The record-union., 1899-05-01
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

L .
from exchanges sheds light on what is
going on in the world of mines
ACTIVE PLACER MINING.
Marysville Appeal: Report comes from
the foothills that there is much activity
IN placer mining. Jeff Thomas is busy
improving the O'Brien ditch which he
recently purchased and intends soon to
have it delivering water on his placer
claim. 1t is said an English syndicate
are anxious to purchase the Nickerson
Cedar mine, in Placer, and just as soon
as the present bond expires they will
II possible gain control of the property.
EXPORTING THE TEXAS.
Grass Valley Union: A. Goetz is Wis
1ting Nevada City in. the company of
the well-known mining expert, p. Die
desheimer, to look over the good pros
poets and developments of the Texas
Gold Mining Company. Mr.. Deides-
heimer is not engaged by the Texas
Company to expert. the mine, but by
Messrs. A. Goetz and Charles Stepp,
principal owners of the property who
take such great interest in the Nevada
County mining district. Mr.. Deides-
helmer was the first expert who de-
clared the Constock to be the richest
mining district in the world, and
through his judgment Flood, Mackay.
oBrien and Fair made millions of dol
lars in dividends. Mr. Deidesheimer
erected the combination shaft on the
Comstock, the greatest undertaking in
the world.
WORK AN ANGELS CAMP. =
Mountain Echo: The United Gold
Mining Company now organizing under
the corporation laws of this State, with
capital stock of 100000 shares at
SlOo per share, is we'll under way to
success. The location of the works is
at Angels Camp, and this town is the
principal place of business The prop
erty is the well-known Lindsay mine
adjoining the. Gold Cliff mine. The
monthly assessment on all subscribed
stock will be l cent. per share James
Keenan,, with other assistance, is doing
much to further the opening up of this
property.
A STRIKE IN THE MALONES.
Calaveras Chronicle: The heirs of the
estate of the late Archie Borland have
just received a large and quite unex-
pected windfall When Borland died,
among the assets of his estate were
9,9l4 shares in the Malones CONSOLE
dated Mining Company whose mine is
located in Calaveras County, Mr.. Bor-
lands shares in this mine We're ap-
praised by the appraisers of the estate
at nominal value, as the stock was not
salable at that time. 1t now appears,
however, that pay ore in large guam
titles has been struck in the Malones
mine and the stock has bounded upward
in value.
WORK AT PLYMOUTH.
Amador Dispatch: w. w. Worthing
of Stockton. President of 4he Bay State
Mining Company at Plymouth, went to
Amador County on mining business last
week. Mr. Worthing informed us that
his company is putting in six-drin ar
compressor, which will be utilized for
running the pumps and four drills. The
intention is to put the shaft down
deeper to determine the extent of the
ore body and more fully develop the
mine.
DITCH AND FLUME WORK.
Tuolumne Independent: A party of
surveyors are at present in the vicinity
of the Wards Ferry bridge. on the Tu
olumne River, surveying for prospac
i've dam site, ditch and flume to convey
power for an extensive electric plant to
be built in the neighborhood of Rough
and Ready. The proposed ditch and
fiume will be about five miles in length
and ten feet in width by five feet in
depth 1t is the object of the company
oIo
is needed in the county, but principally
to supply the mines.
THE TREADWELL NINE.
Mining and Scientific Press: Mill tall
ings at the Alaska Treadwell mine
average about 30 cents per ton. The
concentrates are treated by the chlori-
nation process, about 80 per cent of
the assay value being saved. Doubt
ness, as in other cases, a higher per-
centage might be saved, but where 90
per cent. is saved at a profit, it is more
satisfactory from a commercial point
of view than to lose money saving an
extra 3 per cent. There is no data to
hand since the 500 new stamps began
operations last month, but it is
learned that during the preceding ten
ore, yielding S., 705, 697 80 in free gold,
and 81, 1873, 1904 in concentrates.
During that time the average cost of
milling and mining was S1.47 per ton,
and, at times, the cost of milling was
30 cents per ton. During the ten
years mentioned the aggregate profit
was $4, 167, 154.99.
FEATHER RIVER MUD.
Suffer County Farmer: Feather
River Isl thick with mud and presents
much the same appearance as the Yuba
during the days of hydraulic mining,
say many old timers who have observed
the matter, says the Gridley Herald"
How much the dredgers have to do with
muddying the stream is a question upon
which all are not agreed. Some main
tain that the dredgers will yet be re-
sponsible for the destruction of the low
bottoms, While others say that the stuff
stirred up by the dredgers does not
get far away from the boats. Certain
it is that the ground sluicing and min
ing now commencing in the mountains
is sending down large quantities of de-
bris, and with such a quantity of mud
in the water as is now the case cannot
fail to fill up the channel. If there is
much more filing it will only be short
time when levees will be needed further
up the stream and the untold expense of
such undertakings added to the farmers
burden.
A NEVADA MINERS LUCK.
Tucson Citizen: J G. Warren, a Ne
vada miner, a short time ago found
win ~J,a
distance south of Prescott Since that
time he hoe hoo,, ,,,oc,,, a.of;,,u fo,- tho