The San Francisco call., 1897-04-04

County. Cal where he installed an electric
plant for the National Mining Company.
From all dications Piute mountain. Kern
County, viii have a Doom. There are large,
well-defned lodges, and many minor ledgts
from l TO 3 feet that bear very rich quari,
and the miners are patiently waiting for u
snow 10 disa ppear to resume work.
San Francisco parties bave purchased f60
acres of gravel property in FL Dorado County,
upon which mill is TO be erected in short
time: active work will be commenced IN a few
weeks. The property is within hve miles OF
Placervilie.
AtForbestown Mr.. AnIram has put his min
ing property into the hands of the Pacific
Mining Improvement Company for develop
ment They have 12-foot ledge, the ore low
grade but it is proposed to build 10o-stamp
mil.-Oroville Mercury
Charles Webb Howard of San Francisco, who
has had q bond on the Dannebroge and Penn
sylvania mines in Browns Valley, has CON-
piled with the conditions of the bond and is
now the real owner of those claims The con-
siderat1on was $35, 900 for the Dannebroge
and $4,000 for the Pennsylvania. n. D. Ride
out was the seller of the Danneb broge. F. W.
Page is Mr.. Howard's general manager.-Oro-
vile Mercury.
Several new prospects on Kings River, in
the vicinity of Trimmer's Springs. are re-
ported Among the most promising is the
Bowers lead, which is reported to have been
bonded for large sum recently. number
of other prospects also promise well. Great In
terest is being taken by the prospectors, and it
is believed that the attention OF capital will
soon be attracted to that locality. The ledges
are all very large.-Fresno Republican.
Panamint district seems to be having big
boom, as the roads between Pansmint and
Randsburg are lined with teams. New towns
are also springing mp, one being laid out at
Postoffice Springs, and one with the handle of
Ballarat, a mile and half north of Postoffice,
has 100 inha abitants.-Inyo Register.
The Plumas Imperial mine, Plumas County,
has developed, and is now working i'm
mense bank of auriferous gravel. The bank is
100 ieet high. eighty feet of which is excellent
appearing channel wash, the remaining |
twenty feet being strata OF pipe clay. The
channel 1s about 1900 feet wide. Hydraulick-|
ing is proceeding steadily.
The success of the Mountain Copper Com
pany Is now assured. BY the shipment of
three and a half cars of matte per day the
output OF the smelter win equal the cost of
operating the great plant each day. With two
furnaces in operation this output is easily ac-
quired. Operations have been retarded by
the work of developing the niue at Iron
Mountain. The Mountain Copper Company
have been running their No. furD ace steadily,
and on Wednesday completed the repairs on
furnace and started it running. Furnace
is well under way. but it will not be ready for
operation for some time. At this time nine
train loads of ore delivered at the roasting
plant every twenty-four hours from the mine.
The train is composed OF ten cars of capacity
of eight tons each. The develo pment of the
mine shows that with the consum ption of 5000
tons of ore each day there is sufficient ore in
sight to last for twenty-five years. With an
output OF 5000 tons of ore per day from the
mine 1T will be sufficient to supply ten fur
Of hos in
tion.-Reddlng Press.
A meeting of the leading mine-owners of the
Harrison Gulch section was held in Red Bluff
last week, among those present being Captain
Roberts. j. w. Franks and others owning val
liable interests. 1t was decided to incorporate
as a mining company and withdraw the mines
from the market. The company viii organzs
with q capitalization of $500, ,0O0.-Redding
SeRrchlight.
Colorado is talking about Pacific coast
convention of gold miners.
The Montana Company, at Marysville,
Mont, has decided to put in the Iong-talked-of
cyanide plant at the Drum Lummond mine
for working over the tailings dump of about
100000 tons.
In Wyoming 1000 men are EN- ployed in the
coal mines producing annually 800 900
tons, valued at over $4.000,00O.
There is much activity in gold mining both
placer and quartz, in the district about Grants
this season.
The Legislature of the State of Washington
has lately passed bills to prevent the deface-
ment. mutilaiion or destruction of miners
location stakes or notices and providing pom
atty clause; extending the right of eminent
domain to mining and milling companies;
appointing an inspector of coal mines Tor the
protection of coal miners.
State convention of mining men is being
arranged in Wyoming.
Official statements of the gold production OF
five of the Australian colonies taken in con-
nection with the latest estimates regarding
the remaining two make the Australian gold
product for 1896 $44, ,455 600. This is an in
crease of 81 ,661 900 over 1895 and is consid.
erabiy in excess OF the South African yield for
the year.
In regard to the Provincial Miners Associa-
ton being formed in British Columbia to look
after the interests of the industry, as the Cali
fornia Miners Association is doing so effec-
lively here, the correspondent of the London
Mining Journal writes: ''It owes its initia-
tion to H. E. C-oas dale, general manager of
the Hall Mines Limited). Such society is
urgently needed, because the member sent
by the people TO the local Parliament are ab-
solutely useless. They know nothing of state
craft, of bill-drafting, even of the require
ments of their own district beyond a road here
or bridge there. They owe their positions to
party influence, and in no way whatever rep
resent the tremendous interests that are being
developed in their districts. The new associa-
tiou, on the other hand is already composed
of leading mining men who know what they
want, are thoroughly acquainted with the
nature OF their business and how it is con-
Quoted in other countries, and they also have
the means to make themselves heard"