The San Francisco call., 1895-11-14

Calaveras County, is about adding two
new ovens to the present chloTination
works, which will then have capacity for
han6liEg twenty-eight tons of sulphurets
day.
The mining property Of the Calaveras
Consolidated Gold Mining Company, linn
tied, in Calaveras County, has been pur-
chased by Z. X. Stevenot and other San
Francisco men. The English company
spent about 100000 on this ground, but
quit work about a year ago. 1t now comes
back into the hands of Calfornians.
George W. McNear has started men at
work running a tunnel on the Iron Rock
Mine at Carson Hill, Calaveras County,
and has recently commenced work on a
dam on the Stanislaus River, few miles
below Robinson's s Ferry, so as to generate
electric power TO be transmitted to the
mine, distance of about five miles. Mr..
McNear is working the mine under bond.
w. II. Martin, of Rawhide mine lame,
is running a crosscut tunnel on the South
Carolina mine 10 tap the ledge. He has
sixteen men at work under the direction
OF Del Raw, who was foreman for two years
at the Rawhide. This property, whicn is
at Carson Hill, Calaveras County, is being
worked by Mr.. Martin under bond.
L. I. Lane, superintendent of the Utica,
Mr.. Smith, who has charge of the chlorin-
alton works at the same mine, and Mr..
Morgan are opening UP the Plymouth
Rock mine near Milton, Calaveras County.
The ledge is very large one, and the
prospects are said TO be very good for
fine mine.
a very rich chute of ore has been struck
in Taylor or Idiewild mine in Ell Dorado
County. This Is the largest and most
productive mine in the county.
The Merced Mining Company, which
bought the Seth Cook properties at Coul-
tervilIe. Mariposa County, has given orders
forty-stamp mill.
E. ". Chapman, one of the owners in
the Idlewild mine, has purchased the
Zantgraft mine at Rattlesnake Bar, in Ell
Dorado County, and has sunk the shaft to
q depth of 90 feet. He is now erecting a
20-stamp mill on the property.
J. B.Wkite, the well-known mill-builder,
is erecting q 20-stamp mill at the App
mine, Tuolumne County, belonging to
Ballard. Martin 6; NeviIls of the Rawhide.
Mr.. White is also building the Merced
Company's 40-stamp mill in Mariposa
County and the 20-stamp mill of the
Zantgraft mine, in FL Dorado County.
Charles James, underground foreman of
the Uncle Sam mine, in Shasta County,
left this week for Johannesburg, South
Africa, where he will join his father and
brother, who went from here some months
since.
W. c. Ralston and R. R. Grayson (son
of S. ". Graysonl, who formed a mining
partnership some time ago, have reopened
The old Stanislaus location belonging to
the Melones Mining Company on Carson
Hill, CalaveTas County. They have five
men at work extending the tunnel This
1irm has also put five men at work on q
gravel property on the Ralston Divide,
eight miles south of Michigan Bluff, in
Placer County. A bedrock tunnel is being
run to strike the channel. This latter
work is being done for the Ralston Divide
Gold Mining Company, limited, new
French corporation which has the prop-
erty under bond.
DR.. a. Scheidel, author of the bulletin
on the cyanide process issued a short time
since by the State Mining Bureau, has
returned to this City from trip of several
months in Europe. He leaves in few
days for New Zealand and will from there
90 to Coolgardie, IN Australia, to examine
certain gold mines for an English com
pany.
The attempts at a cyanide monopoly in
South Africa are 10 be headed off by the
Transvaal Governments, which recognizes
that such thing would be detriment to
its growing gold-n>ining industry.
New York as we'll as Chicago is begin
ming to take an interest in shares of stock
of goldmining companies, and the Ex-
change proposes to establish place where
specimens, reports, ETC., may be exhibited
by those companies which wish to enlist
New York capital.
There is talk of direct line of railroad
from Colorado Springs to the Cripple Creek
mines, a distance of twenty-eight miles
Six miles of this will have to be 'cog''
road.
The London Mining Journal predicts
that as soon as the deep levels" of the
Witwatersrand, South Africa, begin to pro-
\ h. - Ea1I Ill
rise from the present 100000 per annum
to at least 920,0G0000.
In South Australia the cyanide process
is giving excellent returns from ores which
have hitherto been Improbable. In New
Zealand experiments with dry crushing
and dried cyaniding have answered so
satisfactorily that foreign capital is being
at least attracted into the gold inning
industry.
The rule of "big mountains for big
mines is particularly applicable to mines
of gold and silver, so the main mountain
range OF any section is the place to work.
The immense range of the Sierra runs from
one end of California to the other, and in
1t, f.om one end to the other, gold mines
have been found.
Cripple Creek, Colo, is not new camp
by any means, though it is only of late
1t has come into great notoriety. Two
previous periods OF mining excitement and
the other in 1885; but no paving mines
were discovered at those periods.
The gold mines on the North Fork and
the silver and lead mines on the South
Fork, in the C9ur d'Alenes, Idaho, are
now actively at work.
Chicago does not like to see London
making SO much money out of speculation
in mining shares without taking hand
itself, so there is project on foot to revive
the defunct Chicago Mining Stock Ex-
change.
All patented mining claims in Utah
under the new State constitution will be
assessed at the rate of S5 per acre. This is
not as Colorado did when she be-
came State, for they exempted all mines
from taxation for ten years.
The timber for She Copper Queen mine
in Arizona is brought from Oregon, Wash.
ington or British Columbia in sailing yes
sells down the coast and up the Gulf of
California to Guaymas and thence up by
rail to Arizona and freighted to the mines.
1t is pretty expensive timber when it gets
TO the mines.
German and French capitalists are be-
ginning to pay a very active interest in the
mines of West Australia.
At the Monte Christie properties Wash
jngton) the concentration is turning out