The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-27

! the Yellow Aster mill, working twenty
two men in the mine. nth +ne
Recent rains nave We insert desert. The. rains
have not wholly pleased everybody
A systematic effort to develo7 a qulch NJ
silver denosit about five miles east oL
Santa Ana in Orange County Is peine
made by E. j. Kimball and J. M: u udrra :
A Grub Gulch, MADEIRA County, c COZ
spondent of the Mining and ScleRFtttii ~ I
Press gives this pointer about one 1o,S - re
many practically undeyeloped goiI orgast
gt99s Of the STATE state in the State extends
from the vicinity of GruD GulS Sn,,oDd a
ward across Fresno River anu Wy ie To-
distance of nearly $1,000 feet. II 10 IA
Gated throughout it's entire length, any
has at various points large amour NJ, "
development, particularly IN t SSeevannah
mines. The formation is mica slaLe' ane
the vein occurs as sihhcatIon Or tax7
slate vein of granite OF Ear ,gSIb61,t its
ture ACCOMPANIES the vein througiloutt ic'
length. waving back and forth IN q n1i3a
Gus line, cutting the vein at - 10 ter
of points, always appearing do %
Five large hydraulic mining, TomPa a e
in trinity County have united In an a. A.
tempt to set aside a Inc aGq in raisin
the Assessors figures on their
valuations.
MILLIONS FOR BIG COPPER OPERA
TIONS IN THIS STATE.
The remarkable recent boom in Cope
has had Swide results IN Ca ,I,ch ar
though without attracting very i ill., ,oId
tention Many properties nave peem ld ' DE-
or bonded and much prospecting anu uT1
velopment work is going on, put ~ Wv
take a good deal OF time 70 ptiIR oa,,s
properties into the ranks of the prouuGiG{L1I,
Tbe Mountain Copper Company, Whlcn
produces nearly the entire output u Trny
State, is crowding operatlotns a. YES
Mountain and at it's big smeIters az re- eSo
wick where several hundred tons oL oL0
are handled daily, and the scare Oh its "
erations is to be increased; OtheI VIZ ISL q,
only increase in the output IS coming
from number of small mines. Apout zen
such mines are now shipping to Selpy an
aggregate of about 200 tons PEI PEI nonn eal
| They are mines in the SpencevliIe COPY p red
region in Nevada and Placer counties ana
in the neighborhood of Camp Seco IN
Northern Galayera as 9 Geonty n these and
other copper districts good zeal OF pro Us
pecting is going on, and these srll ne Op-
erations are causing development OF prop
critics that may assume much larger 1u-
ture Importance.
The chief activity. however, is In the
great copper belt of Shasta County, IN
which the Iron Mountain mines are 10
Gated. Extensive undeVeloped copper de-
posts in the neighborhood of copper CITY
and elsewhere along the belt are receiving
the attention of copper-hungry capital
for which they have so long waited, ana
there is a prospect that extensive smelt-
ing plants and mining operations VIII ere
ate another Butte City there. Some New
York people have bonded the Herrin
group of seven copper claims and cuts
and tunnels are being run. Development
work is being pushed by another Eastern
company, which recently bonded group
of claims from Smithson & Graves. Per-
haps the most important operations are
those being pushed by Lewiston Bros
and other Eastern capitalists, who few
weeks ago bonded for a year the Go
linsky group of claims and the Ferguson
and Goss properties, about four miles
from Kennett. The Properties are being
explored by shafts and tunnels, and the
apparent extent and richness of the de-
posits and the prospect of extensive
smelters being put in have given Kennett
town boom. Another New York COM
pany is similarly developing the Nam
moth mine and a group of adjacent
claims near Kennett, bonded from Saltzer
& Co. The Balakalela and Windy Camp
groups of copper claims are being devel-
oped by San Francisco and New York
capitalists. Other extensive properties in
that same mineral belt are the subjects
of negotiation or of active development
work, and there is every prospect of in
vestments aggregating millions in that re-
gion and the development of a rich and
that region will serve the additional ben
eft of creating a demand for siliceous ores
for fluX and the consequent working of
many quartz claims which 1t is useless
to develop now. And over in Lassen and
Plumas counties there are untouched and
UNEMPLOYED copper deposits which are now
attracting attention Copper will from
now on assume big place in the mining
industry of the State