The record-union., 1899-06-18
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

WIlIluS NUWOs
The following items concerning Fa-
cific Coast mining should prove of gen.
eral interest:
PLACER AND QUARTZ.
Yreka Journal: j. S. Lowden, Jr.,
owner and manager Of one of the best
paying hydraulic mines on klamath
River, known as the Kunz Flat mine,
about two miles below Hamburger, has
been taking out considerable gold this
season. and would do much better il
he only had more water for the giants.
The ground pays well from the sur
face down, and has the reputation of
yielding more of the yellow dust to the
acre than the best mines in Siskiyou,
at least is second to none.
The hoisting machinery and seventy
five-horse power engine for the new
company commencing work on the
Nehrbass and Rostel places, at Green
horn, adjoining the Blue Gravel mine,
arrived from below last Saturday, and
will soon be set up for opening the
claim on an extensive scale. The first
shaft will be sunk down at the Nehr-
bass place, in the old we'll near the
dwelling house thereon.
]. w. Conant is doing energetic work
in opening his quartz mine on the di-
vide between Scott Valley and Scott
River, in which he finds good pros
poets. There are several others who
have located claims in the same vicin-
ity, to make quite a mining camp, while
others are prospecting for good finds.
The company intending to work
Yreka Creek has the dredger we'll
under way in construction, and expects
to ship it to Yreka some time next
month for setting up in the creek bed.
1t will probably be ready for operation
about the last of the summer, and open
up the creek for successful working by
the time the winter storms commence
to furnish plenty of water, the more
water the better.
Henry Harris, owner of the Hum
mingbird mine on Humbug showed US
specimen of very rich quartz yester-
day taken from same. 1t was too thick
with sulphurets, however, to require
working by smelter with good success.
He has been getting other quartz from
the mine crushed in mill. not so heavily
charged with sulphurets, and realizes
good pay.
The managers of the Sheba mine at
Patterson Creek have been making a
cleanup of the mill during the past
few days, which will amount to about
So, 600 for the last four weeks run.
COPPER DIVIDENDS
Grass Valley Union: The great cop
per mines Of Montana continue to be
among the steadiest dividend payers in
the world. They pour out dividends
as regularly as clockwork, the only
variation being an occasional extra
dividend.
The Boston and Montana has de-
clared a dividend Of $6 a share, pay
able June 1st This is the regular
quarterly dividend of 81 a share, with
50 added as sort of present to the
stockholders. 1t is understood that a
regular increase in the amount of the
quarterly dividends of this property
may shortly be expected.
The Parrott M. & S. Company has
declared a. dividend of $50 a share for
June 1st This company has been pay
ing 80 cents share every six months,
but it has been decided to change this
to a quarterly dividend of $1.5O.
GONE TO ARIZONA.
Redding Searchight: A. j. Shotwell
of Gila Bend, A. T.. with Mark Chart
rand, A. F. Hoffer. James R. Kinealy,
William H. Hofmeister, Professor A. w.
Waldauer and Robert Stockton Of ST.
Louis, have incorporated under the laws
of Arizona the Arizona United Mining
Company, with a capital stock of $lO.-
00U.OOO The papers have been sent
to Tucson, where they will be filed.
Mark r. Chartrand, one of the incor-
porators, says that the company owns
a claim of thirty-five acres in Pima
County, A. T., fifty miles south of Gila
Bend on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
On this claim, he says, is a hill 225 feet
high, which, by actual measurement,
shows 100000 cubic yards of copper,
gold and silver ores, or about S,OOOOO0
tons. 1t is the intention, Mr.. Chart
rand says, to erect one of the largest
milling plants In the country on this
property, and Mr. Shotwell has gone to
Denver, Col, to buy the first INSTALL
ment of machinery for it.
PLENTY OF GOLD.
Carson Appeal: The strike on Bould-
er Hill, three miles east of Markleeville
promises to be the biggest discovery of
the kind ever made in this section Of
the country. Only a few tons of ore
have been taken out, but it is very rich
and it's estimated value is $40, 900.
There is considerable excitement in AL
pine County, particularly at Marklee-
vile, and everybody is predicting lively
times. We have been unable to learn
the width of the ledge but the forego-
ing information seems to come from
reliable source.
SAN JOAQUIN GOLD.
Gait Gazette: San Rogue is not the
only place that can create a mining ex-
citement. San Joaquin County has just
been promised a small-sized rush in the
finding of gold in fine paying quantities
in an ancient bed of the Mokelumne
River just on the line of sStanislaus
County In digging a we'll on the
property Of Mrs. Annie NJ, James a
short time ago it was discovered that
an old river bed was covered up and
that the gravel in the lost water course
was rich in gold. The land was Inn
mediately gobbled up by San Francisco
capitalists and others and the work of
excavating for the precious metal be-
gun. Prospecting has developed that
there are two channels rich in gold.