The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-13

drifts and 100 tons of ore on the dump,
which the owner will not sell just now
OBSERVATIONS ON SOME DESERT
MINING DISTRICTS.
WE. Newell, expert for the Selbys. mas
returned from a three weeks tour OF riI tne
R Rbers he he : sized si the situation up,
Il found Randsburg very qIlet, ne re
says 1.-The boom is all over ana nov -
quietly fourishing on what IS actuaiIg ~,
being done in the mines. There is no
hotel there since the last nre am anu ,,, ine
streets are quiet. The 1elloW Asre edinineT
from $50 600 TO 100000 a month. II mas
lust started it's new thirty-stamp fnlll any
no longer, ships to BarstoW, rn nf small ali
properties are being worked Ia snldii
way by owners without capital.
1.-THE principal talk and the main at
tention Of prospectors is directed to the
Argus and slate ranges just west OF the
Panamlnt district In the Argus ri range e
good mine, milling the low grade and
Shipping ore that runs $50 a ton or more.
The Slate Range Mining Company is
operating in that range, and there is
good deal of prospecting and developing
going on. In the Rademacher district L
found the situation quiet. with good OPP
trict is undeveloped. There are some
good showings of ore, but it is base and
cannot be milled to advantage Ihere
are great many claims located ana some
good mines will result some day. one
hears a good deal about the Panamint
country, but it is SO far from anywhere;
with hay at $50 a ton and freight at $zV
and $25, that only high-grade ores can pc
handled and shipped A great deVelop-
ment would follow railroad through
There is a good deal of life around
MojaVe. MojaVe Mountain, four miles
away, 50 men are working on prospects
One, the Karma mine, has a 60-foot smart
in a ten-foot ledge and shows ore aVeraS .
ing $25 to $50. There are number OF
promising prospects, and as the district
IS only few months old there undoubt-
edly will be some good mines developed
There are two custom mills ana d., q
cyanide plant at Mojave, and one mine
recently shipped 80 tons of $50 ore to San
Francisco. About 100 tons a month are
coming here from Mojave
The results Of the session of the Legis-
lature as far as the mining industry IS
concerned will be chiefly two things-the
appropriation for Paris exhibit in when
the miners will receive fair recognition
and the amendment to the State law or
location doing away with the preliminary
notice. The requirement of $50 worth of
work within sixty days will remain, ac-
cording to the present agreement and un-
derstanding, but instead of having to post
and record at the county seat a prellmIn7
airy notice of location and having to hle
a second notice sixty days later, but one
notice will be required, but this must be
recorded with the County Recorder as
now.
viii be ready to open its newly arranged
museum to the public in about week.
Curator burden finds the museum space
cramped and many of the 1900 speci-
mems will have to be stored elsewhere.
A further interest in the Ivanhoe mine,
near Plymouth, Amador County. has been
sold to H. w. Brown of Salt Lake City
for 800, 900
An English company is negotiating for
the Eagle Bird mine at Maybert, Nevada
County.
The California Borax Company has be-
gun shipping from their properties north
east of Raudsburg.
A mile of Cottonwood Creek, in Sis
kiyou County, has been bonded by a
Denver company, that plans putting in a
dFedger,