The San Francisco call., 1904-02-13

Keswicx enormous savings have been effected
in the system one of the greatest improve
bers, which supply the furnaces with a blast of
air heated TO extraordinary degree. The
and the blast from it enables the company TO
almost dispense with the use of coke, an ex-
pensive article at Keswick on account of the
cost OF transportation from tidewater thus ef-
fecting an enormous saving in the cost of fuel
KERN COUNTY is BUSY.
There is a steady growth in the min
ing industry in Kern County, which
is shown by the books Of the County
Recorder. Concerning this the Bakers
field Californian says in the course of
a general review:
All indications seem to point to a settled re-
newaI OF mining activity in the Kern County
being rapidly pushed forward. Ths Zada
Company, which bought out the Cowboy mines
going forward with improvements and many
are at work there. A postofhce has been es-
Several thousand tons OF ore, it is stated, was
shipped from the Zada to Selbys suaelter dur
ing the past year. The mine is operated by
H. II. Blood and others Quite town has
grown up there during the past six months.
There are numerous small mines in that vicin
ity many of which are undoubtedly good
owned by poor men and development is nat
urally slow.
half north Of the Zada and across the hill.
is preparing to reopen this spring. The prop
erty has been in litigation for many years.
From every section of the county reports
received very encouraging. not only from.
individual miners. but from large operators IS
well. Parties from the Woody district say
that many small mines are TO be opened. The
White River district shows more activity than
has been apparent in years. In the Piute dis
trict a new three-stamp mill has been erected
during the past summer and $50, 600 invested,
II is said by mining men. The mill is now
district there has been more development and
more new plants installed in the past twelve
months than at any time in the past twelve
years. On account of the strike at Rands-
burg manv men left that district, and il has
resulted in a steady stream of practical miners
into other places looking for opportunities to
pursue individual operations. The Karma mill
at Mojave has been finished for some little
time, and tbs machinery for a twenty-stamp
outfit is the ground ready to up.
Altogether the mining situation in the judg-
ment Of mining men, is very satisfactory in
steady and Substantial Improvement for the
coming year.
PLACER IN TULARE.
The only placer mine in Tulare Coun-
ty, so says the Visalia Times, will be
opened by John McKiernan Of SPRING
Vile on the Wooley & Owen property,
two miles below White River, at the
head of Coarse Gold Gulch. Water will
be raised out of the White River to the
height of III feet. In the tract are
forty acres of land that have been pros
pected.
l.. F. Thorn, assistant postmaster at
Pollasky. writes that a rich strike of
gold has been made at Pollasky. Prepa-
rations are being made by a number of
parties to work the ground. Dirt from
the we'll in front of general merchan-
disc store made small returns. There
has been a rich strike also, as stated
by Mr.. Thorn, about eight miles from
Pollasky. A mine will soon be in opera
ton on the Ground Squirrel claim. Pol
lasky is on the site of '49 mining
camp that was formerly known as
Hamptonville. At old Fort Millerton
there is a placer property. A dredger
Will be employed to work on the last
mentioned property.
The Mother Lode Banner, considering
the affairs of Tuolumne County in a
large way, says:
Our chief industry-gold mining-has held
circumstances. The old picayunish way OF
mining DEVELOPMENT is giving way to more
libsral and business methods of mining. The
Santa Ysabel and the Horseshoe Bend both
mother lode properties. being opened on
the latest and best lines of mining science.
The days Of gophering and six-penny mining
TO be at end in Tuolumne County.