The San Francisco call., 1898-07-25

condition at the Grizzly. A committee or citizens was organized and they narCneu to the mine. There are now no ChlnaIntSJu tJ at the Grizzly and the committee, WHiie the iron is hot, has determined to rld the section of Chinese, and the other mines and boarding houses will have to elnpLOy white labor.-Calaveras Citizen.
 A 10-stamp mill is in course Of constFuc- ton at the Mount Jefferson mine near Groveland. James NJ. Meigham, who re- gently returned from visit 10 Boston, is the superintendent. The mine Is owned by a company incorporated under the laws of Maine. The property Is being de- veloped by three. shafts, being go, I0V ana 135 feet in depth respectively. Sinking will be continued rapidly until depth or 400 feet is reached. MT. Meigham was in Sonora Wednesday and reports the pros poets very encouraging-Sono lnde- pendent.
 The Thorn, or Illinois mine, started up in full blast Monday morning. The 1U- stamp mill Is working to perfection and 1t Is expected to be the means through which a second Utica Is discovered.-Cal- averas Citizen.
 The Great Gwin mine has been shut down for a time owing to lack of wa ter. The situation is explained this week by correspondent of the Mining and Scientific Press as follows: "The Gwin Mining Company has been notified by the Mokelumne Hill and Campo can furnish them but eighty inches of water this season. In consequence the Gwin company shut down on the 18th, as this amount was insufficient to run the hoist. This, however. will be only tenn porary. The company has ordered a double engine Of 250 horsepower, which is guaranteed under bond to be shipped from the East within three weeks, and which, 1t is thought. will be in operation within six weeks. This shutdown at this juncture is rather unfortunate, as the shaft has been completely unwatered only fifteen days and was beginning to pay. The company has broken through from the 1300-foot level of the new or North mine into the 1500 drift of the old mine about ' feet above the floor, and made an upraise from the 1400 level of the new mine to the 1500 of the old prop erty for air and drainage. The two shafts are HOO feet apart"
 The Santa Rosa company's deep gravel mine above Georgetown, which has been bonded to a California company, Is to be prospected in Q thorough manner. It has been christened the Consolidated Fl Do rado gravel mine. The claim covers a considerable length of channel. The com pany Is considering a plan of determining the depth and course of the channel by the method of borings. Georgetown Ga zette.
 Five stamps of the new 10-stamp mill at the ReddiCk mine were started re- gently and the other five will be crush ing gravel soon also.-Grass Valley Union.
 John G. Johnson of this place now has the option on some valuable quartz mines III lAG vicinity or CranlIeNlLle tEUTeka South). That part of this county is now coming rapidly to the front, and is at tracting the attention of mining men all over the country.-Grass Valley Tele- graph.
 A 35S horsepower turbine water-wheel has arrived at the Pioneer. Placer County The Pioneer directors think that after the completion or the dam and the installa- ton of the electric plant they can safely figure on 10000 monthly net earnings
 The Orovtlle Mercury says that htiga- ff,a has been settled by compromise and the mine bonded to c. w Cross of San Fran cisco for six months, who in turn agrees to relinQuish all claims against the com pany If he fails to make a sale within that time.
 At the Zene mine in Amador County the work of repairing and sinking the shaft has begun. It is expected to keep eighteen out of the forty stamps running while this work is going on.
 Superintendent Brent of the Wheeler mine at Plymouth has contracted for a flfteen-stamp mill to be erected on the property at once.
 mining district of Whisky Creek is at this time a pretty lively place; that many strangers in that section are out in the higher mountain ranges prospecting. It is now claimed that the old Manlove treasure lode can be traced carrying free milling ore for over 5000 feet. Davis late find on Murderers Gulch is a continuation of this lead. This claim has always been pronounced a true Assure ledge by some of the best mining experts in the State.- Bedding SeaTchlight
 The Gladstone mine near French Gulch. Shasta County, employs twenty men. Good ore is being taken from the mine, and the 20-stamp milf is running steadily
 The business of the Mexican Sulphur Company at Yuma has been closed. Two things made 1t necessary to cease opera tions for the present at the company's s splendid properties in Lower California the existing state of war and the excessive heat of that section of country rendering 1t dangerous and well-nigh impossible for men to work in the mines at this season of the year. Sulphur is a contraband of war, and President Diaz of Mexico gave must cease Operations will be resumed as soon as cool weather sets in, if the war shall have passed away.