The San Francisco call., 1904-02-06

VVO' shannon Copper Company (Ariz.). l,OOO,
oVu; Baltic (Mich.). 10.500,OO0; Trimountain
tMich.). 100000 Wolverine (dich.), 91O0
Gooi Old Dominion (Ariz.). 9.000, ,000;' Butte and
5oston (Mont) 10000 Colorado Mining ana
Smeltlng Company (Mont.), 9,0O0,0CO
WORKING THE MINES.
In addition to twenty -four dredgers
in operation about Oroville, six new
machines are building for work in that
section. The present array of dredgers
is kept at work steadily. Drilling out
fits are prospecting new ground day
and night.
The Independence gravel mine near
Angels, Calaveras County, and the
Jones mine near Angels are about to
resume
The Pine mine on Mokelumne River
has been bought by Newman and 9TH
ers. The property win be opened up
by tunnel to strike the ledge 100 feet
below the old workings
The Mining and Scientific Press re-
ports that the tailings and sulphurets
from the Rattlesnake mine. near Gar
den Valley, Ell Dorado County, as treat
ed by the cyanide process, have yielded
as high as $40 ton in gold. The ore
when run through the mill did not pay
enough to make a profit.
The Cataract mine in Plumas County
near Quincy, has been sold to w. Whit
aker and others. The Peter quartz
mine at Indian Valley, near Genessee.
will be opened up by Minneapolis
company.
new dredger to work near Folsom
will be operated by the Folsom De-
velopment Company. 1t win work to
the depth of forty feet below the water
level
The dredger of the California and De-
troit Dredging Company has begun to
operate near Horsetown, Shasta Coun-
ty. The company reports that other
dredgers will be built for its use.
The Mountaineer mine near Nevada
City has been unwatered and work on
the 400 and 700 levels is proceeding.
The Fernandez hydraulic mine near
Yreka. Siskiyou County, is again
operating.
a 30-ton smelter will be built for the
Rio Vista gold and copper mine near
Nashville. FL Dorado County.
The Bully Hill smelter will substi-
tute oil fuel for wood. An Oroville
five acres of the river bar just east of
Red Bluff The land will be prospected
with the drill.
Probably the busiest mine in the
world is the Treadwell, in Alaska
which is in operation twenty four hours
in the day every day in the year with
the exception Of the Fourth of July and
Christmas There are $50 stamps, each
consisting of five heavy. upright bars
of steel that fall with crushing force
on fat plates. The mill crushes $500
tons of rock daily.
SOME RAILROAD CLAIMS.
There is some food for thought in
the statement of the controversy that
has arisen in Southern Wyoming be-
tween the Union Pacific Railway and
the miners, as it is condensed by the
Mining and Scientific Press. The sub
stance of the matter is as follows:
Prcspectors have been searching on the odd
numbered sections claimed by the railroad
company under the grant from the Government
The grant in question excerpts mineral lands.
but does not include those containing coal or
iron. But when land is referred to as
mineral IL must have been known as mineral
prior to the time when the grant attached. and
the discovery OF a gold. copper or other metal
mine after the title has passed TO the railroad
is not included in the land excepted from the
grant The Wyoming prospectors are searching
for both coal and petroleum, but coal lands
are distinctly excepted from the operation OF
the statute which reserves the mineral lands.
the prospectors have little to hope for in that
direction. Petroleum lands, however are
recognized mineral and subject to loca-
tion the public domain and lands within
the rahroad grants which are discovered to be
oil bearing before the railroad company has
acquired title TO them are subject to location
as mineral lands. 1t is reported that the Union
Pacific I'OmpanV has pOSted notices wa
prospectors that they must conhne their ex-
ploratons to the lands Of the public domain
Prospectors, before searching for mineral on
these lands, would do well to ascertain the
state of the title to any particular section Of
land, for where the railroad company has per-
fected its title the case of the prospector is
hopeless.