The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-26

The title to the Mechanics mine, near
Suffer Greek, Amador County, has finally
been settled, and it is probable that its
property will now be fully prospected.
Charles Fair will soon start work on the
Crystal mine, above the Utica, which is
considered one of the finest properties
around Angels.
The Kate Hayes Mining Company of
French Corral, Nevada County, which is
one of the properties of the Milton Mining
Company. has completed its restraining
dam and commenced hydraulicking, agree
ably to permit from the United States
Debris Commission. This mine will here
after give steady employment to a force of
thirty 20 fifty men.
Very little except assessment work has
been done in Meadow Lake district, Nevada
County, this summer Notwithstanding
all the talk about Salt Lake men putting
up reduction works to work the rebellious
ores, nothing was done. Claim-owners
hold on, however, and continue assessment
work, in hopes Of somebody finally coming
along with successful process.
A cyanide plant, claimed to be the larg-
est in the United States, and with ca
pacity of 80 tons day, has been started
up at Bodie, Mono County.
Captain A. II. Ward of Alameda has
started up the Pinon Blaneo group of
mines, in Mariposa County.
The Vallejo Quicksilver Mining Com
pany has been organized at Vallejo to
mine foy quicksilver in Napa County.
The first payment of $4,000 on the Day
and BeZel mining property at Red Hill
and Canyon Creek, Trinity County, has
been made, and b. l.. Lowden has taken
possession for F. Heurtevant.
The Visalla Delta says that mining is
receiving more attention in Tulare County
than fol- a number of years past. Hereto
fore most of the work has been done in the
White River district. At present opera
tons are active there, and several mines
at intervals northward to the Fresno
County line are being worked or pros
pected. The prospects are that the gold
output for Tulare County during the COM
ing winter and next year will break the
record.
Some of the largest and richest gravel
channels of the Forest Hill Divide have
not yet been touched. The opening of the
Mayflover, Paragon, Hidden Treasure,
Red Point and other mines has simply
demonstrated the existence OF these gravel
channels and has shown the proper meth
DDS of working them.
The San Bernardino Sun says that Den
yer men are coming into the PInon district
to make investments.
They asked about 100000 for the Nc
Haney Desert Queen property, but the
sale is reported for considerably less than
100000, which is more reasonable and
more easily believed.
a great deal of placer gold is constantly
being brought into Prescott, Arlz., from
the gulcheS in the surrounding noun
tains.
The Pinther. Price and Burnap Mining
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great things in the way OF developing
mines on the desert. The capital is mainly
from the East, and two mails, one OF forty
stamps and one of five, are said to be
ready for shipment.
Arizona copper mines, of which there
are several large ones in operation, are
doing very we'll in these days and lncreas-
ing their product.
Negotiations are pending to work the
Merrimac mine at Grass Valley on large
scale The shaft will be sunk to much
greater deptb.
Work on an extensive scale has been
started to develop the sands and gravel
along Little Cottonwood Creek, Utah. They
have to sink about eighty feet to bedrock.
The work is being carried on IN the vicinity
OF Union.
The men employed in sorting over the
dumps of the Con. Virginia mine on the
Comstock for the Kinkead Mining and
Milling Company have already 100 tons
OF nav rock. 1t is the intention to get out
enough good rock before the snow comes
to keep the plant working through the
winter. The plant will be in operation by
November !.
In Oleta, Amador County, there are no
mines running at present, owing TO lack OF
water One gravel claim on American Flat
will be operated next winter, as soon Its
water supply will permit.
iS axnppfed that the PlVmOuth Con-
soIidated NINE Amador County, VIII be
sold to an English syndicate.
DIR. Guttman has bonded the Massa mine
at Jackson Gate, Amador County, and IS
sinking prospect shaft.
The underground work at Johannesburg,
South Africa, is, with the exception of a
few machine men, done by Kaffirs, who
earn about $12 month and board.
Mining at CovilIe, Stevens County,
Washington, is more active than 1t mas
been for the past six years.
Prospectors in the Yukon country,
Alaska, say that the region Will be found
to he rich in coal as well as in gold.
number of miners are working the
bars on the Illinois River, Josephine
County, Oregon.
soldier Creek, Josephine County, Oregon,
is said to have many very good quartz
The latest curiosity in Southern Califor
MA gold mines Is one III IuS Aodie VI tAO
desert, thirty-five miles southeast of Salton,
where they have water-power for the mill,
and have ordered Bryan roller-mill, to
cost $4,000. AS Bryan mills do not cost
ANYTHING like that, and water is supposed
to be scarce in that region, the story seems
a little ''off
The Angels Echo says that the Lamprey
mine is paying handsomely with the new
process of working.
There are 2745 stamps at work IN the
Witwatersrand district, South Africa.
1t seems odd for Californians to go away
off to Korea to work gold mines when
there are so many here at home winch
only need capital to be made profitable.
Yet Californfans are going into partner
ship with the King OF Korea to work the
Khusan gold fields in that country.
Como Silver Star, Silver Peak and some
other gold camps of Nevada have had IN
yestments of capital of late, but there are
several other districts which need develop
ment and which present good openings
for investment.
Returning miners from the Yukon
River, Alaska, may be expected from TINS
time on. Nothing very startling IN the
way of new discoveries has happened up
there this season.
The Ashland mine, Oregon, has had