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

| Gold assays as high as 1906 have been
obtained from the Benton claim in Utah,
one of the Bingham Copper Company's
group at Bingham. These high assays are
| from an oxidized ore found beneath the
sulphides. which is regarded as most un-
usual occurrence, but similar conditions
exist In other Bingham mines.
Two mills are running regularly at
Quartz Mountain and the town is on the
boom. At the APP mine ten more stamps
will be added to the twenty already run
| ming and the same will be done at the
Dutch mine.-Angels Voice.
| Miss Jennie Hilton, formerly a school
teacher in the Pomona Valley, California,
| turned prospector and took to the noun
tains in genuine prospecting style. For
| the past year she has been engaged in
| mining enterprises, together with her
brother and uncle, near Harquahala, Ariz.,
and q few weeks ago she sold her interest
| in the Kansas mine in that district for
$50, 900, of which amount she received
| SIC, GOO in cash, the balance to be paid in
sixty days.
| Quigley, Mont, is getting quite boom.
The principal mine is the Jumb DO, which is
claimed to be the greatest gold proposition
| Oh IU6 CON LluSALs 4Ac ASdN - -OO AOCS III
width and carries an average value of So
to $25 per ton. They employ $50 men, the
payroll being $4,000 per month. Miners
get So so per day and laborers So. So says
the Rock Greek Record.
| A big strike of free gold has been made
| in the Little Giant, situated in the Pierre
| Lake camp, which SURPRISES anything yet
| developed in the reservation country. The
yellow metal exists in a well-defned vein
| of ledge matter a bout two feet or more IN
| width, and is free milling. This discovery
| is near the big copper lead, and practically
settles the question for brilliant future
to the Pierre Lake country, which is only
| twenty-five miles from Marcus. Speci-
mems weighing fifty pounds, taken from
| depth of twenty-four feet, will assay $780,,
600 to the ton.-Minlng Industry.
Very little quartz mining has been done
In Eastern Oregon, but that little has pro-
| duced wonders. Wherever a reasonable
sum OF money has been expended in de,
| velopment and machinery the yield OF
! gold has been enormous. For instance,
| look at the Virtue mine with twenty
| stamp mill producing nearly $4,000
monthly; the Bonanza, the E. & e. mines,
the Cornucopia and many others produc-
ing from $1,000 to $50, 900 per month. Yet
with this magnificent showing the district
| is com paratively unknown to the outside
1 world. In Chicago | have been asked,
Does Oregon produce gold? We didn't
know it was a mining State. This district
| will be second to none when known. -
Mining Industry.
/ About fifteen miles from Alamos, So
nora, very rich mine has been discov-
cred, with copper ore, some OF which
yields 80 per cent copper and which also
shows an admixture of gold. A company
| has been formed to work 1T.
| One day the widow of deceased Judge
in the State of Utah began an inventory
| of the pockets that had been left by the
| lamented, and in them found &c, 600 shares
of stock in the famous Portland mine at
Cripple Greek, which hiss already paid
| $743, 900 to its stockholders, of which sum
$1,000 has been paid the present year.
| At the present market value of Portland,
with dividends being repeated each
month, the lady should never know such
thing as want. That was pretty rich
| pocket of ore for the poor widow.
There are no statistics to prove the
aggregate wives have bagged by indus
| trious searches of husbands pockets, but
we doubt if there has ever been an IN
stance of such find. 1t is to be hoped
that the above piece of good luck will not
| give an impetus of this industry in the
| hope of similar one.
| A Port Townsend paper says it has
been found that the richest placer mines
| of the north on Glacier and Miller creeks,
heretofore supposed to be upon Alaskan
territory, ana therefore within the United
| States, are inside the boundaries of British
Columbia. and they are therefore subject
| to tax by the Dominion Government.
| The old Pittsburg mine on Gold Flat is
| again coming to the front. A gentleman
informed Union reporter last night that
the mine is looking very favorable indeed,
| a ledge of high-grade ore having been
| struck in the 600-foot level. The mine is
being worked by tributerS, who have been
mo u f0r time
The Nevada Transcript says splendid
| quartz has been struck in the Summit
mine, and the prospects are very encour-
aging. If the developments continue as
they have of late it will not be great
while before the company will find it
| necessary to put up mill. Superlntend-
ent Nihell is to be congratulated upon the
success that is attending his management
of the mine.
According to an article in the Republic
can the Golden Ajax mine (Colorado) is a
| bonanza. They claim to have vein 150
to 200 feet wide, which runs from So to $45
| in gold per ton.
| The Colorado Mining Exchange has ex-
PEELED several members for violation of
! the rules.
cleanup of eight loads of ore from the
Indiana mine has just been completed at
the Electric mill. The mine is located on
almost the top of Osborn Hill and is
oWheu W 4hACuaSl w ultS dllQ SONS. Inc
ledge is a good-sized one and is in a re-
gion famous for rich quartz veins. The
result of the crushing is not made public,
but 1t was more than satisfactory to the
owners.-Grass Valley Telegraph.
Sit down on all booms. If big strikes
are made and paying mines are opened
there will be no trouble in disposing of
them to men of wealth. Money will de-
velop the camp and its inhabitants, not
the rabble who follow a boom, will reap
the benehts.-Alaska Mining Record.
The above advice is very sensible, but is
not Alaska mining at the present moment
no small proportion of it's prosperity from
its boom in its mines? What else has
sent the hundreds of miners 10 the coun-
try and created business in the COM
munity? The mining papers there have
] done their share in promoting the boom,