The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24

a thirty-day bond on the property, will no doubt, purchase the mine at the time the bond expires. The bond calls for $30,- GOO.
 Work is progressing on the smadeke mine at Smiths Flat, Ca1averas County. The shaft is being put down as rapidly as possible. and necessary improvements about the mill and works are being made
 A rich strike has been made on the desert in San Bernardino County by F. J. Dehm of this city and A. H. Luscomb of Bernardo. MT. Dehm returned Friday night from a six weeks prospecting trip at Twenty-nine Palms in San Bernardino county and brought along samples of ore from one of the mines located. The samples yesterday assayed $1220 per ton MT Luscomb Is working on a claim at present, and MT. Dehm will return in the fall to assist in developing the property San Diego Union.
 A large ruby was picked up on the des- ert near Vulture Siding a few days ago. This district is known as the Ruby dis tr1ct, and from time to time very good finds have been made. The Ruby section pectors being averse to leaving the course of streams for any considerable d1stance.-Riverside Enterprise.
 Albert Smith arrived at Barstow last week to start the ore buyer to work in behalf of the new 50-stamp custom mill The assay office and sampling mill are now about completed. All the machinery for the mill is on the ground and the building Is almost completed, and stamps will soon begin dropping
 It is reported that an exceptionally rich strike of copper has just been made on the property of the Inyo Mining Com pany IA miles north of Inyo. The strike was made on the 700-foot level. Besides the copper, gold, silver and lead ores are now being taken from this property in paying quantities. A smelter is now be- ing put In which will add materially to the output, as heretofore all the ore was shipped either to Denver or San Fran ri f 10 copper strike additional mechanism for smelting that ore will be put in. and within three weeks the smelter will be in operation.-RiverSide Enterprise.
 The annual report for the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company for the year ending December, 1897. shows net pro- supplies, $3730; total receipts, S12S.s2S; total expenses, $S1 ,342; net earnings, S47,- 5S6; dividends, $30,O00; total surplus, $2S, PAS. There were produced during. the year 15,- reduction works at the mine in San Ben ito County were in full operation only seven months.
 Tl.e old Redington quicksilver property will, it Is said, resume work under Lon don company, to be known as the Quick silver Mines of California, Limited. It is said to have been purchased by G. Darsie of Scotland and A. McMillan of California. The capital is $750 900.
 There are about ten men working at the Mount Shasta quartz mine. Three shifts
 
 week. The old shaft Is being drained and drifting is in progress to tap the bottom that will probably be finished in a few days. Good-paying ore is constant ly being shipped to the Keswick smelte-s. Next year the owners contemplate plac- ing electric plants on the property and ultimately sinking to at least 1000 feet or more.-Redding Searchlight.
 The following news notes concerning the region about Ballarat, Inyo County, are condensed from the Los Angeles Min ing Review:
 TT. H. Pheby the Panamint pioneer. has, with his associates, paid $10,000 for the Burro mine in Jail Canyon. three miles from the Panamint road. He has also purchased the Redlands Company s mill and is moving it.-The South Park mines, seven miles up Pleasant Canyon from Ballarat are working sixteen tons of free-mlling ore daily in a Bryan mill averages 1925. In the same nei rhborhood the Radcliffe mine, with a five-foot vein of s25 ore, is opened up with 400 feet of tunnels and shafts, nd has 800 tons of ore on dump.-About 5000 has been taken from the Cooper mine with hand motor A fifty-stamp mill is being built at the Anthony mne.-The Gem and McAllister mines in Tuber Canyon show tip well.- The Buckeye Con. mines, three miles south of Ballarat, have produced $50 free gold per ton on trial teStS.-Ballarat is about sixty miles north of Johannesburg. There are, all told. nearly 400 people in the camp, out of whom not less than 100 are working for wages"
 We learn that arrangements are in progress for establishing an extensive