The San Francisco call., 1901-12-22
YEARS OUTPUT
WILL BE LARGE
Mines Of State Promise
Satisfactory Record
Of Increase.
DTedgers Add Much to the
Total of Yellow Metal
Produced.

eralOgiSt Aubury says that 1t VIII be
some months before the facts can be fully
learned. lie is of the opinion that the
output of minerals will be much larger
than IL was last year. although he does
not wish TO hazard a guess as to the CX-
tent of the increase. Probably it viii
amount 10 not less than s. 100000 This is
The general opinion of many who are
Versed in the work of the year in this
State The dredgers have added TO the
gold output very largely. The situation
at home. among the miners, is one for
satisfaction. More capital is looking this
way than for a long time previous. Sci
entihc work is finding values in ground
that has been supposed to be worked out.
Mining operations in Amador County
are actively progressing. The Defender
mine has been UnWatered to the S0-fOot
level and sinking has been resumed. At
the Mitchell mine there are ten stamps
running 10 the full capacity. The Tus-
cano mine is being opened up by the
Phoenix Company, which will
begin TO mill as soon as the mill is up and
& tramway from the shaft to the mill has
been completed. A new shaft is down
140 feet. The Standard Electric Company
Will be operating in about two months.
Connection has been made between the
Tabesud reservoir and the river, and the
Page dam has been completed. All that
remains TO be done before operations by
the electric company can begin is the
completion Of the pipe lines from Pages
dam 10 the river. The company has 5000
inches Of water and a head of about 1900
feet. Twenty men are grading on the
Finch ranch, near Forest Home, and put
ting UP a mill which will be operated
with petroleum fuel. The Cranmer broth
ers have started Up their mill near Dry
town
The Mining and Scientific Press reports
that a strike Of ore running S4S to the
ton Is rumored in connection with the
Gold Hill mine near Angels Camp.
Philadelphians Mining.
A Philadelphia company is developing
the Belle mine in Mono County, near
Bridgeport has started up with a three
stamp mill, with considerable ore in
Extensive improvements are planned
for the Harvard mine near jamestown,
IN IuOlumne County. Woodruff & St.
Clair, to whom the Mount Lily mine near
Columbia has been bonded, have started
up. The Cracker Jack mine near ColUm-
bia has made a shipment of bullion. A
fve-stamp mill has been removed from
Eagle Creek and set up at the Contention
mine. One hundred acres Of land, consti-
tuting what is known as the Springfield
Tunnel COmpany's placer claim on Table
Mountain, west from Columbia, has been
bonded to a. L. Homer Of Alameda for
twelve months, the option being for
I. z. Monteagle. c. Paige, A R. Pews
and F. W. Mailer Of San Francisco are
the directors OF the Deadwood Mining
Company, which is about to put up q
hydraulic plant at Deadwood Creek, in
SisldyOu County, near Yreka- The John
Quincy mine at Orc Fino, Siskiyou Coun-
placer proposition The McKeene mine
has also been started up. A shaft 200 feet
deep will be put down at the Red Bird
quartz mine near Yreka.
Dillon & Son are developing the Is to l
COUNTY Opera tons are going on at the
2 q -,
City.
Operations at the Blackjack mine in
Fl Dorado County, at Centerville, have
Heavier machinery will be Installed in
the spring at the slate quarry at Placer
vile.
In Calaveras County.
The Calaveras Citizen says:
trouble During the Week attachments sEEre
eating over $4,000 have been placed on the
property. The mine was closed Sunday all tho
men except one shift being laid of The parties
attaching are the Angels Iron Works. Manuel
i1. i3stats Company 7s35 and I'd J. r DOrrOh. and the
supplies The Blue5ay mine at Jesus Maria
owned by George W. Brown OF Boston, will
probably be operated very shortly. The COM
pany operating the Lancell mine near Buckeye
has secured an extension Of time on the prop
stop Thirty men are at present ernployed bv
the Fannie Marie Mining and Milling Company
OI SlencOe. Tie Buena Vista Copper Mining
Company is making progress. The boarding.
mouse Is completed, other necessary buildings
are going up sheds for the rnachinerv ana 1o3s4
are about done and the road is graded.
The old Texas mine In Marfposa County
near Princeton, will be worked by John
jackson, Bert McFadden and others. who
have taken bond upon It.
Workmen are developing the Lucky Bill
mine n MADEIRA County. The Mud Springs
mine is reported to be preparing to run
early the coming year.
Albert Read and others are developina
ne gravel mine at Buckeye Hill. Sierra
County. Harrison Appel is developing the
M,arposa- nine near Allegheny.
Ing developments in Placer County:
Retimbering OF the shafts and other work Is
being done at the Gold Blossom mine at Ophir
scale. The new ten-stafnp mil Is now being b5ii1
installed at the Rawhide mine, situated four
miles from Blue Canyon on Texas Ridge The
three-stamp mill already In use will be kept
running steadily until the large mill IA ready
% 70 tsaIt t,95 W; The new mill viii have capacity
s1Ppii,,et with four eoaesntrators. The new cleo
Ophir district has been installed The railroad
on which cars are to be utilized for hauling
ore e the mill at the mine from the Bowman
An electric loeomotive Of hfty Horsepower, pro
PEELED By a 25o-volt circuit, viii furnish the
ployeo' ana when the mine is IN full operation
ct least hundred men will be REQUIRED A
iten,-stSmp i +, mil has been placed in position and
N y expected that everything will be in full
swing by the new year.
Arizona Mines Bought
The Los Angeles Herald reports that
me Huaohuea Company has bought the
famous Wickershem mines in Arizona
Hplcn are located in the Huachuca Noun
IslLls- Ihere are twenty-five full mining
Gains IN the Wickersham holdings.
me freka Journal says that conglom-
crate ledge OF quartz and base rock has
peer 9een a Ionna at Peterson Creek. that is 40
cred q ledge at Cherry Creek accoTdiner
70 the same authority. The Pine Grove
mine at Buckeye Bar will soon be one
rated. It has been impossible to do mIicn
mining IN the small placer claims IN Sis
hyoQ County lately because the cold
Te95seT an a nes 5t frozen Up the water supply
- ne stns1l oltcdes, The Journal says Of
the mining men Ia Siskiyou:
The mining men are now devotinR much at
tentlon 70 base rock ea well as quartz ledEes
some OF which seems 70 be quite aG vaiushie
as quartz, especially where cecomposed o11s-fz
porphyry ana other minerals are Visible IN
many places small strinRers Of quart lilra
seams IN the rock have proven valuable bv r1ln-
ming both rock and quartz through the mills
or Working up the mixture by the smelter pro-
cess or n cyanide plants. There is a vast
amount Of this congionerate in various Sec
whit nv dezre