The San Francisco call., 1901-11-17
FINDING MONEY
FOR The MINES
Aubury Furnishes Need
ed Facts to Secure
Investors.
Pacific Coast Properties Are
Making Returns to
Owners.

impression that the copper deposits OF the
State are largely confined to the extreme
northern counties, where the largest
amount of development work has been
performed The practical bearing OF
the publication of the names of owners
Of copper deposits and their postoftice ad-
dresses is apparent. BY this means in
Quirers who reside in the East, who wish
to know about copper mines in this State,
will be placed at once in touch with those
who may have mines to SELL
The forthcoming quicksilver bulletin
will be issued on the same general lines,
and will embrace the same practical fea-
lures. Science, as science simply, Will not
figure much in the bulletins, but there
will be an abundance of practical inform
alton in them, such as persons concerned
in mining or desiring to engage In mining
will ind available for their guidance.
Work in the Mines.
High bars on the banks of the South
pected by the dredger that has been ,op-
Grating at Spanish Ranch and Meadow
Valley in Plumas County under the
ownership of w. p. Harmon.
The Tonopah Bonanza says that 100000
has been received from the Selby Smelt-
ing Works by the Tonopah Company
since the shipments of ore began, some
The Sunbeam Mining Company at De
La Mar, New, has begun operations open
ing a new shaft.
on the east and south of Tonopah.
The Jackson (Amador County, Ledger
says that body of quartz OF fair mill
ing quality was recently struck at the
Peerless mine in the south drift.
Dumps that have been exposed to the
weather for thirty years at lone, Amador
County, SO reports the Pacific Coast
Miner, are now found to assay $l4 per
ton.
The old Bull Run copper mine in. ANA
dor County, between Spring Valley and
Buena Vista, will be reopened.
Copper properties near Georgetown, Ell
Dorado County, are being developed.
The Georgetown Gazette says that the
first level at the st. Clair mine, near
suits were so satisfactory to the stock
holders that the company will open up
more ground lower down.
A copper property near the old Gruss
mine in Plumas County will be opened
up by Minneapolis. capitalists: Eastern
people have been given a one-half inter-
est in the mine to develop it.
William b. Lake of Murphys, IN the de-
velopment of a gravel mine in the Cata-
ract Channel in Calaveras County, will
drift under 100 feet of lava to section of
Table Mountain Channel, which is also
on his property.
Boston parties, who have bought the
Jones mine at Railroad Flat, Calaveras
County, have thirty men at work sinking
shaft. High grade ore, according to re-
level.
Several thousand dollars, so reports the
Pacific Coast Miner, will be spent in the
development work at the Gold Bug mine
in the Kinsley district, Mariposa County.
In Old Tuolumne.
The Mother Lode Magnet says that
George Deaney has bonded his White
Lead claim to New York parties, who
have begun to put in deep race from
Water Company.
A mill will soon be erected at the Bad
ger mine, five miles west from the Raw
will be added at the Golden West mine on
the Comstock ranch. Twenty men are
working at the Mount Jefferson mine. The
mill at the Won Tromp mine is completed
and there is enough ore on the dump to
keep it running several months. The Car
terS New Era says that a rich shoot of
ore has been discovered at the Carlotta
mine on the Pennsylvania vein.
Fifty men are reported by the Pacific
Coast miner to be employed by the Sis
kiyou Hydraulic Mining Company on
South Fork and Wild Cat Creek. The old
County, will be worked this winter by
Wood & Cudahy.
San Francisco parties are reported to
have taken a bond on copper prospects
near Gregory. Shasta County. According
to the Keswick Miner, the Black Spider
mine, southwest from Keswick, has been
purchased by Tillman Klaukens from r.
n. Bell: Seventy miners are working on
the Balaklala property. The Bully Hill
copper mine will have its capacity dou-
bled next year.
Nevada County, is being opened up. II
has been idle some time. The bond on
the Providence mine has expired and the
property has reverted to it's former own
ers An impounding dam is being erected
at the Sargent mine, near Quaker Hill
SO that the property may be operated
this season as a hydraulic proposition.
The Coe mine, near Grass Valley, will
soon be worked again. The South Idaho
mine has been bonded by John E. Carter
of Grass Valley.
covered on Eagle. Point to the west of
Surprise Valley, Modoc County.
The Lowry mine on Rock Creek Sierra
County, has been unwatered. The Triple
Pocket mine in Sing Canyon has started
up its mill.
Investigating Quicksilver.
The field work of the California State
Mining Bureau is now principally con-
fined to investigating the quicksilver in
dustry and saline deposits. Mr.. Tweedy
Is working at the former in San Luis
Obispo County The collection of quick
silver data will be completed next month
Nearly. every part Of the State where
quicksilver is known to. exist has been
gist, Aubury will send an assistant this
week to study gold dredging where it is
being carried on in this State and a re-
port will be published of the industry.
Blumquitz. farmer living in Stony Creek
Valley, near the Pearson grade, has
struck a gold bearing quartz ledge.
The Godbe iron mine in Lower Califor-
MIA has been sold to Eastern parties, ac-
cording to the Los Angeles papers. The
mine is seven miles from the coast, the
nearest landing point being San Ysidro.
The Needles Eye reports that the price
received for the Planet group of mines al
Bill Williams Fork was 100000.
Siskiyou's Minerals.
The Yreka Journal says that the erec.
ton of a stamp mill on the Myers place
on Greenhorn Gulch has begun and the
mill will be ready to run very soon. De
La Mar is reported to have bonded the
copper deposit recently discovered on jos
Greek by McVey & Co. The dredger al
Galatians. on the South Fork of the
Scott River. will be ready to operate
about December 10. Rich strikes are agair
reported in the New River district, Trim.
ity County.
The Commissioner of Industry Of Mon.
tana has completed his report of stats
tics of the coal industry of Montana 70,
the year 1900. The total output for the
year was 1893 773 tons of bituminOIS coal