The San Francisco call., 1898-04-24
The States Big Mineral Collection May Go to
 Omaha. Big Mining Company'S Scheme to Run Prospect Tunnels
 Under a Town.

If California secures a creditable min ing display at the Transmississppi Con- gress 1t will be through the sending there of a large portion of the collection in the State Mining Bureau. This collection is being packed preparatory to being trans ferred to the future quarters of the Min ing Bureau in the new ferry depot, and efforts are being made to have 1t sent to Omaha. This is by far the best use that can be made of it during the time in volved, and most enterprising mining men interested in the future of the in dustry in this State will hope that the bulk of it will be forwarded and attract lively displayed. Other Western mining States will have superb displays and Cali fornia needs the advertising as much as any of them. Messrs. M. II. de Young, Trey L. Ford and Charles c. Yale have been appointed commissioners to look after the matter of d mineral exhibit, and they request contributions of ores, minerals, etc., from all over the State.
 One of the noticeable features of the Klondike rush at this particular time is the rate-cutting from Puget Sound to Juneau, Dyea and Skaguay, which has al ready made the trip cheap one The result is that hundreds are going to those places with but little more money than enough to take them there, lured by the hope and expectation that there will be
 
 how, whereas these places are overrun with people looking for d chance to rustic, and hundreds are unable to get a days work at low wages The AIaSka Mining Record takes this view of it:
 Tt is difficult to estimate the harm which would come to Alaska in the event or a material cut in the passenger rates between our ports and the cities of the coast. The immediate result would be the focking hither of thousands who are now kept away only by the fact that the fa aF.aS. roo h NlD are still too high to permit their coming Ignorant of the true conditions obtaining here thousands entertain the belief that they have only to reac4 Alaska to find remunerative employment, and that in a short time a sufficient sum can be saved to enable them to outfit for the gold fields low passenger tariff would bring to Alaska hundreds of deserving men, who would find too late that this is no poor mans country.
 fornia Miners Association, has received word from Denver that each county asso- citation will be allowed five delegates to the International Mining Congress which will meet in Salt Lake early in July
 The Mountain Echo, published at Angels Camp, Calaveras County, has this to say about an an odd enterprise conceived : by the made by the Utica Mining Company to explore, at a depth of 800 feet from the surface, under the various lots of the town. for the discovery of the new lodges of gold-bearing quartz, is meeting with general approval. Of course, there are some of the residents of Angels who ob- ject to granting the company this right and as all propositions that have no op- position seldom amount to anything, 1t is more than likely that the Utica Com pany will, with some littlc difficulty, suc- ceed in securing the privilege asked for D
 George w. Kimble has organized a company to develop some of the deep gravel beds lying south of Placerville and for that purpose has secured work ing bonds on the Jeffrey and Green Mountain gravel mines. He returned from