The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-11
A DAMPER ON THE N
All THE GOLD THEY FIND IN los
ANGELES IS TIE CITY,S.

Enormou. Gravel Beds In California That Are
Welding 7S Cents to the sales
OF Copper Properties In Idnho-New Gold
Lodges Found ON the Alaskan Coasts.
Los ANGELES, Oct. 1.-The scheme to work tho
bed of tho Los Angeles River within the city
limits as a placer deposit has had a setback by
the announcement that the right to make min.
eral locations was included In the original
pueblo grant, and that therefore all tho gold in
tho river bed belongs TO the city. A score or
more of claims had already been staked out,
and tho ~locators of some of these say they will
test the matter in the courts. Messrs. Dun.
comb and Stearns, while working'a quartz ledge
near Newhall, struck oil OF u peculiarly fine
quality. They have bored 400 feet into tho
ledge without going through 1t, and the ore,
FREQ milling, assays $40 to the ton. But they
can work:it no longer, as 1t is permeated by gas
from the oil. They think the oil offers better
prospects than the gold.
The American mine, Amador county, cleared
up 500 after n two wocks' run with five
stamps. A mining boom is in progress near
Antelope and many claims have been staked of
on Round Top Mountain. One three.foot ledge
of orc has been uncovered that assays 800 TO
the ton.
The body of gravel recently struck in the
Fischer & Defoor mine, Calaveras county,
proves to be Of immense proportions. 1t yields
rs cents to the pan. Dorc d jackson, on Espo'
ranzi Greek, took $50 out of twenty-five pounds
of gravel, which they crushed in n hand mortar.
They have in sight seventy tons Of similar
gravel. The Dora group of mines on Indian
Creek has passed into tho hands OF San Fran.
cisco people and is TO be operated.
In northern Mendocino county there Is a
good deal Of excitement over recent discoveries.
Rock has been found ~assaying $40 per ton, and
placer gravel going as high as $125 per ton.
The gold Is $40 to the ounce.
Most of tho biggest gold producers in Cali
fornia to-day are old mines that have been,re-
opened. Tho CASTOR Ridge property, which
was abandoned a few years ago, has q strong
ore body at a depth of $50 feet.
Ore that goes nearly $1,000 per ton is said to
have been struck at Delta, Shasta county, last
week. This is probably exaggerated, although
two good, well-defned quartz lodges were un-
covered by prospectors returning from Coffee
Creek. News of an important discovery comes
from Tamarack peak, not far from Castella.
where a strong ledge of rich. free-milling ore
haa been found. 1t appears in q hitherto un-
known mineral. belt which extends :for miles
across the mountains.
Nuggets ranging from $40 to 800 have boon
found recently in the Carman mine, near Gold
Lake, Sierra county, ana the property Is yield
ing dirt worth Ss5 to the carload.
Otto Olsen and Charles Cartier are taking
800 per day from q placer mine on Cedar Creek,
Trinity county.
VIRGINIA City. Oct. $50 satisfactory were
the results Of the recent experimental tests Of
low-grade ore from the Consolidated Virginia
run Of 1000 tons of the same grade. The tests
produced q net profit Of 81 per ton. As there
the aggregate would probably make the differ.
the entire line. Should the Arrangements turn
their attention to extracting and milling this
low.grade ore 1t would require the employment
of hundreds of miners and mill men and cause
seen for twenty years. On the Brunswick it 10
said that the ore In cross drift No. l on the
and worth $40. They are extracting and
milling ore.
SEATTLE, Oct. Capt. Dyer and others
success. They have, located from afteen to
from yhr s,siR 1o tw @Hssl{ Eea sse Vide Ssld' A w han ISsass g;
wSers e'1 Ssrnsoies We're we're silt s al sSasf to 'o e.
pectors started out in May. using small coast-
prospecting, and they have confined them.
selves to the shore line. Their discoveries arc
SO promising hat liberal offers have been made
are making liberal purchases Of desirable gold
and copper mines in the Territory.
done on the nay Wills group ~ur Of 4 severn
claims on Douglas Island, lying parallel to tho
IN TreH %iStS be TIVE asdG sor Is from a gS9 t. s1s i.soo od feet
hence It was found necessary. in order.t to cover
the full width Of the ledge. to make two loca-
Ready Bullion Creek, exposing large bodies Of
ore on either side and in the bottom Of the
T~readwSel. carrying from $50 to So per ton
A group of fourteen claims in Sheep Creek
only partially developed. but the price is con,
The camps that are now dividing honors
With the Klopdike are Manook, 400 miles
from the mouth Of the Yukon. and the Copper
River districts. The former, which was dis
covered in the spring, now numbers about 400
Hiners; and the mines, which are located on
with the Yukon, are:paying from 81 to IS to the
pan. Copper River, however, is yet regarded
to to iH~s sUriferopa as'p and cepp per. OF mas s as9rsst 1o
less than 200 men, while as many more arc en-
route, as quite q number of expeditions have
with Copper River as their objective point.
The steamer Bertha, on her return trip from
Inlet and bring down 100 miners, who spent
eighteen months in the mines and will bring
out about a quarter OF a million in gold dust.
Most of the men will winter In Seattle and re-
turn to the inlet and the Klondike.in the spring.
At present there are 5000 men scattered from
ndewater to the lakes along Skagway trail, with
the possibility OF remaining until the ground
10 sufficiently covered with snow to enable
them to continue their journey to the Yukon and
the Klondike. There is an abundance Of provis-
toAs and clothing among them.
MONTANA.
BUTTE, Oct. 5.-The Great Northern Railroad
has decided to do moro building of lines In the
coal fields around Belt and Sand Coulee, and
new coal properties are to DO developed. Tho
Great Northern engineers began work yesterday
In running an extension of the Sand Coulee
branch into the Cottonwood Conlee- coal and
was a section Of school lands. but was sold a
@onth ago, and has now passed. TO the Great
Northern. On the section Is an immense body
Of coal and good lime. The mines at Sand
nearly exhausted. All tho land in this neigh
Prospecting has been going on for some time
past, diamond drills have been used, the cores
that have been taken out have been tested, and
lonR-headed capitalists have already taken
up nearly all the available coal land in the
vicinity.
Articles of Incorporation OF the Majestic Gold
Mining Company, a reorganization OF the
Golden Sceptre. were filed last week. This
means the early reopening Of the Golden Scep.
ire. property and the resurrection of the town Of
OuiQlpy.