The San Francisco call., 1898-08-22

dam at the narrows on the Yuba RiVer will consume approximately all Of the $50O0O0 so long available for dams ana may possibly even require an additional appropriation will necessarily stir the California Miners Association and the California delegation to Congress to still greater efforts to secure new approprla- tions. The depth to bedrock at the mar rows will make this dam cost nearly double what 1t would cost If bedrock were near the surface, 1t appearing from the incompleted Investigations of the Federal engineers that in places the foundation for the 150 foot dam must be built up from depth of 80 or 90 rect. AS this dam Is the most important of those in view as possibilities. and as 1t will have a great secondary value for its water power, It IS likely that all money and effort Will pc concentrated on it until 1t was completed Dams on other streams must, apparently await further legislation. It Is Teller, however, to hear the promise rom May0r Heuer that the commission Will propaply be able to report definitely Dy the tlLie Congress COnY6neS.
 Gold dredgers are a new thing to the mining industry of California, but they are now multiplying rapidly and VIII III the future cut a large feature in the goio production of the State. They are ana will become in a greater degree an eco nomical method of working gravel oepos- US ln low lylDS SIOullO do " OAA rivers, and 1t is well to keep track or tneir progress. Regarding one among nun nun Der of fields of present operation the Oro- vile Register says:
 "For Years if has been known that the gravel deposits south of Oroville and near the banks of the Feather were rlch III gold, yet owing to the the enoT0es Tn0es nave not been worked on an extepsiVe scale. w w Wiln- in the past year, however, numpe[ oI companies have been prospecting tnese al hadG and months ago IL WAS realized that the oEly teaslple Inelnou was to work them by dredgers, one poat evident from the length of time that IL has been operated. Since this boat snow ed that dredgers would pay other colhpd- nies have become interested, ana as Ie suit fifteen shafts have been sunk on one section and more than that on another on the east side of the river While on llie west side about no shafts have been sunk. Not more than fifteen or twenty "tbe the able to reach bedrock on account Of the flow of water: The cost has averaged
 The English Syndicate or Banner NdlHe Company are putting a large force or men to work on the ditch which IS 10 convey .oe the water from the Jones reservoir near town to the Banner mine. The reservoir is tapped by a tunnel 2200 feet in length From there 1t empties into the the .be 5annnn mon pose of having water power with which to run the mill and hoisting works by electricity instead of steam as heretofore. It is MT. Evans intention to have every thing complete and in running order by the 1st day of January, 1Ss9-Orovllle Register.
 California has temporarily lost a few prospectors and a little mining capital py the Alaska craze, but that 1t will eVentu- ally. benefit largely through the craving of the worlds attention and mining cap1- tai to the Pacific Coast region cannot be doubted straw flying in this dirSc{iIen To{IoIl Telegraph: Charles Stepp, aceotmPsanled sant1 by Antone Stander and wife ana A. Goetz' are in town looking at some quartz prop, from the Klondike. Messrs. Stepp and Goetz were on business for European syndicate. MT. Stander Is one of the dis coverers of the rich claims in the frozen north and still has interests there"
 The Mountain mine at Sierra City has chasers are now on the way out to start up the mine. Expert T1bbetts' story of the salting of the samples few weeks ago seems to have had the opposite effect intended-Sierra County Enterprise.
 An Enterprise correspondent of the Oro- vile Register gives the following. notes s Stow, 1t Is stated. has purchased the Shakespeare ledge, and will extend the big tunnel, which is now in 2oO0 feet, to a a begin about October 1. As the tunnel cost nearly SIP a foot, 1t thus means an ex- of this tunnel alone. Forbestown Is for tunate in having a gentleman who has means to develop valuable properues Tn this manner. w nen IIle Lulltl6l iS ed under the Shakespeare the face will be about 2400 feet under the croppings. inc Denver mine has leased the chlorinatfon works of the Shakespeare mine. and will work 150 tons of sulphurets, which are valued at $125 ton; James Pullen mas resumed work in the Mount Ida mine, and four men are employed in the Red Po1nt mine. The Bank of England Consolidated, c. c. Antrim superintendent, has sixteen men employed, and IS making an ,,uai,.se upraise have lately been erected on this mine. A contract has been let for 500-foot tunnel on the Big Betsy ledge itself, and four men have begun work on the same.
 Chestnut & Co.,, who lately purchased the old Commodore quartz mine on Bark house Creek Klamath River, are making extensive scale The company has started a tunnel to tap the ledge, in order to run out the quartz by cars, ana also lrnnei to secure water for the batteries ana ma chinery.-Yreka Journal.
 Early heavy rains will brighten up busi- ness in Bedding by sending into the hills hundreds of prospectors with DICK ana nan and rocker. For several seasons work in the dry diggings and guicn , pihaces 3h nas ds of dollars usually pass into circulation during a rainy season, the past few wears have seen the pan and rocker dust canoe West and southwest of Bedding is territory that in ordinary seasons never fails to respond liberally to the surface scratchings of men accustomed to locating the most likely hfhing 4hn g placGs ,s the Old Diggngs district, Is another pro ductiye section. Since Chinese, have never been allowed to rake the dlStrlct with fine tooth comp there IS ptemly oii o, oa Sie m enough dust when water Is abun- da1t to come into town and lay in win