The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-29


means to extensively work or equip their
claims.
[. D. Mason, who owns ranch near
Clinton, Amador County, has negotiated
for the sale OF eighty acres to Parrot Bros
of Stockton for mining purposes. So much
mining land has been taken up as agricul-
tural that items like this will be much
more common in the future.
Del Norte County people expect that
when the Low Divide copper mines are
purchased by the Eastern people nego-
tiating for them smelters will be erected
near the mines, where it is said fuel is
plentiful.
They are still pumping and bailing the
water out of the Utica mine, Angels camp,
where the fire occurred recently, when the
mine had to be flooded to extingulsh the
flames. It will take some weeks yet to
free the mine of water.
In Calaveras County there is mineral
belt from two to six miles wide stretching
from the Stanislaus River to the Mo-
kelumne, which is only partly explored.
There are only two or three shafts on the
whole belt over 1000 feet deep, yet these
have shown the great richness OF the
region.
The Fellowcraft mine, commonly known
as the Bode, on the northern border of the
town of San Andreas, Calaveras County,
has been sold to B. II. West and others of
this city for $1,000. The water is to be
pumped out and the mine opened at once.
Some very rich ore was taken from the
mine when it was worked years ago, and
the ground on the surface, or in the gulches
near by, paid very handsomely.
The company composed of Messrs. A. &.
CIough, Ed Nordgren, Frank Thorne,
John Marshal and 0. F. Gifin, which re-
Gently purchased the Horseshoe mine in
Hunters Valley, Mariposa County is
pushing work ahead rapidly. They are
building ten-stamp mill.
The new Whitlock mill of twenty stamps
il Mariposa County has been started up
by the Sierra Buttes Mining Company.
This is an English company which owns
the Plumas-Eureka mine, Plumas County,
the Sierra-Buttes in Sierra County, the
Uncle Sam in Shasta County, and the
Whitlock in Mariposa County, The last is
their most recent acquisition, and they
have put seventy men at work. The en-
ployes are mainly Cornishmen who have
been working for the company Ill Plumas
County.
The Kiosk Creek excitement, on Pitt
River, Shasta County, while it turned out
fiZZle has at least resulted in q fresh
prospecting fever in that section, and pros
pectors are at work from Kiosk to Soda
Creek and the Sacramento. Nothing start
ling has vet resulted.
Mining affairs along the Trinity River
are livelier than they have been for years.
From Cox Bar dozen men are prospect
ing, rocking, sluicing and drifting, making
from 81 to So per day to the hand. Most OF
them are men from Mendocino County.
The Kise Brothers of Lewiston, Trinity
County, have a river bed location, called
Big Bend, two miles above Lewiston, In
CANYON sixty feet wide and two miles long.
There has long been talk of damming this
place and diverting the Trinity River
through a tunnel, as the rifles above the
canyon paid very handsomely. The Kise
Brothers are going to work the claim with
dredger, now being built.
The Altoona quicksilver mine, Trinity
County, is employing from sixty-five to
seventy-tive men and making steady ship
ments.
It is stated that the ''lost vein' in the
Niagara mine, Shasta County, has been
found-a three-foot vein of high-grade ore.
great many new locations have been
made this season in the northern portion
of Trinity County, and those which have
been at all developed show up well. This
is a section of the State which has prosper
ity in store for 1t.
They are contracting for prospecting
bore-holes from 1000 to 5000 feet deep at
Johannesburg, South Africa.
TO take in the machinery for the new
have been built nearly to the site, and it is
proposed to sled the heavy castings, pipe,
ETC., from the wagon road near Kerby to
that point on the Illinois mine to be the
base corporations.
Edison is hard at work on system of
working sui phurets by electricity and min
ers are ali in hopes he will succeed as we'll
as he has in other directions.
party of prospectors has returned to
Nelson, B. c., having come right through
from the upper Kettle River country TO the
Columbia. and report the district passed
through as barren, granite country, with
no sign of mineral.
The Comstock men are anxious to get to
work on the pipe line, mining works. ETC.,
connected with the development of the
Brunswick lode. These men are as
anxious as the companies for the lode to
pay.
A good many Colorado men have been
looking up gold properties in Arizona this
summer.
Prescott, AriZ., is experiencing a rapid
revival in Improvements owing to the
successful operations in the surrounding
mining districts.
The Thomas group of mines in the old
ella City range of mountains, Arizona, has
been bonded to California men for $3.50, 900.
1t has been supposed that the rich Crown
Point mine, Trail Creek, B. c., was on
ledge running east and west, but some
men who clam to have discovered that it
runs north and south have bought up all
the locations north and south of it and or
ganized big company in Spokane to work
them. The Crown Point has an immense
mass of ore where opened.
Over 80 men are prospecting the coun-
try at the foot of SLOGAN Lake, B. q.
The new mill recently erected by the
Juneau Mining Company on the Silver
Bow basin, Alaska, is now at work crush
ing ITO tons per day.
The Berners Bay Mining Company,
Alaska, has started up its extra twenty
stamps and now has forty stamps crushing
ore.
The Alaska Mining Record says that
100000 in gold and silver was shipped
from Juneau for the month of June.
In Southeastern Alaska there are eight
mills dropping 395 stamps.
The Alaska Mexican Mining Company,
San Francisco company operating in
Alaska, took out S204, 042 last year. They
milled 73,141 tons of ore worth 81 79sper
ton. The cost of mining, milling, sup
plies, etc., was 81 70 per ton, leaving a
profit of 81.57 cents per ton. The mill has
sixty stamps
Miners should remember that claim is
not mine, and unless they open their
prospects sufficiently they cannot expect
mine nriops for q hole in tho oround Thav