The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-04-30
Pacific Coast
Mining News,

80 puoilsneu In mining regions. lHe
loliow1ng news concerning mines and
mining, clipped from and credited to
newspapers throughout the State, Will
nuerest persons who care to know
iilaueeIs pertaining to the mineral re-
sources of the State:
A NEW MINING COMPANY.
Blue Lake Advocate: P. L. Young OF
Orleans Bar returned Thursday from
three months stay at Sam Francisco
and other places, He was accompanied
by MIR. and Mrs s. M Beard of New
York. The gentlemen in company with
George F. Parmalee and other capital
lists OF New York have purchased the
rich mining grounds at Orleans from
the English syndicate, of which P. L.
Young was the Superintendent. They
nave formed a company known as the
Orleans Bar Gold Mining Company, and
Mr.. Beard says that a crew of about
fifty men win be put to work immedl-
ately rebuilding the bitches and fumes
which have been imperative for num-
Der of years. A lot of new pipe ana
machinery will be put in place and
next season, when all this preliminary
work will be completed, mining will be
prosecuted with vigor.
TILE COPPER OUTLOOK.
Redding Free Press: Shasta County's
lead in copper mining is being followed
by general waking up as to copper
possibilities in other mining counties.
Reports from Siskiyoa County indicate
that the people have faith that a cop
per snelter there is only a question OF
a year or so, as large bodies of copper
bearing ore are encountered in several
districts of the county. A fortyton
smelter to handle the ores of the Cop
per Queen mine is an assured addition
to the wealth. producing agencies of
Trinity County. A copper smelter is
being erected in Plunnas County. Sew
eral deposits in that county are under
bond, and are now being examined by
experts. The Plumas copper ores carry
a rich percentage of gold.
COLORADO GRAVEL BEDS.
Arizona Miner: The gravel beds Of
the Colorado River are being bonded
and bought up by mining companies.
1t is thought that when sufficient ter
ritory has been secured a gigantic dam
will be thrown across the canyon of
the Colorado and thousands of horse
power electricity generated.
From this generator will be trans
mitted power to all the hydraulic
plants Of the river banks, and the great
work of separating the gold from
mother earth will go on in ceaseless
nlonotony. Enough gold is buried in
these gravel banks to pay off the ma
tiona1 debt and have good-Sized
amount left for pin money.
A COAL MINE DISCOVERED.
HOLSTER Free Lance: A valuable coal
mine has been discovered in the mount
aims southwest of Los Banos, on the
proposed route of the Monterey and
Fresno Railroad. Samples of the coal
demonstrate that an extra fine product
has been found. A first-class coal mine
ON its route would be bonanza to
that enterprise.
GOLD IN THE SACRAMENTO
Solano Republican,: Rumors having
been received that a party of men were
taking gold out of the river off Monte
yuma Slough, a Republican represen-
tative was sent to inquire into the mat
ter, and learn if possible the extent of
the operations. His investigations re-
vealed that a machine looking like a
sdredger, having steam for power, was
being operated at the point referred to
ny live PcISOllSt NllO NCIS tACCCQAlSly
close mouthed as to the result or ex-
tent of their operations, giving out that
it is only an experimental outfit, and
that nothing as yet had resulted from
their dredging. Despite the secretive-
ness shown by the operators, it is be-
lieved that their object is to dredge
for gold, the dredger being like the one
so successfully used in the Feather
IL
cation has been selected, no doubt. as
one favorable to the deposit of a large
quantity of gold, being at the mouth
of the river, where the running water
comes in contact with the tides of the
bay and ocean, and where in all like
1ihood a deposit of gold bearing gravel
would settle and await the inventive
ness Of man to draw it from its Kidding
place. From another source we have
learned that few weeks ago two men
We're seen in that vicinity who were
taking up the settings at the bottom
of the channel and putting them in
small bottles, which they were to take
to a chemist for analysis. They further
said if the test demonstrated the fact
that one cents worth of gold could be
obtained from the deposit contained in
each DOltlt lIOUS<1QS VI QOllciS COuAN
be realized from the systematic working
of the deposits at the mouth of the
river. From the fact that they have
returned with the dredger and gone to
work in a businesslilze manner. it is
inferred that the analysis was a most
favorable one and the expeIimenters
are ON the high road to fortune.
A GRAVEL PROPOSITION.
Yreka journal: Charles II. Souther,
the financial manager of the company
intending to open up and mine Yreka
Creek from the Shasta River nearly up
to the Yreka townsite boundary, has
been closing the bargains in bonding
all the land engaged by paying the first
installment of 81 600 on each. There
are some nine or ten claims bonded, and
when the dredger is built and at work
the company will pay out another large
amount, with the balance of the install
ments in one, two and three years. The
same company will also work Cotton
wood Creek at Hornbrook and Henley
in the same manner with probabilities
of carrying ON similar operations in
other creeks and gulches where options
can be procured from landowners.
TO STOP DREDGING.
Anderson Valley News: Complaint is
growing that the operation of gold
saving dredgers on the Feather and