The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-10

County, which has permission to work
from the California Debris Commission,
b as three monitors at work.
The Gold Bluff mine, near Downieville,
Sierra County, is to resume operations.
The Omaha and Salt Lake capitalists
who bought the big low-grade porphyry
dixie in the Cottonwood mining district,
near the klamath River, have had another
ten-ton sample crushing made at the Jill
son mill, with good results.
Austin d Co. of the Greenhorn blue
gravel mine, about a mile below Yreka,
realized over $1,000 for last week work, the
gold being in large grains, with several
nuggets of the size Of beans.
A combination of systematic mining
operations was recently organized in New
York by Clarence B. Richardson. 1t is
proposed to locate 100 gold-mining claims
in Colorado. Out of these will be selected
ten which have the best surface indica-
tions, and upon each OF the ten will be sunk
a shaft 100 feet deep.
On the LIST the Arizona Copper Company
began using coal as an experiment, instead
of wood. This throws out of employment
200 or 300 burros and their drivers,
Miners are reminded that assessment
work on claims must be done this year,
Congress not having suspended the part OF
the law relating to annual assessments as
it did in 1892 and 1898.
The Tribune says Salt Lake smelters are
endeavoring to obtain cheaper production
methods in order to successfully compete
with prevailing conditions.
Southern Colorado now has ''tin" ex-
element. 1t is to be hoped it will turn
out better than ours did. California and
Dakota have experience that even when
tin mines are found they do not pay.
The Nevada Transcript says that it cost
the shareholders of the Idaho mine $685.
$40 rs to realize about $12000,000 which
was the total production at the time of its
purchase by the Maryland company.
There is great activity at and near the
Pierce gold camp, AriZ.
Scarcity of water is bothering the miners
in Ferguson gold district, New.
Work at the big copper smelling and
refining plant at Black Eagle Falls, Mont,
is brisk. The payroll last month was
nearly $50, 900, and will probably be larger
this month. The production of copper is
increasing very nearly to the point it was
last fall.
Yuma is agitating the establishment of
a smelter there. The Times gives a lengthy
account of the advantage of it's city as a
site. All ores from Tombstone and vicinity
would be sent to Yuma in preference to
any other smelter, as it would be nearer
home.
Considerable ore from the mines near
shipped this season during high water,
when the steamer Ellensburg can ascend
the stream. This will be an experiment
and if successful large shipments will be
made next year.
Southern Oregon is full of prospectors,
new ones taking the places of those who
depart for other scenes.
The copper mines on Illinois River,
Josephine County, Or, which have lain
idle so long, are again attracting the atten-
ton of capitalists from abroad. A working
test of the ore will soon be made, and if it
proves satisfactory operations will be COM
menced soon thereafter.
Some of the Oregon placer miners-those
mining in dry gulches, etc.-have been
compelled to clean up on account of the
scarcity of water. A number of them did
well, however
The Ashland mine, Oregon, which is in
the hands of receiver, is to be worked
again on small scale.
The Rogue River mining country, Ore
gon, is attracting more than usual atten-
ton.
The Eastern capitalists who are working
the Black Jack, Siskiyou County, with r.
l.. Dunn as superintendent, have twenty
hive men at work, and are developing the
property on high scale, running four
drifts in the canyon. AT present they
have small mill for prospecting purposes.