The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-07

start up on next Monday.
CALIFORNIA.
Los ANGELES, May 29.-The mines Of south.
ern California have had n remarkable develop
ment during the last two or three years. In san
Diego and Kern counties alone the Increase in the
oSSsRTt Of %6S gold a and sS sllysS y m lsss tS SSsT oa the RTsl
the other southern counties do not show much
i there Sss bssn SaTons * sSEieFE lnc GeS OF in ,n tSe
amount Of prospecting and development work.
roads and developing water preliminary TO, the
development of mines. In the desert, regions
be until Hi'i recently YIN have now been brought with.
In easy communication with the railroads. The
Rand district Is to nave one railroad perhaps r.
the presence Of much local capital eager for In
N. b. Nixon has recently obtained control of
the Guiliani mine on Suffer Creek, Amador
county. and is running A. a tunnel from the creek e,a
iron, and gaiena sulpLurets, and assays very
Nessss, Anthony, Cope 4 O.; have s Ella, the In:
: aTss psySspS oiSiC;SSS; 4 4 ;Ss EsIIyS, VIM I6 Is
tho mine viii be worked on a much larger scale
than heretofore.
enty miles from Randsburg, 70 attracting atten-
tion, A new towp. called ballarat, has been
started near the mines. which o = soon Mo 70 nave an,sn a
At Rands6ars. in Kern county, some very
The last milling had gone sI4b to. the ton, but
VIII so ss5i Ks h Il f0s ss saa,oo G'p psr tom anu '''''''' y
The Alameda, In which an exS ,Gf h1}s rich Ght
stri soo SH as n eSsa. tT SMITH %fst Z Gen esn;t ssln II hf Ios 8 S1!
geles recently bought the Success mine, within
two miles Of Harrisburg, from W; W. s iss E Sto,
and MI. Stockton had drifted 400 feet. The
new owners have already disposed Of the mine
AZ 4 IN remarkably i rich strike has been made in
MM sSs n .o mime sM5g Tl w pa,lGs ff Saa b RsS% pros.
p @sa ! for SGp t%snty H Years. "i but with Il poor 4 SUCCESS
until about March /, when. he began finding
wire wire, gold old ,o Of s sa1 oSd d pStrt 6E hi, Dq ndw fo tnSt
mine, and the next month he sold It for n 900
to shaw Brothers Of Raymond. They win erect
out, One ion Of gre run through 3 srss,ra
Yielded $4,000; Wagner picked Ike his his ,d fortune
The old Cariboo ledge has been encountered
in the Allison Ranch mine, Nevada county,
which LAB l. being fayn rs e 2 S;el5 By M %itb tho h t cr%dc
methods then employed, as high as 1878 per
ton. The Allison Ranch mine produced over
$9,oOo.0o0 and then was abandoned Tor thirty
Twenty;nine Palms T. one Of the new mining
and has grown 70 from two prospectors and one
prospect hole in December last To, forty miners,
a stamp Mill mill: and md a aS sooddlS yn 5u nrS bo S6 ei ssTsI.
oped by the Caro- Company.
The Old Mexican mines, near Escondido, San
Diego county, have been sold for 800 600 to a
syndicate Of Eastern capitalists, headed by J. r;
Hedges Of Pittsbnrg and William Spieth OF
force Of men put on at once. The mines have
never been. systematically worked, but have
been scratched over by Ne Mexieans 1T At intervals inter a5s
to $40 per ton.
VIRGINIA CITY, May 29,-In the Brunswick
lode Chollar continues to extract, and last week
sent to mill over thirty tons Of ore a day, the
S1GTa Snd 5sst e gun nsssy Of Of sIlv which bsr t was S pTeSi,
ddsSnnat CHI Charles los H. Fish Fish issues ss! a Statement which
ing tho present Consolidated California and Sir;
ggtshii ESQ @ 4a4. and GGGm lEIHeyy s sR $50 IS i .sss. & Snd S sSas
they paid dividends amounting to S;s, lis, 500:
soon on u large pile Of taillngs.
4 strike y has been maze ndec In NJ no ISsp n n mine nine
On s@,lh have sseios 3 f axe.f nohc ledge i geo Of e dre funn ins
At lexington Eastern capitalists have bonded
or bought several copper mines, and are pre-
etoaaassn S pe 70 day. RHs up At { Pa%Siin III Hollow o. 'T nsar TEE IL,
ington, several strikes have been made that
assay $50 to $40 per ton in gold.
WASHINGTON.
SEATTLE, May 29.-At present there are two
placer crazes in Washington one near Tacoma
along the shores of the Narrows for twenty
miles; the other is in eastern Washington, at
Davenport, where q 1ims are being staked in
the tow and down Cottonwood Greek to the
Columbia River. twenty-five miles. The first
discovery was made in excayating for a we'll in
the In vi GalS Fiji Fl lPSa issriSP, on the slopes of Noun.
Rainier, the owners OF the Current group have
contracted for n ten-stamp gold mill, to be
On the Colville reservation a large amount
Of development work is being done on Grouse
men are employed in the district. Al least
twenty producing mines have been opened, and
a sea lsfge to sT tSs am Of ore o wv fWs es fihlRped aS oSt N Iads
tana-
ALASKA.
SEATTLE, May 2s.--Recent arrivals from
Cooks Inlet report the inlet free from ice, and in
the mining camps the miners began sluicing on
April 8, q month earlier than is customary.
output Of gold from this section promises to be
large.
Mines, the AMOUNT Of gold dust taken out Of
Glacier and Miller creeks on the Yukon is $4,000
0 ooTss I ghirSd at a Of satt s soS} 100 n that He ee 1llS re-
hood and estimates 100000 tons in sight.
Near Howkan an Indian squaw, discovered a
against the rock and Knocking a piece off The
ledge. She picked 1t up and exhibited 1t to
claim and uncovered the ledge, which is pro,
nounced one OF the richest ree-milling ores dis
Mr.. ogflvie, Government Gold Commissioner
in the KIondike district of the Yukon, in his re-
cent reports on the mines, says; Since my last
It is certain that millions will be taken out Of The
ulSlriCl III uc next ich years. I'll hOne VI INT
claims the pay dirt Is Of great extent and very
rich; Ono man, told me Yesterday that be
claims on Bonanza, and found $l4.25 in It. o.
course. that may be an exceptionally rich pan
but IS TO- 81 per pan Is the average on that
and the width yet undetermined; but 1t Il
known to DO thirty feet. Even at that figure the
result at nine to ten pans to the cubic foot anc
500 feet long will be nearly ~, 900, 900 at SIS poi
pan. One-fourth of this would be MORMON
Another claim has been prospected to such al
cXtont that 1t Is known there Is about five feet
less than thirty feet. Enough prospecting has
been done to show that there are at least ifteeI
miles, of this extraordinary, richness, and the in
dications are that we will have three or foui
times that extent, II not all equal to the above
In a letter of more recent date he says: PLACER
prospects continue more and more encouraging
and extraordinary. i. is beyond doubt thai
three pans on different claims on III Dorado
turned out 1904, 1912, and $2l6, but it mus
be borne In mind that there were only three sucl
pans, though there were many running from
$40 to $50"
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
SEATTLE, May 2s.--The Whitewater mine
which recently changed ownership for $500, 900
has paid from the grass roots, and its producI
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