The San Francisco call., 1903-09-20
DIRECTORS PLAN
FOR CHAMPION
Nevada County Hopes
Big Mine Will Soon
Be Running.
Richards Reasons Favoring
New Department Are
Very Strong.

Nevada County miners are mucn inter-
ested in the outcome of pending delibera-
tions involving the immediate future OF
the Champion mine. The company mas !
120 stamps on its several properties. Not
long ago it purchased the providence
mining property adjoining. The Cham
pion has been. of great value to the bust
ness houses at Nevada City. The payroll
has included hundreds of employees. Its
record of production includes millions
The pumps are now going, keeping the
mine clear of water. The Nevada County
Miner quotes local mining man as say
ing:
The shutdown is but temporary, and you are
safe in stating that when operations are re-
sumed little later they will be more Vigor-
ously prosecuted than they have been for Two
Francisco and it is likely that at tnat meet
ing a tire will be definitely decided upon
when work will recommence, and ways ana
means VIII be provided. Beth Superintendent
Abadie and Foreman John Tredinnick are to
attend the meeting. as their counsel on certain
points is desired. The Champion company has
some very valuable ground. notably in the
Merrifeld and Nevada City locations, but 1t will
take money to open them up properly. 1 am
not in a position to go into details, but you
can publish that there is no likelihood of the
properties lying dormant more. than few
weeks at most.
the King Solomon group of mines in Sis
kiyou County, four miles from Cecilville
and near the South Fork Of the Salmon
River, will be largely developed by the
new owners, who are Eastern men. Work
will be resumed the Mckinley mine,
on Humbug Creek. Many prospectors
are searching through Siskiyou County
for mines. A group of claims has been
located by John H. Harris of Etna at the
headwaters of Taylor Creek, fourteen
miles from Etna. Work is favorably pro-
crossing the Black Oak and Gold
Nugget quartz claims IN the Callahan
mining district.
CALAVERAS NEWS.
There is considerable doing at Railroad
Flat, Calaveras County, so reports the
Calaveras Chronicle. The Jones gravel
mine is under operation by the Seeman
brothers. The tunnel has reached a depth
of seventy-flve feet and is in gravel. The
Boise gravel mine is operating with good
results. The Miller gravel mine is
worked. Chicago capitalists are working
the Lava Bed mine vigorously. The Les
ter Ellsworth and Beals mine is under
bond
At the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Poker Flat Mining Company,
at Poker Flat, so says the Downieville
Mountain Messenger, plans were made TO
increase the size Of the company's plant
to 100 tons daily capacity, and for the
erection of a ffty-ton reduction works.
George H. Willis, c. II. Molter Frank 2.
Roddy, James S. Lyon, J. B. Lassiat, d.
NJ. Lentz and Carl Berg were elected as
/ directors.
The old Rosencrans mine in Garden Val
| ley district, FL Dorado County, is report
ed by the Georgetown Gazette to have
been bonded to a Colorado company. The
mine adjoins the Taylor property on the
south. The Gazette says that the pur-.
chase price is 100000. The Nevada City
Transcript says:
George Bonney has bonded the L. c. A mine
at Selby Flat, and has started to open it up
This mine is owned by jeff Lovelady of this
city. AS soon as work progresses sufficiently
It Is Mr.. Bonney's intention to erect a mill.
MINING IN THE SOUTH.
Very likely work will be resumed on the
Julian districts largest tunnel, otherwise
known the ORC Blanco tunnel When
it IS completed it will tap the Kentucky
and the Cincinnati Belle mines. The
present tunnel depth is 800 feet. Other
mines have been drained by it.
The Los Angeles Jurrnal publishes the
following concerning the alleged discov-
cry of new inter beds:
Peter Walters the discoverer of the Golden
Cross mine. is back from long trip on the
desert, where he found some new inter fields.
The samples he shows rich.
The Redding Free Press says:
The Bennington group of mines adjoining
the big Iron Mountain mine the north and
east. has been purchased by the Pittsburg and
, Mount Shasta Gold Mining and Milling Com
pany of Pittsburg, Pa. The property sold
by John Kean of Shasta The company has
nothing TO do with the Mount Shasta mine. 1t
proposes to Immediately begin the extensive
! development of the Bennington group, which
! consists of nine claims. four of which the
well-known Dorset Yorktown, Bennington and
King. The Little Nellie formerly belonged to
the group but il IS not included in the pur-
chase. The will be extracted and shipped
! to the Mountain Copper Company's smeter at
/ Keswick for treatment. The Iron Mountain
Railroad passes over the property and there
will be very little expense getting the
/ to the smelter. There is an abundance of
water and timber on the property.
/ The Firmstone & Richards mining prop
erty in Plumas County, situated near
! Greeneville, has been sold to the Droege
/ brothers. The Plumas Independent says:
| With this property and the New York and
| Plumas Gold Mining Co. in operation with
! the Indian Valley and Southern Eureka
( future certainty. Greenville gives promise of
! becoming a very lively town. situated not
more than three miles from those mines.