The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-20

Su1erlng that has followed the rush OF the
ever improvident miner to the country to
be disappointed in their expectations
At a meeting of the directors of the Iron
Mountain mine at Helena, Mont, it was
decided to run tunnel $500 feet in length,
to tap the mine at depth OF 1000 feet.
The work will require one years time, and
cost $4,000.
A company with capital of 81, 25o,000
has been formed in New Zealand to work
the iron sands of the beach near New
Plymouth.
During a storm in Chihuahua, Mexico,
recently, an enormous meteor fell from
the sky, striking the side of mountain,
bringing down large mass of the cliff,
burying itself in the ground, destroying
! the house OF miner and killing two chill
dren The steam Is still issuing from the
| hole.
Professor Blake recently wrote and de-
! llvered lecture on meteors at Tucson,
| Arizona, since which meteors have been
falling all over Arizona and Mexico,
more having fallen within the last six
| months than for years previous. The
professor lecture seems to have aroused
spirit of rivalry among the meteors to
come to the front and be noticed. We
earnestly beg the professor to hold up, or
we shall have metecrs falling all around
us, and possibly get one on top of our
heads. We have had all sorts of calami-
tACo dllCduI ouO oIdW lLc 1luc NJ Iu6l6OISs
| Owing to the fall in the price of copper
! the mines of Lake Superior and Lake
Michigan have rushed the shipments OF
| the metal this last year, exceeding the
| shipments of last year by 100000 tons.
| All the copper mines are reducing forces
and in every possible way economizing,
and the big mines are practically closing,
! throwing 1000 men out of employment.
! Another quartz mill is being erected in
| the vicinity of the Tubbs mine in Placer
| Comfy. The remarkable success of the
| latter property has attracted considerable
attention to the quartz Lodges of the vicin-
| ity.
| Drummer Sr., has been bonded to William
| Cleary, formerly of the Sheep Ranch
mine, for $25, 600.
| The work of erecting machinery on the
| Carley gold quartz mine, situated in Alta
| vile mining district, is going on actively.
AS soon as the machinery is all in position
the work OF developing the mine will be
commenced. This promises to be a valu-
able mining property.
| 1t was reported during the week that
| large block of gold, estimated to weigh
about 1900 pounds and of the value of
| 1926, SAB 70, was found in the last crosscut
of No. 10 tunnel of the DeLamar, and was
| i'm bedded in rock of somewhat different
character and hardness known to mining
men. They are trying TO get it out whole,
and dare not blast on that account. Hard
eDed chiselS, tempered with machine oil
make but little impression on the rock,
but it is the only tool that any headway
can be made with.-DeLamar (Nev.) Lode.
| Mr.. Brown of Tulare has struck $45 ore
near Summit station, four miles east of
| Goler, in the Randsburg district.
| News comes from the Panamint coun-
| tty. over in Inyo County, fifty miles
northeast of RaEdsburg, that George
Cruise, Badly Dreamer and Bob Avery
have struck a ledge that will run from SIS
to $50 a ton.
P Frefeld, who has been looking for
mine ever since last November, has dis
covered a paying claim within two miles
of Randsburg. 1t will 60 $50 to the tom
Californian.
The Needles Gazette says: James Nc
Clintock, who has been working a dry
washer in the Chemehuevis Mountains,
arrived in Franconia few days ago with
a $32 nugget an many others that weighed
from So to Sc each. Besides these he had
with HIM nice little sack of gold dust.
If stranger visits your camp looking
for investment don't brighten capital away
by asking dozen prizes. = Exchange.
This paragraph affords a text from which
a sermon might be preached to the benefit
of the mine-owner, if they would read,
learn and digest it, which they won't,
nevertheless we will give them a little
piece of advice, which is, do not get the
''big head and imagine because some
| mines have been solo at prices much
higher than would have been taken for
them year ago, you can get four times
as much now. 1t holds to reason. that
when an article is dull of sale it can be
bought cheaper than when in better de-
mand.
A reasonable advance is all right, but
when as an instance within our know.
ledge, where man owning group of I'M
developed mines would have been glad to
| have had an offer of $4,000 and would
have taken it quickly a year ago, has
raised his price to $4,000, it is absurd
no doubt but what he could sell for double
| the value of twelve months ago, but what
| folly to raise to $500 1t simply
scares away honest seekers for min
| ing property, it being a great mistake
on the part of the mine owner to sup
pose that a competent mining expert
is not very good judge of the value OF a
property, and is not at all Influenced IN
his estimate of it by the price asked, when
he comes to examine it, and will advocate
its purchase at such a fancy price. 1t
must be remembered that there are mines
and mines for sale in the State, and no one
owner has the monopoly of the business,
hence we quote the language of the text
and don't brighten investors away by ask
ing ridiculous prices for your properties.