The San Francisco call., 1897-11-28
Interesting Reviews Of the Years
Activity in Several Coun-
ties.

! forward TO Secretary Alger and the chief of
! engineers coples OF the resolutions, and a
| communication further urging the import
ance of the work. Similar communi cations
will be sent to all the embers OF the Cali
! fornia delegation who are expected to do all
| they can in the way of stirring up the War
| Department. Something definite will likely
| be learned about the prospects of dam con-
struction tn winter and possibly some little
| progress may be effected. AS the chief cause
| of all the long delay has been the fact that the
| three Government engineers here have been
| overloaded with the fortificatiop and all the
| other Government engineering work OF the
! Pacific Coast and have had little time to do
| the added work of the California Debris Com
mission, which they compose, there may be
an effort made to put the work into other
hands or to provide them more assistance.
Brief Reviews of the Industry in Sew
erai Counties.
The following brief statements by special
cores pondents of THE CALL are interesting as
giving a general idea OF the activity OF the
year in several OF the mining counties:
In Riverside County 100 stamps have been
added this year to the $50 OF 1896, giving the
county $50 in twenty-five mills, OF which ten
have been put up this year.
There is greater activity in Placer County
than for many years. There are reported to be
| 126 mines in actual operation, OF which thirty
seven are ouartz running bout 200 stamps.
The others are DRIFT and river properties, and
the later are being worked with greater sue
cess than ever before. 1t is estimated that
| 1000 men are earning a livelihood by mining
| in Z. acer County.
A report from Quincy says: "More pros
| pecting al d DEVELOPMENT work is being done
| in P lumas County than tor many years past,
and though no great finds heve been made,
the outlook for next season is more than favor
able The SHOWS VIII in few days stop all
but underground mining until next spring"
The following correspondence is from Ma
dera:
There are more mines in operation to-day
and being developed than at any time in the
history of the county The Louisa mine,
owned by Shaw Bros. situate above Ray
mond, has proved a valuable property The
Gambetta mine at Grub Gulch, owned by
Leonard & Mills, is now down 600 feet and
continues TO sustain lis good reputation;
about forty men are employed The Lucky
Bill, owned By Sheriff Westfall and others, is
one of the best mines in The county. The ore
from this mine is being milled at the Mann
mou mine; IL was recently bonded for
800 600 The copper mines in the Daulton
field have been yielding well and are giving
EN- ploymen to d mum Der of men,"
The condition and life OF mining in Tuol-
umne County is indicated by The following
special correspondence from Sonora:
1.-THE number of mills IN Tuolume County i
thirty, having, in all, 427 stamps of which
number ffty-two were added this year. OF
this number 237 dropping and 16O are
idle. very conservative estimate of the
gold yield from the quartz mines OF this
county for the year 1897 Will approximate
81 sos. 900. In addition 10 the above mines
there are twenty more going ones, which are
steadily extracting ore and have thousands of
tons of rich ore on their dumps awaiting treat
ment. Many OF these wili erect stampmiIls
within the next year"
E1 Dorado County presents the following
showing: Mills, 54; built This year, z stamps.
5S7; stamps now, dropping, 297; Stamps
added this year, 81. A hundred more stamps
VIII be dropping within ninety days. Be-
sides these mills with an aggregate capacity
of 125 stamps nre being built and will be in
operation in six months. Preliminary work
is being done for a big electric-power plant
on the South Fork cf the Yuba yer which
will furnish light and power for mines in the
county.
some Figures From San Bernardino's
Golden Deserts.
The gold mining activity in San Beruardino
County is partly measured by the fact that
during the first ten months of this year sol
mining locations nave Deen nleQ Tor record.
They are divided by districts as follows: Vir-
ginia Dale, 241; Hocumac (Baldy Mountain,
"a; Beggs q; Burroughs, 2; Black Hawk, (;
Old Woman's Noun tain, z; Orc Grande, 8; Ord
Mountain, IL The winter activity In pros |
pecting on the desert has just begun, and tue
years record of claims filed will be consid-
erably in excess OF the number given. Some
of these claims win undoubtedly develop in
good mines. There now eight mills run
ming 215 stamps in the county, as follows
Vanderbilt. 45; Barstow, 10; Victor. 10; Orc
Grande. s; Calico, 80; Holcomb Valley, %;
Virginia Dale, 50; Providence Mountain, TO-
A Glance at the Most Active Districts
of San Diego.
Defiance, a new district, has been developed
entirely within the year 1897, and its output
of gold is already large. The same may be
said OF Mesquite district, where the famous
Bay Horse mine attracted the atten lion of
capitalists and led TO expensive litigation
the sure sign OF rich property. This litiga- |
ton has been settled and development work
is going
During the year the work at Hedges, on the
Golden Cross group, has been systematized
under charge OF q receiver appointed by the
Superior Court. and the 100-stamp mill, the
only one of the size in the State under single |
roof turned out $4,000 in gold during the |
stamp mills were put in, and are about ready
to work.
At Picacho English capital has been at
tracted, with chances for investment on a |
heavy sea e, on extensive low-grade PROPOSE
tions. Ex-senator Dorsey, Jesse r. Grant and
Senator A. j. O'Conor are the owners.
Several of the Julian dis let's ten-stamp
mills resumed operations during the year in |
consequence OF important finds in various
parts OF the camp The discovery of rich COP |
per poets near E1cinita has led to nu-
merous locations in the neigh borhood
Notes From n Bunch of Great Mines i'm |
AmadOr.
The following notes of some of the great
mother lode mines strung along the few miles
between Amador and Jackson, in Amedor
County, are condensed from interesting
letter in yesterdays issue of the Mining and
Scienti fic Press:
At the old keystone, which has produced
$15 900 600, ard which was once to be closed, |
d systematic exploration for ore bodies in the
upper levels is going on. The shalt is down |
140O feet. but the ore is now coming from tie |
700 level, where the vein is 100 ieet wide 1t
has been proved that in the upper works there
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