Mesa free press., 1898-05-13

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The Briggs mill in the Perris district
is now completed and Is running full
time.
The receipts at the Denver mint DUR
ing March were 81, 1,617, 1896, the largest
in the history of that mint. Cripple
Greek is not keeping up the phenom-
email record made by its output during
the closing months of 1897.
The International Mining congress
meets in Denver July Z, and g. This
session promises to be pf great Inn
portance and one that will influence
national legislation, as well as indicate
the practical progress of the industry.
At Kingman, Ariz., Is being built,
under order from the Temple Bar COM
pany, one of the largest of ferry boats,
for service on the Colorado. 1t has a
length of So feet, with 13-foot beam,
with sides of inches of Oregon pine,
and plated and girded with two tons
Of iron.
The recent discoveries of ore at
Jacumba, on the edge of the desert,
San Diego county, are reported to be
showing up well. In the claim of Sam
Hayden, free gold can be seen in much
Of the quartz. Lorenzo M. Williamson
and others have good claim, and al
together there are about twenty five
claims located and about fifteen men
at work.
The work on the two tunnels ON the
claims owned by Briggs & Wilson, in
Cottonwood Canyon, near Perris, has
been temporarily discontinued. The
tunnels enter the mountain some $50
feet from the bottom of the canyon and
enter into solid ore body that seems
to fill the whole top of the mountain.
1t may be the biggest low grade prop
osition yet heard of in this section.
The Amolie mine in Kern county,
near Bakersfield, is considered one of
the best and richest in the State.
Among miners it is known as ruby
silver mine, and within the past four
years no less than 100000 have been
taken from it. The high-grade ore
only has been mined, and there is in
sight no less than 10000 tons of rock
that runs anywhere from 81 to $25 per
ton. The tailings, of which there are
some 1000 tons, assay from $14 to SIS.
The great demand for copper is rem
dered still greater by the present hos
tile complications. The United States
and Spain are the greatest copper pro-
ducers, and war possibilities make cop
per properties today more valuable
than ever. There is probably no busi-
ness of more present profit than cop
per mining. Every department of
mining, the basic industry of peace or
war, receives stimulus from the present
warlike outlook
The most important ruling made by
the California debris commission is its
decision that hydraulic mining"
under the Caminetti law, is mining
by means of water under pressure
through nozzle" 1t practically set
ties vexed question, and miners will
not appeal from the decision. All in
terested can now prosecute their work
accordingly. This does away with the
ambiguity as to what hydraulic opera
tion against natural bank" is linn
tied to.
J. Goulding of Box Springs Station,
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derful strike in his mine, IL miles from
that place. The ore assays from $100
per ton up to 500. These figures look
large. but they are facts. Some of the
ore is so full of gold that small speci-
mems are prize. Goulding has taken
out about SO sacks of ore, which ia
wonderful for new prospect, and so
rich. This Is indeed a mine from the
start, and we look for other rich
claims to be discovered.