper tunnel have
made good strike.
In the Coast Range in Kings County there
are to be found deposits of coal, gypsum
and sulphur. but they are undeveloped for
lack of capital.
a body of good ore has been found in
the lower levels of the Utopia quicksilver
mine, Sonoma County. The depth is 200
feet below the groupings.
Parr and Tyack have started up a new
cyanide plant in the old syndicate mill at
Bodie, and are prepared to work twenty
tons of tailings per day. 1t is estimated
that they have 1900 tons ready to work on.
Several Huptingtons and one t t.n-stamp
mill are being erected at the Spanish mine,
above Washington, Nevada County. This
mine holds the record over all mines in
this country for cheap treatment of low
grade ore.
Vic L. Dorsey, assistant superintendent
of the Maryland mine, near Grass Valley,
has just put in an electric plant in the
company's hosting works which supplies
lights for the 1000-level underground, max
ing it as light as day.
Salt Lake men are about to have try at
working the ores of Meadow Lake district,
Nevada County, which have so far baffled
the California millmen. The main trouble,
however, seems to be that there is less
gold in the ore than is generally sup
posed.
The Trinidad mine at Sailor Canyon,
Nevada County, owned by George Mont |
gomery of San Francisco, is making
preparations for placing a 40-stamp mill |
in place this summer. The ledge has been
prospected by two tunnels and is one of
Z tbn lcrC 0lt ho
feet wide in many places.
Fred Beaudry of Trinity County has |
bought out the interests of his partners, |
Messrs. King, Ballard and Black, in the |
gravel mines at Galatians, Siskiyou |
County.
The old town of Deadwood, Siskiyou
County, at the junction of McAdams, |
Cherry and Deadwood creeks, was only
second in importance to Yreka in the |
SOS, when the creeks were paying hand
somely. Nothing is left of the place now
but the famous Steamb boat mine on |
McAdams Creek, which has been bought |
by Tacoma men, who are to drain and |
work the channel on large scale, and |
that section of country will become again |
productive.
1t is not often that miners get their gold |
all minted, but up in Trinity County |
the other day while cleaning up the ditch |
in the Hupp & McMurry mine L. S. Flagg |
picked up $50 piece bearing date of 1854 |
and L. o. Todd found one dated 1874. |
Last year four twenties of earlier date |
were found in the same claim.
A syndicate of San Jose capitalists have
examined the Elizabethtown channel near
Quincy, Plumas County, with view of Sc
curing, developing and operating that val
liable piece OF property. This channel,
when worked in early days, produced |
great deal of gold. The shallow places
near the head have been worked, and it
requires deeper mining to open the chan
mel below. Old miners think very rich
drift vein will be opened if work is started
up there.
R. G. Hart of the Texas Con. mine.
Shasta County, is about to complete his
chloronation plant.
The Original Quartz Hill mine, Shasta
County, will double the capacity of its
milling plant by adding ten stamps.
The Healdsburg (Sonoma County, min
eral paint mine has put up five-stamp |
mill and two new burr mills.
The Downieville Messenger SAYS: Shin !
ments of gold bullion from this part of |
Sierra County have been unusually heavy |
during the past few weeks. Fully SOS. .OOG. |
taken from mines in the vicinity of Downie |
vile, has been sent below since July 1. |
The gold yield throughout the county this |
summer is far In excess of that Of last |
year, and indications point to the conci,,