The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-12

The Golden Cross mine, in Cargo
Muchacho district, SIX miles from Ogilby
station, in San Diego County, has for the
past year and half yielded los tons of
ore day, averaging IS per ton. This was
with 40 stamps, but the mill now has 100,
and may have its capacity doubled shortly.
The ledge is very large. The mine since
1t was located fifteen years ago has been
abandoned several times, at one time SELL
ing for $500. Several experts reported
against it, but it is proving itself now one
OF the best mines in the State.
The old Vipant mine, in Goose Creek,
Idaho, has been sold for 500 cash.
Trail Landing, B. c., is only about eight
miles east of Rossland, Wash. The de-
oision that the new smelter is to be at
Trail Landing has started up the mining
industry actively at Rossland. Many low
grade properties will now be worked.
The American Institute of Mining En-
gineers holds its annual meeting at At
lanta, Ga, this year, commencing the ses-
sion on October 8.
Recent arrivals at Silver Peak, New,
report a rich strike across the deserts
thirty-five or forty miles south of Mont
gomery. Two claims have been taken up
on a ledge of $50 ore. It lies some six or
seven miles from the wash which enters
Death Valley on the west side of the
Funeral mountains. This is q hard coun-
try, but Montgomery now furnishes base
of supplies formerly lacking.
Very rich ore is coming out of the Coarse
Gold mine, twelve miles north of Wicken-
burg, Ariz.
A Salt Lake syndicate is making some
of of
Or.
About $50 men are proftably engaged in
placer mining within radius of four or
FIVE miles of La Grange, Stanislaus County
All the water carried by the La Grange
ditch is utilized, and more could be used.
The Kern River Gold Quartz Mining
Company has been incorporated in Los
Angeles to operate on mines in Kern
County.
At Perris, Riverside County, some of the
quartz mines are having their boilers
changed so as to use petroleum as fuel.
Interest IN mining matters still contin-
ues in Riverside County, not only over new
prospect holes, but at the mines which
have been worked for some time.
Some prospectors who recently went to
the United States of Colombia to work
black sand worth $25 ton found, when
they got there it was worth 80 cents Ton.
People here had similar experiences inside
a. ]. Tingman, of Tingman & Holland
of Indio, has sold his interest in several
properties in that district, including half
interest in the Pioneer stamp mill, to Los
Angeles parties for SIS, 600.
The Yolande mine in Inyo County,
principally owned in Kedlands, has been
bonded to n. S. Sherard, representing
San Francisco company, who will treat the
ore by the cyanide process.
At the Alma mine, AmadOr County, a
diamond drill has been installed for pros
pecting purposes.
a contract has been let for the construc-
ton of a tWenty-stamp mill at the Quartz
Mountain mine near JlmtoWn.
a miner at Deep Wells, Inyo County,
has a claim with such rich rock that
shipment of seven tons to the mill Melted
him over $1,000. That's the kind of rock
we read of but seldom see.
One of the boundary survey party, Mr..
Leidy, picked up piece of gold-bearing
quartz, which panned out about SIS. 1t
was found about ten miles southeast OF
Sand Springs. He at once dropped his
Job with Uncle Sam and started to lind the
ledge the float came from.
Inyo County proposes to make mineral
exhibit of Eighteenth District ores at the
coming fair, in order to bring into notice
the mining industry of that section.
Alderman Lieb of Denver writes to an
inquirer that there are more than 5000
mines and prospects in Colorado.
At a recent meeting of the Miners EX-
change at Newport, Kootenai County,
Idaho, they passed resolutions against the
effort of the Northern Pacific Railroad to
have certain lands in that vicinity declared
non-mineral, as they assert it is absolutely
worthless for grazing or agriculture, and
only of value for mineral. In close prox-
unity are over forty mineral locations.
The Miners Exchange asks the Secretary
of the Interior to examine and classify
these lands without delay in the manner
provided by act of Congress.
There is some confusion over the name
of "Kortenai. There is a Kootenay min
ing region in British Columbia, and a
Kootenai County, Idaho, where mining is
also carried on. The British use 'y" and
the Americans an 'i'' in their spelling.
Cairns Creek, B. c., is attracting some
prospectors who expect to find gold quartz
where so much placer gold has been taken
out in years past.
The rich McHaney or Desert Queen
mine is not in San Bernardino, but IN
Riverside County, and three-quarter in
terest is owned by citizens of Riverside.
In parts of the interior and North
ern Alaska the miners have to con-
tend with underground ice, which in placer
work is as bad as meeting rock. The
ground is not merely frozen but consists in
part of layers of ice, alternating with sand
and clay, and these ice-masses must be
thousands of years old and have the
granular texture of glacial ice. The
remains OF mammoths, ETC., are found IN
the clay, everything the ancient ice,masses,
The Tellurium group of fifteen claims on |
Island, Alaska, has been sold
for $4,000 to Lytton Taylor, representing
Eastern men; and the Mountain King |
group of eleven locations adjoining has
been sold to the same party for $40. 600. A |
ten-stamp mill, hoist, a compressor, drills
etc, will be ordered in the City at once.
Thomas S. NOVEL; has purchased from |
Richard Johnson and the Oliver Price |
estate the Northern Light group OF mines
in Bemers Bay district, Alaska, Tor q |
reported price of $50 900.
The new Whitlock mill in Mariposa
County, owned by the Sierra Buttes Mining |
Company, has started steadily at work and |
is very satisfactory. 1t is the finest mill IN
the county and the whole equipment of the
mine is first class, as is always the case
where this company conducts operations.
They have eighty men at work.
Report has been going around that
though the Globe mine at Globe, Ariz., is
employing 600 men, there is still dearth
f labor, which has started a number of
miners in that direction. The Globe Sill