The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

Some OF the small gravel mines IN 1uoa
County which were shut down many years
blythe Anti-Debris Association have again
commenced work, by permission OF the
United States Debris Commissioners, hav-
ing constructed works to impound their
debris.
A Smartsviue correspondent of the
Msrysville Appeal says the Marysville
Grayei-mining Company are making
preparations for river-bed mining on
large scale. There is in place 50-horse-
power under-shot wheel, which is in
tended to drive two large pumps and hoist
the gravel from the pits.
A cyanide plant is being erected in
Lower Silver City, New, near the Dazet
mill, to work taiings.
. The Kinkead Milling and Mining Com
panv is preparing the work OF reducing the
waste rock composing the dumps of the
Con. Cal. & Va. mine. Sluices will first
be used and the coarse and line rock
divided. Then, if the tests are satisfactory,
a mill Will be erected.
The oil-ields at Summerland Santa Bar
g bara County are gradually extending and
the output of oil has doubled in the past
two weeks. The deepest well is only 175 feet.
In the eastern and southern portions of
San Diego County mining affairs are very
active and great deal of prospecting is
going on. The working mines are largely
owned by Eastern capitalists.
No county in the State is attracting more
attention among mining men than Gala
xeras, and the outlook is very bright.
Many new mines are being opened and old
ones being put in producing shape.
Wherever the companies have sunk TO
good depth they have done well.
If the State Miners Association is COM
peeled to give up its fight to prevent fur
oh Of nv
road companies through lack Of support in
the mining counties, the miners will have
no one but themselves to blame, and have
no one to listen to their complaints IN the
future. They have been fully warned Of
the consequences and know what to ex-
pect.
Work has been resumed on the Hunter
mine in the Occur d'Alenes. 1t is ex-
pected that the Morning mine will also be
started up soon.
Newspaper statements that assessment
work on claims must be done by the 1st OF
October, instead of the LIST of January, is
an error The law has not been changed
in any way, although bill has been in
troduced in Congress making October
the day. AS this was not passed the date
is still January /.
Another party of prospectors who have
been hunting the lost "Blue Bucket" mine
in Southeastern Oregon have returned dis
in this State will keep prospectors busy
many seasons to come. Some people
think the McHaney or Desert Queen mine
on the desert is the old Peg Leg, lost SO
many years ago. The reason OF thinking
so is that very rich ore is being taken out
and il is in the same section of country.
a new gold district has been found in
Idaho on the south side of the Payette,
six miles northeast OF Pearl City. The
whole country near by has been staked off,
but no development work has been done
outside of couple Of claims.
The West View or Willow Creek mines,
Idaho, continue to show up good bodies of
ore, and the future of the camp is quite
bright.
a Chicago man has process of working
ores by which the full assay value may be
attained at a cost of cents ton. That's
too good thing to be kept in Chicago,
where they have no gold or silver ore. 1t
ought to be brought out to this coast, for
, that sort OF process IS Just what all the
miners have been waiting for, and they
wilE doubtless continue to wait.
. Several of the interior papers are urging
.. the miners to stand in and help out the
State Miners Association in its fight
: against the railroad for the preservation of
he:ndineral lands of California. But then
many more of the interior papers keep a
.. discreet silence on the subject, and many
of these published in the midst of mining
districts directly interested.
:. William Doyle has bonded his mine at
Hunts Gulch, Amador County, to w. B.
Moore of Sonora and j. B. Doe of San
: francisco, for two years, for the sum of
.S25, 600. Work is shortly TO be commenced.
The United States Geological Surveysde-
termines that the quartz veins of the
mother lode may be divided into three
.cIasses-those occurring in the black-clay
states of the Mariposa beds, those oc-
curing along the contact of the black
states with rocks of the Giabase series, and
those in mphibolite-schist. The Ply
mouth Consolidated, the New London and
the Gwin mines are examples of the first;
the keystone, South Sperry Hall and Ken
nedy of the second, and the Union, three
nriles south of San Andreas, and the mines
at Angels are examples of the third class.
: Telegraph City, Gopher mining district,
is a rather neglected portion OF Calaveras
County, but there are several good claims
there needing only capital to make them
productive.
1t is said money has been provided to
begin operations in the Imperial mill at
Kennedy, New, so that plant to work by
electric process will be soon in operation
working ores at 50 per ton from the differ
ent mines in its district.
Two ten-stamp mills are going into the
Bohemia district, Oregon, this fall, IN the
Star and Champion mines. This Is very
promising gold district which has thus far
been very little developed.
Fisher & Martins Last Chance mine at
Iron Springs, seven miles from Prescott,
Ariz., is to be again worked and have
new mill.
There is a vigorous contest over the
ownership of the new coal deposit near
Skykomish, Wash. The coal is of very
superior character and there are two sets
of locators.
Pierce City, Idaho, had its palmy days
of gold production in 1922, and over
10000 people were there in the placers.
Now there is quite an excitement over
quartz and some mills are being put up.
-. Messrs Preston &.Thompson are trying
a Gold King amaigamator on the sand de-
POSTS along the banks of the river near Fol-
som. The Telegraph of that place says:
: "The machine is hand power, requiring
orlv two men to run it. If this venture
proves a success it will open up new held
Of employment to the dozens OF old min
ers at present about here, as there is
enough sand in this locality to keep them
all at work for many years"
- w. H. Mills of the Southern Pacific Com
pany states in the Placer Herald that
where chrome iron ore is found on
de &c will ba the