The San Francisco call., 1898-05-01

a thorough test. Every one who visits the canyon is surprised at the depth ana width of the lodges, and notices that all .he claim holders there are doing vast amount of work on their property.
 State Senator E. w. Chapman, of Fl Dorado County has bought the Gold Note and Philadelphia mines In that county for $55, 900 cash The properties are t"en- ty miles east of Placerville.
 An iron mine, near Porterville, Fresno County, is being developed by w. J. PTettyman.
 A Tuolumne County correspondent. of the Mining and Scientific Press says that there are between 5000 and 5000 men ac- lively engaged in mining and prospecting in and about Sonora.
 The Southern Pacific Company Is con- structing twenty-five more tank cars Io be used in the transportation or oil rom Los Angeles to San Francisco, says the Los Angeles Times. They have, at the present time, about 100 tank cars in use, fifty of which are the property or the company, the remaining fifty being leased The new ones will have a capacity or l5o barrels each equal to about 60O0 gallons At the present rate of 5l cents barrel, charged by the company for the haul from Los Angeles to San Francisco, the gross freight per car Is S68 B. The sec retary of the oil producers trustees re- forward as usual, prices in the field are unchanged and production Is up to the average.
 It Is reported by the Los Angeles Times that some Chicago people have organized under the name of the Sierra Madre Oil Company of Chicago, and that they have fernando Mountains, about five miles from Newhall, on which they propose to drill for oil for refining purposes. The Presldeeint president or the company pa A IS stated to De N. Hagins, both of Chicago. The prop erty is reported to be near the Pacific Oil Cfempanyhs f 15a h properties, and in the vicinity stated. they intend doing some develop ment work.
 The Yreka Journal gives the following notes or mining progress III Siskiyou County:
 The Gold Ball Mining Company at Sal mon River finished crushing of 800 tons of quartz last week, the cleanup amount ing to close on s6O0O It is expected future crushings will pay better as the new company develops the mine toward doing better and quicker work. Brown & Reed CT, who have quartz ledge in Fools Paradise district on Shasta River pound ed out 4ols pounds of quartz in hand mortar last week and realized S5O0. Ihey have fifty tons on hand to crush, and feel confident of taking out a large quantity of gold when the final cleanup is com pleted. Parties from below offered $iO,00o Tor mine on Patterson Creek, Scott val ley, but when ready for making out pa pers the mine-owners backed out; at least such report Is circulated by rell- able parties, and that a lawsuit may oc- cur The second elevator has been put down in the Eastlick and Wright mines at Orc Fino, recently purchased by San Francisco company, and the work or get ting out the pay gravel is carried on with energy. The seasons run will be short owing to the lack of snow and rain, but the company expects to do. well next winter. The claim Is fitted up in fine style for good working while there is a supply of water, and the owners will make more improvements on ditches and reser- voirs on the Salmon Mountains toward in- suring better supply of water next sea- son.
 It is an III wind that blows no good The extremely dry season has done much damage, but the streams will be unusual ly low this year, and miners are taking advantage of the unusually favorable con ditions to work the deep channels, Within the last few days a number of locations by different companies have been filed in the office of our County Recorder, claiming portions of the channel of the middle and north forks of the American River. Twenty-nine thousand feet of these channels were taken up in few days, and some claims have also been filed on the South fork of the American.-El Dorado Republican.
 The Omaha Mining Company has levied an assessment of 50 cents share.
 AS a mining country we believe the