The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-28
Rich Finds South of Indio
Have Been Reported
Recently.
GRASS VALLEY PROSPECTS.
A French Syndicate, 1t Is Said, Has
Arranged for a Big
Deal.

Tor South Africa, mas Deen nlIed by the ap-
pointment of S. J. Johns, son of William
Johns, general manager of the Sierra
Buttes Mining Company (limited). The
Uncle Sam is one of the four mines in this
State owned by the Sierra Buttes Com
pany.
Thomas n. Leggett, general manager of
the Standard Con. mine at Bodie, is the
latest Californian mining superintendent to
accept responsible position in the South
African mines, and he leaves next week
with his family for Johannesburg. Mr.
Leggett has been very successful in his
management of the Standard and the mine
has paid much during his administration.
He put in not long since the most COM
plete electric power plant for mining pur-
poses in this State, and wrote very inter-
esting chapter on the subject in the last
report of the State Mining Bureau.
The annual reports of the Standard Min
ing Company, prepared by Mr.. Leggett,
would serve as models for other superln-
tendents in California and they go into
such details of all the operations, and es-
pecially those relating to milling and metal
lurgical features, that they give most
complete information to stockholders. Mr..
Leggett will take charge of certain mines
in South Africa, owned by wealthy Lon
don syndicate.
at Meadow Lake, Nevada County, this
summer, and will use Crawford mill to
crush the ore.
The last run made at McHaney's mine,
out on the desert near Indio, produced
$500 in gold to the ton. Six tons were put
through the mill and $2400 cleaned up as
the result of the run. The ore worked
was taken out of the shaft at depth of
sixty feet, and the result thus far is the
best shown. The shaft is now eighty feet
deep.
The Ferris (Cal) Valley Record reports
the sale of the Indian Queen mine. This
property has been ''coyoUed' number of
years by Mexicans and has but recently
been worked in a legitimate way.
Allan J. Smith, owner OF the Batuco
mines in Sonora, Mexico, and who lately
arrived in Los Angeles, Is having quartz
mill built, which he expects to have in OPP
Grafton about the 1st of August next.
The country around McHaney's Desert
Queen mine, the recent rich find. thirty
miles south of Indio is undeveloped and
practically unprospected. A good many
prospectors are going over the rough coun-
try there now, however.
The Lone Star is a gold camp. eighty
miles due north from Daggett, on the first
range OF mountains west OF Death Valley,
ut an elevation OF $500 feet. There is plenty
of good water, and the veins thus far dis
covered are very encouraging.
Mariposa Grant, is at Bear Valley and
hopes to soon commence work on different
mines belonging TO his company.
1t is rumored that the French capitalists
who lately visited Grass Valley will rec
ommend the purchase of several large
properties. The Providence. the Cham
p1on, the Allison Ranch and. the Menlo
group are named among the probable
mines to be taken.
A carload of graphite has been shipped
from the Voltaire mine, Nevada, to this
City.
The quartz mine near Pine Grove, Anna
dor County, owned by Mr.. Clough, has
been sold to San Francisco men.
The Bay State mine at Plymouth, ANA
dor County, has been bonded by parties
for 100000 and they nave gone East to
float the stock.
The Gold Flat mine near Nevada City
has been bonded to f. G. Beckwith and G.
a. Treadwell. The mine is owned mostly
by Grass Valley parties, Messrs. J. NJ.
Thomas, John Sleeves, T. J. Michel and
others being among the principal owners.
The withdrawal of the low rate on ore
from Idaho to Salt Lake is causing confu-
sion in the basic rates upon which ore is
sold in the HALEY market. A good deal of
ore cannot be shipped at the new rates.
1t is bad for the Wood River country, be-
cause the ore of that region is of such a
low grade that it will not pay the higher
charge OF Pill 10 DeUVeT, even IL 1T meet
the requirements there as to the quantity
of lead. The ore that has been shipped to
Salt Lake under the So rate carried less
than % per cent lead per ton. This class
of ore distant smelters cannot afford to
pay such prices for as will permit Of their
extraction, reduction and sale. Hence,
with Salt Lake forced cut by the advance
referred to, that class of ore is left practi-
cally without market. The mine-owners
who have resumed operations on the basis
OF the So rate will lose by the So So.
The Sierra Buttes Mining Company is
erecting a forty-stamp mill in Mariposa
County. This company already has large
mills in Sierra, Plumas and Shasta coun-
ties.
The MERGED Mining Company at Coulter
vile, Mariposa County, is employing
several hundred men getting their mines
in shape for production.
The famous Lost Cabin mine has been
found again. This time right at the big
bend of the Pitt River, Shasta County.
The mine has been found quite frequently
in the past twenty years if reports are to
be believed.
Bisbee, Ariz. is city of about $500 souls
at present, and is constantly on the in
crease. The Copper Queen Mining Com
pany directly and indirectly furnish en-
ployment and support for this whole popu-
lation.
Pierce mining camp, Cochise County, a
comparatively new QlSUr1ct, is on the east
ern slope of the Dragon Mountains, about
twenty-five miles from Tombstone This
whole range of mountains contain rich
mineral-bearing lodges of gold, silver and
copper, with a sprinkiing of lead through
it all. The southern portion is gold bear
ing, the central part gold and Silver, the
northern section is copper, silver, gold and
lead, copper and silver predominating.
Dos Cabezas, Ariz., has number of good
paying properties; the ore is not of high
grade but the lodges are strong and the
mineral Of fine quality, and they only
want apital to develop them to make this
one of the richest gold-producing camps
on the western slope OF the Rocky Mount
aims.
Parties are said to be working in the
old black sand beach some six miles from
tidewater, near Port Oxford, with sluces ;
no rifles, merely a solution unknown to
any one but themselves, applied TO the
bottom of their sluices, to which the -four
gold adheres.
A new town named Wheeler City has
been laid off on the Illinois River, Jose
phine County, Oregon, ct the junction of
Falls Greek, where the smelling works for
the Siskiyou Mining Company, which has
located 500 acres of copper mining ground