The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-12

1t is stated that L. H. Newton of San
Francisco and Mr.. Gray of Oakland have
bonded for $40, 900 the Loyal Lead mine,
near Drytown Amador County.
The mines of Nevada County sent ship
ment of seventy-ive tons of sulphurets to
ColfaT the other day, most of which went
to the Selby works, though some was
shipped to the smelter at Everett, Wash.
Owing to the sudden rise of water in
September not as much money as usual
has been taken out of the river mines of
Butte County this season.
+ About sixty tons of travertine have been
sent to this City recently from the traver-
tine quarries near Bridgeport, Mono Coun-
ty. This substance will probably displace
the Egyptian marble now largely used in
the interiors of fine buildings. There is
an abundance at the Mono County
quarries.
The Belwether mine, belonging to S. w.
Bright and on the east vein of the mother
lode near Jackson. Amador County, has
been bonded to George w. Brown for
$4,000. The owner is to be paid $500 per
month until the money for the purchase is
paid. The bonders take charge of the
property on January
The Black Hawk gravel mine, north of
the Mayt1ower, above Forest Hill, Placer
County, and owned by the Wallace estate
and w. A. Freeman, has been bonded to
DR.. Brewer and other San Francisco men.
The bond is for eighteen months with the
privilege of purchase for $40 600, and $4,000
has been put up for development work
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Union Pass mines, Arizona, and rich spec
linens of gold rock are being taken out.
The Kingman Miner says that there are
thousands of mines in Mohave County,
Ariz., that can be made to pay right along
under a good mine management, and q
small amount of capital is needed to put
them in shape.
Though the mines at Cooks Inlet,
Alaska, are only now beginning to be
worked, the presence of gold there was
indicated as long as fifty years ago by
Dorvshln, Russian mining engineer.
William Bybee has leased his Josephine
mine on Rogue River, Or, to j. NJ. Under
wood of Indianapolis, the lease being I'M
der contract for sale.
N. A. Stevens of the Illinois Valley
country, Or, has eighteen miles of mining
ditch now finished, and expects that min
ing operations there will be very active
this winter.
The Oregon Mining Journal is authority
for the statement that the pocket mines
during the past thirty years.
The Breeze e. Wheeler mine at Bath,
Placer County, is employing twenty men.
The Evening Star is the name of river
claim recently located near Colfax, Placer
County, by several Sacramento railroad
men. They have located a portion of the
American River from short distance
above Shirt Tail Canyon to point above
Indian Canyon.
The old Panamlnt region, Inyo County,
is beginning to revive again under the in
huences of recent discoveries.
AT the Altoona mine, Trinity County,
there are 80 men at work, and the mine
will run steadily all winter. New and
heavier machinery is being put in.
The Amador Ledger says that the Cramp
Bros, ship-builders, are heavily interested
IN the Philadelphia reduction works, and
in certain processes for treating sulphurets,
and that their representatives are now en-
gagged in making tests and chemical
analyses of the ledge matter for several
miles on either side of the Costumes
River, and have under consideration the
consolidation of large number of claims
at this point, the erection of a vast num-
Der OF batteries-probab bly, 1000 to begin
with, and possibly 2O00-and the erection
and installation of reduction works.
The mines at Funtee Bay, Admiralty
Island, Alaska, seem to be coming to the
front in very satisfactory manner.
A number of rich strikes were made on
the Beavers Bay section of Alaska this
fall.
The largest nugget taken out this season
in the Yukon region. Alaska, was from
Robert Wesley's claim on Glacier Creek
1t weighed 1924.
Circle City is expected to he the big
camp Of one Yukon country, Alaska, next
summer. There are some 200 houses
there now.
Bohemian Mining District. in Lane
county, Or, has two quartz mills in opera
ton. The three most prominent names
The ores In the camp are high grade. A
good road is needed before the camp can
be developed properly.
FRED Ward OF Kansas City has organized
a company and will Immediately erect q
STAMP mill on the site of the old o. K.
mill recently destroyed by fire in Gold
Basin, AriZ.
Creek, Or, not far from the Illinois River
and twenty miles west of Kirby, from
which he pounds out in hand mortar
from $40 to $12 per day. He lives alone.
works the mine himself and is not both
cred with mill or a stock company or
anything else.
The ore in the Iron Mountain mine,
ohoo'" county, Is SAID TO carry ~ per cent
copper and $1l gold per ton. The ore body
is very large.
The ground at Skull Valley, Utah, is be-
ing rapidly taken up by prospectors and
there IS sort of boom in the district.
The Jerome Creek mines, not far from
we'll.
The famous old Peck mine on the Brad
shaw mountain, Arizona, formerly large
producer, has been lying idle, filled with
water, Tor years. 1t is now under bond
and has been pumped out by A.. Faico,
VINO has twenty-one men at work on a
narrow streak of very rich ore.
since the discovery of telluride ores in
lne Long Lake camp. B. c., there has been
considerable excitement In that section.
Inc values placed upon prospects have |
Also greatly increased in the camp.
Placer mining on Reeds Creek, Idaho, |
Will be carried on extensively next spring |
by party of Tacoma capitalists, who |
have, recently been hauling iron for hy- |
1raullc pipe to the ground.
Some OF the claim jumpers at Rossland, |
8. u, have been sent to Jail. The citizens |
themselves will prosecute claim jumpers |
N the future.
The Golden Mound claims, Ellsworth |
District. eight miles west of Harqua Hala,
ariz., are yielding twenty-five tons of ore
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