The San Francisco call., 1897-10-03

surface e.
composition. Within the same shoot there
may be MANY and great variations of the
tenor, but there is certainly no gradual de-
crease OF it from the surface down.
Some months ago there was consolidation
in London of several companies owning the
Banner and other mines in Butte County, and
all the properties passed to the Consolidated
Gold Mines OF California, Limited. E. Harvey
one OF the directors, came out for an ins pee
ton and has returned with his report to the
directors and shareholders. OF the Banner
mine he reports LAG, 400 tons of profit table ore
in sight August 80. Tnere were samples of
this ore that ran as high as S1727 per ton, but
In arriving at conservative estimate of the
average value all such assays were discarded.
The whole face of each drift and
tunnel was cut down and milling
test of $50 tons wGs made. The returns
showed an average value of 81 80 per ton
without ing the concen trates into account
There are quantities of rich ore which will
greatly increase the profits estimated on this
average Ot the prospects OF the mine beyond
those afforded by the ore in sight the report
speaks highly. 1t also predicts bright future
Tor the stockholders from the Clark and Cof-
fee mines ana the Longs Bar mine, in which
development work is proceeding. Mr.. Har-
Vey strongly urges that the present 10-stamp
mill be at once increased to a forty-stamp
TO increase profits and economy of operation,
with further enlargement of the milling
capacity IN the not very distant future. That
the company viii be on dividend-paying
OASIS before many months is confidently as
sured. 1t is estimated that with forty stamp
mill the yearly profit on the basis of only
81 80 ore would be $50 OOO 1t is pretty GER
tain that the recommendations for the es ia b.
lishment of a large mill will be carried out
and that these mines will become important
producers.
In Amador County there is a constantly ac-
CELEBRATED mining activity. At the American
on Sutter Creek two weeks run with five
stamps has yielded $4,000. Eighty stamps
will soon be in operation at the Wildman-
Mahoney mines. The shaft in the South
spring Hill is to be continued to 14O0 feet
before drifting for the ledge. The long-stand-
ing litigation involving titles to the Amador
Queen and De Witt mines, owned mainly by
San Francisco men, has been ended by COM
promise. DR.. Bardue of San Francisco be-
comes sole owner of the De Witt mines Amaoor
Queen No. 2 and the twenty-stamp mill at
Hunts Gulch- tbs said that these properties
will now be operated on an extensive scale.
Vincent Neale becomes the owner of Amador
Queen No. 1. The compromise involves vari-
Gus arrangements about mortgages, one of
which for $4,000 is held by the estate OF Ira
P. Rankin.
There has been an unusual stir in the Placer
County mines during the past week. One of
the most complete electric mining plants in
the State has just been put in by the Hidden
Treasure Gravel Mining Company, to be used
in working the new ground known as the
Dam Claim. The Red Point, superintended
by F. Hoffman, now in Siberia, the La Trini-
dad operated by Salvation Army people and
the Big Dipper, all gravel claims have all put
on extra men. The Barton quartz mine is
paying better than ever before and the Gray
Eagle gravel mine, owned by San Francis CO
people, is soon to start up again. Senator
Chapman is putting in Burleigh drills at the
Black Hawk, and the Baecarat, near
Lincoln, is among the new mines opening
up. AT Mr.. Chapman's Bear River Tailings
claim, the nine miles of pipe and hume
are about up, and it is expected 10 make a
trial run in a couple of weeks by the hydra ulic
elevator process. There is new gravel claim
being opened up on Baker divide by Hoffman,
Bowers & Clubhouse and the recent advent of
E. A. Wiltsee in the Opnir quartz district has
caused that locality TO boom.
So far this year the California Debris Com
mission has granted thirty-five permits 10
conduct hydraulic mining operations on the
watershed of the Sacramento and San Joaquin
rivers. The total number issued to date since
the passage of the Caminetti law is 24O. This
is an important result as far as it goes but the
miners living in the deferred hope that those
restraining dams for which $500, 900 has long
been appropriated will rise during the pres
ent generati on and that additional appropria-
tions Will hasten the unlocking of the untold
millions in gold that lie i'll the gravel banks
from which $1O,0OO,OOO year was once
taken are becoming weary.
Sinking q new shaft in the 1880 level in
the Providence mine, Nevada City. will soon
be begun. Machinery capable of operating a
shalt 1000 feet deep has been placed. New
air compressors, equal to 100 horsepower, have
been put in. Thirty stamps and seventy men
are kept busy.
Some very promising prospecting for oil is
going on in the neighborhood of Haltmoon
Bay, San Mateo County. No definite reports
have appeared, but it is stated that a we'll re-
Gently yielded flow of ven and a half bar
rels day whom it caved in. Four new holes
are being drilled and the operators believe
they have struck rich fed.
The Yreka Journal says that great prepare
tions are in progress for good winter work at
mining all along the Klamath River in the
Seiad and Happy Camp sections, where there
is an extraordinary scarcity of water at the
present time, without any hope for a supply
until the winter rains commence
The old Spencer quartz mine on Humbug
Creek, Siskiyou County, has been bonded to a
HollisIer company, which has paid bonus of
$25OO.
The old Phoenix mine at Nevada City is one
of the latest abandoned mines TO be reopened
1t will soon have large new hosting plant
and the work of reopening will be finished
In the early days of this mine ore running
$500 to the ton was hauledl long distance for
milling.
The Van Avery mine, Nevada County, has
on its dumps 5000 tons of ore that will run
from $40 to $50 ton.
The Grass Valley Tidings says that the Eagle
Bird or Diamond d mine at Maybest Nevada
County, which produ uced $500, 900 in twelve
years, but which has been practically idle for
several years, will soon be worked On shares
by a party of local miners.
The Tidngs of Grass Valley says that the
gold output of the district about You Bet in
Nevada county, amounting to total of 800
600 900. has always been credited to Placer
County because shipments have been made
from Dutch Flat Nevada County holds the
record, however.
Henry Batnober, the well-known expert
and represen tative of London capitalists who
went to Dawson some time ago from the
Alaskan coast, has now gone into the Copper
River country. He is expected to return to