The San Francisco call., 1898-11-28
NEWS OF THE MINES.

Wright Cchairman) San Francisco; John F. Englebrlght, Nevada; Thomas J. Barbour r. George Cow, B. T. Lacey, San Francisco.
 Southern Oregon is now becoming a favorite field for California mining men and mining investors, who do not know enough to see that golden opportuni- ties are plentiful in California. Within the past year quite a number of Califor- nians have been drawn to the promising region of Southern Oregon, where weather, wood and water are plenty and where placer properties at least seem inviting. There is a great mining stir in Southern Oregon.
 One of the most recent and important investments of San Francisco capital in the Southern Oregon field is that Of the which is composed of Dr. J. H. Woods lpresidenD, Ira Sorick, eX-United States urer Campbell F. Berry and others. These men have bought 1000 acres on the creek which gives the company it's name, and are putting many thousands of dollars into the development of ditches and other features of a large hydraulic mining property, which the company expects to work with profit for many years.
 Many thousands of dollars of California apital-especially from Southern Cali fornia-are going into mining properties in Arizona, Mexico and Lower California.
 The Anti-Debris Association at a recent from Manager Phipps to the effect that some of the individual restraining dams behind which certain hydraulic miners are operating under license by the California | Debris Commission, were not properly 1 restraining the mud and sand supposed to be confined behind them. However this may be, the said dams have been for mally accepted by three Federal engi- neers, after inspection, and if the dams are not properly fulfilling their function i the Government engineers, within whose | sole province the regulation of such dams | lies, would undoubtedly be quick to order the repair or reconstruction of the dams, or the cessation of hydraulic mining be- i hind them. The Government engineers who have in charge all the Government engineering work on the Pacific Coast be- sides the hydraulic mining in the Sacra- mento watershed, have not yet been ac- 1 cused of partiality to any interest, and may be relied upon to carry out the Cam inetti law in it's spirit as well as its let ter. In this connection 1t may be noted | that Herbert ViScher, the assistant en- gineer who devoted the past summer to Investigating the foundations, etc, for | the proposed restraining dam at The { NarrowS above MarySVille, is now in the mountains making tour of inspection | of the dams erected by permission of the commission and the sites proposed for 1 future ones.
 The Argonaut mine, Amador County, has paid $1S0,000 in dividends to date and has money in the treasury.
 The Kennedy mine is working by using ! steam for hoisting
 Patrick Rssddy of Sf San, San Francisco ,3 Ina has win, Inyo County, for $500O. The property is between the Defiance and the Independ- ence mines, both of which belong to MT. | Reddy.
 At Poker Bar the construction of the Postethwaite dredger, costing upward of $40,000, has been in successful operation. 1 It requires but two men to look after eY- cry detail of its work. and the amount of deposit it handles in a day is large. Four miles of the stream are controlled. As a ! result of this company s venture the pOS- abilities of Trinity River on this score have attracted attention, and two other companies, it is said, are investigating | along these Hnes.-Trinity Journal.
 The Comet mine on the Greenhorn has been sold by the owners, W. ". Stock ton and T. J. Murray, to San Francisco tors will erect mill and push the work Of extracting ore.-Bakersfield Callfor- nian.
 Several weeks ago a large body of very rich ore was struck in the Tale mine at the bottom of forty-foot shaft, 560 feet in at the 350-foot level. Since then an- CT the mouth Of the drift to depth of twenty feet where on Monday last two foot lead of very rich rock was struck. which was recently discovered. and 1t goes to show that there is a large amount of this rock in the mine. How much can ming drifts under it.-Kern County Echo
 Revised figures place the output of Ari- 922 pounds: divided as follows: United Verde, 31,355, ,025; Copper Queen, g, ,999 S73; Arizona, 13,727 ,912; Detroit, $40 13S; Old Dominion (estimated), 100000; United Globe, 1.241 .975; other mines (estimated) 200 900 pounds. The output of the same in 1896 was reported at 73,745,321 pounds showing an increase of about 10 per cent for 1897 over 1S96-Los Angeles Mining Review.
 The production of copper for the month of October was follows: United States mines. q ,129 tons of 2240 pounds; produc- ton of foreign mines. 1882 tons; exports from the United States, 10,S10 tons, in- cluding about 750 tons of Mexican cop per
 The Portland Mining Company of Colo rado is about to set an example that will and will create new industry in con nection with the mines of the country 1t proposes to fit out its main shaft with steel, the supports and sets to be of that material, with timber for tagging.