The San Francisco call., 1896-08-28

vate news has Just been received at that
office that Weldon ]. Brown has discovered
a mammoth ledge, rich in platinum, on
the other side of the Siskiyous. 1t is not
known how thick the vein is, but it shows
groupings of thirty feet. This statement
comes from reliable source, and our in
formant says there is no doubt but what
it is one of the greatest discoveries made
on the coast in recent years. If true it
may be set down as unparalleled in the
world. 1t is unlikely that it is that metal.
The first mill erected in California was
not built in Grass Valley in 1850 as stated
by Mr.. Abadie. Mariposa County claims
that distinction and accords it to mill of
eight stamps, each in it's own separate
mortar, erected on the Marlposa estate
late in the summer of 1850. 1t was not
till the following January that mill was
erected on the west bank of Wolf Creek,
nearly opposite the site of the present
Empire mill at Grass Valley.-F. A. Rick
ard State GeologIst of Colorado.
friend of the Modesto Herald says
that the Stockton men who recently went
up the Tuolumne to operate a new gold
extracting and saving machine are meet
ing with success. They are now at work
on the sand bars opposite Tail Holt. The
machine is desi gned to catch ana retain
the very fine or float gold that is to be
in the sand of the streams, and according
to the correspondent, is meeting the ex-
pectations of its operators. Now that har-
vest is nearly over, it might pay some of
our farmers and idle men to investigate
the merits of this new apparatus, with
view to obtaining duplicates and operating
them.
An Oakland telegram says: Articles
OF incorporation of the Grass Valley Gold
Mining Company were filed to-day to
carry on a mining business near Grass
Valley, in Nevada County. 1t is proposed
to carry on operations on large scale,
judging from the amount of the capital
stock, which is $10O0,000 with $4,000
subscribed. The incorporators and the
Brodt, $4,000; F. ]. Meckfessel, $4,000;
W. A. McNaughten, $4,000; George
Schultz, $1,000, and H. J. Lewis, $1,000.
A twenty-stamp mill will be erected on
the Thorpe mine in Calaveras.
Ten additional stamps will soon be
erected on the Herman mine of Placer
County.
Gold has been found in the streets of
Fresno which yields about cents to the
pan.
Thirty stamps will be added to the
twenty already st the Grand Victory
mine of Ell Dorado County.
At the celebrated Utica mine at Angels
186 stamps are running and ore mills $l5
per ton in free gold.
The forty-stamp mill at the Poosi be-
longing to the Merced Gold Mining Com
pany is running full time.
The hydraulic miners at Orc Fino, Sis
kiyou County, expect to be able to keep
their giants at work until after the Fourth
OF July this year.
been declared by the Morning Star mine,
Placer County. 1t is one of the most
lucrative gravel mines in the State.
The owners of the Eclipse gravel mine
at Soda Bar. Trinity County, have leased
it to parties who will commence opening
and developing Immediately.
Active operations are to be commenced
on the White Swan mine, a location stu
ated a short distance from the famous
Gwin mine of Calaveras County.
Tie Emerson mine, located a mile and
a halt from Mokelumne Hill, will soon be
opened up. One thousand feet of fifteen
inch steel pipe and all the necessary ma
chinery and timber for a complete moist
ing plant are now en- route from San Fran
CISCO.
The owners of the Redstone mine, sit
uated in Placer County, will add five
stamps Immediately to the mill already
up and contemplate putting in twenty
stamps at point 1900 feet down the river.
Concentrators will be put IN also, two to
each five stamps.
The Yuma Sun SAYS: The Planet
Saturn Mining Company has contracted
with the railroad companies for the trans
poItat1on OF 200, 900 pounds of machinery
from Chicago TO Congress Junction for
their Fools Gulch properties. The COM
pany is preparing to work these prop
critics on big scale. The mill is expected
to be up and in operation by November.
Local geologists in Plumas County ad-
vance the plausible theory that before
the upheave of the Sierra Nevada a river
vas running through the United States
from north to south down into Mexico,
and even South America, and that the
rich diggings on the American, Feather
and Yuba rivers resulted from the cutting
of these rivers into the ancient river bed
that they cross.
According to data collected bv Secretary
Parsons OF the Colorado Mining Exchange
the gold production of Cripple Creek in
first six months OF this year was S., 7,256, ,0O0
He estimates a total production of 1896
will be $15,000,000. That camp produced
in 1895 So, 199, ,000
Itis claimed that 45, 900 tons of ore are
treated monthly in the United States by
the cyanide process recovering $500, 900.
The trolley system introduced in the
deepest level OF the United Verde Com
pany's mine for the handling of ore has
turned out to be success in all respects.
IDe OleSLleQOTSL QT6QSer mas DeeQ IN
operation in the Klamath River pear
QuigIey's for nearly week past. The
running expenses are not large, force of
five men only being employed on both
shifts. A tub of gravel measuring one
cuDic yard and weighing 1000 pounds is
raised every minute of the twenty hours
which constitute a days work. 1t has
been estimated that the gravel will pay an
average of 10 cents to the cubic yard,
which would make the yield S120 per day
Ii the gravel only pays half as much, the
dredger is paying proposition -Siskiyou
News.
Recent developments in working the
beds of rivers seem to promise success. and
may be the dawning OF profitable era in
mining river beds by machinery. The big
mining boat designed to save gold from
the bars in the Snake and Clearwater
rivers in Idaho, recently put IN operation,
has proved great success. The first ex-
perrin mt was made ON bar not known TO
be rich, the gold of which was peculiarly
light and taky. Examination showed
hardly color lef: in the sand, and the
dirt worked paid q cents TO the cubic yard
a miner named Martin Neilby, return
ing from an unsuccessful trip TO the Sal
mon River district. had reached Columbia
River six miles north of Trail Landing,
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