The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-02-21

talists.
Development work in quartz properties I'M
der bond is assuming encouraging proportions
in all directions from Placerville throughout
Placer County.
The new ten-stamp mill erected on the lower
end of the abandoned Springfield, in Placer
County, is working the tailings of the old
lime property. 1t Is operated by Williams &
Harpending and is known as the Union mine.
1t is reported that rich placer diggings have
been discovered on the McCloud River, about
eight miles above Baird.
The working of many mines in Siskiyou and
Trinity counties is being interfered with by
floods resulting from the recent storms.
C. NJ. Root writes follows from Kernville
of mining revival in that part of Kern
County:
"Keysville, the center of the Kern River
| placer excitement in the sos, is again coming
to the front but this time through its quartz
mines. A Los Angeles company-the Los An
geles Gold Mining Company-has purchased
the Mammoth group of mines and has opened
good bodies of ore. They have just comp. eted
one OF the best built ten-stsmp mills in Califor
MIA and are now crushing ore. They are
working twenty-five men.
1.-THE Colorado Gold Mining and Develop
ment Company has bought the noted Keyes
mine and several adjoining mines, and is
making preparations TO put in twenty-stamp
/
has caused q townsite TO be laid out and al
ready Buildings are going up; water pipe has
| been ordered and mains will at once be laid
| on It's arrival. There are about seventy-five
men working IN the district already, and
| more being put at work daily. This is one of
| the few mining camps in California in which
! miners are actu ally wanted.
1.-The mineral belt is tracesble for twenty-five
| miles and the surface showing vary from $50
] inc
through the district contains about $4,000
miners inches of water and furnishes ample
! power for all purposes.
taking it all in all this is of the best To-
calities for investment that 1 have seen in
Southern California, not accepting Randsburg,
which 1 carefully examined before coming
! here"
Messrs. Littleield Day of Portland are be-
| ginning the development of their large placer
mines twenty miles west of Roseburg, Or.
long communication to the Portland Or
egonian dwells on the but slightly developed
placer-mining possibilities of Jackson and
Josephine counties, in Southern Oregon, show
| ing the great abundance of water from the
Rogue River and sma ller streams and the OPP
portunity for successful operations on the CAL
| ifornia scale.
1t is asserted that there are thousands of
acres of mining ground yielding from 10 cents
to 40 cents cubic yard awaiting the opera
| ton of capital on a large scale and that one
! great hydraulic plant could take out yearly
! more than the whole present yield of the
State. There few fairly well equipped
placer mines but most of the mining is done
by simple sluicing or with rockers, and largely
by ranch miners who prosperously cult
vate part of their land and wash the rest. The
ranch miners pillow and harvest in summer and
dig gold in winter, and are blessed above their
neighbors.
new hydraulic plant at a mine on the
Illinois River, Oregon, yielded $500 for the
first days run.
The Colville reservation, in Washington. is
open 10 the white man for mining only, and
the coming of spring is seeing quite rush OF
mining enterprise to it. good many good
mines have been opened within the year, and
much development and prospecting is go
ing on.
On Texada Island, B. c.. there is great z c.
tivity and discoveries are being made ali over
the island. The Van Anda Copper and Gold
Mining Company has sunk a 12S-foot shaft,
erected a steam hoist and pump and is ship
ping ore assaying $40 in gold, IL ounces of
silver and 1871 per cent copper.
The recent report of a marvellous gold dis
covery on Klondike Creek, about seventy
miles from Fortymile Camp, on the Yukon, is
helping to stimulate the Alaskan rush which
is forming at the sound. Boats leaving for
the north are carrying heavy lists of passen-
gers who want to be early on the ground.
The December report of the Alaska Tread
wen Gold Mining Company shows the milling
of ID, 736 tons of ore, averaging 1914 per ton.
The bullion shipment was $43, 096 The bull
lion from sulphurets was $17338.
One of the latest strikes reported from Colo
RADIO is In the Emancipation mine, Boulder
County, where at the 160-foot level the six
inch vein yielded ore running $50, 600 to the
ton. The property was recently purchased by
an English syndicate.
The Color ado State Bureau OF Mines has in
creased its activity and usefulness. and Com
missioner of Metalliferous Mines Lee has pre-
pared report which will be of much interest
TO mining men. 1t contains the first reliable
statistics regarding Colorado mines. Mine
casualties are within his province, and the
report enumerates a total OF $40 accidents to
persons, OF which 154 were fatal Falling ma
terial was the chief cause, killing 80 and
| injuring 50.
The estimate of the number employed in the
mines includes laborers only, and excludes
| engine .rs, owners employees in general offices,
etc. The men engaged in mining in the State
are 23,o45, classified follows: Under
ground miners, timbermen, trammers etc.,
1924; topmeu, engineers, ore-sorters, car
penters, etc., 1856; millmen, smelters, sam
ping works, $3.50; teamsters and packers,
1904
Cripple Creek mi mes are yielding about
$l,o 600 per month, with an increase COM
| ing.
James Ferry is credited with striking a
pocket OF ore running II 900 ounces Of silver
to the ton in his leased mine, the Della S, al
Aspen, Colo.
The Idaho Legislature will likely pass the
bill prohibiting mine-owners from running
| stores In come ction with their mines
| Collaborating lodes IN limestone have been
discovered near Deadwood in the Black Hills.
| The prejudice against limestone as a gold
| bearing rock has prevented this discovery in
region that has been prospected for twenty
| years.
| Lyman ]. Gage, who is to be Secretary of the
Treasury, has about $500, 900 invested in
mining in Boulder County, Colo. where he
was married.
The new lessees of the Chino conner mine
| of the Santa Rita district, New Mexico. have
pumped out the mine and found much rich
copper ore in the old workings. Other old
neigh boring mines are to be reopened, and the
experience with reopening some smaller ones
indicates that these mines Will again be largo
and profitable producers.
Itis proposed in the Colorado Legislature
to prohibit the duplication of mines of the
same name.
Shipments of mica from the Czarina mine.
Lincoln County, New, have been praised in
Manchester. Eng.
Baker City, Or. is the latest place to talk
about mining exchange.
Charles Love and associates have bought the