The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-29
III Mines s.
}HSG>}''lllN and Mining
S$GNS1fW LATEST INFORMATION
jfEWNHWcoNoERN'No THIS IMPORTANT INDUSTRY,

tains. n. Nj, are working to full capacity,
and the output the next few months VII!
be largely increased, as there is plenty OF
water 10 operate the mills.
The indications for oil ami gas In the
Livermore Valley, Alameda County, are so
good that more active operations Tor de-
velopment should be carried on. Perhaps
some of these DAYS few "ruStlers from
Los Angeles will come into that section
and open up great oil field. Capital ana
enterprise are both needed in that section.
Rumors are again in circulation that the
Spokane smelter' is really to start. But as
to this there have always been more rumors
than starts.
The old Pierce City district, in the north
ern part of Shoshone County, Idaho, until
recently only operated by Cinnamon, is
filling up with white miners. A great
many men have gone to work on the old
placers.
Four years ago the now fiourishing gold
camp of Cripple Creek, Colo, was cattle
ranch. All the ground is now taken up for
mining purposes.
If the Gold Bank tunnel scheme, Nevada
County, goes through as proposed, it will
start on the Yuba River, run under the
mines on Deer Creek and eventually reach
Grass Valley. The distance is about four
miles, and the depth to be attained is 1000
feet. The tunnel would drain many
mines and ore could be run out through it
to the Yuba, where there are cheap mill
ing facilities.
A line of railroad from Elsnore or Will
demar station, Riverside County, to the
coal mines is projected by q com animation
of the Elsinore Coal and Clay companies,
the Southern California Railway and the
land interests of G. II. Album.
There are 27S oil wells in operation in
Los Angeles and 40 more are being bored.
1t is estimated that an expenditure of
from $50, 600 to 100000 would place 40C0
inches of water all the year round with a
good pressure on all the gravel benches
from New River to South Fork, Trinity
County. There are many high benches
open for location along both sides of the
Trinity River down to the South Fork,
but there are no bitches to furnish water
to work them. AT most of these places the
dump is from 100 to 125 feet right into the
river, with no anti-debris laws to prevent
it. Capital is badly needed in that section
of Trinity County.
Camp Creek in the Cochetopa gold belt,
forty miles north of Creole, Colo, between
Spring and Goose creeks. The ore is
mainly gold bearing, with some silver.
1t is reported that Colonel Egan of Colo
RADIO, who is interested in the Alice mine
at Perris, has purchased the Ranchito mine,
at Banner, San Diego County.
launch is to be placed on the Colorado
River about September next, to run be-
tween The Needles and Ell Dorado Canyon,
$50 miles north, to open up some mining
country that is inaccessible except by way
OF the river.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has
decided that representations by vender
of mining stock that the purchaser could
not lose on the investment and that the
mine would pay dividends in the near
future, being mere expression of opinion
or promise of future condition of things,
will not form a ground of recovery by the
purchaser on the ground of false repre-
Sentation.
The Land Department has decided that
aluminium is not such mineral as will
except the land containing it from settle
ment and entry as agricultural land or
warrant the allowance of mineral entry
thereof.
In mining mica the mineral is blasted,
sorted, split TO the correct thickness and
then trimmed and packed for the market.
AS a rule only per cent is brought into
marketable form, as the waste is enormous.
Waste mica is ground and used as a lubri-
cant for heavy bearings, for decorating
wall paper and as q fertilizer. The princi-
pal sources of mica are India. Canada and
the United States. While numerous de-
posts have been found in California none
OF them are being worked.
The cyanide process at the Congress
mine, AriZ., is working very successfully
on the tailings from the mill.
Numbers OF mining sales are being made
in different parts of Arizona.