The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-06-24

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San Diego county recently secured by
| S. w. Dorsey. S. B. Morgan, Willard
Teller and others of Denver. This Is
one of the best things of the kind have
| ever seen. 1t is an immense body of
low-grade ore, necessitatlng operations
on a large scale. 1t is located about
| twenty miles from Fort Yuma, and, In
order to be worked economically, and at
| profit, railroad will have to be con-
! structed that distance. The ore Is a
| mixture of all kinds, but 1t exists in
| such immense quantities that with ma
chinery capable of handling 1000 tons
| day, and the necessary transportation
| facilities, 1t can be converted into bull
| lion at cost of not to exceed s1.50 per
| ton.
Reducing ore by the cyanide process
evidently pays In Arizona, says the
Phoenix Gazette, as Malcolm McLeish
on Thursday shipped to the mint 40
ounces of gold, valued at $1400. the result
of nine days run. He worked eight men
| and the rock they worked was tailings
from the Vulture. At many of the old
dumps of mines now abandoned the cy-
anide process will eventually reduce the
piles of rubbish that was once thrown
away and will leave a fair margin of
profit.
The stockholders of the Leon mine,
near Winchester, have decided to erect
a twenty-stamp mill. and machinery
will be put in to furnish water for the
mill.
During the year 1895 the imports Of
gold into England were the largest on
record, amounting to 935,S00.000, of
which Eli. 100000 came from the United
96,250, 900 from Australia, and 93, 800. 900
from India and China. The exports
amounted to EGO. 100000 so that on bal
ance the net addition to the gold stock
of England was 15,400.000. For the last
five years the addition has been Esq.,
$50, 900.
AS a compensation for low prices of
wheat and fruit and consequent dull
times, the state is enjoying a revival of
mining activity and the loss in one d.
rection will be Offset, or at least COM
pensated partly, by the gain in hnother
The methods of capitalists had some
thing to do with preventing it, and the
cloud of litigation which has hung like
black pail over some of the best mining
property in the state has had a good
deal to do with 1t. 1t is probable that
within a year or two the output of Cali
fornia mines will run up to twenty mil
lions and even exceed that figure. The
days of the pick and rocker are gone
b
But with the world looking for an op-
portunity to invest in gold mines despite
the errors of the past and some that are
current at the present time, California
will put the boosted mines of the Rand
in the shade. and pay dividends for CEN
turtles after many other mining regions
are forgotten.-People's Cause.
]. A Ingersoll, says the Citrus Belt,
is having an ore mill built on entirely
new plans, from inventions of his own.
1t is to be for prospecting purposes, and
should the experiments prove to be what
Is desired it will be a valuable inven-
ton for it's owner.
The Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining
company reports its monthly cleanup
as follows for April:
Period since last report, days..............31
suiphurets treated tons.
Bullion from sulphurets. .............. s14.759
Working expenses: .....................$27 469
Profit for the month. .$19. 39S
There is every indication that the Pa
cific coast will soon lead all the aurifer-
Gus regions Of the world in gold pro-
duction. Large as is our present yield
of the yellow metal. it is only the be-
ginning. We have but commenced the
development of the gold-bearing quartz
veins of the country. There yet remain
in our great gold fields extensive regions
that are wholly UNEMPLOYED. The vast
majority of the gold-bearing veins of
the country await the developing pick
and drill of the miner. Nowhere else on
earth can there be found a greater field
for the industry of gold mining than
here in this west half of America We
have hundreds of thousands of square
miles Of producing territory. A
man may mount horse and ride for
days, weeks and months, and at the
end Of year he will not have been able
to visit tenth part of the localities in
which gold Is to be found-Mining and
Scientific Press.