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tenn into rich section OF the mother lode
| mining region will greatly stimulate invest
| ment development and production among
| the mines of large region. The imperative
| need OF the greater part of the gold producing
areas OF the Sta te is better and cheaper trans
| portat1on facilities-better wagon-roads as
| well as more railroads, and this will be forci-
bly, illustrated by the effect of the Sierra Rail-
road, the great Blue Lakes powe transmission
plant and minor things which will work to
encourage mining operations in Tuolumne
| County.
The working of many large bodies of low
grade ores along the mother lode from Coul-
terville across Tuolumne county to Angels
| Camp, as result OF cheaper production
through cheaper transportation, will be one OF
the chief results. Convenience of travel, the
| increased interest in mining, the advertising
| which the increased life will give the region,
| the new dis scoveries which will attend devel-
| opment, will all share in starting and main
| tanning legitimate mining boom and new
era OF permanent prosperity. The operations
OF the California Exploration Company, which
has bonded or bought many properties and is
| actively developing quite number of them,
Will mean great deal to the region referred to.
| In an interview Prince Poniatowski, who is
| at the head of the Sierra Railway and the Cali
! fornia Exploration companies, yesterday gave
| his opinion of the effect of the new railway
|
| reaches.
| ain any other country-in Colorado or Brit
| ish Columbia, for instance" he remarked,
| there would have been two or three railroads
| into such region before this. Even now,
with but thirty miles of road in operation, we
| have more freight and passengers than we can
handle. We will soon reach the terminus at
| jamestown, and there will be new life there.
| jamestown viii be the business and mining
1 nf TTInl Inn a onIyf for
| very rapid mining development there. For
about four miles north and three miles south
OF jamestown there is an almost continuous
| pay shoot of high ore. / am not speaking OF
| the east belt, but of the mother lode proper,
| along which are found the Rawhide, App,
Dutch, Jumpers, Alameda, Shewmutt, Santa
| Isabel Golden Rule and other mines. There
you ind uniform values along the lode and a
| ledge of an average width OF twenty feet bear
/ ing $50 10 $40 rock. These mines are produc-
| ing from S2000 900 to $500, 600 month. Be-
| sides these there are many mines like the
Alabama, Tarantula, etc, that are now in rich
| rock, but are not yet producing largely,
| though mills are being erected.
"Then there many mines there with
| enormous bodies of low-grade ore running 81
and $5 to the ton which could not be worked
| heretofore because of the cost of transporting
| lum Der, machinery, supplies or ore. The rail-
1 road will much decrease the cost of mining. 1t
| will enable rich mines 10 be worked at greater
| profit, and will enable others to be worked
| that could not be worked before. Sulphurets
will be shipped to the bay al low cost, and a
| large amount of sulphurets is ready waiting
| for the operation OF the road from James own.
| "Another thing that will cut large figure
is the fact that electric power will be supplied
/ TO great many mines at so per cent OF the
present cost of power. We the pioneers in
| cheapening production by the use of large
capital in that region. The mining industry
| will be greatly stimulate in every way and
| 1 expect to see the actual production of that
| region doubled within two years"
When asked his opinion of the present atti-
| tude OF foreign investors toward California
| Mr.. PonIatowski said:
| They know that California has been rich
! but have been under the impression that 1t
| was pretty well worked out They are just
| beginning to understand that the develop
ment of quartz mining has just begun here.
| The thing that would by far do the most to
| give confidence and attract the attention and
| favor of London and Paris financial circles
would be the monthly publication of the
| gross output, expenses and net profits
of every mine In California Such pub
| lication is made in South Africa, Australia
| New Zealand and other count tries where min
l ing is carried a legitimate industry.
\ These statements are cabled to London
| monthly by chambers of mines locally or
| ganized. They tell better story than sensa-
| tional articles and interviews. doubt how
| ever, If such an arrangement could be made
| in California. One reason is, that as soon as
| a big mine begins to show profit it is assessed
| in an exaggerated manner, so that miners
I wish to hide their profits. But new life is
coming to mining in California, with better
| economic conditions"
| The committee revision of the Federal
/
! gress last July, and of which W. H. Keys of
| this city is a member, held meeting at Den-
| yer September 23 and adjourned to meet
again in Washington during December, when
| its work win be pressed the attention of
| Congress. Some very radical changes in the
Federal mining laws are certain of accom-
| plishment whether the radical changes which
| this committee will present be favored by the
| next Congress or not. There is throughout the
Western mining States growing demand for
| revision and growing readiness to cooperate
! in securing it. In all the mining States there
| is growing and costly tangle of litigation
| the existence of which is favored by the pres
| ent condition of the law and the decisions.
| The subs titution of annual fee for the as
| sessment work now required was one OF the
ideas favored by the committee. Tne doing
away of the apex law permitting owner to
! follow his vein, within his end lines to any
| distance at any angie was also favorably dis
cussed. 1t was proposed as COM
pensation to make the size of a
| quartz claim 1920 feet each way, giving
| forty acres of area, and limiting ownership to
| the perpendicular limits of the claim. 1t was
! unanimously agreed that the tunnel-site law
| should be repealed. Other modifica tions were
discussed Before the end of the year definite
| report will be formulated. A gooo deal of
attention will be given the subject by the
| California Miners Association at its meeting
| in San Francisco on the 18th inst. and there
will be increasing discussion of it throughout
! the mining States.
The seventeenth annual report of the
United States Geological Survey in eight vol
umes is issued and 1t comes with much of in
terest and value to the mining industry in
| California. One of its interesting features is
treatise on 1.-THE Gold Quartz Veins of Ne
vada City and Grass Valley, California, by
Waldemar Lindgren, which has before been
published as a monograph. In the course of
his discussion of 'Permanenee With Depth,
the W ritter says:
The frequent local irregularities of most
shoots make it very difficult to affirm without
| extensive explorations that the end of anv
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