The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-03

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Tho beach miners Up. around Port Oxford
Doubt # any process will beat copper and
cloth in practical work on the beach when
the rold is secured bright by the surf. The
Port Oxford Tribune wants to see Banta
machine tried, but seems to doubt if it
will bsatrhe process in use in saving gold
frQm the beach sand.
A number Of gold quartz properties are
being worked about thirty miles from San
Manual. y. Mex. in the San Mateo Noun
tains. The RosedaIe mine has recently
been sold to DR.. J. B. Davis OF Plttsburg,
Pa. who will at once develop and equip it.
The new officers of the Scaddon Flat
Iu.ne, Nevada County, are as follows:
.-,.r5ctors-J. D. Hague, president; J. T.
Morgan, treasurer; Fred Searls, vice
president; Thomas Marshall, secretary;
C.. t. Clinch, P. 4. Robert.
The Orc Plata gravel mine near VAL
legiJo on BaIaklava Bill, Calaveras
County, Which was traded some time ago
to parties in this City, has pay gravel
about 100 feet in width. The mine was
formerly known as the Moyle, and is
proving q valuable property.
The lindsay mine, about mile west of
Angels Camp, has been bonded for $4,000.
The new company that has the Tulloch
mine finds the shaft in rather bad con-
dition and has begun-to widen and repair
il. They estimate that the dump contains
about 500 tons OF high-grade ore, and 1t is
expected q mill viii be put up.
There is some talk OF opening up the
Minarets iron mines in MADEIRA County.
There are very extensive deposits of iron.
ore. but in very rough country, and
railroad will have to ae built to the mines
before they can be properly developed.
1t is not known whether the stamp mill
at the PotosI mine Of the MERGED Mining
Company, Nauposa County, will be erected
this fall OF puy u.- until spring.
Oil-burning boilers are to be put in at
the Santa Rosa mine, Riverside County.
They have been having a fight over the
possession Of the Chlspa mine, in Southern
California, and one man was killed. The
trouble is now over and the Sterling Com
pany Is in uDiisputed POSSESSION.
The str.se made by Burcham, Moore and
others aSOut eight miles southeast of
Goier, Kern County, is said to be sur
prisiDgly rich one. They are working de-
composed quartz with dry washers, and
finding some big nuggets.
The Sfskiyou County Miners Associa-
ton has evled an assessment of 80 cents
on each member TO help the State Miners
Association. 1t has also appointed the
following as delegates to the convention in
t1is City on October II: Fort Jones, An
drew tr Myers; Yreka, James F. Farraher
and T. j. y elton; Honolulu, John Saxild;
Orc Flno Abram Emo.
New quartz discoveries that look prom
islns have been-made on Punch Greek, a
tributary OF Humbug Creek, Siskiyou
County
Il IS stated that q sale has been made OF
tue Prlncesa Company's mines at Alamo,
Lower California. Work was suspended
on the mines in Alamo on account OF the
expense OF going through the immense
dykes, some over 800 feet, though many
think The Lodges will hold out below the
DYKES ana be found rich.
A c.yiI~suIt is about to be tried by the
Government.. against the Copper Queen
mine: AT Booker, Ariz., for cutting $4,000
of tiIl per on Government land.
The new silver district in Juab County,
Utah, has been named Moss district, after
the Moss brothers, who were the first to at
tract attention to the camp. There are
about twenty-five men at work in the
country, which is very rough one. The
point"ot supplies is LeVan, some eight
miles distant.
The Marsac Company, Utah, is using
new process. invented by Dewey & Walter
FOR reducing the sulphides 70 bullion. The
process makes 8 saving of $1,000 year in
the use OF sulphuric acid, and does away
almost entirely with the sulphurous acid
gas which has been such a nuisance to
Park City.
II is thought that the building OF the
Brunswick lode hosting works up on the
COmstock will soon be commenced. They
Will also begin on the Kinkead mill, the
lumber and machinery being ready Tor II:
1t is expected that the introduction OF
cleo ric-poWeraJ Nevada City district will
. T1ni mi ar of m
which otherwise would remain idle for
years 70 come. The power can easily be
transmitted to points where water-power
Is cut Of the question.
Part:of the smelling machinery for the
new copper mine has arrived at Grants
Pass, Or. The smelter will have capacity
OF TWEEN ty tons per day.
development work continues on the
Green Mountain group of copper claims on
copper Creek, eight miles from Prescott,
Ar1z They are working 15-foot vein OF
ore at present.
The different formations along the Co
4lmpla' RIVER are. now receiving more at
tteHtion than ever before, gold having been
found in so many places.
Inc closing down of the Poormau and
l1er~~ mlnes1 Burke, Idaho, has thrown
gu men out OF work. Wardner and Mill
Iar, the other CGur d'Alene camps, are
awakening from their long lethargy, while
- - tflS WITHOUT pdyTOH'
he sheep Greek ana Lost Creek min
eral country, twenty-five miles north of
boundary, Wash, is showing up some
very promising claims.
[Ihe big dividends of the War Eagle and
lie Roi mines and the general prosperity
about Trail and Boundary creeks, British
COLUMBIA; have had the effect of drawing
a great many Spokane people into mining
Investments.
The Slocafi country, B. c., is said to be
good region for poor man, because the
ore Is SO high grade that it is profitable for
the owner of a good mine to work 1t with
out the enlistment of capital A number
OF poor men have been able to develop
their mines extensively and pay expenses
as they went along.
i 1O0-ton concentration has been ordered
Tor the SLOGAN Star mine near Three Forks
b, G. The mine is said to have upward
81 gO,O00 tons of ore in sight, and an i'm
mense quantity onthe dump.
The IvaHhoe smelter, n. NJ, is now treat
Ing from 40 to 50 tons of ore daily.
A ten-stamp mill will shortly be erected
on the Doenega gold mine, in Buena Vista
district, which is mile or so back from
the Colorado River and about eighteen
miles above Yuma, AriZ.
MINING affairs AT Cherry Creek ArlZ. are