The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-08-28

A meeting of the executive and the spe-
cial committees of the California Miners
Association has been called by President
Neff and Secretary Julian Sonntag to nix
a date and prepare call Tor the an
nual State convention. The convention
will be called for some time in NoVem-
Der not long after election day.
The association will this year with
ont doubt have to elect successors to
President Neff and Secretary Sonntag
Mr.. Nem will be Lieutenant Governor,
and will probably insist on retiring from
the office to which he has been. so enthu-
siastically reelected ever since organiza-
ton, in 1892 Mr.. Sonntag's business in
terests make 1t necessary for him to de-
cline to be a candidate again for the
office he has so long and efficiently filled.
The Miners convention Will this year
again have before 1t the important mat
tiers OF national legislation for which
the association has so long labored. but
the situation regarding all OF them is
Saore encouraging than ever before
There will be additional appropriations
Congress. The movement for Depart
ment of Mines and Mining in the execu-
tive branch of the Government, first
started by this association, has grown
the mineral lands bill are hopeful.
The coming year promises to be
great one in the mining industry, and
political as well as business prospects
seem to be smiling upon 1t.
A bond on the Lowdon and George
group of copper mines on Little r BacR,
f KmP sae Wil result aaa ln' The BOND calls
for purchase price considerably above
pi S;y'V Of Lewiston Brothers, copper brok-
ers and sale agents of New york CITY,
and is developing for them the copper
Lowdon and George property is located
g. mile and half west of Kennel. and
has been pronounced most promising
copper deposit: Adjoining is the Nam
moth group of copper mines. owned by
r. M Saeltzer, J. A Kahny and Tony
Jaegel and now under bond TO A w
Forstner of New York-Redding Free
A phenomenally rich strike was made
Saturday in the famous Enterprise mine
twelve miles from Junction City. The
property is owned by Mrs. j. r. Balch,
Levi Day, the Day brothers and others:
much treasure. complete ten-stamp
quartz mill stands on the property.
.Redding Free Press.
The Denny, Bar & Parker Company's
pack train is busy taking rails and
machinery into the New River country
where the material is to be used in de-
produced over quarter million of dol
lars between 1856 and 1888. This mine was
recently bought by Colonel Dan Burns OF
Mexican fame, and ]. c. Franks and ].
McCuish of Redding. Very little work
has been done on the mine during the
last FIVE years. Fifteen men have been
employed during the last three weeks on
the new tunnel which Is being run TO
crosscut the ledge at a depth of 300 feet
below the old works. This tunnel will
have a length of about 800 feet--Siskiyou
County Reporter
Thomas E. Johnson, San Jose capital
list. stopped over in Redding on Wednes-
day evening to negotiate for the pur- |
chase of the Allison & Morton placer |
mine, situated on the east fork of Trinity |
OVERWHELMING Searchlight.
The miners in most of the Scott Valley |
districts are helping in harvesting crops, |
as water is too scarce TO do much work at |
mining, and in some sections none at all. |
-Yreka Journal.
The river miners on the klamath are |
kept quite busy, and are working day |
and night to get out all the gold possible /
before the winter storms commence to /
drive them out by high water and heavy |
freshets.-Yreka Journal.
A mining sale of more than ordinary |
Importance is about to take place. II |
negotiations now in hand are success /
fully concluded the Mount Shasta mine |
on Clear Creek will pass into the hands |
of o. Howard, a mining man of San |
Francisco and an extensive owner of |
Mexican mines. The history of the Mount |
Shasta mine is a story of success from
the grass roots Twenty men are en-
ploycd on the property and the mine is |
yielding for shipment to Keswick ten tons |