The San Francisco call., 1898-08-01
NEWS OF THE MINES.

| in Lower California 10 Degln ,ra lno | of yeIopment.-Riverside Enter r l The most important find in the cantp | so far has been the new strike ol ,.th su | phuret ore in the Little Butte, at oePt.- 3aI | of BOO feet The ore body shows d usS | foot vein of dark, clOse-grained, nlufsn f.aa l looking quartz, and mills about Slo AISo soo gold with the SulphuretS worth ap0ut S9' per ton. More than anything else s T. shows the permanency of the lodges; as | for the pitch of the ore chute the sdnlo vein passes under the Kinyon and Weagfe, Butte people are feeling mighty good over their prospects and employees take re- newed courage.-Randsburg Miner
 Randsburg now has its long neeoe9 d from wells four and a half miles distant and is delivered at fire pressure The Randsburg Miner says that w. h, Miller's stage line between Johannespurg and Ballarat will soon be extended clear
 through to Keeler, and that the santa
 Fe road will sell tickets to Keeler via
 Johannesburg Very good news, if true The gap of about forty-three mics be- tween Ballarat and Darwin will thus be herd Canyon and passing what was known as Panamint Junction in early
 days, when stages were flying al over that country.
 According to the Bodie Miner-Index that town has untold wealth in the shape of rich gravel, which would be bonanza in some places, but which, under the con ditions. does not allure capital yet. A few days ago." says that paper, I've saw ten pounds of dirt prospected. It was taken haphazard from the hillside back of the Catholic Church, and all pulverized finely in mortar, the result showing value of something more than S4 per ton We have seen several similar me chanical tests of the hillside soil made, and none of 1t showed less than s2 50 per ton"
 Somewhere about 15,OOO tons of tailings are being treated monthly at the local cyanide plant-the South End, Stand ard, Syndicate, Victor and Sunshine. All are producing quantities of bullion, ac- cording to capacity. The -Dunderberg Is not counted. though in operation. When the new Copper Mountain and Lundy plants get to work there will be an enor-. nous lot of sand handled in Mono County. This stuff, which was considered a nuis- ance few years ago, is valuable now Bodfe> Miner-IndeX.
 The Coalinga oil field in Fresno County Is again making some effort to push it. self into prominence. It was partially opened some years ago, but was aban- doned. Now therS are some companies engaged there who are pushing develop ment work vigorously.
 Valuable amber deposits are said to have been discovered on the Saykup Creek, flowing into Jervis Inlet, on the eastern shores of the Straits of Georgia, In British Columbia.
 gon have suffered from drought as se- verely as any part of California, accord ing to the following statement in the Ore gon Mining Journal:
 The partial failure last winter of the mining season in Southern Oregon has been the most serious blow this section has received Tn years. As Is known, the drought which extended all over Califor- nia extended up to the Calipooia Noun
 tains, so that in Josephine County, the great mining county of the section near ly all the hydraulic mines closed down after only few weeks run, while the hundreds of small placer miners operat- ing with the ground sluice failed to take out any gold at all. The direct conse- Quences of this state of affairs has been a reduction of the gold output of the sec sequence has been an exodus of men to other sections in search of work during the summer and until the fall rains shall
 again make 1t possible to operate the ground sluices."
 As the result of securing control of new mining territory through the war with Spain an era of mining stampedes may be expected. Within another year the min eral resources of the Philippine Islands will begin to attract attention, in all probability, and the usual novelty of dis tance will lend a charm to the claims which the transportation companies will be only too glad to magnify. There is no doubt as to the legitimate mining wealth of Cuba The great iron deposits near Santiago are capable of vast exploitat tion and the production of enormous wealth. The portions already worked cost about $3, 900 0Oo and have proved profitable at that price, There Is almost no limit to their productive capacity. Other miner als abound, and Cuba as a winter propo- stion will no doubt be much sought after by practical miners.-Western Mining World.