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

through shaft instead OF the usual tun-
mel. 1t employs about 100 men, and
probably pays as we'll as any mine in
Sierra County.
Denver (Colo.) people are negotiating for
the Union Coffee mine in Del Norte
County.
As an evidence of the mining revival at
Coulterville, Mariposa County, the fact is
quoted that "there are more than two
brass bands. two newspapers and seven
teen saloons in full blast"
BOdie now has an electric tailings hoist
to lift tailings up to the cyanide plant.
The fourth and largest cyanide plant at
Bodie has been completed. 1t has six
tanks twenty feet in diameter, and with a
capacity of seventy tons each. The plant
is expected to treat from $50 to $50 tons of
tailings per day.
p, Extensive operations are being conduct
ed by the Plumas Imperial Gold Mining
Company on grand proportions in that
county. c. d. Hazard of Minneapolis is
the sole owner. The properties consist,of
900 acres on Hungarian Hill. four and a
half miles southwest from Quincy, and 800
acres on Emigrant Hill, two miles north of
Quincy. The present operations are con-
: fined to the deposits on Hungarian Hill.
The property is very thoroughly equipped
in every way for extensive work.
The Inyo Independent says that the
marble quarry at Inyo has closed down.
and it Will probably be some time before
work is resumed. While in operation it
disbursed some $4,000 in that section of
the State, and the residents there hope the
company will yet succeed in establishing
the works on a paying basis and resume
operations on a more extensive scale.
Two brothers named Davidson are work
ing seam diggings on Missouri Flat, fifteen
miles from Grants Pass, Or, and making
$40 per day each. These pay streaks are
pronounced queer by experts who have
watched the methods of the boys, being
neither under the head of quartz or placer
mines, as good deal of hard rock has to
be moved in order to uncover the pay
streaks, which viii not average over two
inches in width. The dirt from these
seams, however, is panned out, placer
fashion, and the pure gold Iolters in the
bottom of the pan.
The discoveries OF gold claims in different
sections Of New Mexico has given an i'm
pulse to immigration into that Territory,
with the possibility of its steady increase.
Three old mines at Grass Valley which
have not been worked for twenty years,
the Bullion, lone and Galena, are to be
started up by the Bullion Consolidated
Mining Company, with George Mainhart
as Superintendent. That gentleman will,
however, continue TO manage the Omaha
and Lone Jack. Heavy machinery, capa-
bic OF deep sinking, is 10 be put in.
In Ophir district Placer County, within
six miles of Auburn, there are ninety gold
mines, most of which need capital to de-
Yelop them.
At Michigan Bluff, Placer County, many
men who have long been idle in the large
cities have commenced running their
cradles and Iong-toms on the river bars
and canyons.
The increased activity in gold mining
prevailing throughout the entire Pacific
Coast has had its effect in Plumas County,
and properties that have laid idle for sew
eral years are being again reOpened and
thoroughly explored. Within the past
year considerable capital has been invested
in the gravel channels and deposits OF the
county.
About 100 carloads of failing. which are
at Victor, are to be hauled to San Bernar-
dino and there treated. The plant OF the
West Coast Lumber Company is to be
utilized in this connection. If the expert
ment is successful more tailings will be
brought from the mines in Holcomb
Valley, Bear Valley, the Morongo District
and from mines through all that section of
the mountains. Moreover, there Is the
desert region to draw from should the
venture prove profitable.
The Altura Mining Company in Morongo
District, San Bernardino County, has put
up ten-stamp mill to work the ore from
its three rich claims.
Clarence S. King of Atchison, Kans., has
bonded from the owners a group of five
mines in Cargo Muchacho district in the
desert in San Diego County for one month
and the privilege of six more. At the end
of that time, ''if the green ore everything
the white Quartz in the American Girl
should be developed in paying quantities,
that is, So or more per ton, then the price
is to be $4,000. If the green quartz
should not be so developed the price of the
group is to be $50, 900.
What is supposed to be a 35-foot vein of
collaborating quartz, worth 81 per ton, has
been found on the Hiram Pierce ranch,
Santa Ynez Valley, Santa Barbara County.
a vein that wide of ore that rich would be
a good mine even at Angels Camp, where
the Utica mine is situated.
The Espey. Hunter q Co. pumping plant
at Shasta River, Siskiyou County, is said
to be a great success in raising water
nearly 500 feet to flume extending toward
Hawkinsville. The pumps have been
tested with 500 inches of water turned into
the ditch from Shasta River, which drops
thirty feet in two three-foot tubes on two
large Knight water wheels, in working a
double action forcepump. The pumped
water is forced up the hill horizontally
HOO feet through 1S-inch pipe at pump,
ia pering to Pinch pipe at summit of
hill, dumping about lbs inches of water
into the fiume. This plant cost about
$4,000 and is an important experiment
in pumping water to hydraulic auriferous
gravel.
Those interested in the gold gravel de-
posfts OF Sierra County should read the
series of articles on the subject by L. D.
Davis, now being published in the Sierra
Valley Leader.
Some exceptionally rich sulphurets are
being taken out of the Ozark mine in
Trinity County.
AT the Hines mine, on Lady Slipper,
between the north fork of Coffee Greek
and the Nash mill, Siskiyou County.
have struck a small ledge of 500 rock. Ac-
cording to Selby's assays, the gold runs as
high as $40 per ounce. This is the purest
gold found in the State except that of the
San Guissepe mine, in Tuolumne County,
which is worth $40 so. Ordinary quartz
gold runs generally from SIG to SIG per
ounce, the average being about ST. Pure
gold, 1000 fine is worth $50 81 per ounce
Another miner thinks he has found
platinum in quartz. This time it is at
Packers guleh, Trinity County. 1t is not
found except in places and mighty little
of it at that. Only a few hundred ounces |
per annum are produced in this country. !
all from placers in Northern California |
and Southern Oregon,