The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-21

the output of the SLOGAN country, b. T.,
will be doubled next year, and its produce
ton will be 10000 tons. The value is
placed at $125 per ton, or So, 900, which
seems pretty high grade when the quantity
is considered.
The discovery Of some good quartz
mines near Pierce City, Idaho, has in
duced the placer miners to abandon their
claims and search for lodges. An eight
stamp mill is being put up.
Captain de Lamar, who IS largely IN
terested in mines in Idaho, Nevada and
Utah, is said to have obtained control OF
the Mercur mine, Utah. on the basis of
| 81 so per share, or 81 100000. The mine is
steady dividend payer and the principal
one in the camp. :,
Quite NUM- Der of the rich claims in the
Mercur country, Utah, are held by men
case also in MANY other mining camps.
The Gold Coin group of mines, Mercur,
Utah. owned by B. r. Lloyd, has been
bonded for $35, 600 by Philadelphia men,
who are to begin development work on the
mine claims at once.
Quite respectable-sized mining camp
has sprung up in Fools Gulch, Ariz.. since
the Planet-Saturn Company commenced
work on their claims there.
AS showing the effect of dry weather on
placer mining one dust-buyer in Prescott,
Ariz, says his monthly receipts OF placer
gold had dropped to between $500 and $780,
| but after the first storm they began to run
up to $500 and $1,000 per month.
| Colonel H. Treeweek, after an expert
ence of twenty-three years in Utah mines,
says they have seldom been in better
shape than they are now. He hears from
| all sides that the mining camps are doing
| better than they were year ago.
President P. A. Franklin of the New
| Tintic Mining Company he's made pay
| ment of $4,000 ON the Yosemite mine,
| Bingham, Utah.
| The gold camp of Mercur expects to
become the Cripple Creek of Utah as
| further developments are made. Both the
north and south ends of the district are
showing splendid bodies of good ore.
St. Louis men have obtained large
interest in the Mount Pleasant mine in
once with energetic development.
Twenty men are required to do the as
sessment work on the unpatented mining
claims of the Viking Gold Mining Com
pany, Camp Floyd, Utah.
After thirty days experiment the Owy-
bee Land and Development Company.
which is working Snake River placers
chinery is obtained. A steam shovel,
which is to have capacity of 5000 yards
per day, is to be procured.
There is talk of putting up mill and
cyanide plant for the April Fool mines
New, instead of shipping to Salt Lake:
A rich strike is reported about 100 miles
west of Hike. New, by Jerry Manning and
Charles CARROT.
The Black Sand mine on the beach near
the Port Oxford lighthouse, Or. is being
worked for the fourth time. When the
claim was first discovered, over forty years
ago. it sometimes paid over $500 to the
man.
Dill.
has stopped mining second-class or milling
ore and will draw on the old dump, which
has been accommodating for twenty years,
for the ores to be run through the mill. 1t
is estimated there are $1,000 tons of good
second-ciass ore Oh this dump. About IS
to 70 tons of tirst-class ore will continue to
be shipped daily.
shipped from Hanover, n. Mex.
The !vanhoe smelter, Grant County, N.
Mex, is working forty-fve tons OF ore
daily and employing about 125 men.
Regular shipments of zinc ore are being
made from the Mineral Point zinc mine,
Hanover, N. Mex. to Wisconsin. Arrange
ments are being made to open up and ship
The mill at the Octorio mine, near Deeth,
New, is about to be started, plenty of
water having been obtained.
In place of the proposed amalgamation
plant at the Bullion-Beck mine. Eure-
ka, Utah, the company has con-
foot of the dump in which all the
water from the concentration is deposited
and settled, and the surface water, which
carries chlordes, is again pumped up to
the mill to be used the second time. By
this method it is hoped to save practically
all the values in the ore, as the sediment
in the reservoir will carry nearly every
hiyo hot ho in
The Ceur d'Alene region, Idaho, is the
greatest silver-lead district in the country.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan, Emma and
Last Chance, Gem, Standard, Tiger and
Poorman, all give evidence of being big
producers for years to come.
The War Eagle mine. Trail. B. c., is
shipping 1900 tons of ore monthly to the
East Helena smeter.
The Cariboo country, British Columbia,
which in the past has produced over $50
0O0, 600 in placer gold, has a great number
of quartz Lodges upon which little has yet
been done.
One of the large mining companies at
upon which stands the Roman Catholic
Church, as it stands over one of the many
rich veins in that section.
Tunnel 10 of the De Lamar mines, New,
is now in 1000 feet, and will be driven to
the place where the company expects to
encounter the mineral and save labor in
hosting.
The owners of the Sunshine group at
Mercur, Utah, have made contract with
the Gold and Silver Extraction Company
OF America, involving payments of 500, 900
for the use of the cyanide process under
the McArthur-Forrest patents.
They are now roasting forty tons of
pyrites per day in the newly designed
Neil furnaces put up at Brigham, Utah, to
work the sulphurated ores of the Utah
mines.
An old channel has lately been discov-
cred near Rock Point, Or, under DR..
Coivig's place, which has been worked as
farm for forty yerrs.
A Der of properties at Eureka. New,
only need capital to be developed into
good-paying mines. Among these are the
Dead Broke, Silver Common, Williams,
Avon. Industry. Matamoras, Prospect
Mountain, Ruby Hill tunnel, the Magnet
series, the Atlantic and Pacific series,
Colorado, Ell Dorado, Banner and many
others.
Demand for Experienced Gold Miners.