The San Francisco call., 1895-10-10
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jI&y2NiIlA and Mining
SgsSESI1/ LATEST INFORMATION
IHSSE15TIsD coNCERNiN0 THIS IMPORTANT iNDuSTRY

closed down until more satisfactory crush
ing machinery can be provided.
A ditch IS being dug to carry water from 1
the Mokelumne canal across the brow OF |
French Hill TO the Peck mine, which is be- |
ing operated by \. S. Wright on the out
skirts OF the Mokelumne Hill townsite.
Preparations are being made for erecting
new ten-stamp mill for the Coffee mill |
mine four miles west OF Mokelumne Hill.
Pumps will be put on the old incline to
drain the water out.
The Cesar Corporandy mine on Quartz
Gulch, Calaveras County, has been pur-
chased by E. c. Lotus and Ernest
Schaeffle, and will be developed at once.
Mr.. Lotus has also purchased the Key
stone mine at Railroad Flat, and is bring
ing mill and other machinery from the
Norfolk mine at Murphys to the Keystone.
Mining affairs at Murphys, Calaveras
County. are expected 10 be much better
this winter, when several claims will be
more actively developed.
The Spanish mine. Washington Town
ship, Nevada County, which holds the
record for the cheapest mining and milling
in the world, has new mills with capac-
ity of from $50 70 200 tons per day. Hunt
ington mills and stamps are used.
Some Scott River miners have put In q
fine plant of wheels, derricks, ETC., at
Hamburger Bar, Siskiyou County, to work
the river channel, which with its wing,
The Yreka Journal urges the miners of
that county TO maintain the County Min
ers' Association on 8 good footing.
Now the people who have found the de-
poSit of California onyx near Healdsburg,
Sonoma County. want TO go TO work and
develop it like the San Luis Obispo County
people have theirs, and make some money
out of 1t. There are several deposits in
this State, but only one is being worked on
any scale.
Leadville is now shipping from $4,000 to
35, ,000 tons Of ore per month.
Some of the placers at Green River,
Utah, have been sold TO Denver men, who
are, by the first OF the year, TO put ma
chinery to work which will handle not
less than 500 CUBIC yards of gravel per day.
a great deal OF mining work is going on
in the Lillovet mining district, British
Colum bia.
Many of the miners who have held on to
Sheep Greek properties, Alaska, for years
are now beginning TO realize that their
time for profit is coming.
The Bald Eagle mine at Snow Dam,
Alaska. is making for its owners profit
of $1,000 a day with four-stamp mill.
Some of the ore runs up to $500 TO the ton.
Forty-miIe Creek, Alaska, is nearly
worked out and none but creyice and bed
rock scrapers are now working there.
From all accounts Birch Creek, Alaska,
has not panned out this season as well as
expected.
/ The hoists in some of the Lake Superior
/ mines run at speed of 5000 feet per min
ute, or nearly forty-one miles per hour.
For short periods speed as high as 400 feet
per minute has been observed. This is
/ pretty fast travel underground.
a suit has been commenced against the
! Silver King Mining Company for ore
J alleged to have been wrongfully extracted
! from the Msyfower group of mines in
Summit County, Utah. The court has
; ordered a survey TO be made.
! The Mammoth Company at Tintic.
! Utah, is fast paying of its debts, and is
expected soon to be again on the list OF
! dividend payers. The ore shipments are
now about $4,000 month.
The gold properties at Pisgah, Utah, are
/ passing into the hands OF men of means
who will develop them and put up
machinery to work the ore.
The Emma Mining Company, which
made failure of its silver mining one9a-
tions in Utah, has just bought group OF
claims in New South Wales.
Some miners engaged in stripping
ground for gravel mining on Spring
Creek, twelve miles from Rapid City, S. D.,
have uncovered fourteen-foot ledge of
good ore.
The big cyanide works OF the Tombstone
company at Tombstone, AriZ., are nearly
completed.
The Land Department has decided that
/ the sale OF Improvements is evidence of
| abandonment of the mine. So if miner
| sells his mill or building he is supposed to
/ have served himself with notice to quit.
The Land Department has rendered a
decision that proof OF the character of coal
land must show the actual production of
mineral; and proof that adjoining lands
have produced coal will not answer. 1t
has not decided, however, that claimant
for agricultural land must raise crop of
] nc 70 hot ind ~
| land he is taking up. But then the Land
Office supposes all the lands in the country
TO be agricultural and the miner, TO get
any. must prove that what he wants is
not. 1t is not exactly fair, but that is the
rule in these days.
Monrovia, Los Angeles County, has q
mild gold excitement, occasioned by the
finding OF piece OF quartz from vein
discovered in an orange orchard by Alfred
Stedman. The only development thus far
is the usual one-to have an assay made,
which was satisfactory.
Some Seattle men have secured an op-
ton oD the old Kanaka claim at Honolulu,
klamath River, Siskiyou County. This
claim paid handsomely at one time, but
the channel was lost and the Seattle men
hope to find it.
James Colquhoun, manager of the
Arizona Copper Company's works at Cliff
ton, is the originator OF a teaching pro-
cess by which, it is said. or per cent
copper ore may be successfully treated.
Evidences of the location OF an ancient
smelter have been found in the suburbs of
Prescott, Ariz. Stag and pieces OF silver
ore were found near the spot where George
Merwin found the ruins of the old
smelter.
A Colorado man has commenced TO
manufacture at Kingman. Ariz.. a dry
washer, which weighs fifty pounds and has
a capacity OF from twenty TO thirty tons
per day. It is called the Colorado dry-
washer and is said to have been successful
in New Mexico.
a s'dry coneentrator milln has com
menced running at Gold Basin, Ar;z.
I The affairs of the Gro Plata and Ninety
three mining companies, Arizona, have at
last been settled to the satisfaction of the
creditors and the two properties have re-
sumed operation.
The tailings from the Little Jessie mill.
| Phoenix, Ariz., are now being saved and
will be worked by the cyanide process
CHARLES G.. YALE.