The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-07
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SSS#@8JY LATEST INFORMATION
IfSNTWpNAE CON CORNING THIS IMPORTANT INDUSTRY

There is more activity in quartz mining
in Amador than in the previous history OF
the county.
The Logan mine at Como, New, has
been purchased by Thomas Shelley, the
Six-mile Canyon millman. The sum Of
$4,000 was paid for half interest.
The old deserted camp of Como, New, is
again attracting attention, several good
gold properties having been found there.
AT the Kanaka mine near hanaka Creek,
about five miles southeast of Grass Valley.
Nevada County the tunnel has reached
branch channel which prospects we'll, but
the owners do not think they have reached
the main channel.
The Providence mine, Nevada County, is
said to be looking better than ever Re-
markably rich developments having re-
Gently been made. The forty-stamp mill
is kept running night and day.
Good free-milling ore. worth about $40
per ton has been found in the Oranana
mine in Del Norte County.
The stone-quarry Oh the Carson River,
New, opposite the Merrimac mill site, is
now q scene of great activity, and some
fifty men are employed. Carloads of build
ing stone are being shipped from this
quarry to San Francisco.
a five-stamp mill is being put up on the
Steamboat ledge in the Apologize section,
twenty-five miles from Jacksonville, Or.
The managers of the copper mines near
Waldo, Or, have forty men at work, and
are hiring more.
About 200 men are at work building the
Wall Creek Smelling Works, British Co.
lumbia.
The producing mines in the SLOGAN
country, British Columbia, are preparing
to make shipments as soon as snow enough
comes to enable them 70 "rawhide" the
ore down the mountain. There is differ
ence of about $8 per ton between this
method and packing,
The new ten-stamp mill on the Dalton
and Lark mines, Brigham, Utah, has been
completed.
The country in the vicinity OF the Sun
shine. in the Camp Floyd district, Utah,
IS Just now attractinga good deal of atten-
ton from mining men.
The Comet mine, Barriers Bay, Alaska,
is panning out finely. Another fine ledge
has been discovered near by by John
Mclaughlin and Fred Smith, which bids
fair to excel the Comet. The new claim
is called the Hope.
In addition to the United Globe mines
and those OF the Old Dominion Company
there are many other copper claims at
Globe, Ariz., well situated and in various
stages of development, which show strong
indications OF becoming valuable mines.
The Vaccosari property, in Montezuma
district. Sonora, Mexico, about 100 miles
south Of Bisbee, Ariz., recently sold for
$4,000 to the Rothschilds, was the cause
of q loss to its former owners, a New
Jersey company, of upward of 100000
Improved methods for treating ores make
1t possible 70 work the copper and silver
ores of the mine at profit.
The smelter at Tucson, Ariz., is running
night and day, and the teams in Pima
County are all busy hauling ore.
The pumping machinery built for the
Temple Bar Company, Arizona, upon
which a great deal of money has been
spent, is found to be inadequate and I'M
able to stand the strain, so that new
machinery will have to be put in, so says
the Mohave Miner.
The three Seton water jacket furnaces of
the Old Dominion copper mines, Arizona,
started up on the 1st inst. The Buffalo
smelter will also blow in shortly, after an
idleness of two years, all of which means
prosperity for Globe.
South Africa has now gone ahead of
Australia in gold production, and will
doubtless maintain the lead for some time.
AT Mammoth Camp, Ariz., the Mohawk
Company is erecting 50-stamp mill, and
the Mammoth Company has completed
specifications for a 200-stamp mill, work
on which is to be commenced shortly.
Several Chicago capitalists have recently
become interested in mining property in
Mercur, Utah.
camp in Nevada, but thus far only one big
property is being operated on any scale.
Scarcity of water has been a draw back
The De Lamar Company has ore enough
in sight to run its mill for five years, so it
is said.
The famous Silver King mine of Ari-
IONA, which produced once $4,000, 900
from great ''cham bers" of silver ore,
showed no vein, only large chimney, but
it was always thought true fissure vein
existed in the vicinity, feeder for the
great ore chamber. 1t is now reported
that this vein has been found and that it
is one of large size with ruby and native
silver.
During July. August and September
1874, 600 pounds of ore came into this
country by way of Nogales, from the S state
of Sonora, Mexico.
A Colorado man is putting in mill at
TySOnS Wells, in northern Yuma County,
Ariz., eighteen miles east of the Colorado
River, for the reduction of ore from sew
eral claims in Plomosa district.
The contract for the machinery that is
to be used in the Sacramento mill at Camp
Floyd district, Utah, has been awarded.
The new mill will have capacity of
seventy-tive tons per day.
The Niagara tunnel, which has recently
cut the main vein under the Spanish
group at Brigham, Utah, has it's face en-
tIIely III ore. me vein was cut at q QepIn
of 2S4S feet.
The plant erected by James w. Neill at
Bingham. Utah, for treating low-grade
ores by new system of desulphurizing is
ready for operations.
The Spanish mill at Bingham, Utah, is
saving high percentage of values by a
modified use of the cyanide process, perox-
ide of sodium being freely used.
The northern end of Camp FLOYD dis
trict, Utah, seems to be giving great
promise, as shown by recent extensive de-
velopments.
When shipments of ore are made on a
stage line it is evident that it is pretty
high grade. A mine south of Tuscarora
New, is shipping its gold ore in this man
ner.
Some men have gone out to the Silver
Reef district, Utah, where they have ISL
yer ia sandstone" to test the mines there
with view TO purchase.
1t is reported that there is considerable
activity in the placers of White Rock
Creek, Elko County, New.
Salt Lake men hope to see an extension
or branch of the Rio Grande Western Rail-
way into Mercur, Camp Floyd district,
Utah.
1t is predicted that Camp Floyd district,
Utah, will, within fifteen months, have a
population of 10000 and that by that time
IS will kn u %ol j