The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-24
Interesting Reports From Many
Points on the Pacific
Coast.
NEW ORE PROCESSES ADOPTED.
to Be Opened at Butte,
Mont.

| desert near Indio, having turned out
$4,000 with a two-stamp mill, is held at a
valuation of 100000 by its owners. so
they will probably hold it themselves.
| Very fully developed, equipped and
| steadily paying GOLD mines can be pur-
chased long way below such figures.
The deepest shaft is only thirty feet deep.
so the mine is really only prospect,
though rich one, and prospects, even
| rich, never bring any such extravagant
prices.
A mine in Riverside County being for
| sale is being examined by some San Fran
cisco men, and the Southern California
paper which refers to it halls with satisfac-
ton what it calls the advent of foreign
capital"
The Stewart mill at Brigham, Utah, has
been destroyed by fire. It, with the other
buildings and plant. was valued at $50, 600.
The new cyanide plant of the Mercur
mill (Utah) has been started up.
The Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, Ariz.,
produced Il, 96s ,372 pounds of copper last
year.
A good deposit of roofing slate is on
John Muller's ranch, between MERGED and
The ellis pocket claims on Jackass Hill
Tuolumne County, are turning out con-
siderable gold.
The New Idria mines have been sold and
the new company will put on a larger
force.
At the new Pierce group of mines, in the
Dragon Mountains, Arlz., there are many
prospectors.
A mortgage of 100000 has been fore
closed by Massachusetts, men on the Good
Hope mine, Perris, Riverside County. The
Los Angeles Times says the price paid for
the mine was $4,000, and the buyers think
they paid too much. This, however, they
should have found out before paying the
money.
Negotiations are in progress for the sale
of the Bellwether mine, Amador County.
The Farrell mine, Middle Bar, Amador
County, will shortly be started up by Mr..
Rosenburg of Oakland, who talks OF add
ing FIVE more stamps to the mill.
Suffer Creek, Amador County, both operat-
| ing under the same management have
| about ninety men on the payroll.
| Work on the Golden Feather riverbed
mine, Butte County, will begin early in
July. The mine is owned by English
capitalists, with Major Frank Mclaughlin
of Oroville as manager.
1t is expected that operations on the
Phoenix mine at Hasleton, Butte County,
| will shortly be resumed.
Near the depot in Oroville two men a-a
making a fair living hosting gravel from a
30-foot shaft and washing it in rocker.
| Thomas Couch has come down from
MERGED Mining Company's property at
| Coulterville, Mariposa County.
| Gold mining at White River, Kern
County, is quite active.
| The HeaIdsburg Tribune announces a
new strike in the Cinnabar King quick
! silver mine.
A number of Red Bluff people have
organized a company to operate the
| Trinity Consolidated mine, mbracing five
locations on Dog Creek, six miles north
west of Delta, Shasta County. The claims
are Trinity, Tehama, Sitting Bull, Last
Chance and Stonewall. There is 10
stamp mill on the property.
Placer is doing more than the other inte-
rior counties of the State TOWARD financially
assisting the State Miners Association.
Capitalists in Napa have put up $40, 00C
to develop the Taber mine, near Gibson
vile, Plumas County. By means of tun-
nei, already in 5000 feet, it is proposed to
of which is now being worked by the This
tie Shaft Company with great success. Mr..
Taber's property lies above and next to
that owned by the company just named.
The Russell process, which has long been
in use at the Marsac mill, Utah, and else
Wnere, is 10 De adopted 1Or working gold
silver-lead ores at the Golden Reward
mine South Dakota.
The properties of the Mayfeld Mining
Company Big Cottonwood, Utah, are to
be equipped with new machinery.
Good strikes are reported in the lower
levels of the Mammoth mine, Utah.
E. II. Russell, patentee of the Russell
process of working ores, has come to Cali
| fornia on a visit.
The old Jordan mill at Bingham, Utah,
has resumed operations.
White Bros. are building motor power
arastra on their mine in Bohemia district,
Oregon.
Rich placer diggings have been discov-
cred in Granite Greek, near the point
where The Dalles military wagon road
crosses Little Malheur Creek, Oregon.
A cyanide mill to cost $4,000 is to be
erected at Seymour to work the tailings OF
the Vulture mine, Arizona, of which there
are $4,000 tons, and will take years TO work
them. A 2OO-foot well has been sunk to
replace the one that caved in during last
rise of the Hassayampa.
The Aravaipa mines, after continuous
working for five years, closed down last
Saturday evening, says the Tucson Star.
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