The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-23

The executive committee solicits proposals OF
subjects VIII CHI may be embraced in a programme
now being prepared
At midnight of next Tuesday the new Sta tie
mining law relating 10 locations, registration,
etc., goes into effec. After that time every
locator of a quartz claim must do $50 worth
OF assessment work within sixty days, While
$40 worth OF work must be done on placer
claim. New requirements as to posting notices
OF location must be observed, and on that day
the books of all district recorders will be
closed TO be turned over to county recorders
within thirty days. Hereafter all mining To-
cations must be registered with the Recorder
OF the county. These and other provisions OF
the mining laws passed at the last session OF
the Legislature may work some annoyance
and uncertainty for q time, but the laws are sa-
lutary oGes though capa BILE of the i'm provement
they vii! likely get at the next session OF the
Legislature. 1t will not now De possible Tor
an enterprising prospector to file twenty or
thirty locations and hold them Tor year WITH
out dollar OF expense.
The pending new trouble between the Anti
Debris Association aid the Nevada Coun ty
miners, caused by the injunction suits against
the owners of two gravel mines on account OF
ground sluicing bids fair TO be adjus ted by
calling off the officials OF the debris assoc1s-
ton. The committee from the Sacramento
Chamber of Commerce which went TO Nevada
City 10 inspect the Cooling and Goodwin mines
seems inclined to smooth things down, and it
has iled the following report to the Chamber
of Commerce.
eve recommend that further proceedings in
the court be stayed and that the honorable
Board of Public Works, or compe tent engi.
neers, be selected by the Anti-Debris Associa.
ton aud the State Miners Association, said
board to be requested to make thorough in
yestiga ton of the whole matter and report to
The above associations.
1--WE further recommend that the Anti De bris
Association, before it takes decisive action,
await the result of investigation, which will
show the true state of affairs. We believe that
by so doing this impor tant question will be
adjusted upon an equitable basis within the
laws, with the least possible friction between
the interests involved a minimum cost"
There have been no other definite develop
ments during the week
"OfficiaP reports on the Yukon diggings are
somewhat new. They have heretofore con.
sisted of prospectors' tales painted red. The
Canadian Inspector of Police of that region has
made one, and in the course of it he says tina
q large seam of good soft coal lies about ten
miles from Forty-mile Creek, with about
bly, become the chief fuel supply of that re-
gion. Without question rich quartz lodes,
from which the gold in the creeks has come,
will be discovered before long, to be deve. oped
when transportation facilities make 1t posi-
bic to get mining machinery into that almost
inaccessible region. When that time comes a
coal supply will be invaluable. The inspector
last year spent $4,000 of his collections OF
mining fees on trails on the Canadian side OF
the boundary, which illustrates the difference
between the governmental policies of the two
Governments, the United States not having
yet even supplied police protection on the
American side. The inspector urges the Open
ing up of a route from British Columbia on
the south.
In Colorado the Com missioner of the Mining
Bureau is having a complete survey of the
Cripple Greek mining district made, and will
issue official bulletin giving the geological
formation of the district, the history of the
camp and detailed information about the
mines, etc.
The latest Colorado sensation is the new
town OF Yale City, week old. Recent strikes
in the Cottonwood mining district near Buena
Vista have created an excitement and a rush.
and now, while the first tents are going up
cit is predicted" that Yale City will be q
second Cripple Greek.
Copper discoveries in British Columbia seem
to only increase in number, ana the reports OF
new finds of great lodges of rich ore continue.