The San Francisco call., 1896-04-29

the big ledge below Union Pass, near
Kingman, Ariz., has a ledge.fully 100 feet
wide, with good grade of ore.
Ihe old Castillo mine at Real del Cas-
tillo, Lower California, which has been
idle for eight years, is to be worked again.
The Maud S company at Mogollons,
New Mex, is employing forty-five men
and keeping its ffteen-stamp mill at work
steadily.
The mining outlook of Grant County,
New Mexico, continues to improve daily.
Considerable ore is accumulating, which
will be smelted.
The smelter at Magdalena, New Mex, is
rapidly approaching completion and will
be in operation in another month.
1t is rumored that the G. y. D. mine,
Arizona, will shortly be sold to European
syndicate.
The Kingman Miner (Arlz) says that
the Elkhart mine has been sold, and the
cash paid for it by the Scotch Develop
ment Company.
The Mohawk mine, in Mammoth dis
trlct, Arizona, is to be started up with
force of about 200 men.
The new ten-stamp mill of the Silver
Flake mine, six miles from Prescott, Ariz.,
has been started in operation.
1t IS said that the new copper district on
the Colorado River, Arizona, is good
place for poor man to stay away from.
The $780," formerly the Texas mine. at
Walnut Grove, Ariz., was worked some
years ago by an English company and
located by G. B. Schammel and Henry
Bardshear, who have so much good $40
gold ore in sight that it is being negotiated
for by Chicago men for $75, 600.
The Robinson Company, which is the
largest gold mining company in South
Africa, had to pay so much for its powder
last year that its cost was about 16 per
of fho total nf Nd mill
ing. This is a tax few mines in this coun-
try could stand.
The wages for native miners on the
Transvaal. South Africa, have risen from
Sc to SIC per month in the past few years.
Up at Sunshine, Utah, they are having
centages with the cyanide process as other
people elsewhere have had. The ore
packs or the solution will not thoroughly
penetrate it.
This is the season of the year when the
placer miners are getting ready to utilize
the water on their claims.
At least ten claims around Rossland
B. c., will be shipping ore this summer.
Some fine ore has recently been brought
in from Champion Creek, one of the best
of the Rossland, (B. CO. tributary camps.
In the main range of the Rocky Mount
aims, in the vicinity of McDonalds Lake,
are lodges of copper ore which have re.
Montana "copper" King" The country
is not easy of access and few prospectors
have visited it.
Works are being put up at New West
minister, b. c., to test new German pro-
cess for saving the fine and rusty gold from
black sand.
There has been great rush of prospect
ors for the past year or two into the terri
tory along the international line into Brit.
ish Columbia, and many new camps have
been opened.
Toward the headwaters of nearly all the
streams emptying into both forks of the
Coeur 'Alene River. Idaho. there is more
or less country which has only been pros
pected in superficial way.
Mining operations along the gold belt
in the vicinity of Murray, Idaho, are very
active just at present. Several new mills
are contemplated this summer.
The largest alr-compressor plant in the
the LIE Roi Mining Company. When in
position the machinery will be used for
hoisting and pumping and will operate
forty rock drills. The compound Corlss
engines, twin type, are of 450 indicated
horsepower. The machinery is being
built at Sherbrook, Canada.
"A great many men are prospecting In
the Colville Reservation, WASH, notwith-
standing the snow, and many hundred
claims have been located. There will be q
great deal of development work done this
summer.
The new concentrator for the SLOGAN
Star mine, British Columbia, is almost
pacity of 150 tons per day.
In the SLOGAN Star mine, British Colum-
bia, such is the circulation of air, caused
by connecting the tunnels, that in two
minutes after shot is fired the mine is
free from smoke. In fact, they have too
keep it out, as with the doors open the
miners cannot keep candles burning.
There is considerable activity among the
placer mines along the Colorado River this
season.
The big Bennett amalgamator is said to
be very successful in handling the aurifer-
Gus gravel at Green River Utah.
All along the Snake River there will be
great activity in placer mining this season.
A great many Improvements have lately
been made for handling the material
Those who are familiar with the mines
claim that the output of the placer mines
OF Montana will be double this year what
it was in 1895.
At severaI of the placer diggings in Ne
yada work is now about to commence for
the season.
When the mines at Taylor, New, were
in full operation there were 500 men in the
camp. To-day there are two men and
about nifty empty buildings. The decline
In silver knocked the camp out.
"A good many stock exchange houses in
New York are paying considerable atten-
ton to gold mining investments.
Now that Cripple Creek has had its
baptism Of fire" and proved that it fol-
lows the fashion of other big mining
camps it has attained deserving position
as permanent place.
The mines in the Transvaal, South
Africa, are undergoing a hard experience
Just now. There are labor troubles, polit-
ical troubles, high prices and with it all
falling off in product as q consequences.
CHARLES G.. YALE.