The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-03
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SSISs/xI LATEST INFORMATION
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- AAtAl HOuIu TdInSF nave
the cost of all the powder that is being
used IN the DEVELOPMENT of Trail and
boundary. creeks, B. c., than the best
mine on either, as powder is being burnt
at proolglous rate on some 500 claims.
- IN the new camp at the head of Snow,
scat ana Canyon creeks, B. c., part of
the Cariboo Creek country, a number of
promising claims have been found and are
being developed.
Inc Ivanhoe mine, Palmer Mountains,
near LOOMS, Wash, is a silver property,
lole the past few years. 1t has Dodge
pulVerlzlng mill, Undbury concentration
ana an about 100 tons of ore on the dump.
t rrrs year A. Z. Cowherd, the owner, de-
term1neo to start up the mill anyhow,
whether silver went up or not, and is now
running 1T, with his wife acting as en-
glneer and fireman instead of hired help.
Inc concentrates are shipped to Tacoma.
>, Inc mines both in the Northwest and in
the Southwest are improving greatly, and
are being vigorously developed.
Several of the big New Mexico lead mines
lead.
About 100 men are at work on the Hamp-
ton ditch or upper Grave Creek, Josephine
county, Or. The ditch will bring large
amount of new ground under the monitors
= Inc Alma mine, Jackson, Amador
county, Is now using diamond drill for
prospecting operations. The miners have
oeen temporarily laid off TO await the re-
suit. 1t is prospecting at much ivelier
rate than can be done BY tunnehng.
The New Northwest says more men are
employed at the mines of Butte, Mont,
than ever before. Every smelter in the
leasers are required to wait for weeks for
their returns
Colonel Frank Mclaughlin of Oroville
mas started to open up the old Rock River
mine at Oregon Gulch, Butte County,
which has been idle for many years.
The control of the Utah Mining Com
pany, Tontic district, Utah, has passed
from the hands of c. E. Loose to those of
Franklin Farrell of Ansonia, Conn. The
ores of the mine will be treated in the new
concentrator being put up on the Sioux,
while the high grade will be shipped to the
smelters.
a cyanide plant is to be placed in the
Stewart No. 2 mill, Bingham, Utah.
1t is not often a mining man has a dis
trict named after him, but Captain J. R.
de Lamar enjoys the unique distinction Of
having two districts bear his name, one in
Idaho and the other in Nevada.
Near Blake, on Green River, Utah, there
is considerable activity in placer mining,
but it is place where capital is needed to
profitably treat the sands.
A great many new reduction plants have
been erected IN Colorado during the year.
The Elizabeth mine, Little Cottonwood,
Utah, has been sold to A. 6. Campbell and
R. G. Lund.
1t is claimed that the mines of the
Georgetown region, Colo, will produce a
greater NUMBER of ounces of silver this
year than in any year of tn cir history.
The resumption OF work at the large
mines around Wardner, Idaho, has taken
up lot of smaller enterprises.
/. The payroll of the Bunker Hill property,
Ceur d'Alene, Idaho, was $4,000 last
month.
The brokers of London are making
larger fortunes these days in handling
South African mines and shares than the
San Francisco brokers did in the palmiest
of Comstock times.
The Banta chemical process, an Oregon
invention, is the latest aspirant for fame
N connection with saving the gold in
black sands. The main features are said
to be 1.-TWO chemically prepared sluice
boxes" whatever that may mean, and
some peculiar solution to use in connec-
ton with them. The machine has c.
capoity of from 20 to 80 tons in ten hours,
with one man to work it.
Quartz miners at Ophir, Placer County,
are encouraged by present rates by rail
and for treatment to ship their rsbeIlious
ores to San Francisco Bay to be worked.
There is great activity in gravel mining
and prospecting on the upper Forest Hill
divide, Placer County.
D. L. Allen and E. R. Prisser have
located eight more claims on the south
fork of the north fork of the American
River which they will work next spring.
Negotiations are pending for the sale of
the Bennett hydraulic mines at Forks of
Salmon, Siskiyou County.
The Yreka Journal says there is nothing
so beneficial to the prosperity of Siskiyou
County as the development of the mines,
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a poor producing region. The Journal says:
Other Industries, including farming. are
maintained principally by the gold taken
out most of which remains among US in
purchasing supplies, hiring miners, team
sters and millmen, ard indirectly affording
work and business for thousands of people
The numerous quartzmills from five to
thirty-two stamps each, and several aras-
tras, probably crush $50 tons a day
on an average, often more, which in addi-
ton to the placer, hydraulic and river
mining foots up grand total, in placing
large amount OF new money in circula-
ton. 1t makes vast difference in our
county affairs where we take money out
of the ground rather than depending upon
trading with each other in passing the
same money around, especially when
large percentage, if not all, finally goes
abroad for necessary supplies.
The coal deposit on the Mott ranch ON
SOnOma NJ Ountall, east or Hetaluma, Is 10
be developed and the coal shipped.
The river-bed miners in the channels of
the Yuba and Feather rivers got severe
setback by the recent rainstorm, the dams
being washed away, and months OF labor
lost. At several points on the Yuba, above
Smartsville, and in the Middle Fork of the
Feather, the recent rainfall. by raising the
river. drove the miners out ana swept
away their dams.
The prospectors on the north slopes of
San Miguel Mountain, San Diego County,
who recently found the remains of paved
road, now claim to have found remains of
an old arastra, small buildings and also
the mouth of clearly defined tunnel
This last they think leads to the "lost gold
mine" they have been hunting for.
Several permits have been recently
granted by the Debris Com mission to mine
by the hydraulic process in Sierra County.
There are just three months left in which
owners of unpatented mining ground may
do the assessment work for 1895.
Tailings as Nuisance.
The tailings or debris from the gravel
mines in the California mountains, by in