The herald., 1897-01-11
MINES AND MINING

| j. Mckerman and Doc Marshal are
putting up Huntington we'll and cya-
| nide plant at Garlock, Kern county,
Thomas Kelly is boring well for Gus
tom work from Acton, Los Angeles
| county; E. A. Smith is building Gus
| tom We'll; Lane & Leyton have arranged
, for a mill site; ii. 5. Church will also
| erect custom We'll and Mr. Hooper has
| ordered WE'LL When these wells are
| all sunk, with the three now running,
andone at Mesquite. one at Kane Springs
and Pat Re6ldy's proposed well. there
will be twelve quartz wells in the Rands-
burg section. The Visalia Milling COM
! pany has machinery on its way Tor
another well.
Both the United States mint and the
state mining burea are now sercing out
| their blanks to the mining men of this
| state, making inquiry as to the mineral
| production of 1896, says C. G. Yale in the
Examiner. The mint deals with gold
! ard silver mines alone and the bureau
takes account of all other mineral SUD-
! stances, such as boraX. clays, chrome.
| copper building stones, etc. Every
| producer in the state will receive these
blanks and it is to be hoped they will
make prompt response. The figures sent
in are kept confidential by both the mint
| and the mining bureau, and are use!
| only in compiling the totals by countiss
No names of mines or individuals are
| mentioned. Therefore. no private bust
| ness is made public by responding TO
these inquiries. 1t is necessary TO obtain
direct returns from the many producers
in order to provide correct statistics of
our annual mineral product Some per-
sons fear to make response. thinking
their affairs Will be made public AS
stated. however. this is not the case
The statistics of gold and silver collect ed
by the mint and those or other mineral
substances obtained by the bureau are
the only reliable ones we have. Great
care is taken to get the correct addresses
OF all producers and in making the conf
pilation of the returns. 1t is to the inter-
est OF all miners to respond to these ctfi-
cial inquiries, Stree the pub,ica ton of
the statistics directly benefits the min
ing industry of the state. We are en-
abled to follow the growth of each
branch of mining an6 see its annual
progress. and the grand total is proof of
the value of the industry to the state
Messrs. Robertson. Robinson and Rut-
ledge have completed the well on the
Lancaster Ran6sburg roadi says the
Antelope Valley Gazette, about ten miles
north of Rogers. procuring abundance
of water at a depth of seventy-five feet.
Prospectors ard travellers TO the mines
viii find this great convenience, dts
there is now no lack of water or this, the
best route to Randsburg
Frank Dorr of Almondale writes the
Antelope Valley Gazette regarding the
gold discoveries southeast of Lancaster.
1t is evident that good thing has been
struck in their camp. His letter is in
teresting:
Gold mir1ng and prospecting is all
the talk here. The fever is contagious.
Messrs. White, Dickerson. Kentner and
myself got the fever, procured a team
and struck out with picks. shovels and
camp outfit. The first night out we
camped at Butterworth and Stuckey's
Old cattle camp. seventeen miles east
of Lancaster, where we were entertain
ed by band of coyotes. Daylight found
us ready for the hills and canyons. At
noon we were on the grounds northeast
of Butterworth's. where we found four
or five prospects which others had stalk
ed out ahead of us. The team having
gotten away, two of us went after them
while Dickerson and myself prospected
in the hills near and We're rewarded by
finding q twelve to sixteen inch ledge,
of which the cropping assayed Sc. % in
gold. The next day we found a four TO
eight foot ledge, which we can trace for
1000 feet. Its groupings assayed s566 in
gold and S1.1S in silver, 15 per cent cop
per. or s26 to the ton. a visit to Wiley
& Burnett's showed up we'll. as did La
vens, Hyland's and Williams. Their
groupings went s1210. A little farther
up are Simmons. Williams, Terrell and
Greenman. I can't state the richness
of these mines a this writing. l think
we are strictly in it. as much so as our
neghboring gold camp. Now. friend
Melick, just push your smelter or quartz
mill for Lancaster and we will furnish
you the gold-bearing rock and plenty
of it"
There are 754 quartz mills. averaging
s stamps to the mill. and 109 arastras,
at work on ore in California at present,
and a number more mills are in course
of construction. There are only two
smelling works the Selby in Contra
Costa county, and the Mountain mines
Qimited), Keswick. Shasta county. 1t
is matter of surprise that cyanide
plants are not more plentiful in view
of the success of that process of saving
gold The cyanide works in California
are: Pioneer reduction works, Sutter
creek. Amador county, fifty tons daily
capacity; J. S. Cain, Bodie. Mono coun-
ty, twenty tons; Standard. Bodie. 100
tons; New Standard, Bodie, 100 tons;
Parr & Tyack, Bodie, twenty TONS Uni
versity, Bodie, twenty tone; South End,
Bodie. $50 TONS Iconoclast, Kern county,
ten tons; Frazer. German, Ventura
county, twenty-five tons; j. M. Pearson,
Acton, Los Angeles county, twenty-five
tons; Shasta Gold Extraction company,
Shas Ia county, ten tons. In the state of
Nevada, r. D. Jackson has a cyanide
plant al Silver City; S. A. Knapp, Haw-
tborne, Esmeralda county; William Lit
tie, Lewis, Lander county; Thomas Dia-
mond, Aurora. EsmeralGa county, and
Silver Peak company Silver Peak, Es-
meralda county. 1t will be noted that
cyanide plants in California are more
plentiful in Mono county, and in Nevada
most of them are in Esmeralda county.
Nearly all these works are operating on
tailings. In Oregon the Cracker creek
mines at Bourne, Baker county, have a
cyanide plant and others are contem-
plated. Altogether, however, they are
much fewer in number than might be
G. Yale in Examiner.
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