The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-01-15


Sreek to be credited to the season just
closed, but the greatest ones appear to
&c lIIose from the headwaters of Coffee
SleSk, twenty-five miles from wagon
Ipiiu, IN a rugged country clothed In us
r TTIlGn separates the headwaters of the
Tr1r III from those of the Salmon River.
, onion Creek is a tributary of Coffee Creek
HsdI us mead, and along it the great IND
Oh tellurides has been made.
LIMOS amos Hill and his partner located a
aeuse, put up crude arrasta at a cash
tI1psl OF ~ cents, and during the early fall
the mule ground out good deal of gold,
onougn less than 40 per cent of the base
ore values was saved.
TO make romantic story short, Hill
soI Two strange school marms of Napa
20 Duy out his partner for $500. They are
the Misses Irma and Josephine Rider. The
former teaches at Soda Springs and the
latter in the Napa city schools. Hill says
mat they have got back $500 in cash from
mat araStra and have a half interest in
the mine that, it is reported, they have
Hill named the mine the Yellow Rose Of
Texas. Samples of the ore were recently
sent to the State Mining Bureau for anal
! yslS. E. B. Preston, the assayer, VINO mas
! been field deputy Of the bureau Tor
many years and who has thoroughly eX-
| plored many times that northern country,
! was greatly interested to discover tellu-
ride gold ore new to California and when
/ he found to be nagyagite, a sulphur tellu-
! rum of lead and gold.
1t was very ITCH, says MI. l CSNCAif
but as the bureau makes only qualitative
! analyses do not know its value. nave
| always believed that that was a rich
| mining country and / expect to see some
! great mines developed in it in time"
AS to the value of this new telluride
ore Mr.. Hill says that he recently shipped
a little over two tons to Selby's for treat
ment. Packing thirty miles on mules to
! CarrVille cost a cent pound. Haulng
ffty-siX miles to Redding cost as muGn
more. Rail charges We're S14 ton, max max
! inc S5A ton charges alone. Inc
! cost Of mining and the smelling charges
! are to be added. Mr.. Hills net receipts
/ from the lot were S1003. Another smaller
shipment assayed $3.50 a ton. Other sam,
/ pies sent to Redding have been reported
to go as high as $4,000 ton.
Similar results are reported from the
/ claim next to Hills, owned by a Mr.. Law
/ renee of HOpland. The ledge is said TO
| have been traced for three miles, and q
number of locations in which development
work has been done have been maze
| These are but two of the recent finds
/ along Coffee Creek.
Within a mile of the Golden Jubilee
mine is the recently located Dewey mlne'
now controlled by George L. Carr Mr..
/ Carr is one of the best -known mining men
and capitalists in that part of the coun-
/ try He is the proprietor OF CaTrVlIle,
near the mouth of Coffee Creek, and owns
I well-known mining properties. He asserts
that the Dewey mine is one OF the many
] rich prospects of that region. Selected
samples give high assays ana average
| samples of a three-foOt ledge run 81 a
ton, with 1900 feet of groupings showing
I d continuous ore body.
with a a -i few years development the COT
fee Creek country viii be one of the IA
nous mining camps of the West, 1t
! gives wonderful surface promise and has
/ immense possibilities. The district is just
/ showing UP some of the richest ores ever
found in the State, and next year will
{ see q number of cyanide and other plants
/ put in to work them and great deal of
/ prospecting and development work done. "