The record-union., 1899-06-16
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

The following news pertains to mines
and mining matters of the Pacific Coast
States:
COPPER PROPERTY.
The Colusa Herald" contains the fol-
lowing concerning a mine owned by
Sacramento men:
Messrs. D. M. Cooper, Charles H.
Wait Of Sacramento and w. J. Love
lady OF the Indian Valley section, were
IN town Wednesday and made the
herald" Office a pleasant call. MIR.
cooper Is Superintendent of the Ruby
King Copper Mining and Townsite
company. whose property is located
twelve miles west of Sites, comprising
the New Mary Emma, King Ruby and
Nora T., three full mining claims. de
showed US couple of samples OF the
ore encountered in forcing tunnel
tnat are beauties, being about the size
OF q hens egg and will assay about ~
Per cent. pure copper. The company
tunnel has now reached depth OF l5u
Ieet with an ultimate objective point
or LOO feet, its dimensions being 61ax
IA feet. The prospects are reported
good and the work on the tunnel Is be-
ing pushed forward as rapidly as money
and men can be utilized to an advan-
taga Near Cooks Springs Messrs.
Cooper and Wait have a claim called
the Tillie. They have struck three
foot lode and have ten tons of paying
ore on the dump that will assay 90 per
cent. of high grade copper. In the ore
is a sufficient quantity of iron, gold,
silver and lead TO render it almost self
reducing and 1t fluxes readily. The
gentlemen are so favorably impressed
with the future prospects of the Tillie
that they filed on five additional claims
in close proximity"
The following are the officers of the
company: President. c. c. Bonte; Vice
President, E. C. Deuel.; Treasurer, I. G..
Shaw; Secretary. F. H Almas; General
Superintendent, D. M. Cooper: Direct
ofs, w. ]. Webber. ]. j. Glacken, l. G.
Shaw, D. M. Cooper, F. H. Almas, E. c.
Deuel., C. C. Bonte.
lone PLACERS.
Stockton Independent: The town of
lone is becoming quite a mining CEN
ter, as four placer mines near that city
are being worked with success, They
are the Cooley, Mt. Echo, Schmitt &
Burns and Nugget. Considerable free
gold is being picked out of the latter
claim and the workmen are reported
as having taken out as high as $500 in
one day.
The rock is slate and quartz for
nation and the mime had to be sunk
about twelve feet before the gold was
reached. A small stamp mill will be
erected later and the owners expect to
clear up quite a fortune. The Mt. Echo
has been bonded and the Schmitt K
Burris is showing up well. The Cooley
is pocket in quartz leads and is ex.
pected to prove very rich when fully
opened up.
KERN OIL.
Bakersfield California: B. C. Career
one of Kern County's old timers was in
town to-day and talked about oil. He
thinks that the oil stratum extends un-
der the whole valley, pointing out the
TACT that it has been found on both
sides and that there are indications all
through the hills that semicircularly
connect the two points. Mr.. Career re-
calls that some ten years ago an arte-
sian we'll was bored to a depth of 6O(
feet in the southern part of Kern City
the work being stopped because the
tools stuck and could not be removed
AT the time operations were suspend
ed, the borers were bringing up soft
rock identical with the formation il
which oil Is found. Straight down may
be the reservoir.
THAT GOLD STRIKE.
riverside Enterprise: The rush still
continues to the alleged gold fields OF
Lower California, but thus far no Riv-
ersider has started for there. They
probably remember another alleged
rlcn- discovery, made in that land OF
deserts and hardships away back ir
1899, when many a man here threw ur
lucrative position to make the trir
there, only to return with an abundance
OF experience gathered through hard
ship and hard trials on the trip, as wei
as empty pocketbooks.
In that memorable excitement hun
dreds of people went from all point:
OF Southern California in search oi
riches in the alleged gold fields only tc
md out when 1T was too late that the
scheme was a fake one. gotten up by
San Diego boomers to make business
for that town.
resident of Santa Barbara. wbc
made the trip in 1889, writes the
Press" of that city regarding his ex-
perience. After describing at length
his trip down and the treatment at the
hands of the Mexican authorities. the
writer goes on to say:
After two weeks hardships and con-
slant exposure. We reached the gold
fields, and although the long strings OF
returning gold hunters that We had mc,
might have warned us what to expect
We were painfully surprised to find tl1a,
the best paying claim in the whole re-
sion was operated by a couple OF In
dians and four old squaws and was
turning out the wonderful sum of SIT.
day on an average. Barley was $40 {
sack, and 80 cents would buy three
slices of bacon-thin enough, If they
were dry, to make good cigarette paper
You. could get $16 six-shooter for {
hatful OF beans. Picks and shoyels
were stacked up and the handles burned
out and the other mining tools also
were destroyed. After two weeks
prospecting around the country we
gave up and started for Ensenada. and
if the good Lord will forgive me for go
ing to Lower California in 1889, 1 will
solemnly promise never to go again