The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-11-13

Throughout the length and breadth of
California mining enterprises are multi
plying and going forward with an energy
never equaled in the history of the State
since the early days of placer mining. The
! difference between those days and the
present is that now a mining enterprise
of any sort means the investment of cap
! ital, the employment of men and the dis
! tribution of money for labor and supplies,
Every mining region in the State now
looks up and is glad. Up north Del Norte
| County is shipping copper ore and watch
! ing the new development of a number Of
! promising gold and copper properties.
/ Humboldt County has caught the oil boom
and is trying to remember how its oil eX-
! element OF the sixties felt.
! In Siskiyou County a dozen mining dis
tricts are booming with new developments
/ and the county expects TO point to some
! big new mines before great while. Yreka
! Is looking forward to a boom as a result
! of the rapid growth of the mining indus
! try. According to the Yreka Journal,
''Ireka is gradually coming to the front
! as one of the richest mining centers on
! up in population during the coming year,
with prospects of showing fully 25O0 pop
1 ulation when the census enumeratorS
! commence work next summer
! Near the town big dredge will soon
! be in operation in Yreka Creek, and sew
! enteen carloads of machinery and lumber
I
| poses to work two miles of ground Yreka
/ also shows the phenomenon of turning
! racetrack into gold mine. The old track
| of the Agricultural Society has been sold
! for $1,000 to syndicate that will wash 1t
! away.
! Yreka will be the supply center of an
! extensive region in which many rich sur
! face strikes have recently been made and
! in which quite a number of quartz mines
Will be opened o up during ,i the coming
tons are waiting for water supply
The Mountain Copper Company has put
| its new smelling furnace, No. 5, in opera
| ton 1t is third larger than the others.
Five new McDougal furnaces are to be
erected at once. and the output of this
| great mine will be largely increased dur
| ing the coming year. The unwatering OF
| the Copperopolis mines recently begun,
| the erection of smelling plants in MADEIRA
and Fresno counties and the development
! or reopening Of many comparatively
small copper properties IN several coun-
| ties now going on, several OF which are
now producing in small way, increase
! the promise OF big stride in CALIFORNIA;
! copper production during 1900 and for this
year as well.
Several big deals in the Shasta County
copper belt are subjects Of constant spec
ulation and report 1t is on the develop
ment of some of these vast stores Of cop
per that the growth of the States copper
industry chiefly depends. When capital
| taxes nOlQ OF one OF these evidently great
properties exploration at depth must pre-
cede the erection of smelling plants, and
probably two years would be as short a
time as production on a large scale could
be reached in. Captain de Lamar is Sc
cretly and vigorously prospecting his
Bully Hill group of mines, and whether or
not he erects smelter near Copper City
will depend on the extent of the ore sup
ply found.
The first machinery to work the rich tel
lurdP discovered q tho head Of Jof
fee Creek Trinity County, will be in
stalled when snow permits in the spring
and the experiment will be of interest
George l.. Carr, who recently bought a
1 half interest in the Yellow Rose of Texas
mine, last week purchased a Huntington
mill, concentratOr, engine, etc. for the
mine. Selected ore from this and other
rich Lodges in that district are now being
shipped al large expense to SeIbv's
A number of mining properties In Shasta
/ County have been sold or bonded recently.
which a six months option a $780, 900 was
taken !3 1,. by Ered5erick kIng and c G Colen
to the Keswick smelter
The Central Pacific Company is apply
ing Tor patents TO great amount of this
big northern mineral region. There has
been filed in Redding a list of 80 996 acres
of which 1854 are in Shasta, % Gil in Trim
ity and $500 IN Siskiyou County. 1t is I'M
| derstoOd that other lists will soon be filed
The mineral lands bill sleeps in Congress-
The biggest gold mining operations in
the State are naturally along the mother
lode and in Nevada County. The invest
ments of capital in new and old mother
lode properties and in development work
and mining plants begun or planned in the
past year aggregate millions of dollars. In
Amador County especially the deeper
mining of old properties is the leading
feature.
The Kennedy is crowding work on its
new hree-compartment vertical shaft, de-
signed to tap the vein at $500 feet, and
which with crosscuts will represent an in
vestment of several hundred thousand
dollars. The shaft is down eight hum
dred feet and is progressing at the rapid
rate of twenty-five feet a week.
The new deep vertical shaft at the Wild
man Mahoney, is being steadily deepened.
Rapid work is going on at the Central
Eureka, which is another striking sue
cess in reopening an abandoned mine and
putting faith in deep values. On the 1900
level the rich vein, said to average 500
a ton, is being drifted on both ways, and
the rock mllled at the leila.
r. c. Xoorhies, one of the lucky openers
in the Lincoln, on which he has been sink
ing for months Recently a prospecting
crosscut to the west struck l2-foot vein
titles faith In ii. In the South Eureka
Oneida, Argonaut and other well-known
mines sinking to great depths steadily
The sale of the Morning Star drift mine
on Iowa Hill, Placer County, is one of the
interesting recent events of the mining
world. The development of this fam
Gus property was due to the sa-
gacity and ability of Jacob H.
Neff, who has been its manager
until now. The Coleman brothers and Mr..
Neff have owned a majority of the stock.
After a large investment in costly work
ings one of the richest buried channels in
that region was struck and the yield was
almost fabulous for years For about 1000
feet the gravel has averaged from 81 so
to $40 per ton, and large dividends have
been paid for years. Its present produc-
ton is about $1,000 day.
But the channel has turned into the
ground of the Big Dipper company, and
foreseeing comparatively early suspen-
sion of operations the controlling stock
holders sold their 1903 shares at SIT share
to the other company. A dividend of 81
share remains in the treasury There are
2400 shares of stock. With this transaction
Messrs. Coleman and Neff retire from the
Morning Star. Harold T. Power, manager
of the great Hidden Treasure drift mine
in that company, becomes president and
superintendent
The Utica company is making large in
vestments in new hydraulic and COM
pressed air plants, and among other
things has closed the Sickle shaft for re-
timbering The old timbers are TO be
burned for the gold that IS in them.