The San Francisco call., 1898-05-08
NEWS OF THE MINES.

four houses stood to tell the story of former habitation and prosperity, pretty villages have sprung up and building is
 ''The renowned Dead Horse mine, the deepest and one of the best paying prop critics in Tuolumne County, keeps forty hence the 1500-foot level will have been reached, when drifting will begin. The main shaft is down nearly TOO feet. The Dead Horse is owned by Alvinza Hay ward and the Hobart estate J. Davis, formerly of Jackson, Amador County, is the superintendent"
 There is considerable mining being done on Silver Fork at present. A. Baumhoff tells us that the miners there are taking out gravel from the river bed that pros poets cents to the pan. They expect to find some fine diggings when the water gets lower.-El Dorado Republican.
 through the Champion Mining Company s dam in Nevada County and started a break which washed out the dam, with loss of 5000 and temporary suspen. sion of milling.
 The serious encroachments of the pres } ent bad season are now becoming decfd- ly apparent in Trinity County mines. In the vicinity of Junction City, Trinity s banner placer camp, only the French mines are operating and they are suf- fering seriously from the short supply. The Haas mines, which usually cease operations in July, are making their final cleanup three months earlier this season; Cuc SHdpIldn & f1Sner mines nave closed down, as also numerous other proper ties. The season has been a heavy dis appointment.-Redd Searchlight.
 The Chloride-Bailey mine near Dedrick being developed by outside capital, Is said to present very encouraging appear ance, both the shaft and tunnel expos ing ledge that Is far beyond expecta- tions Homer Wilson of San Francisco ested in the purchase. The sum of S26OC was paid down February 10, and another payment of s10,OO0 is to be made on June 10.-Redding Searchlight.
 The Standard Consolidated mine at Bo- die now employs 108 men and mills about 275 tons of ore per week. Drifts, cross driven
 John Daggett intends starting up the Black Bear mill at Salmon River, Siskiyou County, shortly, in crushing quartz taken out during the past winter.
 The 9reka Company, engaged in run ming tunnel through the Humbug Gulch, under supervision of Tim Austin find larger stringers of quartz with in- d1cationS of striking a good quartz ledge before long; The, tunnel is in over 35C feet. and the work is progressing more rapidly now, on account of the rock be- ing softer than at the beginning.-Yreka Journal.
 c. A. and J. M Wangaman, owners of the well known Mayhower and other mines of Greenhorn district. Kern Coun- | ty, brought in by wagon yesterday twen- " -OiIC pouIluS Ol SOlu DulllOU ITOL1 LnG Mayfower. valued at s44OO It was taken from the north side of the claim at the 200 level, and went $46 to the ton. In con- versation with Mirror representative, J. M. Wangaman stated that they have re- gently struck $60 ore in the same shaft and that it is improving in quality as greater depth Is attained-Bakersfield Mirror.
 A man Is getting rich at working with a cyanide plant a mountain of old tail- ings near Yuma, which many experts said could not be worked at profit. The la- test account Is this from, the Yuma Sun: "The tailing pond of the old Cargo Mu- chaco mine in San Diego County, which William D. Luce, the well-known assay CT, bought for royalty of 10 cents per ton from Hiram w. Blaisde1l of this place, is proving a rich investment for the deserving man who had the courage to back his judgment and tests in the face of repeated discouragements from able mining men who had had experience in the Cargo Muchacho. There are about 100, 900 tons of tailings and they contain about s2 in gold per ton. The present plant enables the working of one hundred tons per day"
 west of Winchester, Messrs. |. M. and