The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-19

for each ten members.
The Grass Valley Tidings is told that
the Gold Bank Tunnel Company are soon
to come into possession of the Jones Bar
property on the South Yuba River. 1t is
considered that this will be most favor
able site for the mouth of the proposed
tunnels, as it furnishes good dumping
ground and gives ample room for mills.
tits also said to be mile nearer the rich
mineral belt which it is the object of this
| tunnel to tap.
The Providence Mining Company at Ne
vada City is to enlarge its mill by adding
forty stamps. When this is done it is ex-
pected that 100 more men will be needed,
making in all over 200 employees.
Over at Austin, New, the Austin Mining
Company is keeping its twenty stamps
| busy day and night and employing seventy
men.
The hosting works costing $4,000, and
in use but two weeks at the Whittock
mine, Mariposa County, have been de-
stroyed by fire.
The Jackson (Amador County, Ledger
says that during the past two months the
| Cover mine at Drytown. which is being
worked by C. E. burlington for Colonel
Isaac TRUMP DO of Salt Lake. has undergone
an experience which it has never had be-
fore in years. 1t has had two paydays,
| all the employees receiving their pay in
cash. Such change in the management
or the Cover mine is surely a Godsend to
| the people of Drytown and Amador, and
they hailed with delight the advent of the
day when time checks will become thing
OF the past.
Upward of $50 men are employed in the
| h Of St1+f IL
Amador County.
Angels Camp had quite a little rejoicing
celebration the other night when the
! Utica mill started working again.
| Along the mother lode from Jackson,
Amador County, on direct line through
Calaveras and into Tuolumne, the mining
outlook is brighter than ever before
| known.
Asphalt from Santa Barbara County is
now being shipped to New York and
! Brooklyn.
When the No. tunnel of the Sierra
! Buttes mine failed to show any pay ore
where it tapped the ledge 5000 feet below
the groupings, Sierra County practically
! lost her best quartz mine. The mine was
worked for forty years and yielded over
| S11 600, 000 Some prospecting is still going
| on, but operations are now comparatively
small. Most of the stamps were removed
to the company's mine in Shasta County.
County will, on September %, hold an
! election for delegates to the State Miners
! Convention. The county is entitled to
eighty-two delegates.
There is considerable activity in quartz
mining and prospecting at the base of
| Diamond Mountain, on the Lassen County
side of the line dividing that county from
Plumas.
| The general business revival throughout
the country will doubtless have its effect
on the asphaltum and bituminous rock
mines in California. AS Improvements
are made in cities and towns better streets
are demanded.
The Inyo Independent says the placer
claims on Mazourka CANYON and vicinity
are paying very fair wages, though moth
| ing very large has been found there lately,
and the number of men at work is some
what smaller than at this time last year.
The claims on the Klamath River are
now yielding a great amount of gold as
this is the time, while the stream is low,
to work to good advantage in bottoming
the rich channels at bedrock. The Yreka
! Journal says that in fact the river is a lit
tie too low, requiring crowding of stream
at some points to keep the current wheels
moving to operate the derrick, pump and
| dip wheels.
The Horse Creek mines. Siskiyou
County, are being worked with energy
since the completion of the new ditch.
The Shinar placer mines on the klamath
River, near Happy Camp, has been sold to
T. ]. Notion of Seattle. The ditch is being
extended and preparations made to work
the property on large scale.
There is said to be an extensive deposit
! of magnesite on Pitt River, near Flat
I Creek, Shasta County, but it has not been
| developed or utilized.
The country in the vicinity of Trinity
Center, Trinity County, is filled with pros
pectors.
The Phoenix (Ariz.) Gazette says that
weeks and that fifty-ton cyanide plant
is being built.
The output of Cripple Creek district is
estimated by Colorado correspondent as
100000 month. But this is only an
estimate, and estimates usually shrink
when actual progress confronts them. Pos
slbly half the amount may be nearer the
truth.
The lower portion of the Klamath River
in Siskiyou, Humboldt and Del Norte
counties is rich in river, bank and gulch
mines, but good deal of the region is des
titute of water, except what is In the
river. Extensive bitches will have to be
| built to develop many of the claims, and
Tor this reason comparatively little has
| been done.
The Trevaskis mine on Red Hill, near
Nevada City, has been sold to English
| capitalists through George b. TreadweI,
and work will be commenced on the prop
| erty.
The Nevada Transcript predicts that in
another year from 500 to 1000 more men
will be employed in the mines of that
vicinity than at present. 1t bases the pre-
| diction on the fact that many mines have
| been bonded which will be sold to men
able to develop and equip them.
| French capitalists are buying number
of mines near Callahan's and the south
| fork of Scott River. Siskiyou County
The largest ledge in the new Murphy
Creek district, B. c., has been named
Coins Financial School," Opening and
working new claim in a new district is
generally pretty goou school of expert
ence, if nothing else, and coin often has
good deal to do with it.
The Last Chance mine at Wardner,
Idaho, is showing some immense bodies of
rich ore. A larger mill is very much
needed.
At the Planet-Saturn mines, Fools
Gulch, Ariz., two 600-foot shafts are being
sunk, which will be connected by drift at
that depth. When this work is completed
machinery to treat the ores will be erected
1t is not always that people wait for SO
much DEVELOPMENT before putting up their
mills, but it is sensible plan.