The San Francisco call., 1898-05-08

H. D. Wilson and Fred Hook, have asso- ciated with them several influential Los Angeles men of capital, and active work at the mine may begin before long, says the Winchester Recorder
 The first cleanup at the new stamp mill at the Leon mine took place Monday and furnished another proof of the richness or the mine The owners are very well pleased with the result.-Riverside Press.
 The mine in the middle of the sidewalk on Butte avenue, Randsburg, owned by A. Anderson, Julius Goldsmith, C. A. Fowler and K. Callahan, is showing up better all the time. The shaft is down forty feet. Three tons of ore milled at Cuddyback gave seven ounces or gold, and another mill run Is about ready. This will make the third rich run.-Johannes- burg Rand.
 The Iron Mountain section of the desert has never had so many miners and pros pectors at work as at the present tune, and development work will be carried on in many of the mines throughout the summer regardless of the hot weather.
 The Sonora Democrat says: A com pany has at last secured control of the famous Mazeppa mine on the mother lode. The property is the south extenSlon of the rich Jumper, near Stent, ana IS held high in the estimation of all mining men, The mine was owned by. Judge W. N. Harris, and many efforts have been made in the past few years to buy, bond or lease 1t. One offer of $100,000 in cash was refused without a moments hesita- ton. The new company Is headed by Dew R. Oliver of Stockton and includes "A. f1enQGT OI OOIlOId. w. II. Straub of Stockton, David R. Oliver of Sonora and George l.. North of San Fran cisco.
 A new mining company has recently been organized in Los Angeles to develop a mining property along the Colorado River in Arizona, about seventy, miles be- Giers Landing.
 There are six men who care very little for the excitement and boom of the Yu- kon. They have prospect twenty miles north of Daggett, from which they have brought in samples of rock assaying as high as s917. There have been over sey- to $917 to the ton. One mill run of fifty pounds of ore netted $16 32. They have. a ledge from five to fifteen feet in thick ness. and are down only eighty. feet. Some of the rock, to use miners ex- pression, was lousy with gold" This property Is causing considerable excite Springs. One of the fortunate men is w. J. Beamer of San Bernardino, the other five being Orin Staples, Y P, Dan m and tor--San Bernardino Times-Index.
 It Is reported that an exceptionally rich strike of copper has just been made on pany, IA miles north of 1nyo. The strike was made on the TOO level. Besides the copper, gold, silver and lead ores are now being taken from this property in pay ing quantities. It is also reported that smelter is now being put in. which will add materially to the output, as hereto
 
 Denver or San Francisco to be smelted. Owing to the recent copper finds addi- tional mechanism for smelting that ore will be put in, and within three weeks the Smelter will be in operation.
 S. w Ferguson and A. A. Westall, two San Francisco mining men, were out with C. l.. Mangufn this week looking at some placer mines on the Applegate.-Oregon Mining Journal
 One of the most healthy of all busi- nesses to-day Is probably that of copper production. The United States produces 50 per cent of all the copper of the world; All the American mines were operated uninterruptedly last year. Ernployes worked every day at fair wages, and the mines paid satisfactory dividends. The consumption of copper increases much more rapidly than the production and an actual scarcity of the metal Is not very remote possibility The American output for 1897 Is estimated at 214,000 tonS.- American Machinist.
 The great force of the water issuing from the nozzle of a monitor used Tn ny draulicking was fearfully Illustrated In Placer County, California. last week. T. H. Hobson. while piping at the Horse shoe Bar mine on the American River, below Michigan Bluff. lost control of the monitor and was thrown some distance. He attempted to rise and the stream of water struck him in the back, Killing him instantly.-Mining and Scientific Press.
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