The San Francisco call., 1897-09-19

Gently lighted. The location is also tempting
TO the Stale Board of Trade, which is trying
to secure 1t.
The new board of trustees OF the ate Min
ing Bureau has not yet been named by Gov
erl or Budd. The terms OF the incum bents ex-
pired three months ago. W. S. Keyes and per-
| haps others of the board are likely to be reap
pointed
Two railroad enterprises which will contrib
u.e greatly to the development If The mining
res ources of the Mojave Desert are under way.
The Randsburg Railway Company has con-
tracted for the construction of line from
Kramer to Johannesbu and the Pacific
Borax Works will build narrow-gauge line
from their works to Daggett.
The opera tions of the Mountaip Copper Com
pany at Iron Mountain aud Keswick, Shasta
County, are increasing wi n each mon III and
one of the great copper mines OF the country
is being rapidly developed. A number OF
rotary roasters are 10 be added al once
Among the most noticeable features in Cali
fo-nia this year are the large amount of pre-
paratory work in hydraulic work enter prises,
the sinking of shafts to greater depths, the
discovery by several foreign investors that as
much is 10 be made by developing prospects as
by buying ''going" mines, and the establish
ment OF dredging machines in several parts of
the State.-Mining and Scientific Press
Among the important deve .opment opera
tons going on in Amador County are those at
the Oneida mine. The shaft is down 1900 feet
and the work has progressed with remarkable
rapidity. The shaft will be sunk 500 feet
deeper before drifting for the ore body viii
begin.
siphon pipe line 5000 feet long and "a
! inches in diameter is being laid by the Gle
Ese Company to carry water to their Keno
! claim, near Junction City, Trinity County.
/ Among recent items of Inininp news is
the announcement of the discovery of nickel
! in Nevada County.
miners union is being formed at Rands-
| burg by the secretary OF the Virginia City
| (Nev.) union.
| An important oil strike has been made near
Coalinga, Fresno County, where we'll deve-
| oped by Chancellor & Canfie ID is yielding ITO
barrels day.
Al Ballarat, Inyo County, several good finds
have Teen made during recent weeks, and the
activity of the camp S steadily increasing.
In Nevada County two plunger pumps and
other machinery being placed in the
Brunswick mine, which Will soon have twenty
stamps running. four-foot ledge has been
opened on the 90 level in the Crown Point
The Orleans has received new air-compressor
power drills and dynamo and will soon be in
full and profitable operation. At the indepen-
dehca muca development work is going on,
and sinking for the Maryland chute is pro-
crossing. great amount OF sim lar develop
ment is going on
The shaft in the Wedge mine at Randsburg
has reached depth of 400 feet and the ore
runs from $50 to 500. This is much the deep
est shaft in the district and is giving the
needed demonstration that the values there
are not all on the surface.
| The fall rains which are about due will start
up for a short season great many hydraulic
and other placer mines in Siskiyou and Trim
ity counties.
Tehama County promises to develop some
rich mines. In addition to the i'm
mense copper mine that was recently
bonded by several San Francisco parties
a ledge of decomposed quartz has been
discovered forty miles west OF Red Bluff by
Charles Burrell. 1t is free milling and assays
$12 to the ton. He believes the ledge can be
traced TO the rich Harrison Gu,ch mines,
owned by Captain J. H. Roberts, which are
perhaps thirty-five miles north and about the
same elevation. Two shafts ere being sunk
on the Burreil mine and an arastra worked by
water power will be used for the present.
| A notable work on american Law Relating
| to Mines and Mineral Lands" by Curtis H.
Lindey of this city. will make its appearance
! in few days from the press of the Bancroft
! Whitney COMPANY. 1t will be quite extern
! sive work, comprising two volumes. and one
that from the manner and style of the treat
| ment Will interest mining men generally, az
we'll as LAWYERS