The San Francisco call., 1897-04-04

way by his direction. As he has explained in
these columns he purposes 10 make the work
of the bureau "prac ical' One of his plans is
to include in the next official report a map of
the State which shall show the location and
boundaries of each mine in the State the scale
being made sufficiently large to do this.
Messrs Watts and Fairbanks are now in the
field in the southern part of the State, and w.
H. Means will in few days begin q survey OF
the central portion of the Raudsburg district,
the results of which will be published in
bulletin j. j. Crawford received hand
somely engrossed testimonial from the en-
ployes of the bureau upon his retiring from
the Office to which Mr.. Cooper succeeds. Mr..
Crawford will go into mining perations. and
will also hang out his shingle as mining en-
gineer in this City.
The act of Congress restoring the right to
loca te placer mining claims on public lands
bearing petroleum OR other mineral Oils Is as
follows:
"An act to authorize the entry and patent
ing of lands containing petroleum and other
mineral oils under the placer mining laws of
the United States.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House OF
Re presentatives of the United States of Amer
lea, in Congress Assem- bed, that any person
authorized to enter lands under the mining
laws of the United States may enter and
obtain patent to lands containing petr oleum
therefor under ;he provisions of the laws re-
lating to placer mineral claims; provided
that lands containing such petroleum or
other mineral oils which have heretofore
been filed upor claimed or improved as min
eral, but not yet patented, may be held and
patented under the provisions OF this act, the
same ii sucn filing, claim or improveme n t
were subsequent to the date of the passage
hereof"
This law, which was called for by the com.
paratively recent ruling of the Land Depart
ment that oil WAS not mineral went into
effect February IL last
A rich strike was made few days ago in the
Tarantula mine, Tuolumne County, VIII ch is
an old property long idle which was bought
by an English syndicate last fail for sec, 900.
2OO-foot shaft with hoisting works will be
sunk
The Miners Association is much in need of
funds, which the county associations mus t
furnish If its invaluable work is to go on sue
cessfuliy. S. X. Thornton will make col
lecting tour OF the mining counties and Secre-
tary Julian Sonntag is making urgent appeals
for the support that is due the associa ton.
DR.. C. E. Amydon has sold to Joseph C. Cra-
mer the Silver Mountain mine near West
Point, Calaveras County. CAL. for $4,000
The mines of Butte, Mont, use 1000, 900
pounds of powder yearly.
Yee Sing, an employe under the Chinese
Consul in San Francisco, in an Interview with
writer on the Tribune in SaltLake, lasI week
stated that there are now in California 5000
Chinese engaged in washing gravel, and th lat
their earnings averaged from 80 cents TO 81 SO
day.
The Mountain Copper Company has secured
a new bond on the Ballakalala or Windy Camp
group OF forty claims, in Shasta County, and
Development work on a large scale will be
commenced Immediately 10 exploit the large
masses OF sulphide ores. The directors OF the
company are expects to come from England
to visit the property this month.
The executive committee of the California
Miners Association has instructed the legis-
latve committee 10 vigorously push the min
era1 lands bill before the present session of
Congress.
A statement by the Napa Consolidated
Quicksilver Mining Company for the three
months ending February %, show earnings of
$40 800 and net earnings $19,160, from which
a dividend of 10 cents per share is payable
April I.
A 75-horse- power electric power plant will
soon be erected at the Hidden Treasure mine,
Placer County.
Tho Junction mine, Tuolumne County, is
undergoing promising development under the
superintendency of w. H. Storms Two shafts,
the deepest 81 feet, have been sunk, and a
steam hoisting plant has been put in. The
vein Is from fourteen to thirty inches wide
and prospects from So to $50 per ton.
Promising deposits of copper ore, % per
cent copper and favorably situated, have been
found in Yokohl Valley, eighteen miles east
of Visalia, and an option on 300 acres OF land
including the discovery has been secured by
interested people.
The new 40-stamp mill of the Baliol Mining
Company, ope rating the old Maximillan mine
east of Suffer Creek, Amador County, was
started last week.
The Union Consolidated, Amador County,
will prospect their ledges at the 500-foot level.
They propose to run east to the gouge ledge
about 13O feet, and west to the Paugh, about
600 feet.
Almarin B. Paul has returned from Shasta