The San Francisco call., 1899-08-28

vine district of that county at the price
asked fol, tt-S200,G00
pendent, is the latest mine to attract at
1 tention In the mountains near by, the sec
! ond twenty stamps having been started
few days, ago. making forty stamps to
! pound up the big vein that is known to
/ hold out to a depth of nearly 500 feet.
! Commencing September 1st work will be
rushed on a contract to sink 200 feet deep
/ er in the Lightner, and there is no fear
that the vein will not hold out as the
veloped better as depth was reached, and
/ there is reason to believe the property
will prove one of the best paying deep
averas, barring only the Gwin.
A company is being formed for the pur
pose of dredging the Tuolqmne river be
gold. 1t is believed that the river channel
rights are being obtained for the purpose
proposed the debris and gravel in the
river will be dredged and run through
fumes and re-emptied into the river Inc
will raise a ton of slickens, which Will be
run through a f1ume on the boat, whlch Is
to be about 60 feet long, and then returned t.d
to the river Several of the rights have
already been secured and enough ground
will be reserved before the company start
in to justify the large outlay OF money re-
quired to give the mining a thorough test
Grass Valley Union.
Good reports come from the Harris or
Bonanza mine, south Of angels, @ "hlcn ric5 u
! ledge of rock was recently struck anu
| the vein matter is 40 feet wide at depth
of 200 feet, with every indication OF widen
| ing as the shaft goes down. Old miners
of that section predict that the Hs[Iis s +i
will be one of the richest producers OF the
| Bruner, which is one of the good ones, and
/ is in a locality where there are no 1all-
/ ures.-Stockton Independent.
! In the Coalinga oil district they are cry
! ing for oil with, as II taxes
| about fifty barrels day to drill a well
/ and in that arid region water is scarce: ,
/ Two companies are tunneling Tor water
! in hills some distance away.
/ The Lucky Boy quartz mine located
about four miles from San Andreas, on
the Copperopolis road has peen zee S9lu 70 op
/ Boston syndicate for $4,000, accordlng 10
/ the Calaveras Citizen. On Wednesday
! agreements were signed calling for the
| payment of $1,000 every six months until
| the total sum of $4,000 shall have been
/ paid.
It is the intention Of the new owners o. OF
the Lucky Boy to put a steam hoist on the
mine and to sink at least 500 feet on the
ment nagS' Of tn the property p IS to be made:
Four gold bricks % With value idUed IN n the the
neghborhood of $40 600 were piacedk ek III saws sVs
the Tuoumne Independent. They are
from cleanup at the LongfehiioW W. mine 9ieJle3
! at Big OAK r lat. hdllS ouNIi
ments from various mines Throughout @
the county are quietly stored away DUR
ing a months time; ,. Syndicate of
which Prince Poniatowsk is at the 9rt heaa,
! has surrendered its bond on the Ihorpe
mine. 1t is said that the synaicate mas
! spent over 100000 on the property
/ The Gwin Mine Development COMPANY
has declared dividend No. of 3 cents per
! share amounting to $4,000, payable l1rIlie- me,
/ diately and carries surplus LOT tne new
! 4O-stanp mill and other works now IN
! process of construction. - CalaVeras
| Chronicle. .,,,o ;,or
/ lance was consummated in San AndreaS
! on Wednesday last, when j. j. McoorIey
! and Prescott Ely secured BOND on tne
Hudson the Mester, the jackson anu me
/ MacchiaVeln, a group of four mines STU
ated near North Branch, says the Gala-
veras Citizen. These cla aims are all aq-
/ Joining running moth and south, or nearly
/ so with the mother lode, the last pelnS
only about two miles from, town. fhese
mines are on the footwau belt Oh tne
! mother lode and they have been proml-
| nently mentioned by mining men for years
| because of their location in respect OF the
trend of the mother lode. Numerous el,
! forts have been made by promoters ana
! capitalists to bond or buy these properties
but without avail. They We're owned by
rich men or persons well aole TO nolo
! them, and thus remained IDLE.
The Empire copper mine, the property
! Of Charles Braid, has been sold to the
/ Ames estate of Boston. The Empire is
/ one OF the DClnClpdl UllISS VI the ONio
! group at Copperopolis. 1t carries with, 1t
! hearty twenty acres of land The price
/ paid was $50 900 and of this amount Braid
! received $27 500 and the promoters of the
! deal the balance. The fact that the Ames
| people desire to obtain possession OF all
/ the valuable copper properties in that
/ town fortells another boom for Copper
! opolis. The mines, which have not been
! worked for many years, formerly PAID
well. 1t is said that $1,000 900 worth Of ore
/ is now lying ready for the smelter.-Iuol-
I Ind
There is quite a revival in the copper
business in the Campo Seco and Ca
manche regions, too. A furnace IS now IN
machinery is going into that section, once
so lively and prosperous, put Wmch mas
been dead for ever so many years. -
the rates of milling ore at the Barstow
mill 1t was found that to mill low grade
ore at 81 % per ton there was small ac-
tual loss, as the cost was a few cents
more than that. The rates on all ore run
ming TO 500 or less will hereafter be 81 so
per tor and s. p for fright T maknS aIsn Sa
the concentrates or permit the parties
having ore milled to take them away, as
they prefer. If they buy they will pay r,s9 93
SIG per ton.-Randsburg Miner.
The sale has been {; closed in 5 San nP,r Fran
tia mines, with mills and water power,
near Kelsey. FL Dorado County. The
price paid was between SlUO,OOU ana Sl5O.-
| 600. cash down. The sale was made
through D. H. Jackson, formerly super
intendent of the Holmes mine, Candelaria.
New The seller is w: C. Bell, and the
rev owners are j. c. Alvarado and others
| of London, England. The property is
group of gold quartz mines operating 120
| tons a day The plant is run by eectri-
city Mr.. Jackson is to be the superin-
! tendeut for the new owners, and seventy
men will find constant employment
Record Union.
]. Burton. who has been operating the
Crystal mine and also the Green Noun
tain hydraulic. both of which properties
are located in Chill Gulch about two miles
| from this place, has started UP another
mining operation, says the Calaveras
! Chronicle 1t seems to be the general
opinion of all the old miners in this sec
| ton that there is a basin in French
Hill that has never been "bottomed." Mr..
Burton intends to find out whether this
! theory is correct or not. He has started
a tunnel in Steep Gulch for the purpose
Of tapping" the basin, work on which
was commenced Monday last. French
! Hill in the early days was the richest spot
| in the State, and there were thousands
upon thousands of dollars taken out of
what the miners in those days called "pot
holes The claims were sixteen feet
square. and old settlers have told us that
| they averaged two ounces per daV to the