The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-28

Bailey and Eben P. Torrey, owners of the
Companion. The consideration is about
$4,000, the first payment being percent
age of the purchase price.
Granite, in Grant County, al miles from
Baker City, is one of the most active and
tlouriShing of the mining sections in Ore
gon this year.
Coloma, near the head of Camas Prairie,
is a new mining town which is becoming
noted. The mines in the vicinity are
showing good outputs. The Mammoth is
taking the lead.
The Centennial-Eureka of Utah paid
$50, 900 to its stockholders last week, max
ing total in dividends of 81, 400 900. Upon
basis of 81 800, 000 it is now paying per
cent per month, or "a per cent per annum,
a record that has been kept up for nearly
five years.
1t has been decided that teamsters haul
ing from the States into Rossland, B. c.,
must pay duty on their horses. This inno-
yatlon will cause great deal of dissatls-
faction among the miners.
News from Silver City, Idaho, is to the
effect that the recent strike in the Black
Jack mine is looking better every day, and
1t is now claSsed as one of the best diScov-
cries made in Owyhee in years.
1t is reported that there is every proba-
bility of the erection of smelter being
commenced in the course of a few weeks
tain Thompson of the Mountain Ore Pur-
chasing Company states that work will be
commenced on the smelter some time dur
ing June, and has contracted with the LIE
Roi Mining Company for $4,000 tons of ore
to be delivered at the rate Of not less than
fifty tons day.
Albuquerque, n. Mex, wants a mining
exchange like that at Denver to develop its
mines. These exchanges answer well to
sci! stock in, but do not have very much
influence in actual mine development.
The new mining district in Washington
which is attracting such a great amount of
attention is located along Sparrow Creek, a
small stream OF water finding its outlet in
the Methow River. Slate Creek is located
at the head of the Methow. This camp,
too, has great reputation.
Manager Bradley of the Bunker Hill
mine, Ceur d'Alene, Idaho, has gone to
Wardner to put matters in shape for the
resumption of work under his agreement
with 200 citizens of Wardner and Kellogg.
I'VE expect to employ $50 men in the mill
and mine, he said. land indirectly en-
ployment will be given to many more. I
shall start at once to put men at work as
fast as they apply. The men are entirely
at liberty to board where they please, and
at our boarding house board will be re-
duced to Sc per week. We shall pay So a
day to miners and 81 80 to carmen and
SHoNoleIS. w III lle exception OF DuIle
and on the Comstock. these wages are as
high as anywhere paid in the West"
The miners of Brigham, Utah, contend
that with a 75-cent ore rate the output of
that camp can be doubled in thirty days,
and to that end a committee will present
itself to the railway company. The ore
haulers, who accomplish with teams what
the railway people say cannot be done
without loss with steam, furnish COM
mentary that the roads cannot long ig-
more. The miners point to the situation
as powerful example of the indisposition
of the monopoly to share hard times. The
ore haulers contend that they are out the
wear of their rolling and live stock, but say
they are willing to stand this that the
driver and his family may eat and that his
animals may be kept busy. 1t would
really seem better policy for the railroad
companies to encourage the owners to
open their claims and ship their ore, yet
there are many instances all over the
country where the contrary is the case.
The owners are charged in proportion to
the value of the ore rather than by weight,
so as the ore grows richer the railroads
reap the benefit in greater proportion than
its owner. There are hundreds of low
grade propositions all over the West which
could be worked were railroad rates gem
orally lower.