The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-31
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SAND and Mining
SMSRSHJT LATEST INFORMATION
9H&ANtFENRT CONCERNING THIS IMPORTANT INDUSTRY,


Amador County all of the land lying be-
tween the north end of the unpatented ex-
tension of the Clyde and the south line of
certain land BELONGING to the Oneida Com
pany. The land thus acquired fills up the
gap between the east line of the Kennedy
and the Clyde, the Golden Gate and the
McCauley placer mines, the negotiations
for the sale of which were completed with
the Kennedy on October 5.
The Owyhee Land and Irrigation Com
pany is going into placer mining on
large scale about three miles above Grand
View, on Snake River, Idaho.
A $25, 600 plant for the reduction of base
ores upon an improved system has been
erected at Shell Mound, on the bay shore,
outside of Oakland. The dry pulverized
ore is fed through a patent blow-pipe fur
nace-an inclined tiue ITO feet long. 1t is
called ''quick roasting process"
The gold from the Lamen, Robinson,
Osceola. Montgomery and other Nevada
camps beyond the middle of the State goes
over to Salt Lake City, but that from West
ern Nevada does not.
After all idleness of two years the prop
critics of the Red Bird Mining Company,
in City Creek Canyon, Utah. are to be
opened up on an extensive scale.
An important strike has been made in
the Consolidated mine at Park City, Utah.
the ore on the incline from the main tun-
mel being of high grade.
a. f. Holden of Salt Lake has bonded
the properties of the Camas No. in Idaho.
The production OF copper by the Ana
conda properties in Montana averages the
year round about 100000 pounds. per
month.
the properties of the Carr Fork Mining
Company, near the Miners Home, in Carr
Fork, Utah.
The Bonanza group of mines in Camp
Floyd district Utah, has been leased by
James Black and other Salt Lake men,
and a large force of men will be put at
work opening up the property.
The Meteor group, adjoining the Utah
mine in Fish Springs district, Utah, by a
recent sale of stock, will discharge its old
debts and the present tunnel will be ex-
tended at once.
The eight new tanks added to the Mer-
cur mill, Utah, will permit the treat
ment Of 200 tons per day instead of $50
tons as heretofore.
Brougham Greek, in the Salmon River
country. is sure to be the coming mining
country of Idaho, and a stampede is eX-
pected in that direction next spring. The
lodges are large and samples brought in
by prospectors run high. There are also
placers. There is plenty of wood and
water.
About twenty young men of Bloomfield
and Graniteville, Nevada County, are de-
veloping a gravel mine near the latter
place, called the Live Yankee, and have
recently made quite a rich strike at the
end of the 573-foot tunnel
Peter Tautphaus Of this City has pur-
chased of William Floyd and others the
Constitution quartz mine, Willow Valley
district, three miles from Nevada City.
He bought also several other lodges in the
same vicinity, including the Siam and
Mammoth.
There are said to be twenty seven good
mining properties now being worked in
Neal district, Idaho.
People up about Calistoga, Napa County
are much interested in several gold claims
in Horns Canyon, but little development
work has been done upon them.
Rich placer diggIngs have been found on
| bar of Snake River, about eight miles
above Lewiston, Idaho. Some men were
removing drifted sand from an orchard
when the deposit was discovered.
The Morning mine at Muller, Idaho, is
turning out from one to two carloads of
concentrates per day.
The kinkead Milling Company, on the
Comstock, has brought three Frue con en-
traitors for the new plant from the Ken
nedy mill, which has recently been closed
down, in the Kennedy district.
A large number of claims have been re-
corded in the Boundary Creek district,
B. c., this summer, and it is expected that
the camp will be very active next season.
In British Columbia the Government is
lending its assistance in building road
from the head of Crawford Bay toward
Fort Steel. In that section of West
Kootenai there are many promising
mining claims. In what is known as the
st. Mary's country about fifty locations
have been made, and the region is tribu-
tary to Fort Steel.
Recent explorations lead to the belief
that the section OF the interior of Alaska
surrounding the headwaters of the Alseck,
White and Copper rivers is rich in min
eral wealth, both placer and quartz
Residents of Alaska are very indignant
at the details OF the new map prepared by
the Canadian Government, as it takes in a
great deal of mining territory now being
worked by American capital in Alaska.
The Alaska rreadwell mill, Douglas
Island, Alaska, brushes from $4,000 to
$4,000 tons of ore per month and about 400
tons of sulphurets are also treated
1t is thought that about 600 miners will
winter at Birch Creek, Yukon River,
Alaska.
Seventy-mile Creek empties into the
Yukon River, Alaska, about seventy miles
below Forty-miIe Creek. The fact that
prospectors this fall came to the trading
post, QUILTED and returned shows that
they have found good prospects at Seventy
Mile.
Magnetic iron pyrites are found in the
gangue of the quartz mines in the Juneau
belt and about Sitka, Alaska.
In the Apollo Consolidated quartz
mine. Unga Island, Alaska, native copper
IS found with the gold, which is very I'M
usual, only one other case of the kind hay
ing been reported in America
Until the smelter at Trail, B. c., is COM
pleted the ore of the LIE Roy Company will
be shipped to Butte, Mont The first ship
ments of 75,000-ton contract commenced
this month.
a great deal of mining work is going on
in the Lilouet district, B. C.
Gold bearing ore has been discovered in
Teton County, Montana. on Bresch Creek,
about fifteen miles from Dupuyer
The great stack of the Mutt furnace of
the Anaconda Company, Montana, is about
200 feet high. 1t is so feet in diameter at
the base and % feet at the top; 225, 900
brick were used in its construction.
The recent gold find in the Costilla dis
trlct, New Mexico, is considered valuable.
In an area of ten square miles nun, Der of
veins have been found running from $40 to
$50 per ton in free gold The new camp