The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-12-26

]. c. Ezzelli of Ell Paso have bonded the
G.. B. mine at Randsburg for $4,000. De-
velopment work will be pushed, and II
results warrant it a stamp mill will be
erected later.
The company which has just taken hold
of the Barkhouse mine in SiSk1you Coun-
ty, says the Yreka Journal will COM
menced development on an extensive scale
in the spring T. J. Notion. has sold the
Boggs hydraulic mine on Elliott Creek,
Siskiyou County, to a Portland (OrO
company which will equip the mine with
modern machinery and operate on an ex-
tensive scale.
The Garlock correspondent of the Min
ing and Metallurgical Journal of Los
Angeles gives the following news from
that part of the booming desert:
lone hundred tons of ore from Mo-
jave are to be milled and cyanided here
next week for a test; if successful,
contract for 1000 tons will be let at once.
Some remarkably rich strikes have
been reported from the Panamint and
! Slate Range country, showing beautiful
| specimens of free gold.
| at is feared that johannesburg will
take GarloCk's Panamint trade when the
railroad is finished, but with coal at
81 so per ton and water free, we can al
ways mill the ore of this country at So
to 81 per ton and get the work.
1.-THE new mining law Is operating
! beautifully and is developing the coun-
| try more than any other one thing that
! has happened. In another year the old
! with-monument' law will have lost
| its grip and thousands of good claims
| will be open to good people to locate and
! operate.
William Ross & Co. of San Francisco
| are opening fine copper property near
the Mammoth and the coal mine. There
| is no mine in the world like a good cop
per mine near a coal mine
The Seattle and International Railway
! has erected in Seattle building to be de-
voted to exhibiting the mineral resources
of Washington. They now have men in
the field collecting minerals and data for
the exhibit.
Shipments from the Cripple Creek dis
trict continue at the same heavy rate as
| last month. The numerous mining men
] that come from camp during the week
all comment on the great activity there,
the crush for ore on the railroads and
the inability of the mills and reduction
plants TO treat all the ore that is offered
them. The reduction plants at camp have
no room to store the ores sent them and
/ hundreds of tons are lying around the
/ buildings and on the hilIsides. The rail-
roads cannot furnish any more boxcars
and have pressed the open coalcars into
service.-Mining Investor.
| The Amador Record gives the follow
ing notes of mining progress in that
| county:
The tailfngs of the BeIden, which
| have yielded $50 600 to the cyanide pro-
cess, are to be worked over by the same
| parties and the same process. The Cen
tennial, near Plymouth, is unwatered.
/ Sinking will be resumed. The shaft is $50
| feet; it is intended to sink to the 1000
level before starting a drift. Superin-
| tendent Ross has begun work on a new
! shaft 1000 feet east from the present
Wildman hoist. 1t will have three COM
| partments, to be sunk to a depth of $500
| feet which will reach 1900 feet below the
! deepest workings. A temporary hoist is
| to be erected for use this winter. A
! $4,000 brick from the Argonaut stamp
! mill was the result of cleaning up from
the outside plates in twelve days run.
At the Grover Cleveland in FL Dorado
County ledge nine feet wide of S. ore
is said to have been discovered.
Placerville citizens have petitioned the
| County Supervisors to appropriate $500
for the Golden Jubilee Mining Fair.
The Newton gravel mine in Ell Dorado
| County, ninety-seven acres, with ten
stamp mill; has been sold by c. II. Clark
of San Francisco to 1. n. Proctor, NJ. D.,
of PlacerVille.
The French company owning the Red
Point gravel mine in Placer County have
sixty-seven men on the payroll About
135 cars of gravel per day are brought to
the dump. Seven horses are used in
pulling trains. The company is in the
channel a distance of over II 900 feet
F'orty-seven miners inches of water
flow from the mine. This is taken up
with pipe at a distance of 1000 feet in
the tunnel, giving ninety feet pressure,
which is used to drive the blower. The
company has secured estimates for an
electric plant and has taken the matter
under dvisement.-Sentinel
Charles Buffers is about to return
from South Africa and is expected in
San Francisco shortly after the first Of
the year