The record-union., 1899-08-28
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

cess at the head waters OF IoILee CIseh'
along the Siskiyou and Trinity county
boundary line. Wherever the miners
strike geld in that section. they ind the
ground exceedingly rich, not excelleo
by the most extravagant reports from
Klondfke. All along the headWaters
of the Trinity and Salmon Rivers ris-
ing in the mountains of Siskiyou and
Trinity Counties, gold is found in large
quantity. but it requires capital and
hard work to get it out.
The Sheba quartz mine at Patterson
Creek. ranges from and to IA feet
in width. and is probably the most sub
stantial and best paying mine in the
county. A large force is employed, to
work both mine and mill, day and
night.
The Greenhorn Blue Gravel mine is
still paying handsomely, all the gravel
now taken out proving very rich.
The Dredger Company Of which Chas.
H Souther is managing agent has just
closed a deal with the McNulty family
for the purchase of their entire landed
property at the northern boundary OF
Yreka, to use the creek bed portion for
mining. The price agreed upon is $50
600, and $1,000 has been paid down as
the first installment. The dredger IS
now being built as speedily as possible,
and arrangements are in progress to
commence operations near Shasta River
within a couple of months
The Wheeling Mining Company, ad-
joining the Greenhorn Blue Gravel
mine. had a mishap last week by one
of the pumps falling down to the bot
tom of the shaft, to cause delay and
trouble in raising it and getting to
work again in sinking the shaft to
bed rock 1t is all right now and the
work of sinking down is in progress
again. The shaft is now 13S feet down,
and an immense quantity of water is
found, amounting to a steady stream
of over % inches.
The Redding Press" mentions a deal
in progress at that place, by which
H H Hunter, Charles Fry and William
Patterson are taking foothold in Cop
per City. They are purchasing two
claims adjoining the Bully Hill mines,
one of them forming the southeast cor
ner of the big group, and the other ly-
ing west and adjoining the Bully Hill
proper. The purchase was made of t.
NJ Popejoy, and it is said that the
Benton Graham claims in the same
group will be taken by the same pur-
chasers The price paid was not made
public.
THE MINERAL OUTPUT.
Scientific Bulletin, N. Y: The total
value of the. mineral production Of the
United States in 1898 was $709, S16, 100
against $64S, S04, ,S99 in 1897. OF the
production in 1898 1914 255, 620 was the
value of the metals, against 1912, 49,
392 in the previous year, and $433, ,659,-
141 ores and minerals, against S40T,-
913,912 in 1897. The values given for
ores and minerals include $3S,09S,0l1
in 1898 and S31, ,2S7 ,405 in 1897 for
bauxite, manganese and iron ores,
which were used for making aluminium
ferromauganese and pig iron. Eighteen
secondary products for which statistics
We're collected, derived from some of
the ores included in these totals, had
an aggregate value of $40. 49,, 500 in
1895 against S41, us, ,420 in 1897. There
was also a production of copper, lead,
silver and gold from foreign ores and
bullion, valued at $5S, .125 in 1898
against S47, ,127, ia in 1897.
AN OLD MINE.
San Bernardino Sun: The Tecopa
Mining and Smelling Company. a new
ly organized corporation which has
taken hold of an abandoned mining
property on the Nevada border, is pre-
pairing to take out supplies from this
city to begin work at the mine i'm
mediately. The Tecopa mine was work
ed years ago and is situated 90 miles
north of Vanderbilt, on the line be-
tween this county and Nevada When
operated formerly, H L. Drew of this
city was a heavy stockholder in the
property.
The Tecopa Mining and Milling Com
pany now has it's headquarters in Los
Angeles, with D. w Shanks as Presi-
dent, J. H. Fawcett Vice President and
w. F. West Secretary. The new COM
pany controls large Eastern capital
and the mine has been exported to be
a property that will pay the investment
of money in modern machinery to work
1t. This the new company has done
and are now ready to begin freighting
ore. It is stated that eight big ore
wagons will be in use hauling rock to
the smelter
SAN JACINTO MICA.
Los Angeles Herald: The prospectors
in this section of the country seem to
have gone wild since the discovery Of
a mica ledge near San Jacinto, over
that material Parties are out in the
mountains near where the ledge was
found, and also in other parts of the
county, looking for other deposits of
the valuable stuff. Two brothers named
Trujillo and a man named Dunn ar
rived here to-day from the Chihuahua
district, near Oak Grove, with speci-
mems of mica, which they took from a
ledge just discovered, that are sheets
several inches square and almost trans
parent The new discovery is a ledge
about eight feet thick.
THE GOODWIN MINES.
Sonora Union Democrat: At the
Goldwin mines the new work since our
last report consists in driving deeper
the old winze in the tunnel on what
was formerly known as the Rhode Is
land ground. After unwatering this
Wine, which had been abandoned at a
depth of 5S feet, Captain W. II Nc
Clintock was so well impressed With
the big body of quartz in the bottom
that. he at once put a crew of miners
to sinking still deeper, and shifts have
continued the work day and night ever
since. Last Tuesday the working had
attained total depth of So feet and in
40 more drifting will be commenced
on the vein both ways The ore has
improved right along, and some Of very
excellent quality has been encountered.
The winZe was started down IA feet
wide by an English engineer who man.