The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-12


progressed far enough to need bank, nd
one has been established.
Silver Reef, the sandstone silver camp
OF Utah, was at enc time very prosperous,
but has been under q cloud some years.
The Darbee & Walker mill is now bein 6
worked on a two weeks test run on new
process by parties who are trying to see If
they N work at profit. Should this
prove to be the case renewed activity may
be looked for IN that section.
General Penrose has taken up his option
on the Gold Dust group, consisting OF
thirteen claims in Mercur Camp. Utah,
and work will now be prosecuted on an
extensive scale.
The Gold King group of mines in Dixie
mining district, Idaho, is to have new
mill.
A. Elger of Fresno has purchased the
Yellow Jacket mine at Oak Bar, Siskiyou
County.
The property of the Oregon Gold Mining
Company at Cornucol,ia, Union County,
Oregon, which has been valued as high as
$500, 900. was bid in at Sheriff's sale the
other day for $4,000.
Foots Creek, which is twelve miles up
Rogue River from Grants Pass, Or, is at
tracing considerable attention on account
of the richness Of it's mines.
Americans are taking the lead in devel-
oping the mining properties in British
along after time and buy the mines-at a
good profit to the Americans.
The ore shipped to smclters from South
ern Kootenay during the year amounts to
26,67S tons, valued at $2,076,25O
Forty-eight companies have been incor-
porated and registered on West Kootenay,
B. c., since last January, the total CAPT.
talization being $35, CTS, 900. There are, of
course, great many mines in operation
which have not been Incorporated.
The Opir and Pay-grit mines in Central
District, New, have been sold by G. M.
Harvey, John Poole and C. S. Wright to
G.. H. Wilbur of Salt Lake City, the price
being $500. The new owner has also
bought tive-stamp mill near White
The mill just ready to be put in opera
ton at the old Steamboat mine is said to
be one of the most complete IN Southern
Oregon.
The Prineville (Or.) Review says that
New York men have been investing in the
Ochoco mines and next spring will put up
plant.
Cameron & Boaz have sold large tract
of their mining ground near Uniontown,
Or, to B. E. fancy and John HASTE OF
Tacoma, who will equip it with frst-class
hydraulic plant.
Five stamps have been added to the mill
and thlrty-ive men are at work at the
Hammersley mine, Jump-Off-Joe District,
Oregon.
The Congress mine has the deepest shaft
in Arizona, 1415 feet. There are 400 men
employed at the mine at So ana So so per
day. The forty-stamp mill runs day and
night and rich ore is daily shipped by car
loads to Argentine, Kans. No saloon is
allowed on the company's grounds.
The Pres colt Courier says there are wise
ms W IN hat
ton works will not pay in Prescott, AriZ.
On top of this come reports from outlying
districts that mills are running steadily,
and yet the milling capacity is inadequate
to treat custom ores in the various dis
trictS.
There has been considerable activity lately
in the placer claims in Fremont County,
Wyo., in district embracing South Pass,
Atlantic and Oregon Gulch. The gravel is
rich but the season is short and more
water is needed. Some lodes OF free gold
ore nave been found and are being pros
pected.
Some bars are being worked at the mouth
of Warm Springs Creek, sixteen miles be-
low Atlanta, Idaho. From these beds down
to North Fork, a distance of twenty-five
miles, there has been much activity dur.
ing the past season in placer mining.
Extensive. prospecting is about to begin
at Mercur, Utah, with diamond drills.
At the Bullion-Beck mine, Utah, there
are said to be about 100000 tons of ore
which accumulated when smelling
charges, cost of transportation, etc., rem
dered it impossible to work it at profit.
This is now being put through the concen-
traitor at the rate of 200 tons q day at
very good profit, but the force of miners
has been materially reduced while the ore
is being handled.
Another gold find has been made near
the town of Mercur, Utah. 1t is at the
foothills of Rush Valley and on the south
west side Of Mercur. The ore runs from
81 to $40 per ton.
A vast number of Cripple Creek (Colo.)
mining companies have recently been
formed, the stock of which is being tloated
on the market. The. camp is very we'll
advertised, so much so in fact that those
not familiar with mining matters would
suppose it to be almost the only gold re-
glon In the country.
General Classification of Mineral Lands.
II United States patent issues for agri-
cultural lands on which there is a known
lode, title to the mineral does not 20 with
the patent. But if the mineral deposits
are discovered after the patent has issued,
they pass with the patent. When the
land becomes individual property the
Government loses entire control of 1T, as
it can only give the right to mine on
public lands. 1t is for these reasons that
the California Miners Association and the
Northwest Miners Association are ELI
eavoring to prevent the railroad compa-
MES from obtaining patents to any more
land on their grants until tine land is
classified, so that the mineral
expressly reserved by the Government
may not be taken up under an agricult-
ural patent.
OF course the law already provides a
method by which miner may make his |
individual protest against railroad COM
pany absorbing his claim, when he knows |
they are about to patent the land. The |
trouble is he does not always know this, |
for the advertisements required by law are |
so published as to convey very little in |
formation except to expsrts. Moreover,
half the miners do not know what town |
ship aud section their mine is i'll. There |
is no obligation on the part of the railroad |
to inform the miner personally |
or by letter. IL fact, they might not know |
even that there was mine on the land |
they apply for. By these means numbers |
of miners have found their claims in !
cluded in railroad patents, though they |
were working them all the time. But this |
is not the worst evil of the present system. |