The herald., 1897-06-25
Tailings From the Mills

There are now two cyanide plants in
operation at Garlock, Kern county.
A prospector in Poor Mans gulch,
Calaveras county, last week found a
$4,000 pocket
There is great activity in the mining
camps on the California side along the
Lower Colorado river.
The Los Angeles Mining company will
add ten stamps to their Mammoth mill
near Keyeswille, Kern county.
A new 50-copper smelter will shortly
be started UP at the Afterthought NINE
Copper City, Shasta county.
A small smelter is being put up at Colo
RADIO. Kern county, to work the copper
ores of the Mammoth mine.
The Colorado Mining company are
sacking rich ore from the Three CHM
neys mine at Keyesville, Kern county.
Several thousand tons of tailings Of
the Contention mine at Tombstone,
Ariz., are to be worked over by George
Gribble.
A large deposit of asbestos has been
discovered in the Chihuahua mining dis
trict near Oak Grove, San Diego county,
California
1t is getting pretty hot these days IN
the Randsburg region, and many are
leaving for the summer for the sea coast
or mountains
The Kinyon mine at Randsbur made
shipment of 1874 sacks of ore few days
ago that netted them $3420.87, or an aver
age of $50S per ton.
The ores in Pichacho district, San
Diego county, run from 81 to $40 per ton,
and are all free milling. A number of
mills are being put up.
During February and March nearly
300 mining companies, capitalized at
over $500, 100000, were incorporated and
registered in British Columbia.
There is quite little boom in the Ord
mountain district on the Mojave desert,
and number Of good strikes have been
made. An English company has bonded
a group of claims for $4,000.
At the United Verde copper mines, Ar
izona, about 800 men are now employed,
and the output is between 600 and 300
tons of ore daily. The copper yield Of
the mine is increasing.
A twenty-stamp mill Is to be erected
on the Senator mine, San Diego county,
fourteen miles from Yuma. The VEN
is quite wide one, running from twelve
to- forty feet, with two to six feet of good
pay ore.
The Escondido mines, San Diego coun-
ty, formerly known as the "Old Mexican
Mines" have been bought by eastern
men. Fifty men are to be put to work
and a large mill erected.
number of prospectors are hunting
for claims on the Cuyamaca grant,
eight miles from Julian, San Diego
q off H. n w.t., I,
to discoverers of mineral. The Stone
wall mine, formerly large producer, is
on this grant.
At West Salmon, sixtyfour milesnorth
of Wells, New, little smelter is work.
ing copper ores which carry $12 to $14
of gold per ton. This is an old camp, IN
which of late there is quite-a revival of
the mining interests.
B. F. Shaw has leased the old dumps
of the keystone mine, near Kingman,
Arizona, and after getting into the
early workings found ore that was
thrown over that runs 1900 ounces in
silver and several ounces in gold. He Ia
liable to make big cleanup Much of
the surface ores of the Keystone ran as
high as 1000 ounces in silver.
General L. H. Manning and Brewster
Cameron, who have made number of
investments in Mexican mines, have in
Iterested London and New York capital
in Pima county, Arizona and have pur-
chased the San Xavier group of mines.
sixteen miles south of Tucson, for s110
COO. These mines have been idle sew
eral years, but will now be worked on a
| large scale.
new and promising Southern Cali.
fornia camp is in the Eagle mountain
fifty miles from Walters station on the
Southern Pacific railway. The Iron
Chief is the most prominent mine, and
some ore has been shipped which sam
pied $50 per ton in gold. Several other
properties are being developed. The
camp is isolated and water scarce, but
those interested are much encouraged
by the progress Of development.
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