The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-11-06

DOpDlilS up III every Q1feCt1On. II 10 tCty
easy therefore to see that Tulolumne
production of gold in the year to come
will be heavier than during any like pc.
| ROD OF time since quartz mining became
| an industry.-Sonora Democrat.
Water was turned into the recon
structed ditch and fume from the xBeai
valley reservoir on Saturday. The Utica
works are rapidly assuming busy as
| pect, and as soon as the rains commence
everything will be running as of old
! The work of retimbering the shaft is 60
| ing on raDidly.-Calaveras Citizen.
| The Ford Mining Company has decided
| 10 erect at once ten-stamp mill on lts
| County.
A prospecting tunnel over 1000 feet in
! length, to develop water and gold placer
| ground in Mazourka Canyon. has been
| run by three or four local miners, with
| no other capital than grub, mining tools
and energy, 1t is in all the. Quickest
| work. that has ever been done In this
| county, and from last reports the indi-
| cations are that the men will be reward
| ed with fortunes.-Inyo Independent
The Democratic Banner of Sonora re-
cords the following news of the progress
along, that part of the mother lode:
"A large vein has recently been discov-
| cred at the Santa ISABEL which is very
"A shaft 1000 feet in depth is about to be
sunk at the Acknowledgements, near Tut
"Burleigh drills have been put to work
| in the Hazel Dell mine, near SoulSbyville.
commenced.
Forty thousand feet of lumber has
been engaged for the Buchanan mine. 1t
mill. a number of other Improvements
of less Importance are also TO be made
in the near future.
"A hoist and pump are about to be
placed in position at the Mullen mine on
the Murphy ranch. They are to be oper-
ated by a powerful steam engine. The
ledge is an immensely large one, and
many persons are of the opinion that 1t is
the famous Black Oak vein"
The continued operation of the Marshall
gravel mine, formerly known as the Union
League mine, is now settled fact Inc
three Eastern spectators who visited San
Andreas last week at the instance of J. F.
Clapp have determined to prosecute the
work laid out and started by it's nresent
anagers.-Calaveras Citizen.
w. f. Detert, the owner of the HOFFMAN
Field tract, will probably begin develop
ment within the next year. 1t is probable
that two shafts will be put down stimuli
taneously on this property: Mining men
class it among the best undeveloped min
ing properties along the mother lode.
Should this property turn out as antlcl.
pated jackson will become the foremost
mining camp in the State, and no doubt
attain population of double its present
number.-Amador Republican.
The GWin mine, though little snort or
water, is running day and night, employ
ing sixty-five men all told. The hoist is
running by steam and will continue so
until water is more plentiful. The rock
has improved in value and an additional
forty stamps is templated.-Calaveras
Yesterday the South Yuba Company
found 1t necessary to notify Superintend-
ent McKinlay of the Providence mine at
this city that after Monday next and until
there is a good storm he can have only
enough water from the ditch to keep the
pumps going. The Champion mine can,
II is thought, be kept going with water
from the Excelsior ditch.-Nevada CITY
This is the busiest camp in the county
and not one idle man can be found. Many
outsiders have come in lately and found
work at top wages.-Alleghany Core
spondent Downieville Enterprise:
The receipts of quicksilver in San Fran
cisco the first eight months OF the year
were Is 1886 TASKS, against 1890 the same
this period were 4257 TASKS valued al $154,-
9S6, against 1868 TASKS valued at S120,619 in
1897
The, current number of the Mining and
Scientific Press is the two-thousandth is
sue of that old journal. Its bulky volumes,
extending over nearly forty years, afford
of the gold mining industry and especially
of the evolution of its processes.
A rich strike was made in the Philadel-
phia mine on Washington Hill, near
French Gulch, last Saturday. The prop
erty is owned by Walter Van Matre, Ed
King and Charles Fox.-Redding Search
light.
The Brown Bear Mining Company at
Deadwood is making thorough prepara-
lions for the construction of the new tun-
mel to tap the ore body at q great depth.
The running of a mile of tunnel is a big
undertaking, and to insure rapid progress
the company is putting in a fine air-coin-
pressor plant for the operation of Bur-
leigh drills.--Redding Free Press.
The mining property at Quartz Valley
belonging to r. H. Campbell has been
sold TO A. c. Brokaw and A. +. Mechanic,
both of Tacoma. Wash. The sale en-
braces $500 acres of placer ground, to-
gether with all bitches and water rights
connected Herewith The purchase price
is said to be $50, 0O0.-Redding Searchlight