The San Francisco call., 1897-01-31

| of those interesting articles thereon by an
engineer just published by the Mining and
Scientific Press without causing dispute or
controversy. Tae articles we're an effort
to dlspassionately analyze the damage
done by detritus in the Sacramento VAL
! ley and the responsibility therefor. John
D. McGillivray, editor of that paper,
briefly sums up the showing made as fol-
lows:'
First-Of the debris sent down into the Sac
ramento drainage system while hydraulic
mining was CARED on unrestrictedly not over
one-ftth could have come from the mines.
Second-0wing to the increased population
| in the foothills and mountains since that time,
and consequently greater erosion, the amount
! OF debris now coming down is about great
! as IL was while the mines were in operation,
and consequently the evils then complained of
are as great as ever.
Third-That had hydraulic mining not been
discontinued some $75, 100000 would have
been produced from the mines, and the loss in
value OF capital and income to the State has
amounted to over 5000, 100000.
Fourth-The direct damage caused by the
debris making lands valueless, loss OF product
and loss to sympathetic industries has not
amounted to over $50, coo, ,000 and of this GER
tainly not over one-ifth could be charged to
the hydraulic miners.
Sixth-The maximum damage possible II all
lands that lie low enough to be covered with
debris should be destroyed would not exceed
$40 0OOO OO0
During 1896 the Selby Smelling Works
handled gold ores, the total value of which
exceeded by 81, COO, coo the value of the gold
ores handled IN 1895. Secretary Under
wood expects another marked increase
1 i, 10
onIv smelter in California doing custom
work, but the near future promises to see
the establishment of other big smelters in
this State, as we'll as in Oregon, Washing
ton and British Columbia. There is much
talk going on about smelters being erected
at various points, and number of towns
are wanting one. Cotton and Los Angeles,
Grants Pass. Oregon, Vancouver and Ross
land, B. c., are among them.
The Mountain copper mines in Shasta
County are giving an impetus to the min
ing of low-grade ores in that region by
buying them for use as a hux for their
copper ores in their smelter.
Iti expected that the Bellwether, Argo-
naut and Anita mines in Amador County
will each receive forty-stamp mills during
the year.
near Angels, in Calaveras County.
The old Skinner mine IN El Dorado
County is to be renamed the Empress
Josephine by the recent purchasers, who
are driving a tunnel into the hill in the
development of its deeper riches.
R. D. Harper of San Francisco has
bonded the Sierra Rica and Pedro Gosa
mines in Mariposa County, which have
lain idle for years.
Fresno and Eastern people who have
bought several mines in the Snerlocks
country, Mariposa County, intend to erect
, an electric power plant on Sherlocks Greek
TO operate the mines.
Two prospectors recently found small
) deposit of gravel on Squaw Greek, Shasta
County, which yielded them $780, Many
men are at work on old gravel or at crew.
cling.
The Colorado River Mining Company OF
San Diego is one of the latest mining cor
porations. The capital is $1,000, 900 and
the incorporators are of Arizona and
Southern California.
Randsburg can now telephone to No
iave.
A cyanide plant with capacity of
twenty tons a day will be erected at Cow
Wells, twelve miles from Randsburg.
The Lost Horse mine the largest pro-
ducer in the Moiaye desert, is yielding
about $4,000 month. John Lang, the
prospector who originally discovered the
Lost Horse, has just made rich find three
miles from the Lost Horse.
The Golden Cross mine in Southern
California, near Yuma. is ielding $1,000
day.
The Cotton cement works have resumed
operations, and expect to keep going this
time.
The Gold Mountain mine, San Bernar-
dino County, has been closed down for the
winter.
The Adelaide copper mine. Hum boldt
County, New, now employs forty men.
A debris agitation seems to be brewing
in the Lower Fraser, in British Colum bia,
as the mining development proceeds.
! According 10 the Oroville Mercury,
, Butte County produced $250,OOO more in
gold in 1896 than in 1895.
Carbonate Hill, Leadville, which has
prod uced ore worth SIS, 100000 and given
employment to a thou and people, has
been stilled for some years as certain
result of the strike. The hosting out OF
3 the big pumps in some of the largest
properties and the consequent flooding
S has dismayed the city and the striking
| miners. The activity of the Leadville
: district, whenever it is resumed in the
future, will be in the line of development in
other parts OF the district and it will be
e years befose Leadville RECEIVERS from the
: blow of the still unsettled strike.
Keen competition has demoralized the
s smelling industry in Utah.