The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-22
MINING ON THE
PACIFIC Slope.
NEWS CLEANED FROM ALL THE
GOLD DISTRICTS ON THE
COAST.
THE SEASONS PROSPECTING
A RAILROAD COMPANY TRYING TO
PATENT MINERAL LANDS IN
WASHINGTON.

The Snaft Tor the y ortn star mine near
Grass Valley arrived there last Tuesday"
This item is from MERGED paper, and will
surprise miners somewhat. If it had said
a shaft for the mill it might have been
understood, but the arrival of a ready
made shaft for mine in any camp would
aStonish the natives.
The Baker City Democrat says that the
vexed problem of successfully working the
ores OF the Eureka and Excelsior mines,
situated in the Cracker Creek district, has
at last been solved. Mr.. John Longmaid
OF Salt Lake City after repeated tests salts
fed himself that cyanide was the proper
process, and he leased the properties and
is now saving 50 per cent of the gold.
Captain Hall has been notified from San
Francisco TO resume work on the Bonanza
quicksilver mine near Oakland, Or. The
tunnel is being Strengthened up and prep
arations made for further prospecting.
The Virtue mine, Oregon, owned by G.
W. Grayson of Oakland, cleaned up $13,O 200
for twenty days run last month.
s. A Napa County paper says: 1.-The gold
fever has broken out again in Calaveras
County, some rich specimens having just
been unearthed near Copperopohs. The
Napa County paper is respectfully informed
that the gold fever i'll Calaveras County
has not Just broken out, and that the
county in 1898 was the second gold-pro-
ducing county in the State. In 1894 it was
probably the first on the list. Calaveras
contains the richest and most productive
gold mine in the State-one which pro-
duced last year about five times as much
as any other one in California
At the Alice mine, thirteen miles south
east of Perris, Riverside County, the crop
pings of the ledge come out in the barley
fields through which it runs, and agricul-
ture and mining go hand in hand.
The Windy Camp property, in the same
range as Iron Mountain, Shasta County, is
about to change owners.
The Gladstone mine, French Gulch,
Shasta County, is running twenty stamps
and employing forty-iYe men. The ore
averages well and the mine is in a prosper
Gus condition.
Advices from Cinnabar, Trinity County,
say that the new furnaces are working
rather slowly, but good weld of mercury
is on hand and ready for shipment. The
Integral Company also contemplates run
during the summer
The Nevada Transcript learns that the
prospects for lively summer at Downie-
vile and in that vicinity in Sierra County
are very fattering, and that unusual
activity in mining enterprises is looked for
The Gold Valley, Gold Bluff, Craycroft and
other mines are to be operated on a more
extensive scale than ever, and it is said
that more men will be employed in that
section than for many years past.
The Cllnton-bar gravel claim on the
MOkelumne River, owned by Free & Chase,
is reported as doing very well.
Some pretty rich gold ore has been found
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but lack OF water prevents profitable work
ing of the claims.
Los Angeles people are being asked to in
vest in gravel mines in British Columbia.
There are numbers of California men in
that country now who seem to be pretty
well satisfied with the prospects in aurif-
erous mining.
Mariposa County, are quite active at pres
ent.
in general" says the Denver Mining
Industry, lit may be presumed that no
part of the United States has better facili-
ties for cheap mining than California
Pumping water up 400 feet to get a hy-
drauIic head Is rather a discouraging way
10 work a gravel claim, but some placer
ground near Yreka is to be worked in that
way.
The oldest gold mining district in Wash
ington and the one from which most of
that precious metal has been taken is the
Swauk district in Kittitas County. From
seventy-tive to a hundred miners have
been actively engaged in taking out placer
gold since 1873. The miners are protesting
against the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company getting patents 10 the lands in
the district as agricultural, when thew are
really mineral. Six miners testify that
they have taken out So, 600 in the past FIVE
years, and numbers of others have taken
out smaller amounts. This is to show that
1t is really mineral not agricultural land
that the railroad is trying to get
a good many prospectors are preparing
to start from Seattle for the Fort Steel
country, B. c., to hunt for placer mines.
The old Ell Rio 10 stamp quartzmill
near Yuma is now being torn down and
will be shipped to a point twenty miles
south OF Tucson. The purchasers will take
one boiler, the engine and stamps only.
leaving the rest of the machinery.
Robbers visited the Daisy Hill mill, a few
miles from Grass Valley, and, while thew
did not clean up the mill, they walked off
with number of drills, and some powder.
caps and other supplies.
By an accident at the Gold Ridge mine.
Nevada County, near the Sierra County
line, one man was killed and another in
jured. The men had drilled six holes in
the tunnel and went out to the storehouse
10 get the powder. Some of the holes
were wet holes and it was necessary, after
putting the caps on the fuse, to cover the
caps with waterproof composition in
order to protect them from the water in
the holes. This composition had become
hard. and III order to soften it SO that il
could be used one of the men held a
lighted candle under piece of the stuff,
While thus engaged the explosion oc-
CURED. 1t is thought that the candle
flame came in contact with the cap, caus-
ing it 10 explode, the conclusion imme-
diately exploding the balance of the other
caps in the box on the work bench.
The Elsinore coal, Riverside County,
sells for SO per ton at the mines, and is
used in the surrounding neighborhood.
The Good Hope is Riverside County's
best mine, and has a twenty-stamp mill
said to be turning out $1,000 stamp each
month.
The Bald Mountain Extension Company
prominent Sierra County drift mine, now
has fifty men employed.
A very large lead of low-grade gold ore
is reported to have been found by William
Ross in the Fox range of mountains, about
twenty miles north of Pyramid Lake, New
1t is about eighty miles due north of Reno
The ledge is said to show width of abou
100 feet. The ore is being analysed at Tho
University of California to determine il.
peculiar nature.
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