The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-24

IS, 725, 900. The par value of the shares
Is go. over 1000 men are now employed.
"A large and promising copper property
on the Trinity River, near Trinity Cen
ter has been bought by Napa people
from William Vollmers and others of
Trinity Center. The mine is the Copper
queen, which shows good ledge of cop
per ore standing out of the face of a
wall 200 feet high. The ore is reputed
rich. A 4O-ton smelter is planned for
immediate erection. An adjoining gold
mine slightly developed has been bonded
by the same people for $4,000.
prospecting and development work is
being pushed on a number of the groups
of copper claims in Shasta County bond
ed to various Eastern people in the past
few months.
The Uncle Sam gold mine Of Shasta
County, near kennett, which was bought
and reopened some time ago, is coming
to the front as quite a bonanza. Rich
ore has been found, and the 15-stamp
mill will be doubled in size.
A valuable strike of cinnabar was made
the other day in the lower level of the
Altoona quicksilver mine, which is now
producing largely and shipping steadily.
Many mining districts are already be-
ing organized since the repeal of the
State, mining law, and several demands
already been made by district recorders
on County Recorders, who are waiting to
know the law The first demand was
made some days ago by Waldo Elmore
who has been recorder of the Flat Creek
Shasta County mining district. for thirty
years. Recorder Lowden referred the
ion was that such requests should be
made of Boards of Supervisors. Recorder
Bowling of Siskiyou County has request
ed an opinion of the Attorney General,
who will soon give it.
AT the Mount Shasta mine twenty tons
of rich ore are being taken out daily.
Twelve four-horse teams are hauling it
to the Keswick smelters.
Charles H. Southern, the financial man
ager of the company intending to open up
and mine Yreka Creek, from the Shasta
River nearly up to the Yreka Townsite
boundary, has been closing the bargains
in bonding all the land engaged by paying
the first installment of $1,000 on each.
There are some nine or ten claims bonded,
and when the dredger is built and at work
the company will pay out another large
amount. with the balance of the INSTALL
ments in one, two and three years The
same company will also work Cottonwood
Creek at Hornbrook and Henley in the
same manner, with probabilities of carry
ing on similar operations in other creeks
and gulches where options at reasonable
figures can be procured from land
owners.-Yreka Journal.
A big lime quarry and forty acres of
lime land near Lime Point, Shasta
County, has been bonded by B. Golinsky
and c. G. Ferguson.
Scientific Press: There are in Shasta
County siXty-eight idle mills monuments
to lack of knowledge of the ores in DAYS
gone by. Now these base ores are being
successfully treated and mining has taken
new impetus in these parts. AS vet the
cyanide process is still in the expert
great activity in mining in this county.
individuals and corporations are camped
IN various sections of the county, making
locations and developing properties
C. V. Herman has discovered some very
me looking chrome in his land on Yreka
ia flats fa west ESTE Oh town, by digging down
Journal. It is as heavy as lead, and
makes a fine quality of paint when
gPbGinnd ana al prepared by process of ma
ment renders it of no value at present
but with paint factory on this coast it
n nHg@,L prove profitable, as there is a great
ana at other points in the county. Chrome
Is found in the foothills in Sacramento
maHdey, hauIed twenty-five miles to rail-
i road at Tehama, and thence shipped in
ballast by vessels going to New York it's
weight making it good for that purpose.
G Gn ASSAY ~ OF this kind of chrome by a
rev years ago, found it contained So in
solo ana Sl2 in silver to the ton.
The. great mother lode region is likewise
booming. A great amount of development
work is going on and strikes are of daily
occurrence &c tI IN this and that prospect and
IN this or that old mine in which depth
is being pursued.
The biggest news of the week has been
the sale of the Rawhide mine for 81 $780,
900, as renorted, by Captain Nevills and
his two partners, with whom he could not
agree. These men bought the mine for a
small price six years ago and became
rich.
w. C. Ralston is rushing preparations
for the great 120-stamp mill and the ex-
tensive tunnels and fumes which are to
be pushed to completion at the Melones
mine, in Calaveras County.
A preliminary survey for a railroad
from lone, to Jackson, Amador County,
is reported under way.
1t is reported that some very rich ore
was struck in the Ribbon Rock mine, near