The San Francisco call., 1897-03-21

10 feet wide of an excellent quality OF ore
There are at present eighty four men en-
ployed in and around the mine.
rich chute of ore has been found IN the
Bald Hill mine at Albany Flat, Calaveras
County. Mr.. Drummer was about to bond the
mine to parties when the discovery was made
and thereupon changed his mind.
Some very rich quartz has been struck on
the 600 level of the Pittsburg mine, Nevada
County.
At Blue Canyon, Placer County, the Van
Avery mine has been closed down for the
time being, the snow having shut OF the
water supply which operates the mill.
One OF the big mining operations in this
county now is the Plumas Imperial hydraulic
mine, owned and opera ted by C. D. Hazard of
Minneapolis. Since the 20tn of February two
monitors have been running night and day
continuously and doing good work. The sup
ply of wafer is plentiful and will be for many
months.-Plumas County National Bulletin.
There appears to be q prospect that the
great enterprise of running tunnel from the
South Yuba to the Champion, Providence,
Summit and other important mines near
Grass Valley may be carried out. George A.
Ire adwell of Nevada City, who is interested
in it, has received letters from London
capitalists which give encouragement and
which say that they want the rights and con-
troll of the two companies before formed, the
Gold Bank Tunnel Company and the Grass
Valley Railway and Tunnel Company. The
work would be very great investment 1t
would drain those mines as the Sutro tunnel
drains the Comstock, ana ore bodies might be
struck in driving the tunnel.
The working tunnel which is being run by
the Exploration Company in the Gottschalk
mine, in Calaveras County, has connected
with the crosscut and the latter is being en-
larged to the size of the tunnel. The crosscut
Is about eighty feet long, and as soon as 1t is
enlarged to correspond with the working
tunnel sinking on the vein will commence.
The Fellowcraft mine, Calaveras County,
which was opened for a time year ago, and
then closed, is to be started up with full
force OF men.
The Rose Hill Hydraulic Mining Company
has been incorporated in San Francisco, and
will work the Rose Hill mine in Calaveras
County.
The Gold Bank mine at Forbestown, Butte
County, is an interesting example of the sue
cessful reduction of low-grade ore, OF which
the mine presents large ledge. There is q
complete and extensive plant, and the hoist
ing, pumping and milling is done by water
power, using $50 inches under 200 feet pres
sure. In spite of large amount of dead WORK
the mine has paid dividends from the start.
American mine on Sutter Creek, aud the Black
Prince and the Leona in the Mount Echo dis
trict in Amador County.
At Magnolia new and promising enterprise
is the Bader mine, one and half miles south
west of town. 1t is q location on an ancient
river channel, and the company owns ITO
acres. The channel beneath a lava-capped
mountain 500 feet high is being developed by
bedrock tunnel, which was run 800 feet be-
fore gravel was struck by raising twelve feet
The channel is believed to be in the neighbor-
hood OF 200 feet in width and where breasted
out is about three feet deep.-Oroville Mer.
curry.
There are thirty.three drift mines in Butte
County, sixteen of which are being worked
more or less extensively, employing in each
from one or two to eighty men. There are
forty-flve quartz mines, partly or extensively
opened. OF this number thirty are working,
employing from one to ITO men.
The new Oregon mine. on the south fork Of
the Feather. Butte County, owned by a San
Francisco company, is displaying fattering
prospects with the development of the twelve
foot ledge.
The Union Consolidated mine, Amador
County. is to be developed to a depth OF $50
feet by sinking on the ledge 300 feet further.
Meantime drifting and stopping has been d is
continued and the men laid of.
1t is expected that a 40-stamp mill will soon
be erected at the Argonaut mine, Amador
county, in which there are very promising
developments on three levels, the deepest of
which lies at 1850 feet.
A proposed consolidation OF Q number of
California mining interests in which
English capital is invested has been APP.
proved by the stockholders of the Banner
gold mine, company whose properties are in
Butte County. 1t is proposed to amalgamate
the Longs Bar gold mine, Clark gold mine,
Coffee gold mine ana the Hedges gold placer
and quartz mine with the Banner and Amvaky
mine, under the name OF the Consolidated
Gold Mines of California. The shares in the
new company would be issued with liability
of 3s.
The Miners Association of Southern Oregon
will meet at Grants Pass tomorrow.
A custom quartz-mill is to be erected at
Grants Pass, Or.
The old Virtue mine of Baker County, Or.
which has produced $4,000, 900 in gold, has
received new hoist and pumping plant and
twenty stamps are to be added to the mill this
season. Other important mines in the vicin-
ity are showing prosperous development.
The certainty that the Legislature of British
Colum bia will soon pass law requiring min
ing companies to put up 10 per cent of the
amount of the capital stock has greatly doomed
the process of organizing new companies,
which was wildly booming before. In two
weeks eighty-two new companies, with capital
stocks amounting to $65 900, 600, have been