The San Francisco call., 1898-03-06
NEWS OF THE MINES.

of the richest strikes in that district It shows a two-foot ledge wonderfully rich with mineral. the majority of which is a fine quality of copper and the rest gold.-Kern County Echo.
 Fourteen mining locations were record ed in Riverside County in one day last week.
 Rock recently shipped to the Selby smelting works from the '24 mine in Shasta County went $76 3S to the ton, and the owners will continue developments on the mine, which is yet but prospect. A tunnel will be run Seventy-fiVe feet to tap the main ledge, with Ialth that another good mine will result.
 The Marysville Appeal announces an- other river dredging enterprise as fol- lows: Amos Lane, Thomas Henderson, T. H. Stafford, William Hewlett and an- other Sutter County man have formed a company, leased a barge and will lit 1t up with an engine, boiler and centrifugal pump for the purpose of working d river bar about six miles from Browns Valley, known as HowlettS bar. It is expected to have the plant working within three weeks"
 T. F. McAvoy, representing Chicago in- VeStorS, has secured an option on the Major Lyons mine on Rich Gulch, Shasta County, and is negotiating for min ing property on Salt Creek, owned by D. r. Connor and son.
 A dredger which has for a year been moored on the upper Sacramento above Redding last week broke loose with one man aboard and started down the rapid stream. The rest of the crew chased it along the banks for four miles before it was safely secured.
 An Eastern company Is arranging to put force of men at work on the south extension of the Selby mine, in Fl Dorado
 J. E. Sexton and others are developing promising properties at Poverty Point, Fl Dorado County, in hitherto undevel- oped district.
 The following by the Alta correspondent of the Placer County Republican is sim liar to the pleas that come from great many mining districts all over the State in which quartz mining has just begun:
 Snow fell to the depth of three inches Sunday evening. It caused some of our are working steadily. We have quartz mines here in abundance. Some very rich prospects have been taken out in the vicinity of Shady Run. This statement is based on tests which have been made and which will convince the most ener- getic mining expert. The trouble is we the yellow metal will have to remain till some one with capital and enterprise will set the ball rolling"
 The Grover Cleveland Gold Mining Com pany has incorporated in Monterey Coun- ty to develop mines in Fl Dorado County.
 Another rich vein has been struck in the Mountain Lily mine. Tuolumne County.
 A forty-stamp mill on the Patterson mine Is one of the contemplated improve ments In the vicinity of Tuttletown. Tuo-
 
 The Calaveras Citizen says that Alex Briggs picked up a piece of rose-colored quartz near Columbia last week which contained $40 in gold. It was slightly oxidized with iron, and the nugget weighed nearly ten ounces.
 Senator E. w. Chapman has secured the Calf Pasture and Heenan lodges in the Rock Creek district and intends to pros pect them. The Senator is engaged in opening up a great many of our smaller lodges. and Is doing more than any other one man toward th1 development of nu- merous quartz leads fin this vicinity Placer County Republican.
 The Kentuck mine at Grass Valley has be- n clo>eh temporarily. The shaft Is down 300 feet and work will soon be re- sumed sinking three or four hundred feet further. This mine Is opposite the great Idaho-Maryland, and 1t Is thought that 1t will develop with depth the great de- sideratum In mother lode mines.
 Quite a boom has struck Volcano and the adjacent district in Amador County Several mines are being developed under bond or otherwise. Among those that are bonded and that is expected to commence operations Is the Iron Bound on Elsie Creek. The shaft Is down two hundred feet in a vein of ore six feet thick which shows good prospects,. The Live Oak has been bonded to Denver parties, and is ex- pected to resume operations soon. The Tennessee has been bonded by M. Tyler to London parties and will be opened up in a short