The San Francisco call., 1898-08-22
NEWS OF THE MINES.

l ter's supply of provisions.-Redding Free | Press
 It comes to us that a forty-foot vein has been tapped in the mine near Bells Hill. The shaft is down twenty-five rect and 1t will be sunk fifty more, then orIdt- ing will be done to reach the walls Ine tfons are that the property will De the largest milling proposition in the state Sonora Banner.
 Work on the electric plant for the Grif- filth mine is being pushed with consider able energy. The dynamo is to be set up at Ladies Valley, where about a thousand feet of fall can be obtained from the Park canal on the north side of the river Part of the present consignment is pipe rado Republican.
 The mine on James Burns ranch has met the expectations of the company and eleven feet wide.-Sonora Banner
 At the Potazuba mine. near Sutter, they have encountered four foot ledge at the they intend to have milled right away. The Dispatch is informed that 100 tons will be put through the mill as a first test. The deal entered into last fall by which the Amador Queen No. mine was to become the property of Chicago capi- talists has been consummated, and the American Improvement Company Is in charge. A good deal of money will soon be expended in the practical development of this mtne.-Amador Dispatch.
 The Keystone Company has shut down twenty stamps on account of the short age of water. This has involved the dis charge of thirty-f1ve men. The Keystone uses water from the Blue Lakes Compa- ny. The Kennedy mill has shut down, and number Of men have been dis charged, on account of shortage of water. Steam power will be put in immediately. -Amador Ledger.
 The Bonanza mine, famous throughout the world the greatest pocket property ever discovered, is again showing Itself a mineralized phenomenon, but this time in an entirely different manner. The main incline shaft down the vein, from eighteen inches to three feet wide, has developed into a true free milling proposition.-Sonora Union-Dem- ocrat.
 It Is probable that the Sell will be un- able to resume operations until the rainy season sets in. It depends on electric power for all purposes, and, owing to the shortage of water with which to operate the dynamos, the electric company was forced to curtail its service, the Sell be- ing among the unfortunate ones.-Sonora Union-Democrat.
 the Reddik mine, just north of town. The property gives every indication of prov ing one of the best drift propositions that Nevada. City has had.-Nevada City Transcript.
 Lewellyn & Porter are putting up large cyanide process at Garlock to work tailings. It is estimated there are 10000 tons of tailings there at the differ ent mills, and probably s100,O00 will be works will be equal to sixty tons per day. The Eureka mill people have their cyan idle building completed and all the wood arrival of the iron ron tank, tank I which ai Is ex7 e:xe pected tonight. On its arrival they can be ready to operate in three or four days. The capacity of the plant Is ten tons per day.-Randsburg Miner c. H. Claubes has returned from White River where he has been during the past month engaged in working his min ing claim. MT. Claubes reports consid- erable activity in mining in the White River district, and says that two short time another one of ten-stamp ca pacity will be erected by a San Fran 1 cisco syndicate. Several new claims will also be opened up and worked in the near future.-Porterville Enterprise
 On one day this week in San Diego twenty-two mining locations were re- phen w. Dorsey.-Los Angeles Mining Review.
 It is worthy of remark that the activity and advance of the market for copper has produced its natural effect upon the work of developing existing copper producing properties and in opening up new mines paying character are found The uses for copper in the arts. and particularly in connection with electrical progress, are growing at too great a rate to admit of any doubt as to consumption keeping pace with whatever gain in production the near future has in store-Bradstreet's
 The Kootenay country mines, British Columbia, from the Rocky Mountains to the Yale district. produced ten years ago
 
 creased to S100. .00O; last year the output reached g 900 ,000
 The sale of the famous old Virtue mine in Oregon is announced. It has been at intervals a wonderful producer. The Vir- tue was once the property of George w. Grayson, the San Francisco millionaire partner of J. B. Haggtn of Anaconda cop per fame. He owned 1t for twenty eight years. and during that time 1t yielded him s. 900 ,0O0 The property Is eight miles east of Baker City
 The growth of Butte is something mar velous. Buldinss are being erected on wonderfully. The pay roll of nearly a million dollars per month s ueing main tained and the money Is percolating through the. channels of business, making Western Mining World.
 A new mining camp called Cotton has been started in Southern Nevada, near Death Valley. It was discovered only men are on the ground. One ledge has been traced for distance of over 5000 feet that gives assays of $40 per ton in gold and is eight feet thick. An old workinr with a shaft on the ledge from which the ore averages $50 per ton in free gold be- sides rich concentrates. Many of the prospectors think this Is the long lost prospects have been found near the camD Mineral Wealth
 The talk of increased production of gold from Cripple Creek and other mining the statistics of the United States branch mint at Denver. During the month of July the receipts at this institution amounted to over s2OO0 900, which is the ter than the receipts during the sane period in the previous year-Mining In vestor. AT