The San Francisco call., 1899-07-03

was a result of the operation of the big
smelter of the Mountain Copper COMPANY
that the smeter Stag which is dumped
into Spring Creek and partly borne down
the river is responsible, fine, sharp par
tcles of Stag, like ground glass gettlng
into the gills of the fish. The Reddlng
Free Press defends the smelter py as
serting that it is neither the copper mines
dynamite nor sea lions that does the ms
chief but that the fish get caught IN the
big. log and wood jams in the P1tt FlVer
and below.
One of the largest sales of mining prop
erty ever made in Siskiyou County mas
just been effected in the sale OF tne
Schroeder quartz mine of the DeaoWOoo
Canadian company for 500 900. 1t Is
paying property, with ledge tapped pS
tunnel at the depth of 1900 rect. @ ne
property will be vigorously developed s ulr-
der the sUperintendency OF Mr.. SchroeueI
the former owner, who has been retained:
The Virginia Dale Mining district OF
San Bernardino County has developed q
condition of permanent prosperity since
several good mines have become pro,
ducers, The Q. K. mine has been opeIeu
to depth of 23O feet, where the forty
one-inch vein yields ore of increasing
value. The last run at the mill produced
$2310 in gold and eleven ounces of silver
from 1O1 tons of ore The taiings at this
mine are now successfully cyanided, eI-
fecttng a saving of 80 per cent OF the val
ueS The summer temperature out there
on the desert, 120 degrees, has forced 6 six
weeks closing of the mill. Work is pur-
sued. however, in the shafts and tunnels,
in which there is a strong and constant
natural draught The IVanhoe, Brook
lyn and White Star are among the other
operating mines in the region. The hot
weather has forced all the dry washers in
the placerS to quit.
The formation of an asphalt trust in
the East the other day closely concerns
the big asphalt industry of California:
The capital is 500 900 900, and the Asphalt
Company of America proposes to control
all the important asphalt mines OF the
nrl1 md hn e "
ing, roofing, etc. The Trinidad mines are
in its grasp. The Alcatraz Asphalt Paw
ing Company of Les Los angeles An sWiil JGin ON
big Alcatraz mines of Santa Barbara
County. which however, are owned by
another company controlled by the
Large hydraulic operations are to be
started at Orleans Bar on the klamath
River, in Humboldt County.
MADEIRA expects to have a smelter.
committee is at work raising funds TO
aid the enterprise.
The Bell mine of Tuolumne County,
which has been opened to a depth of zoo
feet. is being unwatered.
The American Quartz Mining Compan
of San Francisco has bought the Amer
can quartz mine at French Gulch. Shastl
County, and will reopen and extensively
develop the property. The mine has
ten-stamp mill and in the past has yielded
$95 900.
Tuolumne County is the great pocket
of the best vein mining districts of the
mother lode. Many good strikes are re-
ported every week During the week sew
eral punches of gold were taken out of
the Hudson and Birney mine near Column
bia Hill, aggregating S1700. pretty good
weeks product. Several other strikes at
Yankee Hill and vicinity were reported.
The Zindars pocket mine has been leased
to San Francisco men, who will go to
work at once.
The Alta copper mine in the Low Divide
district of Del Norte County, owned by
Oakland people. is reported as soon to be
sold. In the early sixties this mine was
quite extensively worked. A number of
copper prospects are being developed in
Del NOrte County, and there, as else
where, much prospecting for copper is
going on.
The steady increase in mining activity
along the mother lode is constantly send
ing all kinds of skilled mechanics into
that region
The district about Angels Camp, Gala
veras County. is one of the most active
along the mother lode now.
It is reported that the Atlas mine, an
extension of the Brown, in Tuolumne
County, will resume operations at once
the Scotch stockholders having supplied
$25 900 for important development opera
tions, including the extension of a 500-foot
tunnel 45o0 feet to reach the Atlas at
depth. J. o. DENNY.