The San Francisco call., 1898-01-16
New Railroads for Mines and New Mines for
 Railroads.
Boom in Southern Califor- nia-TWo Tales of Great
 Placer Finds.

It looks as though the Mother Lode is to be reached before great while by another railroad line which will give a large mining region that new impetus which transportation facilities, bringing cheapness and convenience to every phase of mining life and operation, can give in a greater degree than anything else. The Stockton and Tuolumne Rail road Company, though composed mainly of women and so far managed by an able and active woman, seems to have good prospects of getting a real railroad running from tidewater to Summersville on the East belt i'll Tuolumne County.
 committee of twelve citizens has been organized to secure subscrip- tions to stock in the county and Mrs. Annie Rikert of Jamestown, the hustling organizer and president of the company, declares that capital for the enterprise is waiting in Stockton, San Francisco and elsewhere. Whether this road is built or not q number of branch railroads will thread various parts of the mining region of the State in the near future and every one will bring a transformation in the way of quickened development, increas- ed population and increase of mining prosperity and production.
 The Stockton and Tuolumne road, if built, will go through Copperopolis and will likely bring about a resumption of copper mining in that rich copper re-
 
 there closed down it cost B to haul the matte to the railroad at Milton and g to get it to Stockton. Coke cost as much to get in. A rate on matte of Sl from Cop peropolis to tidewater might be expect ed to result from the building of this road. The line would cross the mother lode near the Rawhide, Tarantula and other large mines and reach a group of rich mines on the East Belt Sonora would be reached and the cost of trans portation and production would be de- creased over large mineral area in the county. With this and the Sierra rail- road reaching it, Tuolumne would make large strides.
 TWO TALES OF RICH PLACER
 STRIKES IN CALIFORNIA
 The week has afforded two interesting tales of strikes by placer miners In California worth noting amid the Klou- dike craze. Although quartz mining Is the field in which the great future de velopment of California gold mining will be reached, and while rich finds in quartz lodes are of almost daily occurrence throughout the State the placer deposits will yield hundreds of millions in the fu- ture, and new developments are constant reminders that even placer mining is not played out" in California. One of these finds is a drift deposit up north in Ne vada County, and the other is d placer worked by a dry washer away down on the desert in San Bernartino County. The finding of another rich section Of buried ancient river char@el is thus de- scribed by the Nevada Daily Transcript:
 "A remarkably rich lead of blue gravel has been found on Clifford E. Calkins eighty-acre tract of patented ground at the foot of Selby Flat, mile west of north of town. The dirt pays from ten to fifty cents pan, and the gold Is very coarse.
 ''The strike was made on New Years day. Young MT. Calkins and his father