The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-02-27

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che MountaiR Lion is showing fifteen feet tina
gives IN average OF $40 gold per ton. Thest
,%rgs 6 6ods,sr 81 h aE5 's SrrIs f STi I'VE Rpp e9p G ~ mn
In the permanent character OF the, camp. II
the itenubliG mine: Wien the Oh discover,
been made in ore that carries gold values o
SOUTH AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-For three year,
past mining engineers have been, explor
Ing tho maritime Andes, in Colombia ant
syndicatS that has been supporting this ven.
a vast copper deposit on the eastern coast o.
OF south America. It ls reported. by the ex.
pert in charge that veins or reefs, OF rock, TWEEN.
have been tested and show a large percentage
Of copper, The samples that have arrived
s sspS; ,T1m 10 m tS rs 9P psr e cent t'f in cop SSGt' WitR a
good average Of gold
Civil Engineer Q. +. u Caracristi. who for
lean mines, has been employed by the syndi-
cate to verify tho reuorts and investigate the
subject In behalf Of the syndicate. and he il
expected to take out an expedition for that
purpose about March IL.
CALIFORNIA.
Los ANGELES. Feb. 1S.-The Gwin mine in
which will give II n total OF eighty stamps. The
Independence mine, at Slate Mountain, FL
IDoT is5S Seu Witch hG yis TRsS sSG per e td 5Henty'four-
At Randsburg. Kern county, the Yellow As
ter, has started up its new thirty-stamp mill.
own product. One hundred and fifty tons u
rock will be crushed per day: The : Butte has
Of ofe did Si9ffH aP IN the tYf ownership. ~ J. {. wilson.
who has held the mine for two years under a
bopd;ior s5oiRoG; ha; g!Te saI + np END SnSO the hss 0 ?
The price paid for the Black Hawk mine,
development work has been done on this mine
and 1t is considered n very good property; The
new owners have moved the mil HE from Guide 2,
the stringer district, has struck an eight,foot
vein Of good ore ,M Ntornst \ y BhenfRle oSt,a have I'VE
$1,000. The MaGg anetta has opened up an
eighteen-inch nay shoot carrying $40 ore, and
another. shoot. three feet wide. Is now yielding
AZ the Hard Cash the first dry process which
has been successful with Rand ore is doing very
the discovery of q twelve-inch ledge assaying
up in the hundreds per ton. The Slate Range
tity Of ore, OF which 1t ships the richest to
San Francisco for smelling, and keeps its
own, mill running on me low grade. me
the Argus Range. for some weeks, have I'M
covered a ledge Of which the lowest assay re-
found a two-inch granite wall and Immediate
ly under that 9 twelEe-inch vein oil GSnrer as.
gazing from p tbo to s2 20 ner oS cent tan T ne Ledge Ledge
several hundred feet. But little prospecting
has been done in the region OF the discovery.
III lIt NdlIh ~ ~ l'lNA \ = 1 uliC
Orange county. a good oil strike was made the
other day when a hundred barrel gusher was
opened.
Bonbright & Co; of Colorado, have launched
a big mining dredger in the old channel Of the
American River. near FOLSOM, Sacramento
ity in which many Of Calitorni9's rich men GOT
their start in early s6Eo dagEs; The dredger vii
the gravel is expected to yield IL cents per
cubic yard. The cost OF raising and working
unrra IF UrnypI IannGitG h1Vn rnsnnfIy hnpn
bonded along the river. with the ultimate view
of building dredgers.
tains, San Bernardino county, the shaft Is
down 100 feet, all In ore running IRON so up.
with a streak from n six K, to twelve y o INCHES w vide
old Helvetia mine, near Julian. San Diego
county. is to be pumped out and operated
ing property. but the failure Of q, bank which
had put money into it caused a shutdown.
Lennox is developing a quart ledge 81 feet
wide. The ore is free " Hing. and carries also
silver and copper: 1t sh TS 81 in gold and SD
Sonora Tuolumne county,; has on the 300 level
a large vein with a good body of ore in sight.
will not start up the mill until certain OF a
sufficient supply OF water to keep the stamps
dropping the entire year.
NEVADA.
VIRGINIA CITY, Feb. 1S,-The Consolidated
10 food out the fire smouldering. in the 1850
level. The water will be piped from the dis,
t tha the .e Setu of the OF fire Tne N The nr e5q 10 I be Go p.ini
is 800 feet long BY 200 wide and 200 deep:
The Ophir property, near Staneline. has been
q force Of men aud push development work.
Messrs. Heinrich, Brown 4 Dern have bought
San Francisco people have taken a contract to
resume work In the Numa mine. near Winnie
mucca. This mine has been closed down for
that the hanging wall contained an eight-inch
streak OF h~igh-grade ore.
to Boston capitalists. The purchasers will
operate a group OF mines near 0reana, Hum
m 6GIds G yieIa S;o Th' silve sne and f' Isad. own The
Al Searchlight, Lincoln county, the HOPKINS
group OF mines has on the dump 300 tons Of
will erect a mill on the west side Of the Colo
RADIO River. ten miles from the mines.
MEXICO.
GUAYMAs. Feb, ~1S.-Since ~silver's decline
gold mining In, MeXic2 has advanced with
can gold production was 2 by-product of the
silver mining industry. In order, 70 secure
development of mining interests, the:Goyern-
ment has steadily pursued the policy OF giving
IiSe5Hl Io sGnS anS 9Incs to @inss af tRe sSm to t, de,
extending the copntry,s railway system as
RAPIDLY as p93Ssi6 MGs,d In conseGmenGe' the
s. .434''t "a in Toi 1888 Ttte to & .5 %aS 1s :9f IN isSS. iE3m
ing the silver yield Of the country for those
years " Will Dt Sttn tHElI tIt SllFeT DTOlutIlDn
in 1898 as compared with tho gold was as "a
20 l. while during the last year It was AZ 8 to |.
A new and promising mining amp, yield
ing copper. silver and gold, has been discov-
Parral, A newly dlsco7ered vein of iron, lead
and silver. in the San Lorenzo Sierra. will be
opened up and known as the Parida mine; A
vein Of zinc. silver and gold ore has been dis
covered near HacapoaXtla, and is being de-
veloped. The new hundred-ton furnace erect
cd by s. A. Barron IN the Magistral district Is
in operation and Is smelling 100 tons every
twenty four hours.
Emil Bochart. an oil operator, who went re-
comfy to Vera Cruz to investigate the oil posi-
wells in operation near Vera Cruz and signs OF
oil all through the thousands Of acres Of un-
improved land In the interior. He is getting
together a company of Germans who will 90
there and coloniZe the land.
The San:Isid0r iron deposits in Lower Cali
fornia are about to be developed. The market
opened for the iron ore In Japan by the now
California and Oriental Steamship line. from
San Diego is the immediate cause of this
move. The japanese want II for shlp building
PURPOSES. 1t Is said that the ore from these
mines makes better Bessomcr steel than any
ore in the United States. The Pyamide Com
pany Of Lower California has at last secured its
final papers from the Mexican Government TO
a. concession covering nearly 100 acres OF
placer land. 1t is. said that the dirt will aver