The San Francisco call., 1896-03-04

around Murray will be very thoroughly
prospected this year. The season for pros
p 8 ting will not open before April.
They have quit working in the mines on
Sundays on the Comstock for the first
time since the camp became an important
one.
On Relief Creek in the old Elk City Dis
trict of Idaho. the Relief Mining Com
pany is carving on some extensive opera
tions in gold quartz. Elk City is 12O miles
from Lewiston and about sixty miles from
Granpeville. From the nearest railroad
there is 125 miles of staging to the camp.
J. R. Callahan, a mining expert well
known in the State, is examining the
mines at Rossland, B. c., for English cap
italists.
There is great rush from Spokane and
vicinity for the Colville reservation, and
hundreds of miners are going.
The mild weather has made 1t possible
to get into the Fourth Of July country, on
the Yahk River, Idaho, and many pros
pectors have now gone in.
It is said that an the Champion Bear
Creek district, B. c., Trail Creek is to have
a rival as great gold camp. Champion
southeast about twelve miles above the
town of Trail, and Bear Creek flows into
the big river about three miles below that
town. The heads of both creeks are only
q mile apart The development done this
winter shows the claims to be very prom
ising indeed.
British Columbia is considering the
question of imposing per cent tax on
the gross output of the Juines, on the basis
of the amount of ore shipped.
Owing to political and labor troubles the
monthly output of the Transvaal (South
Africa) mines has been greatly reduced,
A number of miners will start from Spo-
kane and Tacoma, WASH, and from Port
land and other Oregon cities for the mines
at Cooks Inlet and the Yukon, Alaska, this
spring.
The mines of the Rand. South Africa
paid upward of $10,000,0O0 in dividends
last year. The total South African mining
dividends in 1895 were about $33, 100000.
The Copper Queen Company of Bisbee is
now running two hoists on it's Mineral Hill
mines, in the old st. Xavier district,
eighteen miles southwest of Tucson. and
shipping the copper ore to Bisbee.
The Arrow district, south and east of the
Providence range Of mountains, in South
ern California has a number of men at
work, but is little known. 1t is about
twenty-five miles from Fenner, and water
is rather scarce. There are many pros
pectors in the camp, but there is no custom
mill.
In doing assessment work at Organ, n.
Mex, several big strikes were made, and
the camp has brighter future before it
than ever before.
The Prescott Courier is informed that
w. A. Clark, who is now in Prescott, will
soon put in machinery which will double
the present output of the United Verde
mines.
The Good Hope mine at Perris, River
side County, is running its mill twelve
hours day and employing forty men.
1t is expected that prospecting will be
very lively in the Pinacate district this
summer as many men are even now going
over the hills about Perris, Riverside
County.
A find has been made out on the Mesa
in Las Vegas n. Mex, about four miles
east of that place. 1t has been named the
Surprise gold camp.
The diamond drill is to be employed to
a considerable extent at Trail Creek, B. c.,
this year. 1t is in use on the lie Ro: and
the War Eagle will soon have one.
The Newtown copper mine, Calaveras
County, has beeu started up again, with
Colonel II. D. Ranlett in charge.
The Wildman-Mahoney mine, Amador
County, is now running all of its seventy
stamps on ore.
Quite party of men from st. Louis,
Mo-, left last week to try their fortunes in
the gold fields OF Venezuela.
at the Fortuna mine, in the desert
thirty miles east of Yuma, and fifteen
miles from water, they sell that liquid for
we'll near the Gila River. The mine be-
longs to c. D. Lane of the Utica, and has a
ledge twenty to twenty-five feet wide of
$35 to $40 ore. Some has been shipped
which is worth over 500 per ton. The ore
is all free milling.