The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-05

$4,000 per month. Over 500, 600 in dust have
passed through the hands of one Folsom
buyer the past month.
There is considerable activity at Mercur
and all over Camp Floyd district, Utah.
Many properties are being opened.
Operations on the Osceola placers, New,
are being carried on in good shape this
year, although there is not nearly so much
water as was the case last year. Only the
westside ditch is now being utilized all the
time on account of the reduction IN the
flow of water from the reservoir, and IN
consequence it is not likely that the pro-
duction of gold Will be as heavy as for
some years past, unless there should pc
opened up some rich country.
Ross e. Browne and Ed II. Benjamin,
who have been away the past five weeks
weeds examining some mines in Southern
Nevada, have returned to the City.
William G. Ralston, secretary OF the
State Miners Association, has been Tor the
past two weeks, in company with Il. K.
Gravson, at Quincy, PlumaS County, where
they have a gravel mine in operation.
The worlds gold product last year with
all the returns in, stands at Sl7o,O00000, an
increase of SIC. O00, 900 over 1898, and of
$50, OOO0 900 over the average between 1885
and 1890. More than a fourth of the gold
mined in the world in 1894 is credited to
the United States.
Sturgill Bros, up Snake River, while de-
hberating over the sale of the placer claim
for $4,000, had q cave-in on the banks,
and the Lewiston Tribune correspondent
is reliably informed that they picked up
$14, 500 in nuggets after the accident.
The Northwest Mining Review says that
there has never been time In the history
of the Northwest when development of the
mining sections progressed so rapidly, and
to this fact more than any other is due the
general inquiry by Western people for
good mining property
Field Work of the Mining Bureau.
The appropriations having now become
available the field assistants of State
Mineralogist Crawford have entered upon
their duties for the summer. During the
winter only one field assistant, W. L.
Watts, has been employed. He has been
investigating the oil fields in Southern
California and will continue the work
until the necessary material for a "bulle-
tin" on the subject has been obtained.
His district is mainly in Ventura, Los
Angeles and Santa Barbara counties. f.
H Mathyas will work in Siskiyou, Del
Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino and Lake
counties. E. B. Preston will operate in
part of Siskiyou County and in Tehama
Butte, uba, Sierra, PlumaS and LaSSen
counties. w. H. Storms will pursue in
vestigations in Amador, Calaveras, Tu
olumne, Mariposa, MADEIRA, Fresno, Stan
islaus and other sections east of the main
line of the railroad, and will go south OF
Tehachapi in the winter.
J. H. Means carries on his work in Mon
terey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara
counties, then coming north and taking in
the region west of the railroad in Kern
Fresno, Kings, Stanislaus and MERGED
counties.
The bay counties and some of those
around the great valley will be visited this
winter and next spring, as will be those OF
Nevada, Placer, Ell Dorado, San Bernar-
dino Inyo, Mono, Orange, Riverside and
San Diego. The assistants this year, in
addition to their other instruments, each
have camera, so the thirteenth report of
the State Mining Bureau will doubtless be
more fully illustrated than those heretofore
published.
AS the information obtained by these field
assistants is intended for the report of the
bureau, to assist and foster the min
ing interests of the State, owners of mines
mills, quarries, canals, springs, etc, should
assist in every way possible and freely give
any desired information.