The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-11

mine in Inyo County. The mill and
battery is complete in every detail, but
there is only one stamp, instead Of the
usual five in the battery. 1t is specially
designed and constructed to be complete
in itself and is we'll adapted to test the
quartz in a new claim or to be run con-
stantly on small ledge where the ore
supply will not warrant a larger plant.
Such an appliance is moreover of great use
TO many miners who own and work their
own lodges, but who have not the capital
to invest on a full-grown mill, and do not
want TO run in debt for one This little
mill will crush a great deal of ore, and is
of much greater capacity than the ordi-
nary arastrd, commonly used before mine
attains the dignity of a mill
There is not generally supposed to be
any very close connection between min
ing and music, for mining brings forth hard
coin and music only deals in notes. Yet
the placer mine staked off and notice
posted on the beach opposite the plaza
end OF the streetcar line in Santa Barbara
last week was the site selected by the City
Band for the erection of their bandstand.
The leader and business manager adopted
this peculiar plan of holding the ground
until ready to build. This is the first in
stance on record of "brass mine"
The Morongo Mining Company has been
sued by the Rose mine for $4,000 damages
for trespassing on the latter's ground and
extracting ore. Both claims are in San
Bernardino County.
Three drift mines now about to be de-
veloped on large scale should materially
add to the gold product of Butte County
this summer. On the Magalia they have a
new pump and are sinking new shaft. The
Aurora, four miles from the Magalia,
is also sinking a new shaft. At the Hen
bricks, recently sold through Mayor Frank
Mclaughlin to London parties, the build
ings are being put up and everything put
in readiness for active development. All
these mines are known to be rich and will
employ many men.
The Morning Star group of mines, Silver
City, Idaho, have been sold to Eastern
parties for $35 900. The property consists
of five claims.
The Hecla Consolidated Mining Com
pany of Glendale, Mont, made net profit
of $l56,1 last year. 1t paid out for labor,
etc, $290, 596. Eight dividends, aggregating
$4,000, were paid in 1894.
The Everett smelter is drawing its sup
ply of dry ore from Neihart, Mont.
Hitherto great difficulty was experienced
in keeping the works running because of
the scarcity of that article.
Mining affairs around La Porte Plumas
County are quite lively. Several new COM
panies, organized last year, are starting up
work for the season.
The Feather Fork, or "ThistIe Shaft
drift mine, Plumas County, is worked
through 500-foot shaft instead of the tun-
nell which drift mines usually have The
channel in this mine is very rich one.
AT Red Bluff, the other day, 700 tons OF
chrome ore at the dumps, near the railroad
track, were sold for S. 90 per long ton.
The Santa Ana Blade says that J. D.
Dunlap's Blue Light mine, in Silverado
Canyon, is being reopened an equipped
with machinery. a ditch is being made
to bring in water for power for the new
plant.
Both quartz and placer mines are being
actively operated in the Truckee CANYON
camps, twenty miles east of Baker City Or.
The new find of the Pierce bows in the
gold belt, which extends across from Los
Cabezas to the vicinity of Tombstone. Ariz..
is expected 10 develop into a valuable ad
dition to Tombstone, but there is nothing
about it to draw people from a distance at
present Many miners are going there
from Tombstone and there are plenty of
prospectors.
a company of New Orleans capitalists
has been organized which will commence
work on large scale on some virgin ground
in Tombstone district, Ariz.
The cyanide plant at the MERCER mine.
Camp Floyd, Utah, turned out $22 GOO in
the last fourteen days at an expense of
$4,000.
The publications of the State Mining
Bureau are issued free to any resident of
the State on application, but persons re-
siding III other States and foreign coun-
tries all over the world have made so many