The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-28
ASPHALT IN CALIFORNIA.
THIS PRODUCT BEGINNING TO At
TRACT MUCH ATTENTION.

Somewhat EneouraGtne outlook Tor the Con.
stock Rzines-New Strikes at Aspen. Gel
Activity In Utah Placer aininG-LArre
Hydraulic Enterprise In New Mexico.
Los ANGELES, Juno 19.-Pay ore is being
taken from the Kennedy mino, Amador county,
at n depth Of 1900 feet Tho shaft ia to be put
down TO 1900 feet. The chlorination works
have been started up.
Tho Plymouth Rock mine, near Milton, Gala.
veras county, has been temporarily shut down,
pending tho making of important additions to
the plant. A large body Of rich ore has been
opened.
Half the stamps of the MERGED Gold Mining
Company's mill, Mariposa county, are running
on orc from tho Molvina mine, Of which the old
management left large quantities broken in
the chutes and slopes. Tho mill handles about
100 tons per day.
Tho Virginia mine. under bond to the Cali
fornia Exploration Company, is being reopened.
Two shafts, Of fifty and ninety feet, are in good
bodies Of orc. and in the old shaft, which has
been reopened, drifting Ii going on.
Tho Champion Mining Company Of Nevada
City, Nevada county, has declared o dividend
of 25 per cent. per share.
The Gray Eagle mine, near Maybert, In In
good rock. and q recent crushing yielded sic
per ton.
nv IL hluuGu 1TthSuTo uTiO tiihOr 4 hhSoE
county, an electric plant 10 to DO constructed
TO run tho gravel cars, light the mine, &c.
The tunnel Is in over 5000 feet
Some very rich strikes are being made in tho
Mesquite mining district, In the desert, San
Diego county, near Glamis station. The ore
is 30 rich that 1t can be shipped without mill.
ing. From tho Irma claim it runs $500 per
ton. and from the Bay Horse, with q thirty
foot shaft, 5000. Tho only water obtainablo
Is what the station agent at Glamis will give
from tho railroad water tanks, and the Their
mometer ranges between 116' and 120' a day.
Tho Mammoth Garfield mine at Old Dig
gings, Shasta county, has resumed work, the
company having agreed to furnish the Noun.
tain Copper Company with at least thirty
tons of ore. daily. The Iron Mountain Copper
Company Is producing 400 tons OF copper matte
Gold Hin ledge, aye feet wide. with. q good
9 g1S ,s1, of ore has been struck at q depth of
A copper lodge four feet wide has been To-
GATED IN shasta Valley, siskiyG9 county: c.
poma county, is to BIO developed at once.
Later assays Of the ore show that it runs from
$22 to S2s per ton. Many prospectors arc
Three huge steam pumps are kept at work
:ooSna quiotsiiver mine. Trinity county. Of water;
They are sometimes able to reduce the level
fifteen feet or more in a day, but In the next
S.o "e'Si N~S 10 eS'SA Wv
vious level.
Tho plant of the California Asphalt Company
pushed to completion. Its output will be about
BOO barrels Of refined asphalt per day. The
tract much attention. An officer OF the State
%asphait beds Of the t sSisaq9 osn country; San p Luis
fields ever discovered. California asphalt is
now being tested on the streets Of Paris and Of
other sources. It Is an asphaltio sandstone,
while that from Trinidad Is an aspheldo lime
California product, as it cracks when used for
paving. Tho total value Of the output of
asphaItio products in California last year was
ing done in Consolidated Virginia and in sew
return Of ChoIiar for May was ga, 900 in gold
coin. Much Of the Chollar ore Is from tho
dition Of the mines Is rather. encouraging. a
few tons Of ore are being raised in Overman.
E P sssassd t 1 Is said Y. th 1.sS SBsfsti0 Iass are 1 A. So to
ineins i In ore s;ssayins from Z e $50 80 per
foot level From this there were extracted last
sse.4s per ton. I'M In Choiiar. IN The B n ssWGic
lode the ore Is Pinching above the a00foot
struction of an aquednct from Alpine county
with which to develop tho Pine Nut mines sup
GOT out. The aqueduct viii cost 81, 200, 90 ooo 10
The coal mines In Crum Canon, near Butte
Mountain, are producing frst-class coal from q
DENVER june 23.-Mr. Stratton, owner of
s s5S ped' % the s$ei IL o foPfy SACKS SiSst ot ! 1esy T rex
Two claims on scaton Mountain, near Idaho
Springs, have been sold to Denver men for
$1,000. The lode located within these claims
is the same as that OF the Gem, which is ship
twenty mine has been, sold to Eastern mem.
Edward Aldrich Of Rhode Island has purchased
t 1ie.s GSis s @ine sI In the S West tn 8r MaIy at distr 91d
Clear Creek county. for $l5. 200.
ueS to ship several carloads daily from the re-
cent strike, which proves to be one of the best
pre- chutes ever discovered in that camp. The
OF metallic ore on the Mollie Gibson, are still
working in shale which runs as high as 800
f fuee'f have q 'u already d 'I @a .He' over ta Z Si rsb .ooS f rons
their lucky fnd. At a depth Of 1900 feet in
Then the rnAs fo6 q oI nnd Of Is silver tTs th has been made
the iron mine on Richmond Hill are using a
laEEgs, Jack t train II to ,, take d IS; their output.
In a district which never showed much ore in
Tho Illinois Steel Company has increased its
purchases of manganese iron ore In Leadvilie
to I h5o tons daily; .,,u. onuu.,
m express carload of very rich gold ore as the
result Of the winters Development work. The
new strike In the Custom mine on Red Noun.
It had been developed for 200 feet, is from 2 to
10 feet wide, and carries $40 gold, some silver.
Prot Arthur Lakes has been making a study
of tho La Plata mining district, and in a prelim.
mary report he expresses the opinion that the
district 70 a most favorable one for prospectors.
He thinks IT. u telluride camp, with narrow
veins profusely scattered over u small area, and
PREDICTS that with prospecting some very rich
veins will be located.
The Tom Boy Gold Mines Company, now con-
trolled. by Englishmen, has purchased another
adjoining claim IN Savage basin for SIi 900
cash. The others big properties of the telluride
district are now doing an immense amount Of
Tho latest new mining district is Whisky
Park, In Etoutt county, where seven lodes Of
collaborating ore have been discovered.
IDAHO.
IDAHO CITY, juno 2O.-The old machinery
has been taken out Of the Custer mill at Gus
ter, and the sawmin Is busy cutting lumber for
Boy and Black mines, which win furnish tho
before. and win give out good reports Of them
Mountain, six miles from Custer. Col. James
J. McFadden Is erecting q new mill, which is
well under way.