The San Francisco call., 1898-06-26
NEWS OF THE MINES.

ble to work 200 men. but that is ques- ton of two months hence, at least, for men will not be put on any faster than needed. The company's scales have been removed from Garlock and are being rut in on Rand Mountain. The Yellow Aster people now have over 800 tons of ore In their bins
 The Pinte country is coming to the front as a gold producer. There Is plenty of wood and water and thousands of acres of rich mineral lands.-San Diego Sun.
 Calico, the great silver camp in the north part of San Berpardino County, which formerly produced 50.090 to 10 gGO ounces of silver per month, is now prac- tically. deserted, and the output is next to nothing.
 The Rand of Randsburg says load of very rich ore has been received from the old Page mine at Panamint which was purchased by the sampling works to ship to the smelter.
 Since Messrs. Strauss & Shinn pur- chased the Iron Chief, the Iron Mountain district has come into prominence, says employing sixty men in three shifts in development and construction work, The main shaft is down 265 feet. Water will be piped twelve miles. The mill and cy- anide plant will have a capacity of sixty tors per day. It is the intention to have the first cleanup about June 20.
 At the Gwin mine, near Mokelumne Hill. the old shaft is cleaned out to 1920
 
 has been very satisfactory. The new regularly.
 The California Exploration Company has purchased the Thorpe mine near San Andreas
 The new reduction works at Barstow have started up and 200 tons of ore run through the mills. It is expected that it will take about a week to get everything in proper shape, when the works will be able to take care of all ore consigned to them. Five cars of ore were shipped in from Randsburg. It Is believed there will be no difficulty furnishing ore to keep the works running at full capdcity.-I.os Angeles Express.
 of the Randsburg mines the Randsburg Miner says that some mill runs at an Eastern mill of ores from leading mines averaged per ton. last week, as follows: Napoleon, $100; Merced, S7O; Santa Ana, S150 Sunshine. $130; Kinyon. $130; BlacK, Hawk, S35; Maggenetta, $1G0
 The Rand people are shipping fifty tons of ore per day to the Barstow mill, and will soon increase the amount to 100, be- sides milling at Garlock and Johannes burg
 The Santa Fe Pacific Railway is going to build an oil storage tank at San Ber- nardino, having capacity of 100000 gall Ions of oil.
 A Tucson (Ariz) correspondent of the syndicate with headquarters at San Fran cisco, six months ago secured certain placer rights on the Colorado, eightyfive miles northwest of Kingman, and have invested about $1,OOO GOO in machinery, which is on the spot. The company Is known as the Temple Bar Placer Mining Company.
 The mining. district in zacatecas, Mex ico. Is coming into more prominence every day. owing to the development going on there. In the next sixty days nearly $500 GOO worth of milling machinery will be put in within four miles of the city.
 The Milwaukee Copper Miner says that copper mines abandoned for ten or twenty years are now being opened and developed on a large scale.
 mines of the United States during the month of May was 22,741 tons of 2240 pounds each, against 22,908 tons in April, or a decrease of 167 tons. The production of foreign mines during May amounted to 62SS tons, against 6S24 for the preceding month, a decrease of 536 tons. The ex- ports of copper from the United it e1, States against Il, ,577 in April. an increase during the month of 1899 tons.