The San Francisco call., 1898-03-20
The Miners Association to Give Legislation
 a Boost.
More Old Mines Becoming New and Great-Buying, Selling,
 Digging and Finding.

meeting of the executive committee of the California Miners Association has been called by Secretary Julian Sonntag for next week, to take import ant action in assistance of pending min ing legislation in Congress.
 The meeting was chiefly called at the instance of Tirey L. Ford, who, as chair man of the California and Trans-Missis- sppi Congress committees in depart ment of mines and mining, is very actively interested in that measure. Word has been received that Hon. Lafe Pence, chairman of the similar committee ap- pointed by the International Gold Min CTS convention at Denver, who is in the East, has abandoned the hope of the miners securing a Cabinet officer to look after the industry, and is devoting his energies to the next best thing, bu- reau of mines in the Interior Depart ment, with a Commissioner of Mines and Mining at it's head. The executive com mittee, at it's meeting, will decide whether or not to likewise abandon the larger measure for the present and join in MT. Fences efforts. This will prob ably be done MT Ford has telegraphed to MT. Pence to communicate full ac- count of the situation as 1t appears to him, and this report Is expected to ar rive before the date of the meeting. The mineral lands bills and other matters will also be considered
 A bill creating an executive Depart ment of Mines and Mining was intro duced by Congressman Barham in Janu- ary, but it slumbers in committee pigeonhole. To secure its passage would be difficult at best, while a de- partment bureau would be more readily given.
 q believe" says Tirey L. Ford, that if we could have had two or three wide awake men pushing it at Washington we could have secured Cabinet officer. All the Congressional representation from this side of the Mississippi is for it, and this constitutes one-third of the Senate and an influential portion of the House. The commercial interests are after de- partment of commerce and industry, and we might have got into the same wagon by joining influence. If we can't get 1t we would better take half loaf"
 The old Grizzly mine in Tuolumne Coun- ty, which has been reopened during the last year under working bond, has been purchased by the new company bearing large scale, says the Grass Valley Union. The owners are mostly San Franciscans. and at the first annual meeting of the stockholders last week they elected as president William c. Murdock of the Commercial Bank; as vice president, w. E. Brown of the Crocker-Woolworth the mining firm of Martin & Ballard, Otto Greenwald and R. E. Russell, in ad- dition to the officers named. At the same time contract was made with William Sharwood for the erection on the prop erty of twenty-stamp mill, hoist, air compressors and all of the necessary buildings for the working of the mine, at an outlay of S2O, 900. A new shaft has been sunk in the Grizzly to a depth of $50 feet, and at the 200 level drift has been run a distance of 1S0 feet north to the old works, from which. previous to 1872, when the property was closed down, a million dollars had been taken. The vein is very strong ribbon quartz, eight feet wide which mned SS to the ton, while at the 300 level similar results were obtained. It is estimated that the mine has been sufficiently opened to run the twenty stamps for three years, but neverthe- less, the board of directors has decided to