The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-02-27

Court by R. NJ. Yardley of Philadelphia
asking authority to make sale of the
Bunker Hill and Mayf1ower mines at Am
ador City.
For the quarter to- March 1 the Napa
Con. Quicksilver Company earned $32 ,2l2,
against s19,161 last year, and surplus after
dividends of S12212, against S9161 last year.
Aetna earned net $12, 766 for the quarter
ending February l, and surplus after div
idends of 1886
A new ten-stamp mill has gone to the
Slate Range, ninety miles from MoJaVe
and forty miles from Randsburg, for the
Meredith mine. The mine shows ledge
seven feet in thickness, and part of 1t is
rich all paying for milling.
Holbrook & Hunt, who have recently
worked the tailings at the Belden mine
by cyanide process at profit, have NOV
ed to the Tierakoff mine. near the West
Point bridge, owned by Mrs. A. b; Mar
same profitable work. The cyanide pro-
cess is comparatively new to Amador
County, and the above mentioned good
results obtained therefrom should be an
inducement to mining men to invest-
gate.-Amador Republican.
A company of San Francisco capitalists
composed of M. Blaskower, j. Drosseur,
H. l.. Coook, A. Heynemann, L. Ley1son
and others have formed the Consolidated
Oden Mining Company with capital
stock of 81 200 900, to work the drift min
ing property near Grass Valley. 1t. is
proposed to sink an inclined shaft.
Harlow Kimball and others, who have
been prospecting a gravel claim near the
Magnolia mine. a short distance from
Goodvear's Bar, recently struck some
very rich gravel. We are informed that
from ninety-two carloads of dirt $1,000 was
realized, over 81 load.-Downieville Mes
senger.
been sold and will be shipped to Mexico
After considerable experimenting II mas
been found that this machinery is un-
suited to the reduction of the rich but
refractory Alice ore, which must be
treated by the cyanide process.-Rlver-
side Press. ooo
The Empire, in sinking below the ~ zoo
level, has come into very good ore. rms
property has been a producer since 1891,
and it's product is not diminishing with
age. There are forty stamps In opera
is running a drift, which has reached 360
feet. for the Rich Hill ledge on the 800
level Three eight-hour shifts, air com
pressor and electric power are pushing
the work. The property comprises eighty
three acres. AT the Golden treasure,
property on which after years OF likeness
work was recently resumed. the smart mas
been unwatered and prosecuting ooth
ways is going rapidly forward. The old
tunnel has also been cleaned and is being
driven on the ledge.-Transcript.
The work of construction now on the
new line of railroad from Daggett to the
borax mines, twenty-siX miles away, is
being pushed rapidly. The borax works
are shipping forty tons per day and the
road is a necessity n I'LL ~ -l"o-hiuiC
train is at present hauling the product or
the mines to the railroad.
Since the new underground machinery
was installed at the Providence mine
Nevada County, the work of sinking the
shaft from the 1S00-foot level has been
going merily on. At depth of 1880 feet
a level has been cut and drifts will be
run both ways on the ledge, which. by
the way, is large and of good quality
The shaft is about twenty-six feet below
this level, and will be continued until the
/ 2OOO-foot level is reached.
In the first twenty-seven days after
starting the Burleigh drills in the tunnel
of the big Eureka drift mine above Forest
Hill, Placer County, Felix Chappellet Jr.
with his double shift of men drove POS
feet of tunnel. The greater part of the
distance was ordinary slate rock and the
balance in very hard rock. The tunnel
was in 1855 feet at last accounts
F. j. Esler is a firm believer in the
bright future of the Virginia Dale Dis
| trict He came in last evening, and with
notable one contained S110. 1t represented
with $40 one week work with dry wash
er. Ike Reed was the man who did 1t.
| He had a placer claim at Dale and an old
| dry washer. He shoveled his own dirt,
turned his own crank and cleaned up $3.50
| In seven days. The ground covered in
! the time was 15x20 feet of surface, the
dirt being only one foot deep to bed rock.
And Reed has a whole lot more justssuch
undiscovered.-San Bernardino Times
Index.
| Every indication points to the fact that
| Tuolumne County is on the verge of the
| biggest boom ever known within its
| umits.-Tuolumne Independent.