The San Francisco call., 1896-01-17

SoinS vi washing machines, CalIeu bNS
Pltkln, manufactured in Arizona, have
been shipped to New Zealand.
MINING companies to the number OF 1l75
were incorporated in Colorado last year,
OF Whlch 367 were organized in December.
Although the Colorado smelters have
Wltnln the past year nearly all increased
thelr plants they are now hardly able to
handle the ore offered them, which shows
now the mining industry is progressing.
All the Silver Queens and Silver Kings
and Silver Princes, etc, throughout The
mining regions are being changed into
mines called Gold Queen, Gold King, Gold
Pr1nce, ETC., which shows which metal is
the most profitable to mine in these days.
Los Angeles now maintains five we'll
equipped assay offices, which shows that
men are going into mining down in that
direction.
Ali the Cripple Creek mining stocks
listed at the Colorado Mining Exchange
on January l, 1894, had an average value
81 1.63 cents per share. On January L,
1880, their average value was 81 cents, an
advance OF over 315 per cent.
The Nevada papers are putting some
pretty steep estimates on the probable
yield OF placers now being worked in that
State. The value of the Buckeye placers,
recently purchased by Hayward & Lane,
is estimated at nearly one hundred mil
lions, The Pine Nut ledges and placers, in
at ssventy-hve million; and the lie Grande
ORC placers, between Silver City and Day
ton. Is tXed or estimated as able to WELD
two hundred millions. 1t is to be hoped
that these expectations will be realized,
but quarter of these amounts would be
very profitable.
1t is stated that there are parties willing
TO bring water into Pine Nut district,
Nevada, for 100000 or for a stipulated
sum per year paid by the mine owners.
The Last Chance mine in the Coeur
q. Alenes, Idaho, has been turning out
about 4OS tons month of crude ore and
concentrates, but this is now to be in
creased to 1000 tons month.
A number of the Ceur d'Alene mines
are now working full handed again, and
II is expected that the product this year
will exceed that of all previous years.
The Santa Rosa mine, Perris district
riverside County. is making good record
Tor Itself with its 20-stamp mill.
The Gold Cross mine at Hedges, San
Diego County, is now milling 800 tons Of
ore per day.
The Good Hope mine, Perris district,
riverside County, is working good ore in
its 20-stamp mill.
The bills to be sent to Washington by
the State Miners Association have been
heartily indorsed by the Siskiyou County
Miners Association. The latter associa-
ton IS to be strengthened by new mem
bers, and very large committee to aid in
this has been appointed, covering all the
important points IN the county.
The Harqua Hala (Ariz.) mines treated
by cyanide process in one month recently
3SO9 tons OF ore of an assay value of only
81 Y per ton. They extracted 84 per cent
OF the gold at total expense of 5000 and
profit OF $3.50.
The Apache group of mines, Arizona,
twelve miles up the river from Gila Bend,
and owned by w. II. Thomas A. Buck
and Mrs. Carroll, was sold recently to San
Francisco men for $4,000.
The famous old Silver King mine, Ari-
zona, which has been idle some years, is
now being worked again with forty men
employed, who each get out 1000 ounces
OF silver per month, or an aggregate of
$40 600.
The United Globe copper mines of Ari-
zona Territory have on hand at Fort
Thomas 100000 pounds of coke for their
smelling furnaces.
In the famous Homestake mine in the
Black Hills. S. D., at depth of 500 feet
crosscuts and drifts show the vein to be 451
feet VIDE, With a solid mass of pay ore
blocked out for 800 feet. Very little ore
has been removed below the 600 level, and
the ore on the lower levels is of higher
grade than that found above.
Cripple Creek. Colo, is now in its most
rapid stage of development, and is, while
the latest, the greatest gold field of the
historic Pixies Peak region.
Gilpin County, the old and reliable gold
producing region of Colorado, with re-
duced railroad and smelling rates, is tax
ing on new vigor and mine-owners are
increasing their working force and opening
abandoned diggings.
The coming spring is likely to witness
more active and systematic prospec ctlnp
than o.
rado. OF course the work is mainly to be
directed 10 gold claims, as is the case in
other States.
The Director of the Mint estimates that
10000, 600 in gold and $4,000, 600 in silver
were used in the industrial arts last wear.
Quite number of Comstock New
mines have been listed on the CHICAGO
Mining Board.
The tramway from the Hall mine to the
smelter at Nelson, B. c., has been com
pleted. The smelter will have q capacity
OF 100 tons day, and the line of the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad runs directly to the
works.
People up in the Ceur d'Alene region,
Idaho. expect their mines to produce 772,-
0OO tons OF ore this year, worth nearly
$4,000, 900.
A new mill is going in on the Standard
mine in the Cnur d'AIene.
There IS quite a gold excitement at
Moore Lake, fifteen miles from Phillips
burg, Mont. The mines are in quartz.
A man owning flourmill IN Boise City,
Idaho, intends to put up alongside OF it a
custom quartzmill. He has plenty of
water-power, and can serve both farmers
and miners.
Washington people are much dissatisfied
regarding. the delay in opening the Col
vile indian reservation, which was ex-
pected as soon as practicable after the
Government ordered the survey in 1892.
The mining boom in Utah is causing
great activity in the Surveyor-General's
office by demands for mineral surveys for
patent.
A vein of anthracite coal about four feet
thick has been discovered in Rock Creek
Canyon, Utah County, Utah.
Mercur district, Utah, now has Utica
mine, but shares of stock are for sale,
which is different from the original Utica
in this State.
Utah papers now devote considerable
space daily to the transactions in the Min
ing Stock Exchange.
An addition of forty new stamps will
soon be made to the Eureka Hill mill,
Utah, thus making 1t 100stamp plant.
The mining town tf Sunshine, Camp
Floyd district, Utah, is building up very
rapidly.
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