The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-02

on the lower courses of the principal streams
is naturally expected to figure in the discre.
ton OF the commissioners and thus help ease
up the situation as far as the miners are con.
cerned giving further slim illus to the resump-
tion Of hydraulic mining.
The Kirkham mine at Nevada City is to have
ten-stamp mill.-Work has been resumed on
the Spanish mine. Nevada County.-A 2O0-foot
shaft is being sunk at the Tarantula, in
Tuolumne' County, recently bought by all
English syndicate.-The quartz being taken
out of the Dead Horse mine, Tuolumne
County, at the 1900 level, is as good as the
mine ever yielded. The shalt is being sunk
200 feet deeper.
The Amador Ledger says that the old Mark
lee mine, near Volcano, is soon to be reopened
by a San Francisco company. This mine was
worked down TO depth of 500 or 600 feet in
the seventies and ore to the value OF about
81 900, 900 extracted 1t is believed that
large masses of comparatively rich ore were
left in the various levels as too low grade to
prove attractive at that time. A dump OF
some 10000 tons is estimated to be worth So
to So per ton, and can be milled at a cost not
exceeding rs cents per ton-There were 1900
tons of rock milled at the Gwin mine during
April.-Ed ward Hirschler of San Francisco
has bought the Rose Hill mines near Ell
Dorado, for $5000.-San Francisco people have
bonded the Sparrow Hawk, Calaveras Queen
and Werle ranch mines, in Calaveras County
and will do extensive development work.
Trinity County is undergoing q marked
mining development, especially in hydraulic
mining. - English capitalists will spend
100000 in developing the Plumas County
group Of mines, which have been consolida ted
as the Green Mountain. tunnel OF 1000
feet will be driven, machinery put in, etc
An English syndicate will probably buy the
Lily Emma mine, near Greenwood Greek, Ell
Dorado County.-A rich strike is reported from
the Blood mine, Calaveras County, which is
another of the mines abandoned years ago
when the vein seemed to pinch out-1n the
district Immediately around Jackson. Amador
County, $50 900 q month is paid out as
miners wages.-The Argonaut mine, Amador
County, is crushing rock going $12 So to the
ton.
1t is reported that agents of the London EI-
ploration Company have secured bonds on the
Big Four, Hall and Buchanan mines in Gala
veras County.-The most recent applications
for permits for hydraulic mining filed with
the Debris Com ission are from the Margue-
rite Gravel and Eureka Quartz Mining Com
pany, Eureka district, Nevada County, and
| from Charles and Benjamin Hewlett of Co.
| lumbia Hill, Nevada County.--The latest Pa
| cific Coast town to talk about smelter is Los
| Angeles.
| Randsburg is having little reaction from
| its sudden boom, and things are moving
| toward legitimate business basis. on which
| the town will steadily grow with the develop
ment of the district. Nearly all the work
being done in the district is in the line of
prospecting and development, and many
| isin
The entire desert, clear to Death Valley and
| southeast to the Needles. is alive with pros.
| pectors, and new stories of rich strikes keep
| floating from the deserts depths.