The San Francisco call., 1898-06-12

tablished between Castella and the mine, and the camp Is in fiourishing condi- tion.-Redding Searchlight.
 The organization of a company Is an- nounced, that will begin work on the Ida Mitchell and Gold Bug quartz properties in the heart of the town of Placerville. Both properties have yielded considerable gold, but were never worked to any great depth nor with much system.
 Ex-Governor H. H. Markham of Pasa- dena, who Is connected with the American Girl mine in the Golden Cross district, San Diego County, expresses himself as pleased over the prospects of the mine, says the Los Angeles Record. At pres ent he is erecting a new process twenty stamp mill on the mine, on which a great deal of development work has been done. He proposes to crush the ore dry and then if hte tailings still carry gold the plates will be utilized, thus making an absolute saving of all the gold the ore carries. In case his first intention does not pan out the mill can be easily changed to the wet process.
 The Barstow fifty-stamp custom mill is expected to start this week, but 1t will probably be some days before it will be in regular operation. The mill people have been buying ore for some time.
 is beng a Meayye Gyand will have a capacity of twenty tons per day at first, but will be enlarged as the mines are developed. The ore to be work ed will come from the buttes that rise up out of the desert few miles east of Mo- jave. The assay office is now up and lumber is on the ground for the mill proper.-Kern County Echo.
 On Thursday morning the Forest Hill Gold Mining Company started up it's mill on what was formerly called the Old Spanish mine. To their mill has lately been added a cyanide plant to control rebellious ores. They are working. about thirty tons a day, that average from $S to S10 per ton. The mill is run by water power and consequently very cheaply. It is the intention of the company to en- large its plant to the capacity of the Mercur mine in Utah. The Mercur com pany, on a similar process, works S6 ore at a profit of s4 The company's ledge at Forest Hill is over fifty feet in width, with gold all the way through it, but it Is the intention of the owners to work only the rich chutes and those the most easily handled.
 The value of this property has been known for thirty years. but owing to the rebellious character of the ores It can only be worked by the cyanide process. There are millions of tons Of ore n slgnt, which though it may be partially low grade. will now make a good and steady yield, and the property IS destined 10 pc come one of the best in the State.-Repup- lican Argus.
 The California Rand, published at .Jo- hannesburg, Kern County, trots out an other one of those Californla nugs5ebts g5tb out attracting much notice because they do not come from the Klondike. That pa per says: Frank Fleming was III town Sunday and Monday. He showed the the boys a big nugget that weighed sSl5 which would sell for much more. dn fact. one of our citizens offered him s4oo for 1t. He found this nugget some months ago while dry washing near here, and has had much better luck than the average dry washer as was seen by a big roll of greenback he was carving
 The Rand also says: The three-stamp mill at the Little Butte mine began oper- ations yesterday It is expected that 8 ore can be handled with considerable profit to the owners of the mine. A three stamp mill will be put up at Radamacher, near Higgins wells, on Walkers wells, to mill and do custom work. The Rand mine Is putting on more men all the time Many were laid off when the mills at Garlock were shut down because they were not needed. Much building Is going on at the Rand. the big ore bin looming up like a great monument. The changing house is done.