The San Francisco call., 1897-04-25

D. n. thornton, vice-pres.dent OF the Cali
fornia Miners Association, is meeting with
much success in his present Jealous efforts to
organize new branch county assoc iations, to
sumulate those already organized and to
bring them all into cooperation with the
Sia:e Associa ton. which needs their support
He Is making tour of the mining counties
as an officer and representative of the associa-
tion, sent out by the executive committee,
ana spent the last week in Ell Dorado County.
he belleves that total mem bership OF 10, 600
can be secured in the State. There is nothing
put good wishes anywhere for the success OF
the association. which has SO completely won
the confidence Of the mining and the general
public by its high and representative char
acter ana the remarkable success which 1t has
achieved In securing legislation in behalf OF
the industry.
| With the comparatively recent discovery
that the veins of the mother lode are apt to be
as rlcn at the greatest depths reached as
ABOVE, deep mining has become q matter of
much Importance to California. the increased
| gold prod uction of the mother lode region in
the future Will come from operations a deeper
levels as well as from the development OF new
mines. The Bendigo field in Australia has
taken the lead in deep gold mining and just
now holds the record
The Diestelhorst dredger on the Klamath,
dredge river mining, is now near the mouth
OF Scott River in Siskiyou County. One of the
hveliest sections OF Siskiyou County now is on
thompson Creek. where there are many hy
drdulic mices in full operation, including the
Nanetta and the Seattle. The hydraulic
mines at Orc Fino Siskiyou County, are in full
blast, with plenty Of water for the giants and
promise OF water until July. A Chinese COM
pany has in operation the Garrett mine at
Trinity County is having q big but legiti-
mate mining boom. There is greater activity
than ever before In placer mining and the
country is full of prospectors. Trinity County
now leads in hydraulic mining and has room
Tor much greater development. On the East
Fork OF the Trinity many new placer mines
have been opened this winter, old claims have
been successfully worked and much attention
is being given TO quartz mining. Cannon g.
Hanley OF French Gulch in a quartz location
near Castella have q 2O-foot ledge of free
milling Hedges & Pelletreau Sr. have
sold the Highland placer mine, opposite Tsy-
lors Flat, to Red Bluff men. The property
comprises about seventy acres of gravel, with
water right. The claim is high bench
and had been overlooked for years until the
present owners took possession and began
working the mine.
The mill nt the Northern Belle mine, Sierra
County, will soon be started up. after a long
season of enforced ideness.-At the Bald
Mountain extension mine, in this county, the
north tunnel is being pushed ahead at the rate
of forty fee week. Il is expected that the
channel will be reached in another 200 feet
The Sunnyside mine, in Plumss County,
which is owned in the East, is expected 10
soon undergo development on an extensive
scale.-The tunnel at the Dardanelles mine,
Placer County, is being reopened.- ations
have begun at the Gray Eagle mine Placer
County, and q large force OF men has been put
10 work.
J. H. Challen and San Jose people have in
corporated the Topaz Centennial mine near
Spanish Ranch, Butte County and 1t is now
being worked, a bedrock tunnel being devel-
oped with good results.--Mr. Warner of San
Francisco has bonded the Buchanan gravel
mine, Butte County for six months. He will
run a tunnel 10 the channel-In Calaveras
County there is activity everywhere. The
California Exploration Company has put a
gasoline hoist in the Gold Hill mine.-At the
Gwin work is prosecuted on the 1900 and
400 levels, the drifts being driven north and
south from the shaft at both levels. The
miners are stopping and uprasing in ell drifts
and taking out rock sufficient TO keep The
forty stamps running night and day.-The
shaft In the EsperanZa is down to AGO feet in
good ore. Work is being resumed in the
keystone, and the Great western has been
started up with a full force of men.-At the
Burgess development work goes rapidly on
with force of fourteen men.-Preparations
are being made at the Vair tunnel. near
Mokelumne Hill. TO utilize the water from the
Mokelumne Hill aud Campo Seco Canal Com.
pany's ditch for power 10 rur the air
compressor and machine drills which will be
put in.
The old Jetfries mine in El Dorado County
VIII soon have ten-stnmp gravel mill in
opera tion.-The Starlight in this countT is
taking out rich ore from the 270 level.-A
twenty-stamp mill is being erected by French
d Bell on their mine at the head of Crom-
becker Greek, Nevada County.-The Milliken
mine in this county will be in operation again
in month. The burned timbers are being
removed.-Machinery is en- route from Emil