The San Francisco call., 1898-02-13

work fifteen men did before. Other beach miners are adopting the same idea.
 The old Lucas mine on Middle Creek, near Shasta, is the latest abandoned prop erty in that region to be revived. darry Paige, George Russell and Robert small are cleaning it out and developing 1t. The worked only by an arastra. A rich shoot of ore has been encountered in the new work, and fine mine is in sight.
 The Moody Gulch Gold Mining com hydraulic plant to its mine two miles from Lewiston, in Trinity County.
 The Butte County Golden Jubilee com mittee has just received from the press 10000 copies of a pamphlet descriptive of the mineral resources of that county TOT distribution at the fair and at home;
 The great copper mines at Iron Noun tain, Shasta County, consume so much wood that it has become scarce nearby, and now a firm with a contract to supply 10000 cords has bought large tract or railroad timber land on the Pit River, from where the wood will be f1oated down to Keswick in the Sacramento. The general mining boom in that part of the State is enlivening the whole country, creating saw mills and other lndustrles, affording employment to great many men, giving home markets to the farmers and putting new life into the towns.
 The celebrated Lincoln mine at Sutter Creek. Amador County, has been ponded to E. c. Voorheis and some associates for four years for s200,000, and will be ex- tensively developed The mine was once owned by Senator Stanford, who sold 1t poorly managed and has been idle for twenty years. It is proposed to incor. porate company with 15,00O shares or stock, 15,0O0 shares to go to the promoters and the remainder to be assessed cents per month for a working capital
 William York and sons, who some time ago struck 1t quite rich in thelr mine called the Rising Sun, which IS situated hnr fGt, h4l4 n- countered some exceedingly rich TOOK this week. They recently commenced sink ing shaft and after going down Iew feet struck some of the richest rock that Downieville Messenger.
 Claim Jumping is becoming common occurrence around Georgetown, whicn ls an indication that the value of our mines Is becoming appreciated. - Placervtlle Nugget.
 Senator voorheis brought over from the Gwin mine last week batch or goid quartz specimens that were a sight to behold. The entire lot weighed not oyer @ forty pounds and contained s4000. The Senator shipped the specimens to San at the mnera exhet fheK W and V W Without doubt. attract considerable attentIon This lot was taken from the mine last week.-Amador Record.
 A hoisting and pumping plant and 3 mill have been purchased for the Golo Bar and O. K. mines, situated mlle east of the Idaho-Maryland. The prop erty has been idle for number of years It has 3O0-foot tunnel and Z12-foo' ledge. A shaft Is down to water Judge | George w. Schell of San Francisco Is the president of the company now operatint the property and Sam K. Thornton IS ont | of the board of directors.-Nevada Citl | Transcript
 The Pennsylvania Mining Company hal declared dividend No. IA of cents share.
 The Wisconsin mine is still Keeping ul its lick in turning out rock that is Wortl having. To-day a crushing of thirty-si, l loads of ore was completed and the resul was a yield of S20 per ton. The work | | going steadily on in the mine and tn further the developments are made tn more the encouragement.-GraSS Valle | Tidngs.
 The Miners Home Company has takel in the town of Holland Flat, Sierra Coun l ty, and proposes to work over the drlft I ed ground.
 Work is going right along at the Car son Creek mine, Calaveras County Ex | Attorney-General w. H. H. Hart Is in terested in this property and Is mak1ni an effort to ascertain the true worth o the mine. It is safe to say. that over quarter of a million dollars has been ex l pended on this mine since its discovery and although it has turned out consider able gold, it has thus far fallen short o meeting the current expenses Of operat | ingsit It is believed by old miners tha the mine can be made to pay dividend and, if properly managed, will no doub do so.-Echo.