The San Francisco call., 1898-05-29

l our mines and prospects"
 | The Amador Record says that the Gen. | tral Eureka mine is looking finely. Splen- | did ore has been encountered in the shaft | and it is now a foregone conclusion that this property is going to make one Of the | great mines on the lode. The owners have stood by the proposition faithfully and it has cost them a big sum of money to car ry on the work, but they now have the satisfacton of knowing that success will crown their efforts. AS matters now stand 1t ought not to be many months De, fore a big mill will be pounding away and the Central Eureka counted among the steady bullion producers.
 The ArgOnaut mine ,'lid dividend or 10 cents per share for the month of April. A syndicate of New Brunswick capital ists is negotiating for the purchase of the County. The property is owned by Pat Reddy, Judge Garber and other San Francisco parties. The mine is situated on the mountain side, 5000 feet above sea level. The ore body is fifteen feet in width and carries low grade freegold ore, says the Bedding Free Press. An aerial tramway is used to carry the ore from the mine to the mill, which is situated on the river 4000 feet below the mine. The mill has forty stamps and is run by water power. It is estimated that there are 15,0O tons of ore in sight. If the ore will yield S4 per ton the company will purchase the property and put in sixty more
 The National Mining Company of Rich Gulch shipped by rail from this city on Tuesday to the smelter at Vallejo June tion a carload of SulphuretS. The ship ment consisted of 265 sacks, of total weight of 25, 900 pounds. The company has the finest mill in this county. It is a late full concentrator plant, and a canvas plant behind the concentrators to save the sulphurets, which carry large values.-Redding Free Press.
 A twenty-stamp mill is being erected by Captain McMurtrie. A. Cornwall and others at the Providence mine, on the north fork of the Tuolumne River, about fifteen miles from Sonora. Part of the machinery has been received, and the re- mainder will be delivered there this week. Large quantities of ore are being taken out of the mine at present.-Stockton In- dependent
 We were on Wednesday shown some of the richest sulphuretS we have ever seen. They were taken from. the Keltz mine at West Point, at depth of $50 feet. An assay of the sulphurets went $500 per ton. The lead in the Keltz is about twenty inches wide and the rock assays $50 per ton. The work of shipping the ore to Selby's reduction works will be com menced next week.-Calaveras Chronicle.
 An immense gallows frame is being erected over the shaft of the Lightner mine. We used to think that those or the Utica company were high, but thls one towers twenty-five feet above y Any of them, it being 100 feet in height. me he
 
 north. About it's premises all IS bustle and activity, and that this property VIII be a second Utica in the production or the yellow metal there Is no reason TOT question.-Calaveras Prospect
 A report reached San Andreas thls WseA is to the effect that rich strike had been made at the old Thorn creWce ,,le1i,t al Sdt T Antone Camp. The party who orought the to town stated that thu the 6eket which is. indeed. rich gravel. This crev- ice was worked by Sheriff tba Tnorn 4mo ana sma mers they extracted in the neighborhood of s27, 900. James Lee, Frank Cuneo ana others are now working the claim. Thomas Fullen of the old Demarest mine was in San Andreas this week soncltlng subscribers to the capital stock or that young gold producer. It is intended a. to incorporate the Demarest TOT $looOoo.- Calaveras Citizen.
 The Nourse property has been bonded for a good round sum- Ire formation IS which shows up we'll in free gold--Tuoi- umne Independent
 The shaft at the Amador Queen is down SO close to the 100o-foot mark that