The San Francisco call., 1898-02-20

month there have been completed, and are yet in the course of construction no
 less than eighteen new buildings. This i illustrates that there is no backward ten dency in the general prosperity of the camp.
 The Rand mine is producing eighty tons 1 or ore per day, which is improving as doing considerable development work and the mine never looked better. This com pany has made application for a patent. The Little, Butte is down over 400 feet, l and is making regular shipments of rich ore of sulphide character The King Solomon is another of Randsburgs deep est mines which shows improvement as depth is attained. Its main shaft is down 425 feet and the recent strike at the 415 foot level continues rich in free gold.
 The famous Kinyon, or Good Hope mine, which lately received its Government patent, has about 200 tons of ore on the dump ready for the mill. The Napoleon, over in the Stringer country, three miles
 north or Harrisburg, has produced s4O,OOO
 the past year. from shaft not yet down 150 feet, and is not for sale at any price.
 All of the other deep mines in camp are showing decided improvement as they go down. In 1897 the Rand mining district
 is said to have produced nearly million dollars in gold. Of this amount Los An
 geles refiners and assayers have reported handling about 0,0O0, but the bulk of
 Randsburg's gold product finds market in San Francisco at the Government mint.
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 in the deep gulches of the Stringer re- zion, and there are perhaps 100 men en-
 gagged in taking out pay dirt from the deep diggings
 | full force of men has been put 10
 work at the Pocahontas mine, Ell Dorado County, and operations are fully resumed.
 The Garden Valley Gold Mining Com pany yesterday opened bids for sinking
 a shaft and driving tunnels at the mine,
 near Garden Valley Fl Dorado County. mir in k al a trict continues, and George E.. Rainey is putting the mill in order to do some
 crushing. the owners feeling justified by the character of the ore HOW being eX-
 tracted.-Placerville Nugget.
 The Johnson quartz mine, near Granite
 Hill, El Dorado County, was recently bought by Frederick Thomas of Denver, Col, and a force of men has been put to work sinking, getting some fine prospects.
 David Roberts is manager at the mine.
 John T. Jones of White Hills, Arizona. came up to Placerville Friday evening
 and went to Granite Hill yesterday to inspect the Johnson mine and to look at other mineS.-Nugget.
 The Greenhorn Blue Gravel mine. south of Yreka, continues to pay handsomely with thirty-five men employed and should
 we have rain or snow soon to furnish a better supply of water for washing a
 much larger force will be employed. The company expecting to take charge of this
 mine by the 10th, under agreement to purchase, may probably open it up on
 a still more extensive scale, as it is the
 intention to organize a company with a
 capital of $50,O0O-Yreka Journal
 G. A. Helmore has bonded his claims
 $6O0O -oi
 The Roanoke Mining Company of Stock doI ton asks Tor bids for sinking main shaft lO0 rect Tn the Lamphear mine, at Moke- !umne Hill. The mine has been idle since the mill was burned a few months ago.
 The Bedding Free Press says that a German syndicate is about to develop an- other Keswick in Shasta County. They are negotiating for a group of conner mines located between Saltwater and Pitt means the. erection of smelters and the wick.
 The Southern Pacific Company is build HE HE 5o,ooo-barrel oil tank at Los Angeles. The company has recently bought 1arge quantities of oil for fuel in Los Angeles ita and l.Sd S9dm9merand nm and is prospecting on
 The trustees of the Los Angeles Oil Producers Association report that two firms in San Francisco are now engaged for fuel and coal, and that should the test as is expected. result favorably for petroleum. the shipments of oil from Los creased by $500 barrels a month.
 The new adit tunnel at the Dunderberg
 mine. which will cut the ledge 15O feet
 below the present tunnel. is now in 16O feet and progressing at the rate of about
 forty feet a week. Some very rich ore has lately been discovered in winze be-
 low the tunnel level. assaying $25O per ton. It is reported that the English com pany owning the property are reorganiz-
 ing, with the object of raising larger
 capital to thoroughly develop the prop
 erty-Bodie Miner-Index
 The coal output of the Corral Hollow mines at Tesla, Contra Costa County. will soon reach HOO tons per day. The first extensive and successful coal mine
 of the State is now in full operation, and
 will hereafter cut a large figure in both
 the local market and in the record of Cal ifornia's mineral production.
 Superintendent Sleeves is feeling jubil-
 lant over the prospects at the Redick gravel mine The owners have decided to erect a new mill on the property to crush the gravel, which is rich and plentiful. At present the channel is over fifty feet in width and on the increase. Hon. J. F. Kidder, George Fletcher and other Grass Valleyans are the owners of the mine, and it looks very much as though their eff forts will be rewarded.-Grass Valley Union.