The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-10-22
THE MINING INDUSTRY.
Improvements Going on in the
Mines.
A NEW SHELTER FOR KESwICK.
ing-Freneh Capitalists to Invest
in CalifoPhIa-Hotes.

stamps, with COMMENTATORS and every
thing complete for sampling and test
ing ores.
The cleanup at the Jumper mine in
Tuolumne county, is increasing each
month in value. The amount of
bullion being produced monthly now
is from $3.50, 900 to 100000.
The Four Hills Mining Company, sit
uated in Plumas county, is busy erect
ing ten-stamp mill. A ten-stamp
mill also being erected on the Little
Jalnison mine in the same county.
The Marguerite Mining Company,
Of Placer county, will shortly erect
5-stamp mill on its property. The
miners along the Klamath are doing
good work now and will continue to
work until the cold weather drives
them out.
The body of good ore recently dis
covered at the Mammoth in Tuolumne
county, gives evidence of being larger
in extent than at first supposed to be.
The new cyanide plant at the Black
Oak is giving good satisfaction treating
ores from that mine.
The Napa Consolidated Quicksilver
Mining Company paid two dividends of
| 10 cents per share last week. One of
the dividends was regular and the
other an extra one. The amount of
both was 100000, making $4,000
paid since January l, 1890.
Since the old Confidence mine of
Tuolumne county has been pumped out
and examined, the owners decided to
erect thirty stamp mill and prepare
tions for the structure are well under
way. 1t will be run by electricity
which will be generated but short
distance from the mine.
The sale and transfer of the Ana
, conda copper mining company of Mon
tana and the Homestead mining com
pany's property of the Black Hills,
Dakota, from the present American
, owners to the Rothschilds, has been
announced. The price for which the
, Anaconda is to be sold is stated at
1874, 800, 900.
: The Standard Mining Company of
Q Bodie will, in the near future, sink
Q the Bodie shaft 5000 feet more, in
: crease their mill to 100 stamps and
/. move their electric plant to Walker
river for more power. The Standard.
n Bodie, Buliwer and Mono mining
Q companies will be consolidated under
o the name of the Standard Exploration
. Company.
i,pr 80
n county, is booming. Fourteen me-
|, chanics have arrived from the Union
n Iron Works, San Francisco, to put up
1t the new 40-stamp mill, which will be
n completed with all possible dispatch.
is Jordan will probably be brisk little
IS camp for some years. 1t will take
long time to work out the group of
mines situated there.
N French capital is seeking opportuni-
<. ties for further investments on the
II mother lode. At present Georges
or Grimaux, the accredited representative
m of syndicate of Paris bankers, is max
70 ing preliminary examination of prop
ID critics in Amador county. Thence he
SO will go to Calaveras, Tuolumne and
o. Mariposa. He will be followed in
ne November or December by mining en-
it. igneers, who will report ON such propo-
IL sitions as Grimaux may lay before
ne them.
IS. Secretary Julian Sonntag, of the Cali
a. fornia Miners Association, is in re-
10. ceipt of letter from the Northwest
er Mining Association, now in session at
z" Spokane, Wash, asking the California
81. body to favor the creation of depart
he ment of mines and to assist in bringing
nd the attention of Congress to the subject
SEES upon converting. The Northwestern
ed Association believes that such a de
as partment would promote mining de
IS. velopment and stimulate scientific re
til search 1t should embrace mining
op geology, geography. irrigation, botany
paleontology, archaeology and ethnolo
gy, say the departments advocates
10 They point out that the various
az bureaus relating to mining are scat
~. teredsthrough several departments, ant
III assert that geography is as much neg
-" lected by the Government as any othe
~ science.
re The sale of the famous Mad Null
of mining property near Whiskytown
in Shasta county, was consummated re
ed Gently. The purchasers are svndicat
,at of San Francisco capitalists. The neN
100 owners will begin active operations t
al. further develop and work the property
m They propose to erect great pumpin
rds station on Grizzly gulch and pump tn
as water through pipe line over tn
TO. mountain to the mine, distance c
,bt over mile.
md Much interest is being manifesto
me relative to the success of the new smeltt
md at Keswick, Shasta county. On tn
ing success of this enterprise much {
mid Shasta county's future developmeI
red depends, and the interest that is take
in the progress of the company is
good indication that the outcome of a
experiments is being carefully patches
ees The company is reticent in regard
mas its business affairs and the precise d
ar, gree of success attained is not know
OF yet it is known that the experiments
ON the new smelter have given 50 muc
OIL, encouragement that two more of Il
ees same kind will shortly be erected.
hit. "
ion rrhters May run oirens.
the Kansas City. Lemon and
,rl. Z. Mckee, owner of Lemon Brother
rib. Circus, have filed bill of sale he
ON. transferring to the United Stat
If a Printing Company of Cincinnati a
-ees the property connected with the Giro
,ars and menagerie to secure a claim T
{ is $l2, 800 for paper used during the pa