The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-29
NEW DEVELOPMENTS OF THE WEEK
ALL ALONG THE GOLD
BELT.
THE OUTLOOK IN OREGON
GOOD TINES AT CoULTERvILLE
NEW LAWS OF INTEREST TO
PROSECUTORS.

SOIlG ullnSS III new MANU-
Thomas R. Leggett, general manager O
the Standard Consolidated mine at Bodie
has returned from the East and is in the
city He is running the mill by electricity
and has bought Dow pump, to be rur
by the same power. The hoist will also be
operated by electricity shortly.
Edward n. Benjamin, who was superin.
tendent of the mineral exhibit of the Mid
winter Fair, has been examining the mines
at Pine Nut, New, and has now gone to
Bodie to look at some properties there.
Instead OF the Eureka, the Livermore
coal mine will hereafter be known as the
San Francisco and San Joaquin mine.
The frequent bonding OF mines in Gala
veras County shows the confidence capital
has in the mining properties of that part
of the State. There is reason for it, how
ever, as the mines of the county have been
paying very well.
4. J. Wilson OF Kentucky Flat reports to
the Placerville Democrat that the old Vol
canoville mining district is overrun by
mining experts and prospectors. 1t is so
everywhere. The mining outlook in Ell
Dorado is better than it has been in twenty
years.
Numbers of new mining locations are
being made in Kern County.
Agricultural communities do not seem to
have much appreciation of mining proper
ties. AT an assignee's sale at MERGED last
week three mines in Mariposa County
were sold for 81. And MaripoSa is a boom
ing mining county in these days, where
even a paper location ought to be worth
something.
The Bullion and lone mine near the Os-
born Hill, Grass Valley, may be started up
again in charge Of George Mainhart, super
intendent OF the Omaha.
Ono Of rho o. In
Riverside County, who is enthusiastic
about the mining outlook, says: The
yellow fruit of the earth is as plentiful as
the fruit of the tree in Riverside, and Pm
afraid the miners vote OF the county Will
be heavier in four years than the vote of
the orange-growers.
New machinery has been supplied for
the Simmins and Quinne mine, Yreka.
The miners have commenced work for
the summer at Dedrick, at the head of
Canyon Creek, Trinity County. The snow
is pretty deep in that section all winter,
but the men are anxious TO get to work
on their claims.
The coming season in Oregon is going
to be a very active one among the miners
Already the hills have been full of pros
pectors for weeks during the favorable
weather that has prevailed. From every
section of Jackson, Josephine and Douglas
counties are heard reports of a lively
season in mining, and south in Siskiyou
County, Cal, much capital is being in
terested to take hold of both quartz and
placer propositions. The possibilities OF
Jackson County mineral wealth have been
Investigated already this year by more
outside capitalists than ever before in its
history.
A Chinese miner went into bank in
Oregon the other day, and paid the coin
Tor $4,000 for exchange on Hongkong.
The Chinese are good placer miners, but
they never let any one know how the dig
gings pay.
Captain DeLamar, owner of the famous
Monitor and jim Crow mines in Ferguson
district, Lincoln County, New, has pat
ented an improved cyanide process, which,
it is claimed, gives greater speed in treat
ment by 80 per cent than that now APP
piled, and reduces the average cost per ton
for working ores.
William 7. St. Auburn, who has been
for some years manager of the Niagara
mine, French Gulch, Shasta County, has
gone to South Africa. John Hays Ham
mond sent for him, and has also sent for
two more California mining superin-
tendents who will soon join him in
Mashonaland. The California COLONY in
South Africa is growing.
The Southern Pacific Company has ap-
piled for patents to lot OF lands in the
mineral belt OF Siskiyou County, and the
file protests, having until April Is in which
to do il.
John Daggett, superintendent of the
mint, has returned from Sonora, Mexico,
where he has been to inspect gold mine
In which he and others connected with the
mint are interested.
The prospectors and miners in some
other States are anxiously looking for free
silver" but in California most of them are
after free gold
The Trail Creek mining district in British
Columbia, not far from the international
boundary line, is attracting much atten-
ton from miners and prospectors at pres
ent and something of rush in that direc-
ton has commenced. The development
OF several mines of a bonanza character is
the cause of the stampede
I'VE don't believe there is gold mine in
Colorado for which 81. 100000 has been
offered aside from the Tom Boy, neither
do we believe there is another one for
Tor which such an offer would be refused -
SAYS the Telluride, Colo, Republican.
THAT is the price offered for that mine and
refused, because they have an ore body in
sight supposed to contain 81 100000" The
CALL Is pleased to state that we have a
gold mine in California which produced
last year several hundred thousand dollars
more than the sum offered for the Colorado
Tom Boy, and still has a good deal more
than two millions in sight, and it is not for
sale either.
A steamboat captain who has returned
to Spokane from trip to Alaska, saws: at
is very unwise for men without means to
rush to Alaska. Juneau is already over
crowded with idle men, At some resi-
dences an average of ten men a day are
asking for food. The season does not
open until May, and even then they will
not have use for $50 men at the mines"
Miners and Railroad Lands.
The miners who fail to watch their local
paper for the list of lands sought to be
patented by the various railroads in this
and other States of the Pacific Coast have
themselves to blame if they lose their
claims by not filing protests. The miner
may have been in possession Is or %
years by right of location, but if his claim
is not patented the railroad may include it
in their patent, and he will have to buy
what he supposes he already owns. Plenty
of warning has been given in the news
papers, and in this State the California
Miners Association through its committee
on the protection of mineral lands has been
actively engaged in preventing the railroad
companies from taking mineral lands as il
agricultural. In this work the association
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