The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1903-12-05
MINES OF THE STATE INCREASE
FACILITIES FOR MILLING ORES
New Appliances and Rains Result in Added Out
put---Labor Troubles Continue to Hinder Opera
tons Monthly Review of Oil Production Issued

the Los Angeles Herald. The daily ca
pacity of the Coalinga field is reported
to be about $4,000 barrels, or about one
fourth Of the production OF the Kern
River district. The output Of the Kern
River field is estimated at something
like 16,OO0,0 900 barrels for 1903.
The Bakersfield Californian also
makes some figures concerning oil pro-
duction the present year and says:
AS showing the enormous extent Of
the oil industry in Kern County it is
estimated by we'll informed oil men
that the production of the Kern River
field has increased about % per cent
during the present year, and that for
1903 it will exceed 10000, 900 barrels. OF
this amount it may be said, as a con-
sentative estimate, that the Associated
controls so per cent of the output. The
Southern Pacific and the Standard are
the heaviest purchasers, and as the for
mer now is virtually in control Of the
Associated, 1t is easy to see what an
interest it has in the district. As there
is perfect accord between the railroad
people and the Standard the two may
be said to dictate the situation. The
production at McKittrick is estimated
at something over 100000 barrels,
which is also about Is per cent increase.
The same conditions prevail at this
field as at Kern River to a great ex-
tent, the railroad company taking
large proportion of the product. The
production of Coalinga has been rough
ly estimated at something over 1000, 900
barrels. From this it may be seen that
the Fresno County field is still far be-
hind the Kern County fields"
DISCOVERY OF TIN.
Concerning the late discovery of tin
in Alaska, a special correspondent of
the Mining and Scientific Press, writes:
In July, 1903, a party of prospeetors
set out from the town of Teller on Port
Clarence to cross overland to the north
side of the Seward peninsula. They
followed up Lost River, which empties
into Port Clarence, twenty miles west
of Teller, and had gone only five miles
from the coast when they discovered
and located attn ledge, which at pres
ent promises to be the most important
mineral discovery yet made in Alaska
The ledge is described as a granite dixie
100 feet wide, cutting through the low
er silurian limestone (called in the
United States geological reports of the
region the Port Clarence limestone),
which forms the surface of all that sec
ton of the peninsula and attains a
thickness of 1000 feet. The ledge has
been stripped the whole width and is
found to carry good values in tin
throughout, while some of it is said to
be rich Tin has been found in North
Carolina, South Dakota and California,
but not yet developed in important
quantities, and the Government reports
show that no commercial tin was pro-
duced in this country in 1902. This dis
covery promises to change the story
soon, as the deposit is close to the
coast and cheap transportation by boat
can be had. The character of the ore
and the extent of the ledge are not un-
certain. for they have been investigated
by Arthur Collier, who announced the
tin discovery to be bona fide.'
THE SLATE INDUSTRY.
The Placerville Nugget describes the
Improvement in the slate industry Of
Ell Dorado County that has been effect
ed during one year. The most striking
development is the construction of a
cable line for moving the slate from
Tic QuoA4y ~ Tire IdllIOdQ. Inc mug
get says that the cable will be a large
means for development. Heretofore
the slate has been teamed to the rail-
road at a cost of about rs cents per
square. The cable Will reduce this
cost to cents or cents a square. The
Nugget saws:
The cable is supported by nineteen
wooden-frame towers and crosses the river at
an elevation of SEQ feet with span OF 2400 feet.
The cable is operated from the thirteen-foot
water-wheel at the quarry power-house, and
requires six horsepower empty and about twenty
horsepower with the loaded buckets on It. The
capacity OF the wheel Is about sixty horsepower.
Eight modern cottages, a new office building
ments made. In addition air
pressor electric lighting plant and 1000 feet OF
power pipe have been built. In the pit the
cayation Is now eighty feet in depth and
acre or more in area tunnel has recently
been driven 1000 feet. opening into the bottom
of the pit. This will drain the quarry and OBJ
vent the pit filling up. A large amount OF de-
velopment work is under way. The quarry
will be extended north and west, and after the
necessary stripping on of the top earth is done
SHASTA'S EXHIBITION.
The Redding Free Press tells as fol-
lows of the mineral exhibit that Shasta
County will make at the ST. Louis Elk
position to illustrate it's mineral re-
sources:
Shasta County will be well advertised
in the California mineral exhibit at ST.
Louis. There will be almost ten tons
of specimen ore from Shasta County.
and this exhibit viii be placed in an
important place in the States exhibit as
Shasta leads the counties in mineral