The San Francisco call., 1898-07-10
NEWS OF THE MINES.

I the range the route was at an elevation
 of 1000 feet above sea level An interest l ing sight at that high altitude was the
 spectacle of Adams packtrain, loaded l Wlth tWelVe-foot, boards, winding along
 the mountain trail, and presenting the ap-
 V f1ume" The famous Utica mine at Angels Camp will be shut down about September 1st
 ana Will remain closed pending repairs to l The reservoirs, ditcheS and fumes will be
 cleaned and put in first-class condition
 ld1l thls summer, while the water is at the 1 work much easier than if there was pen- | ty or water and the company has decided
 to take advantage of it:
 The mine owners will spend about $50,-
 VC9 in this work, but, the greater portion | of the expense will be the entire recon
 struction of the Union Hume for a dis
 tance of about six miles. Over 1000 900
 feet of lumber will be used in this piece
 or work and some 200 men will be employ
 ed on lt.-Stockton Independent.
 Golden Gq@H SP0as ne RFoiPessg sagg 8g6 9 the c9 Gea ! since It's resGscitation is shown in the re-
 port Of Receiver Pauly for May. The re- 1 port says that a large profit is being made out of the operation of the mines. From the cleanup on June l. there was realized 1 $46,444. .94, and from other sources $1 499. 50
 was obtained.
 The total expenditures, including s1.-
 2UO which under stipulation is paid to the | defendants in the action each month
 moQPted m to sio $4S02l7$ s6G The payroll for the
 hahd on May 3l. Forty additional stamps were started on June l. and Receiver PauIy says that he believes that he will
 pc aple to furnish ore for them as well as
 tor the 100 stamps which have been in op-
 9gratlon; The report was approved by Judge Torrance.
 The Santa Rosa gravel rnina 1ooa+ad near Volcanoville, above Georgetown. and owned by the Santa Rosa Gravel Mining Sop1y company or santa Rosa, Cal, has been bonded to William Simms. an attorney of Sacramento, the first payment being made on the 24th inst
 The Marysville Democrat says that work in the mine of the Good Title Com pany at Indiana Ranch has ceased for +ha present, and 1t may be permanently The l quartz IS of very low grade, and on going deeper It did not improve. There is plenty or quartz, but a run of several months demonstrated that 1t would not more than pay expenses.
 John Manning and Antonio Gomez were doWn from the White Star mine yester- day. The White Star is booming. Re gently eight tons of rock, less 330 pounds was put through Cooper'S mill and cleaned up si2Oo, besides leaving 700 pounds of rich sulphates. Two men took out the rock Tn i've weeks. The mine shows $1000O in sight;,Kern County Echo.
 J. K. and John Smith, who have been prospecting in the Amalia district for a year or more, have struck a ledge that promises to return them a small fortune The ledge is sald to be a large one and the rock fairly glitters with bits of the precious metal. A ton of the rock run through an arastra yielded about $25O, While the assay shows a still greater value.-Kern County Echo
 The old Gladstone mine, Shasta County. has twenty men on the payroll. Good ore is being taken from the mine and the 20-Stamp mill is running steadily The new compressed air hoist and pumping plant work to perfection.
 Rene Curin, representing the Pioneer Mining Company of Montana, arrived in town the latter part of last week. Mr. Curin will thoroughly prospect the river
 bed in the vicinity of the Given ranc,, with view to putting in a dredger. The company have already located a good many acres of the river bed.-Trinity Journal.
 Littlefield & Fisher, who hold bond on the Densmore, near Parrotts Ferry are developing the property with a force Of ten miners, and feel assured they have one of the famous mines of the county. A new shaft was recently started which IS now down forty feet, and shows in the bottom a four-foot vein of well de- fined quartz. A mill will in all probab..- ny ny pc shortly put up at the mine.-Sonora
 The Gerrymander Gold Mining Com pany mas sued the Golden Gate Company. owning the adjoining mine in Sonora on their property underground As usual the right to the veins under the apex law IS involved Concerning the condition of sas says he %est dr 59a 4 }pa level is being driven ahead, and in the meantime sinking is going steadily on in the the ,s ,shaft, which is down .liO feet It is sink at least 800 feet, both hoist and pumps being easily good for the disfanca Levels will be established and manned at every every ioo feet. The ore being taken from r11ivo oS, very rich, and, as is common throughout the property, highly sulphureted. The rebel element represents per cent oT 5000 per ton" "oi III
 After a successful test with three tan1,s at the cyanide plant, Taylor mine, EI Do rado County, the management has decid ed to erect seventeen additional tanks.
 The Bedding Searchlight says thai a clnnabar property is being developed near Mtllville in which ledge several feet wide has been traced 600 feet
 H. Visscher is in charge of onera+ions at the Narrows, near SmartsvilIe. by tbe United States Debris Commission to da1 termine upon site for the proposed de- DTS prs restraining dam From thirty to forty men have been employed there sew eral months, sinking and trenching for bedrock. The explorations show fbara are in the 400O-foot gorge, known as the funds on hand are nearly exhausted ~ Mining and Scientific Press.
 California mining towns are still in inc ring. Randsburg has been growing to beat Jonah's gourd and all obstacles have simply served to accelerate the hustle | Now it is talking about incorporating and entering society as a real, grown-up citv The only drawbacks at present lie in a | superfuity of churches and saloons.-Los Angeles Times.
 A Santa Barbara paper says: San Fran cisco capitalists are spending thousands of dollars in oil development in Rincon Canyon near the dividing Iina of c,n,-tH Barbara and Ventura counties. Test holes have been sunk with such good resnIts that the company believes it has found the very fountain head of the petroleum wealth of the State and the establish ment of a refinery will probably follow as a matter of course. They find the same geological formation that underlies the rich fields near Santa Paula, the same