The record-union., 1899-05-04
Pacific Coast
Mining News.

The following news items pertaining
ito mining industries will be OF lnt@r-
%est to all who care to know something
gof the mineral development of the "a
cific Coast: ,
A CALIFORNIA KLONDiKE.
Los Angeles Herald: One Of the
greatest deposits of free gold discovered
in the present age has just been found
on the desert about len miles south
east of Kramer in San Bernardlno
sCounty, and reached by the Santa Fe
Fsystem The finders Duncan, Clarke
and Goldsberry, have been dry wash
ting in the locality for the past two
years with great success, and the pro-
duct being a quartz gold of extreme
purity systematic search was begun,
which resulted in finding an immense
ledge which at present shows width
@of $50 feet and is of fabulous richness.
The locators tried to keep the discoy-
gery quiet, but it has leaked out and a
crush for the district was begun and
sprospectors and experts alike are COM
ling in, not waiting till daylight to
strike the trail nor delaying on account
sof lack of water, provisions, etc. This
Splace is made the headquarters. and is
Sthe nearest station to the mines. c.
A. Burcham of the yellow Astor mine
sat Randsburg has five men locating
and sinking shafts. H. R. Bacon, a
mining expert from New York in the
employ of w. C. Woodward, has been
on the ground for several days and
pronounces the find to be one of untold
wealth of unknown limits The pres
+ ent workings show a depth OF sixty
feet, all in ore, some of which will run
; up into the thousands, and have been
opened up for over half mile in length.
The popularity of the discovery is that
the ore bed is almost on the fiat CT the
desert and covered by the not, dry
sands where the horned toad and taran-
tula have held sway for countless
years.
AFTER ZINC MINES.
Iovelock Tribune: George Sem and
y. e McLaren returned to Lovelock the
first of the week from a trip out south.
ssIhey made an examination of Charles
kaiser's zinc mine over in Churchill
County The world is now looking for
zinc mines. Mr.. Sem has been a min
ing operator for good many years and
has promoted a number of enterprises.
He says that the only drawback to this
country is lack of development. He
ready to pay any price for a mine if
the developments warrant it. But thew
do not want to buy a mine and do the
prospecting too. Mr. Sem believes
that the Kaiser zinc mine will bear
further investigation. 1t is a nam
moth ledge forty feet wide. opened CD
by three tunnels. The ore. carries as
n gh as 30 Per cent zinc and some silver
RIVERSIDE GOLD.
Los Angeles Herald: Bill AIcHanev
and Chic Pinkham arrived here tonight
with richer ore than has ever been
found in Riverside County. McHanev
one of the locators of the famous Desert
Queen mine, says the rock will aver
age better than the Queen. The mine
is situated about twelve miles north of
1ndio, in the San Bernardino range The
ore resembles that in the King of Arf-
iona The vein is four feet wide and
the rock is covered with gold.
MINING IN TRINITY
Napa Register: Henry Brown and
Joseph Schuppert have returned to
Napa from ten days trip through the
mining sections of Trinity County. Thev
We're accompanied on the trip by o. Fl.
Buckman of Napa and B. M. Newcomb
of Dat Hill. Mr.. Brown saws that tI.e
Golden jubilee mine in Trinity County
is being worked and turning out well.
Ihis is the mine in which many resi-
dents of Napa and Pope Valley are in
terested. About $4,000 has been ex-
pended putting in machinery, and there
are about ten men employed at present,
1t was learned that the Yellow Texas
is a good mine. This is the one in
which Misses Irma and Josie Rider a-vn
half interest. 1t was impossible to
reach it for inspection ON account of the
snow.
MINING INSTITUTE WORK.
Amador Record: J. H. Neff. Presi-
dent of the California Miners .Associa
ton, has appointed the following com
mittee to take charge of the arrange
ments for the convention of the Amer
lean Institute of Mining Engineers
next October:
Executive Committee-W. C. Ralsson,
Chairman; Professor S. B. Christv
Curtis H. Lindley, Charles G. Yale, w.
Keyes, Captain Thomas Mein, Edward
H. Benjamin, ]. F. Halloran. Judge E.
A Belcher, A. A Watkins, j. J. Craw-
ford, Frank A. Leach, Harold T. Pow
er, Placer; w. B. Bourne and A D
Foote, Grass Valley; Frederick Zeitler
and B. S. Rector, Nevada City; W. 3