The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17

and spent s30,O00 in getting ready for work, will start the mine into full oper- ation within a few days. This property has been idle for years. The new com bored an expensive rock tunnel to pro- vide a dump, built a sawmill. etc, and has six miles of unworked creek bed which promises to yield largely.
 The Brown Bear Mining Company on Deadwood continues to improve its prop erty. There is now at the freight depot awaiting shipment to the mine a set Of ten wrought steel shoes for a stamp bat iron for use in the long tunnels on the property.-Redding Free Press.
 Thirteen mining claims were recorded a Redding on April $.
 Frank Rossi has started up the mill on the Brunswick mine and has a large quantity of ore ready for crushing. IL is estimated that sufficient values are out to more than pay for recent development and addition of new machinery. The Brunswick gives promise of being one of the best producers in the French Gulch district.-Redding Searchlight-
 Charles Butters is expected home from South Africa this month.
 Mrs Elmira Clark, who owns the Car lfsle mine in Butte County. has started on visit to cyanide plants, with the idea Of putting up one at the Carlisle.
 It is reported that Melville Atwood. neer of California, is fatally i'll.
 Major Heuer. with Engineers Randall and Nourse. last week visited Elkhorn. on the Sacramento River, where the pro- posed Jetties are to be constructed.
 The Union Electric Power and Light Company. capital stock s1 900, 900, has in corporated at Copperopolis, Cal. to divert
 furnish power and light for mines and
 towns Stockholders and trustees-0. Ames, s. Carr. Boston; G. McM Ross, E.
 Stockton. The incorporation is under stood to mean the resumption of the Copperopolis copper mines
 New gushers at Coalfnga, Fresno Coun-
 ty. Cal. now give that district daily petroleum product of 500 barrels. The recent discoveries of ore at Jacum- ed to be showing up we'll. In the claim Of Sam Hayden free gold can be seen in much of the quartz. Lorenzo M Will
 liamson and others have a good claim. and altogether there are about twenty five claims located and about fifteen men
 at work.-San Diego Union,
 pletion of the new shaft on the Wildman- Mahoney mine will neceSsitate more stamps, and the plan Is to add 20 to the eighty, increasing the capacity of the work at the Oneida after the ledge is en- countered in the new drift will be the un- watering Of the old shaft.
 The company operating dredger near Oroville contemplates buying several thousand acres of gravel.
 W. T. Robinson of Mokelumne Hill has secured the right to mine the Mokelumne River for a distance of five miles. He ! intends to use a dredger. and the outfit will cost in the neighborhood of SS5,00o.- Calaveras Chronicle.
 A discovery of good ore in a strong ledge was made in the Flagstaff, near Grizzly Flat Fl Dorado County. The renewal of activity in taking up abap- doned mines in the vicinity of Grizzly Is rewarding the operators in several mines
 below the 700 level. This Is notably the case in the Mt. Pleasant. Good Hope and Flagstaff. This resumption of work on old properties is giving an impetus to de velopment of other properties in the the county from the American River to
 Kelsey and Georgetown. new life is man ifest. as is evident from the reopening of the Summit and Rising Sun properties and the shafts being sunk on new prop critics. In the neighborhood of Garden 1 Valley and the Taylor mine prospectors are meeting with some success in the discovery of ledges. The Boulder mine, in the vicinity Of Shingle springs, with it's systematic development work. is rap Idly proving itself a paying investment
 Mining and Scientific Press.
 Machinery Is being erected at the Golden Eagle mine, Lassen County Ore valued at s40 a ton Is reported from the Mammoth mine. Kern County.
 cyanide plant Is in contemplation for the Dardanelles mine, near Forest HiIl
 Placer County.
 The United States Geological Survey has issued the Downieville folio of the
 Geographical Atlas of the United States This is the fopTtb of the California series,