The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
AMONG The COAST MINES,
Work of Development Tor
New Properties Goes
Forward.
MANY ENCOURAGING REPORTS.
What the Weeks Review Shows
Has Been Accomplished In
Various Places.


dred and thirty thousand dollars taken
out of half a ton OF rock Is good pay ore
and not found every day; yet one day this
week the Kennedy Mining Company
hoiste6 half ton OF rock that assayed the
above amount. So rich was the ore 1t had
to be taken to the sulphuret works to be re-
fined. The mill could not handle IT..
At the Table Mountain mine, Calaveras
County, they are putting up 1O-stamp
mill to be run by steam.
Considerable machinery is being hauled
to the Ford mine, at Fordville, Calaveras
County.
Some very rich rock has been struck in
the Thorpe mine, near Fourth Crossing,
Calaveras County.
The Dat Hill Quicksilver Mining Com
panv of Napa County has bought three
gold mines in Calaveras County, in one of
which, the Miller & Holmes, a big strike
was made a short time since. B. NJ. New
comb, superintendent of the Dat Hill IS
superintendent, also, of the Calaveras
mines.
The Red Jack Mining Company is still
pushing the tunnel ahead on their claim
near Wheelbarrow, Humboldt County, and
expect soon to open up good paying body
of gravel.
Good developments are reported from
the Lockett Bros mine, near Keller, Inyo
County, and it is stated that they have re-
Gently refused an offer of several thousand
dollars for the property.
The MERGED Star says an uninterrupted
stream of mining men Is StllI EN- route to
Mariposa County and all indications point
to a remarkable development In the min
ing industry during the coming summer.
I -, ohT hos, h1D
about the last to feel the entrance OF new
mining blood, quite an activity prevails.
1t would be a fine thing, after all these
wears of disappointment, if the old Meadow
Lake mines, in Nevada County, should be
made to paw after all. Several of its mines
have lately been bonded and considerable
work will be done in the district this sum-
mer.
Mr.. Visiber, an engineer of the Cali
fornia Debris Commission, is at Dutch
Flat inspecting the hydraulic mines work
ing under the Caminetti law and using
retaining dams.
Mr.. August J. Bowie. author of "Prae-
teal Treatise on Hydraulic Mining In Cali
fornia," and a distinguished mining en-
gineer who has made a speciality of n.y.
draulic mining, went East on Tuesday on
a professional trip.
William C. Ralston, secretary of the
California Miners Association, is on his
way home from London, after having
spent six months in France and England.
a remarkable piece of engineering is that
recently done by Harold I. Power, super
intendent OF the Hidden Treasure mine in
Placer County, wherein the Dam and the
Hidden Treasure tunnels, several miles
in length, met each other without
the slightest deviation from the surveyed
lines.
1t is said the example of discharging all
Chinese and employing only white men,
set at the Hidden Treasure drift mine,
Placer County, will soon be followed at
the Red Point mine.
The Hidden Treasure drift mine, not far
from Forest Hill, Placer county, now en-
ploys ITO men.
Among the FL Dorado County mines in
PRODUCING new machinery and now being
worked with good returns are: The
Grand Victory at Diamond Springs; the
Starlight, Shaw, the old Pocahontas and
Springfield at Ell Dorado; a new bed of
the Idlewild near Greenwood.
Riverside County farmers think their
section of the State is on the verge of a
mining boom.
Several new finds have been made in the
Rice district near Warmers Ranch, San
Diego County, and the camp is said to be
improving.
The Black Jack Mining Company of
Hornbrook, Siskiyou County, has COM
pleted its new stamp mill at that place,
and has put to work force of twenty-five
or thirty men.
Granite Basin, PIumas County, expects
to be lively camp this summer.
Some men are talking of mining the
bars at the mouth of the Sacramento
River, near Collinsville. Dredgers or sue
ton pumps will have to be used in the
depth of water there is in that locality.
Some quartz mining is being carried on
near The Dalles, Or, and $20-rock is being
taken out.
Mr.. Thompson and w. Fl. Payne OF Port
land have ordered new machine for sepa-
rating gold from black sand on Rogue
River.
The mining outlook in Moja7e County,
Arizona, was never better than at present.
Mines that have been idle for many years
are now being worked.
The Poorman, Novelty and California
claims at Trail Creek, B. c., have been sold
to an American syndicate from Butte,
Montana, for the sum Of $4,000 1t is pro-
posed TO do much development work at
once.
There is every prospect of an early spring
for Cariboo, B. c. The Fraser is open
already. The winter has been exception
ally fine.
The dividends paid by the B. C. mining
com DanleS IN spokane during Jne month
of February were over $48, 600; the Cariboo
$4,000, the lie Roi 5000 and the War Eagle
over $50, 000
The Board of California Debris Commits
sioners have granted the following appli-
cations for hydraulic mining: Grizzly Hill
and Dry Gulch of Volcano, Amador Coun-
ty. They refused the application of Rattle
snake Bar mine, because the provisions
for holding the tailings were inadequate,
so it seems the Debris Commissioners are
son guard" after all, and will not permit
hydraulic mines to be worked unless they
have proper impounding works for their
debris. This is as it should be of course,
and as most reasonable people believe.
Hydraulic mining will be permitted to do
no harm by this commission; it will be
permitted to go on where no injury can be
done.
Placer County's contribution to the fund
OF the Miners Association now aggre-
gates over $1,000.
GoId-Mining in Southern Oregon.
The mining industry in our sister State
has felt the impetus that has been sc
marked in California during the past year
Jackson County is swarming with pros
pectors, and numerous rich strikes are re.
ported both in gravel and quartz. The
Ashland quartz mine, near the town Of