The San Francisco call., 1898-01-16

Alaska Treadwel Gold Mining Company, 240 stamps, and Alaska Mexican Gold Mining Company, 12O stamps, l.4OO, 900; Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, 35 stamps, $12OOO0; the Jualin Mining Mining Company. 10 stamps, $65.0oO; Alaska Willoughby Gold Mining Com pany 10 stamps. not in operation; Green Mine, Norton Sound, 10 stamps, 80 900: Bald Eagle Mining Company. stamps, $250 900; Alaska Commercial Company, 46 stamps, S600 900; Portland Alaska Gold rora Borealls Gold Mining Company, stamps, just started; the Sum Dunn Chief Gold Mining Company, 5 stamps, just started: total output of cer mines. $20.00O: Cook Inlet placer mines, s250 900; Birch Creek district, Yu- kon mines. SS00,000; other Yukon dis tricts. S0O 900; from various districts throughout the territory, not named in the above. $50 900; total output, $4 S55 ,OO0
 This is but a slight increase over the production is considerably greater than that of 1896. 1t will be noticed that the placer output. which was greatest in Birch Creek district last year. is consid- erably smaller owing to the abandon ment of that district by many who joined the I<londike rush."
 NOTES.
 During the week the dftches of the Soutn upa CanaI company in Nevada county froZe near the headwaterS and the Champion and Providence mines were forced to close down temporarily.
 Tuba County is arranging a mining fair exhibit, which will occupy q space 19 by 20 feet.
 Two Napa girls. Misses Josephine and Ioni Rider, have bought the Yellow Rose of Texas mine for S25OO, and will develop the property.
 The following correspondence of the Fl Dorado Republican from East Diamond Springs, Fl Dorado County, is typical of the change that has come over a large proportion of the small mining towns of the State: Rip Van Winkle who camped l in this neighborhood twenty years ago and put the whole community as well as ] himself to sleep, has awakened. Re freshed from this long slumber. with re- ! newed Vfgor and energy our people are 1 going to see if the dreams and visions ! which visited them during that long rest ! cannot be realized. Half a dozen mines | or more are in full blast, some already | milling their ore: others sinking. drifting | or eXcavating, and the whole system of | ledges from Webber Creek to the Cosum- l ing
 An old channel of the Sacramento | River near Bedding, 70 feet higher than 1 the present channel is being success | fully worked at several points, mainly by | drifting. From one claim on this old i channel $l6,0O0 was taken in two years l The old channel crosses the present one ! several times, and can be traced as far as Castello.
 Keswick. Shasta County. the town about the Mountain Copper Company shelter, will in a few days have a new electric light plant ready for operation | Fifteen saloons help attest the prosperity | of this camp.
 The excitement following wild news. l paper reports of riches on the Yaqui i River Mexico, has petered out and dis. ] gusted rushers are still returning One l of the latest notes of them is the follow l ing in the Tombstone Prospector: "A party of men arrived at Nogales the other | day. They had traversed almost the en-
 tire length of the Yaqui River in search l of placer ground. and although they l struck color everywhere, they found nc placer gold in paying quantities. Thus ! warnings should be constantly sent out | which should not be lost to those whC
 have the Yaqui gold fever"
 It is stated that 215 cars of ore a day
 are being shipped from Butte by the Ana, conda Mining Company to it's smelter al 1 Anaconda. This means about 60O0 ton. l every twenty-four hours
 The annual special mining edition ot
 the Alaska Mining Record, published al | Juneau, comes to hand with an unusua 1 degree of excellence and interest. An ex | tenstve review of the vast and undeveI | oped quartz deposits of Southern Alaske
 is followed by descriptions of the large