The sun., 1896-07-13
MONEY IN QUICKSILVER.
THEsU MINES ARE PRoFITIBbb
PROPERTIES IN CALIFORNIA.
rs,-N,,r the Anaconda Copper Mine 60 =
Dspth OF 5000 Feet-9eoioGists Stuhy-
ing Montana Mines-PittsburEh Wont
Buy Any Iron Ore at the Ruling Prices.


Dspth OF 5000 Feet-eeoioGists stnhy-
lag Montana Mtues-PttsburEh Won't
Buy Any Iron Ore at ths RulinE Prices.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 4.--The quicksilver
mines OF California are profitable properties.
Bur tho three months ending May the net
earnings OF tho Etne mino In Napa county
were $50, 400, and dividend Of $4,000 was
uald on juno 10. The net earnings OF tho
Napa Consolidated for the quarter ending
ysiue 1 were S22. .o43. Tho regular quarterly
dividend OF $4,000 and an extra dividend OF
tho samo amount were paid on July l.
The deepest continuous shoot of gold quartz
ever worked is tho ore body in the Idaho
Maryland mine in Nevada county. 1t has
been worked 70 n depth OF 6,B40 feet. and has
produced $50, 900. 900 in gold up to date.
Mining operations in Placer county are be-
ing carried on with activity, but without a
boom. Many old mines are being reopened
.nd u great many sales are reported. Tho de-
Vslopmsnt of the mines gives employment TO a
great many men. and the gold yield this year
ID expected to DO tho largest In tho history Of
the county.
A quartz claim on tho klamath, three miles
rtun Henley, has been sold to e. 8. Smith Of
ban prancisco for 5000, and is being de-
veloped by tunnel TO tap the vein eiRhty-hve
fsec below the prospect workings. At the
Black Jack, near Henley. miners arc making
~ q day crushing the old track ballast.
The Quartz Valley hydraulic mine. sis-
kiyou, has been closed down. after q run Of
lyO days. The cleanup, with ground eluices
and bedrock yet to be cleaned. amounted to
$4,000. The plaovrs near Callahan's and on
Scott River are paying 81 to the cubic yard.
Tho revival Of mining in California appears
10 be tho work of q new set of men. who have
replaced the old-timers and applied business
methods 20 tho work. They are making
ininee instead of trying to find pockets, and
tney have the capital TO develop and equip the
pruperties. Instead of counting upon pay ore
from tho grass roots. they sink from 500 to
LOCO feet without stopping TO drift, and they
are taking hold OF abandoned claims. that
wero supposed to have been worked out years
neo. and makiny them pay. The combination
Of courage and capital is making tho old pocket
miners stare.
vmarNrA CITY. New, July 4,-The Bruins
wick Lode II being prospected and opened
through the Chollar and Hale 81 Norcross
drifts and inclines. An east crosscut from
the south drift on the 2oo-foot level has cut two
streaks Of ore, ton and fourteen in shes wide,
assayins from 81 to $40 ton. In running
the drift twenty-four tons of ore, sampling
Sos, were taken out and sent to tho mill.
NEW MEXICO.
Santa Ff, n. NJ. July e.-The owners Of the
Victor mine, oochiti. have leased and bonded
their mine to Colorado men for fifteen months
on q basis of $50 900. In addition to the bond,
the lessees pay to the owners 10 per cent. of all
$50 ore and 10 per cent. of all ore sampling
over $50 that may be extracted, and they
agree to do thirty days. work each month for
fifteen months. The Washington, Crown
Point, Albemarle. and Lone Star are ship
ping ore regularly. A claim Oh the Washing
ton lead located by ueorge Marsh, newspa-
per reporter, has just been added to the list of
shippers.
The Midnight claim. La Belle district. has
passed into the hands Of an Ohio company
under leake for q year. The lessees pay largo
cash bonus and agree to spend $500 q month
in development work. The Midnight vein is
eight feet wide. with 3o-inch pay streak Of
cube hematite carrying gold.
SILVER CITY, \. NJ, July 6.-The new
smelter of the Silver City Reduction Company
was blown in on last Tuesday, and the company
will keep IL in continuous operation. Tho ca
pacity Of the new smelter Is sixty tons day,
and 1t Is not expected that 1t will be necessary
to bring any of the ore to be treated at the
smelter more than fifteen miles. large
portion of the orc will como from the mines
in the central district, about nine miles from
Silver City. The company has ample capital
to operate the works and q practical emelter
man has charge The company will purchase
concen trates from the mills in the surrounding
camps. and there will be no necessity for mill
owners to ship concentrates to Colorado points
for reduction In the future.
Operations will soon be resumed In the Little
Fanny at Mogollon. This Is one Of the best
mines in the Mogollon district. but the prop
erty has been in litigation and on this account
its development has been retarded. Tho Con-
fdence and the Maud s. are the principal pro-
ducipg mines Of the camp now. and each Of
them Is producing gold In largo amounts. This
camp is the largest producer of gold and silver
In New Mexico, and the output Of bullion
promises to increase steadily as the mines
are developed. The largest-gold lead in the
Southwest runs through this camp. but the
richest:cre is found in veins which appear to
be branches Of the main vein. There are quite
sasea Of and II have
ore.- Properties: which have been developed
on tho main vein show immense bodies OF ore,
but 1t is Of too low grade TO be successfully
handled with the present facilities for trane-
The l owners @ OF the Einora mine in the White
Signal district are makin prepar ations to mill
been % suffciently devoloped to show % that { there ere
10 ORC enough in the mine 70 keep mill In op-
eratiop for some years. The ore ore is ~ not rich
tion at any Of the mills now In operation in
the neighboriDg camps, and mill will be
erected near the mine: A portion Of the ma
chinery is already on the ground. 49,
ARIZONA.
TUCSON. July 3.-The owners of the Zorro
mine recently struck another body Of high
goes 800 ounces In silver. besides d good per-
centaRe of lead. Superintendent Shirley is
grading mill site at the Howard mine. on the
dered. j. w. Brown has had the Morning
GLORY mill In operation for several days with
the mine. Water is getting scarce, and Mr.,
Brown is making arrangements to use 1t over
again, and In this way hopes to keep tho mill
In operation for ten or twelve hours o day.
Tho new management OF tho Pine Mountain
with good success, and have again demonstra-
ted that the orc bodies there improve with
depth. They have recently opened up three
additional ore bodies. each about two feet
wide, two OF which are milling more than 500
S74, with concentrates assayinR SSS.
In the Cherry Greek district there 10 steady
Improvement. II. De Kuhn has opened up
another rich ore BODY in the Mock .ng Bird
mine. The msn who have leased tho Rocky
Pass group have put two shifts at work. An
option has been taken on the Red Horse
group by jerome mon.
John Bryant sent In ton Of orc recently