The San Francisco call., 1897-03-14

Glenville. W. l. Gilbert and John Pierce were
the last to try the property, retim bering the
shaft and putting in new pump and a
blower. The ore lies in kidney form. Its
assay value is not given, but it is said that
good offers for the mine have been refused,
and the strike is another evidence OF the gold
resources OF Kern County.
Three of the best claims near the town OF
Randsburg have been bought fol $3l,OOO by
]. ]. Brown of Leadville and ]. A. Shinn OF
Denver. The claims are the Excelsior, J. l. Z,
and the Big Wedge Development work has
been begun, and the effect of the sale a1d
work is already felt in the camp, which waits
for capital, deve oppient and production
Some thief stole lot OF tools and powder
from Gardner H. Smith, which he had stored
in the tunnel on the Success. Usually there Is
little or no thieving in mining camps, and 1t
will probably soon be that way here. for
several miners have taken steps already look
ing to the righting of these wrongs in the old
fashioned way-RandsDurg Miner.
New placer discoveries have been made In
1ule Canyon, Esmeralda County. New, and
claims are being staked off in the snow.
Los Angeles people have bonded for one
year the Alice mine in the Pinacate district,
Riverside County, and will erect cyanide
plant OF twenty-five tons daily capacity.
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Angeles. The Santa Fe Railroad Company has
discarded oil as fuel on account OF the rse
and gone back to COAL
The old gravel channel at San Antoine camp,
Calaveras County, which in early days yielded
great riches, is again being opened by Peirano
and Lee. Water was the great drawback in
early days, when the bed Of the San Antoine
was worked and the channel made famous by
its yields.
A deed was signed in Bishop last week con-
veying title TO the Wild Rose mine from Harry
Mcnamara and Pat Dowd to w. S Couch and
G. P. Doyle. The purchase price is $40, 900.
The mine. eight miles from Benton, has been
idle for years. The work formerly done was
limited. comprising 1OOfoot tunnel and 130-
foot shaft, but in this over $500, 900 was taken
out. Later Joseph McDermott sunk 60-foct
shaft, finding only base ore. The Banner mill,
three miles distant, will be placed in shape TO
work the ore. This mill has not been used for
thi.teen years. A concentrating plant will be
used at once. and if cyaniding experiments
give satisfactory results q cyanide plant will
be added.-Inyo County Register.
The miners of the Rand district, Kern
County, have ordained as follows: The
area of a mining claim in the Rand
the United States mining laws provided,
not TO exceed 1900 feet in length,
with 800 feet on each side of the vein or lode,
and such surface boundaries shall be marked
by five mon uments, one at each corner, with
an initial monument at the point OF discoy-
cry, each monument to be not less than 212
feet high, with notice placed thereon show
ing the designated corner of the claim, with
relation 10 the same.
The first hoisting engine in the Rand dis
trict, Kern County, CAL, has just been erected
on the King Solomon mine, on which it is the
intention of the owners to sink 500 feet.
At the Magalia mine, Butte County, owned
by Rideout & Haggin, and consisting Of HOO
acres of gravel, the new shaft is 512 feet deep.
The pumping is all done by compressed air,
reheated below by steam. Originally the
whole volume OF water was raised to the sur
face, but Superintendent Gassaway nowpumps
it 10 the 800 level, where it is discharged
through the old works into the creek beyond.
A steam hoist at the bottom OF the shaft hoists
the gravel from the face of the gangway to
the shaft, at present distance of 100 feet.
Every mine on Magalia Ridge, Butte County,
is In operation, and 500 men are employed
there and on Butte Creek.
Ex.Congressman ]. A. Louttit has bonded
from Mrs. j.. Valdel her mine on the west
slope of French Hill, Calaveras County. aud q
contract has been let to sink shaft to the
depth of so feel on the lead.
The New York correspondent of the London
Mining Journal has this to say about Cali
fornia diamonds: "It is not, / think, gen.
orally understood that the United States is
likely enough sooner or later to become a
diamond-producing country. Records of un-
questionable trustworthiness exist of dia-
monds having been found in Virginia and
North Carolina, but the most productive State
hitherto has been California The first an
nouncement of California diamonds was in
1850, in Sillimans Journal, and since
from time to time been reported. The
chief localities have been near Cherokee,
in Butte County; near Placerville In Ell
Dorado County; French Corral, in Nevada
County, and several places in Amador
County. In Trinity County also some very
minute diamond crystals have been found.
Professor F. Woehler of Gottingen some years
ago examined samples of the platinum
sands of Trinity River. After removing gold,
platinum, chrome iron, Silica rutbenium,
etc., by the usual methods he observed the
residue microscopically and found numerous
colorless, transparent grains, which he pre-
sumed 70 be diamonds. Subsequent combus-
ton in oxygen and precipitation from baryta
water convinced him that the microscopic
crystals were true diamonds.
tOn the occasion of a visit of ins pe ction that
/ made in 1894 to the Upper Rancheria dis
trtct of Amador County. Cal, met several of