The San Francisco call., 1896-03-04

main shaft is only sixty five feet deep.
A complete diamond drill outfit is being
brought from Chicago to Mercur, Utah, to
be used on custom work.
Line district, Iron County, Utah, has
some very encouraging prospects now be-
ing developed. 1t is about ten miles east
of Spring Valley, Lincoln County, New.
Some seventy or eighty leasers are at work
there. Four miles south, mostly on the
Nevada side, is district just organized,
called Eagle Valley, where there are a
number of promising claims. Both dis
tricts are strictly silver camps, and both
are in need of capital for development.
Charles Harkins, lately from the East, is
about to purchase the Wheeler & Chandler
gravel mines, near Pine Grove, Amador
County.
The famous Bonanza mine, Sonora, Tu
olumne County, which has yielded so
many very rich pockets. has been started
up again with force OF six men.
The Marloe gravel mine, on the North
Fork of the Tuolumne River has been
bonded for $4,000 to the Mining Develop
ment Company, the Office of which is at
Sacramento.
Fresno men are looking for quartz mines
at Columbia, Tuolumne County.
Every little mine in the Klamath River
section, Siskiyou County, is now being
worked, as they are all able to get water.
The snowfall in Northern California has
are wishing for an early and wet spring to
help them out.
Those interested in the new dredging
scheme on the Klamath River are getting
hold of all the river bed possible. They
expect to revolutionize the system of river
bed mining.
On placer claim on Rogue River, few
miles above Grants Pass, DR.. Flanagan
will pump water from the river into a
reservoir, whence it will be drawn for
washing out twenuy-six acres of ground.
AT the Black Gold Channel property on
Foote's Creek, Oregon, !. Bonse, the lessee,
is employing seventy men.
K. M. Hickey has been appointed as
agent of the Miners Association at Grants
Pass, Or, to increase the membership Of
the association by personally laying before
the miners and business men of Southern
Oregon the needs of the association.
Some high-grade, free-milling quartz is
coming out of the Rita mine at the head
of Sardine Creek, Oregon. The mine has
been shut down for some time, but is now
being operated by S. II. Beeman of Gold
Hill.
A 500-foot tunnel is to be driven on the
Albany mine at Mount Reuben, Oregon.
Ed Schetfiien, one of family of miners
known all over this coast, is now engaged
in prospecting at Woodville, Or.
There is some ttouble about the Gold
Basin mines in Oregon, owned by San
Francisco company. The Grass Valley
miner recently put in charge reports that
the gravel carries very little gold, and that
there is no water to mine with and little
prospect Of there ever being any. The
ground has been idle for many years, but
was always supposed to be rich, though
the difficulty of getting water was recog-
nized. and is the reason the ground has
not before been worked. What is to be
done has not yet been definitely settled.
There is movement on foot to estab blish
mining exchange at Portland, Or, where
the principal mines OF Oregon can be
registered, together with reports of de-
velopment work, progress and product of
each mine. The plan may work with
small mines, but the prominent ones'
will not take advantage of it, preferrlng
to keep their own doings from the public.
This is the way in other mining States and
will doubtless be the case in Oregon.
Some very good discoveries have been
made on Sharp's Creek, Lane County, Or.
about thirty miles from Cottage Grove.
An 1S0O-foot tunnel, now in 400 feet, is
being run on the Eureka Consolidated
drift mine on the Forest Hill divide,
Placer County. The claim is a very large
one, embracing over 5000 acres, covering
six and half miles of the ancient river
channel.
The interest of J. A. Peterson in the
Younglove-P Peterson placer claim on Louise
Creek, Or, has been sold to Edward G.
Green OF Santa Cruz Cal.
The Los Angeles oil wells have dropped
from 30 to rs per cent below the point when
they were producing the most.
Several of the lesser mining exchanges
in Denver are to be consolidated.
At the formal opening OF the New York
Mining Exchange it was said it was "the
purpose of the exchange to convince the
people of New York and the East generally
that quick returns from their money lay in
an investment in mines in Colorado and
Utah." AS to California, Montana, Idaho,
leo, Nevada and South Dakota they were
not mentioned, but probably the reason
for this is to be found in the fact that only
Colorado and Utah mines have been listed
on the New York board.
No Chinese miners are allowed in Grip
pie Creek district Colorado.
People without means are advised not
is now overcrowdeG, and there will be q
big rush in the spring. when the poor man
will have very little chance.
Around Bonners Ferry, Idaho, several
promising districts are coming to the
front. Prominent among them is Lemley-
burg, where, on working the placers, good
quartz has been found. Other strikes
have been made at Daddy City, fifteen
miles east of Bonners. The discovery of
galena in the Cabinet Mountains, thirteen
miles southeast, has added to the excite
ment. Besides these strikes the placer
diggings along the rivers and streams have
yielded considerable quantities of gold. All
along the Moyea and Yahk rivers new bars
and Streaks OF pay dirt have recently beer
worked.
1t is expected that there will be greatly
increased activity in the Kootenay (B. c.
mining regions this summer, particularly
in Trail Creek district.
A strong New York company is to ope-
rate the Homestake group of mines, stu
ated on Adams Lake, fifty miles from
Kamloop, B. c., and eighteen miles from
Shuswap on the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road.
OF the ten stampmills on the North
Fork, Idaho, nine are steadily at work and
making satisfactory returns. The country