The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27
NEWS OF THE MINES.

suitable. San Pedro has offered to donate a thirty-acre lot The capacity of the shelter will be 150 tons daily and 1t will be completed in connection with the smelter where the bull lion will be produced in the pure state. There are a great many mines within few hundred miles of Los Angeles which could produce enormous amounts of smelting ores, but have not been worked to any extent, being too far away from a shelter
 The biggest among the river dredging opera tions now in preparation on various streams are some In Trinity and Sisldyou counties. Of the Siskiyou County Reporter says: ''The Montana Dredging Company, which has under bond a large. tract of gravel land just this side of Callahans, including five miles of the bed of in sinking shafts and doing other prospecting work The gravel channel has not been reached yet, although dirt is being washed which pays II cents per cubic yard, which Is an exceeding ly good yield. One of the members of the company has gone to Montana for the purpose of having two more dredgers put in operation. When this has been accomplished we will see in Scott Valley one of the largest mining en- terprises ever inaugurated in the county.
 Last weeks Shasta Courier says: ''The s30 600 dredger at Poker Bar on Trinity River, near Lowden's ranch, is probably only the beginning of a system of mining in Trinity that will add millions of dollars to the gold supply. The mines of Weaver Basin have let go into Weaver Creek, an affuent of the river. treas ure that would rival Klondike, and dredgers may yet reclaim this gold
 The miners along the mother lode are feeling much better since the recent considerable
 The weIl-known Champion mine near West Point. Calaveras County, situated about mile Creek company and work has commenced cleaning out the old shaft. This is the deep sunk to the depth of over 900 feet. The mine has been idle for about twelve years.
 horn Gulch. in the smiths Flat mining dis trict, Calaveras County, and near the cele- brated Star of India fd mine is fsn fraD uP se Jim Corbett mine went as high as s60 per ton The mine is being worked by tunnel and the exact width of the lode is not at present known.--Mountain Echo.
 The Illinois mine, owned by Ben K Thorn Is about to be bonded to c. D. Lane. and de velopment work will be commenced. shaft 135 feet is already down on this mi mine ne the immediate erection of mill. Further rich strikes are reported from the Condit mines
 The Draper mine is going to put up an ar. expensive plant, new hoist,, etc, so as to be covered in the winze below the SOo-foot level; The rock is exceedingly rich-It is reported TnttIetoMn 1Hnt ans last sis weekThe owners of the Golden Rule mine contemplating the erec- ton of a twenty-stamp mll.-The Gagner mine near Tuttletown had good cleanup this week after successful run, amounting nerintendent, They have twenty-stamp mill and the vein Is a large one.-Iuolumne lnoe-
 MT Shope an old miner and mill man. Is in Chicago where he has gone to buy mill ana all the necessary improvements to treat 0eT
 
 he will set the mill up about nine miles south of Mojave where there Is plenty or water. The mine owners are pleased with the assur- ance that they will not have to ship their ore much longer-Tehachapi Times
 E. NJ Hamilton of East Los Angeles is build ing a five-stamp mill near Rosamond. Kern County to mill lot of S35 rock from his mine
 The Glen Olive mine Vaughns. Kern county. which was started up last August has been worked all winter. though 1t is at 6o00-foot elevation where there has been a good deal of snow since December The mine Is pro- ducing steadily.
 There Is an apparent danger that the sta bility of the combination of the Los Angeles oil producers formed to hold prices up to Sl a barrel will be affected by outside influences working for lower prices at which 10 puy: Shfpments to San Francisco remain at about 1O 900 barrels month Secretary Strasburg or the Ol Producers' Trustees. referring to this, said he had reasons for believing that the ship ments to San Francisco could be doubled if the present uncertainty as to future prices did not prevail. and If cars could De oDliineu to Siip the oil.
 A corresrondent of the Bedding Free Press says that French Gulch Is the best quartz mining camp in Shasta County and that great activity prevails there. All the mines are be- ing operated and the mills run to their fullest capacity The Afflkmad mine is being de yeioped and good ore crushed. The old Wash ington mine is looking very well. The most of the work is being done by leasers The leases will terminate the first of April and the own CTS will resume control. The Blagrave brothers have taken out s2o0o in few days in their