The San Francisco call., 1899-07-31
BIG CALIFORNIA
MINING AFFAIRS

in the Boston STOCK EXcnauSe at 80 DO'
none is on the market.
California building stones are to have
EPleo9 and ePeci The oP9 Pnted States ex
hibit is to be fronted by a big facade OF
worthy architectural design, to be H1I4e LaS
up of United States building stones Inc
variety of color as well as material la, aIl9 no
design will make it a notable feature Oh
the mining. department OF the exp eaposib1f1ii beJa
Charles G. Yale, in charge of the Cali
fornia mining exhibit. proposed among t3nts
other things plan ra,,fo1n,a IN {niS Building
stones special prominence. One sugges:-
ton was to use for windows some OF al al
fornias translucent onyx; lnquige9 word
to Secretary Gaskill from the once u
Commissioner Peck, granting eXceptlohal
"Can grant exceptional space in facad9e ad9
for California building stones. zpTepaoTu re aopl
under our direction, to be used III TViiI1I TUiII
send plans, etc. on the return, OF MI
Skiff. Also special cases for gold; silver
mercury asphaltum and boraXi bo5;,,,t bqa he oee ee
Signed in respective groups. Have granted
space for model quartz mill.
Secretary ]. j. Crawford of the Gwl1 Gw1
Mine Development Company Tetur1nlea 1l1eol
from the mine on Saturday sun IL IeerlH6 1.ai13
q 1870 feet. The new vertical shaft has has
reached 1900 feet, and will not leave the
vein for some time. He reports Ina 10 ~,
week all the rock taken out in slnkiing
was run through the mill witnout sortiInIs
the vein matter from that OF the 9nat
1t milled $5 ton. AS the ShalC - ,,Iarter
of the rock milled was ore. making @ the
ore on a milling test average SIo d III, ~
The ore was not plckHea+ 4ua' ,,isde the OPERA
ton more expensive than mllilhS, eE1L
thing. A crosscut will he run 70 IIS w1n 75S
to the new vein at the lZOO ieHeI, ie, da0 dend
when the inclined vein is cut oeloW IoUo
feet crosscuts at each level 10 tne HAIL HAIL
vein to the east will intersect the he"
vein.
Southern California is as wide awake IN IN
the mining line as any other part oL
the State, and progress is rapid. Ihe Los
Angeles Mining Review sums up the PRES
ent situation in its last NUMBER, saying III
ut is computed that there are s over
1000 mines and prospects in Southern Cdli-
fGrqi4 bere Two %eye ye945 agG NILS in South
ern California. Adding those which nave
been erected since, not 1ncludlng cg1Lhdee cgTLse
plants brings the number up to l64 Ihese
mills have 1140 stamps, the majority OF
which are kept busy. There are eIeven
cyanide plants in operation, ana rbern Ebe u, are
also several huntington mills, besides
arastras, concentrating plants, etc. 1here
are thirty-eight regularly organized MN.
ing districts in Southern California There
are also seven others, commonly spoken "
as mining districts, but WhiCn nave I,,e ioe
of the mineral production OF SoutheTn
California was estimated at 5000. .9VS: IN IN
1898 the value of its i eon mlmenal d66 prouuc'ioii
was computed at $foVo'Voo'
The suit brought by the Anti-Debris AS
sociation in the name of Sutter county TO
restrain the Red Dog gravel mine OIL Ne
vada County from operating under per-
nit from the California Debris Commits
been Transferred TO the United States Cir
cult Court at San Francisco, where 1t pc
longs The California Miners Assoclatlon
will provide vigorous defense IN penaI
of the hydraulic mining industry ana the
Caminetti law. This court last year up
held the law in the issue raised by the
North Bloomfield Company.
A company of San Francisco and Sac
ramento men is engaged in turning from
ira bed the South Fork of the American
River at Missouri Bar to mine the par.
A dam ten feet high and a hume 4V0 1eet
long, 16 feet wide and feet deep are be
this bar in the fifties failed, and it re-
mains unworked, with good promises OIL
richness If the stage of water remains
The mother lode, section of Tuolumne
County pays half the county S taxes.
Within four months $4,000 has been taken
from F. B. Smiths pocket mine near
Camp Seco. One nugget weighed Sl500
branch of the Sierra Railr9ad S,af is to
County from jamestown. passing the
Rawhide mine and Robinsons Ferry, fol-
lowing the mother lode 1t is to be nm
ished by December 80. Every branch
railroad into the mining regions means
much to the mining. industry. o,,,
Alameda County has quartz ,gol9f
Mountain View Cemetery, and COM
pany has gone to work on It; t;.os,o Co,,r-
ty has been sold for $25. 900 to the English
Syndicate that bought the Copper King
mine in that county. New York com
pany is developing the Youngs Valley
copper ledge in Del Norte County.
New pottery works are to be estab-
Iished at Carbondale,. Amador County,
where there is a bed of potter's clay
The Merced Mining Company will add
twenty to its forty stamps at Coulter
Harrison and put in an electric plant
J. 0. DENNY.