The San Francisco call., 1898-08-07
NEWS OF THE MINES.
mercy of the variable mountain streams. Jamestown Mother Lode.

ming, fluming and river-bed mining will 1 be unusually active until the winter ratns
 there are three different companies err1f
 ploying twelve men.-Mounta1n Democrat;
 Senator Voorheis and John Ross 1T. of
 Sutter and F. r. Thomas of the GWin
 mine are said to have bonded the old
 Havillah mine, near Nashville in Ell Do-
 rado County, and will deveIop the prop.
 erty on the same plan as the Lincoln, al
 Sutter. The gentlemen expect to extend
 the Crawford ditch to a point west Of
 Nashville. by doing which they vii. have
 fall of 800 feet or more. The difficulty
 in working this mine heretofore has been
 the lack of cheap power, which the new
 company intends to supply as above
 The Baltic mine, El Dorado County. has
 been bonded to number of San Fran
 cisco capitalists and active operations VII
 be commenced at once. Machinery for
 the mine has already been purchased, and J. H. Bradley, who Is one of the interested
 parties, has been in town this week ar
 ranging for the shipment of the plant
 A mail service has been established to Dale, the chief town of the mining dis
 trict generally known as the Virginia Dale in San Bernardino County.
 The drift from the north to the south
 shaft on the 24OO-foot level in the Ken
 nedy mine Is being steadily driven. and connection between the two shafts will be
 made soon. There is talk of bringing
 electric power from the plant on the
 Mokelumne River with which to run the
 forty-Stamp mill.
 The Melones mines near Robinsons Fer ry, Calaveras County, comprise six
 mines. In the South Carolina the tunnel
 has reached 5000 feet The development ore that is valued at from s3 to s1O a ton and can be milled at s per ton. Devel-
 opment work will be continued until
 spring, when a mill of 120 stamps will
 be built. B. Deleray Is superintendent and w. c. Ralston general manager.
 Reynolds and Carter have leased the Morr1stown hydraulic mine. Sierra Coun- ty for five years and have begun work.
 The Yellow Aster Mining Company of Harrisburg has just made a two weeks cleanup at the BarstOW reduction works of 2S,O00 For June this company paid a dividend of $10,000 to its stockholders. In addition to what they are crushing at Jo- hannesburg they are running thirty of the fifty stamps at the Barstow reduction works. It is stated that they have leased that number of the stamps and are op- erating them under their own manage ment.
 It Is currently rumored that changes in the general management Of the BarStoW Reduction Works will soon be made. There is, in fact, good reason for believ- ing that some changes have already been made, and that Albert Smit-l has resigned are assigned for these changes, but 1t seems to be pretty well known that the way in which things at the mill were be- ing conducted. Last week mortgage for s25 900 was hled in the County Recorders office at San Bernardino, given by the Randsburg- Santa Fe Reduction Company to the Union Trust Company of Roch- ester, N. r, and was given as security to float bonds to the amount of $25, ,000.- Los Angeles Times.
 The Good Hope mine, situated between Ferris and Elsinore, has been one of those mines with a history peculiarly it's own. glish syndicate for half a million dollars, and $l00o paid down on account. sci entific gentleman of high education in geological matters was sent out from London as it's superintendent. and every thing looked rosy. Suddenly the supply of ,gold-bearing rock began to decrease and the shareholders brought suit to get back their money, on the ground that misrepresentations had been resorted to in the sale of the property.
 Since then the mine has had a varied experience and a checkered existence But on Friday last the workmen ran into an ore body of almost unparalleled mag depth of 600 feet from the surface The rock is a low-grade ore, but said to be I1ch enough to crush at a profit, while the that it will not soon be exhausted-Lo Angeles Rlselss Mining lil1 7sg Record ing engineer of this city, who returned last week from a visit to the Rademacher district, near Randsburg, the following Information of that section has been ob- tained: He speaks in glowing terms of 1t and It's possibilities. Outside of one or two mines but little development has been done, but what prospects have been principal reasons of the district not hay ing made further advancement has been on account of the class of ores. As a rule, very little free gold property is met with, the general character of the ores being a sulphide of iron, in which the gold Is contained: The grade of the ores orally good enough to stand shipment, can be prof1tably treated on the ground by modern processes.
 A number of wells have been sunk and water in abundance has been reached In from six to thirty-fiYe feet. The proposed electric-power line has been surveyed should the projected line from the Kern River to Randsburg be completed, with cheap power and sufficient ore for treat ment, the success of the district Is as- sured.-Los Angeles Review.
 The Selby Smelling and Lead Company of San Francisco Is prepared to purss ounce and upward. This metal, or alloy, has been found in various placer mines in California. particuarly in ao the northern approximating closely to that of gold, in sand and gravel it concentrates with the gold. It can be easily distin- gushed by its bright metallic color and fiat, scaly appearance, is insoluble in acid, and cannot be melted by ordinary furnace heat. The shape of grain Is irregular, has d IdSBeQ 6Q6t, dIlQ FdIISS III SlHS lIOll that of fine to coarse sand and often larger. As the market for osm-iridium has been limiteds little attention has been paid to 1t on this coast but it is believed quantities may be found if miners twill turn their attention in that and Scientific Press.
 Extension of demand and shortening of supply has sent the price of oil at Los Angeles up to s1 15, an advance of 55 cents in sixty days. This is the price fixed last week by the oil Producers week by outsiders at So and S5 cents.
 The Black Warrior quartz mine, late of Okanogan County, Wash, has been to the British flag and British Columbia mining laws. It was supposed to be in Okanogan County and was re- corded, staked and worked according to United States laws. Some surveyors came along and found that the boundary line just slipped its south side.
 There are now about 10000 miners at work in the gold mines of Siberia.
 Stmr. Grace Dollar will sail for St Michael | Cha ranteed connections Yukon River poInte.