The San Francisco call., 1904-04-16
MEN aualMAd4ERS In
THE E0R9sh lie WORLD
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proposes to build barriers on the Yuba
at and above Daguerre Point and as
Mr.. Harmon knew that the ground
was good for gold dredging, he has
agreed TO build a bank 100 feet at
the base and twenty feet below high
water mark and forty feet wide at the
crown. The ground above Daguerre
Point, so says Mr.. Harmon, will re-
quire more powerful dredgers than
have hitherto been operated, because
Of the debris TO be cut through. The
two machines that have been ordered
viii dredge sixty feet below the water
line and will excavate from 1000 to
$500 yards daily. The dredgers will
be in operation by June next Even
tually there will probably be as many
dredgers in the Yuba district as there
are in the Oroville district. Two
dredgers viii soon be operating on the
Bear River near Wheatland.
A large tract Of land for gold dredg-
ing has been sold in the last fort
night, 200 acres in all, situated about
two miles south of Oroville. The sale
was made TO a foreign syndicate at the
rate of 5000 per acre, or S160,0O0 for
from the Feather River.
Several properties of some size are
reported to have been just sold. In this
list are included the Sierra Buttes mine
in Sierra County, which passes into the
possession Of company including E.
A. and J. o. Hayes of San Jose; the
Three Stars mine, in Placer County,
including 2S0 acres Of land, twenty
shafts. seven original mining locations,
twenty-stamp mill, etc, for all of
which, so reports the Placer HeraldS
about 5000. 900 was paid. The Mountain
King mine. in Calaveras County, near
HOdson. has been sold to Allen & Lit
tleheld Of San Francisco. The local
papers Of that place say that a sixty
stamp mill will be erected at the mine
A San Francisco company has bought
the Punch Greek mine, on Humbug
Creek, in Sisl1iyou County, which was
recently purchased by G. W. Grayson.
The .Yreka Journal says that the price
is between 100000 and $4,000. There
have have been several sales of frac-
tional interests in mother lode proper
ties in the past few weeks. There is
general activity in the California camps
and interest is thereby stimulated.
Additional space for the exhibition
of the California mineral display at St.
Louis has been secured, thirty five feet
more length. so that the total exhibit
ton space in the Mines and Mining
building TO be occupied by the min
erals, mining machinery and illustra-
tive mineral structures of California,
including the great arch, is 145X43 feet.
A letter has been received from State
MineralOgist Aubury announcing that
fact. Mr.. Aubury also writes that the
outlook is good for California having
a better mining show at ST. Louis than
any of its rival mineral States. The in
stallation of exhibits has only begun.
According to the Rampant Forum
hydraulic plants will be large factors
hereafter in the development of mining
in the Rampant district. Rhode Island
Greek will be worked by the hydraulic
process. The Big MinoOk Mining Com
pany is putting in hydraulic apparatus.
More creeks have been worked in the
Rampant district during the past win
ter than In any previous season.
Late numbers of the Nome Nugget
report that there are about 100 men on
Candle Creek. The Nugget says that
the contributing cause for the falling
off in the gold production of the Sew
ard peninsula in Alaska last year was
the lack of rain. The falling off in the
production, while it is TO be regretted,
is no reflection upon the gold-producing
capabilities of this section. The mining
man has much to contend with in these
nf<y1a attitudes IN ,-lx- n
late fall mean an increased gold output,
and a late spring and an early fall will
inevitably bring a reduction in the out
put OF the yellow metal. These fiuc-
tuations will always be found, notwith-
standing the improved methods of min
ing which are rapidly being adopted
and the construction of many new
ditch systems. The gold is here; we
know that: and ii will be taken out"
Speaking again of the conditions that
led to the falling off in the gold output
of Seward peninsula last year, the
Nugget says that "the preceding winter
was severe, there was an unusually
heavy fall of snow and heavy glaciers
accumulated in many creeks. Mining
operations were late in starting up For
these reasons mining men generally
predicted a decrease in the output last
fall at the close of operations, which,
too, was somewhat early"
Large values in gold are reported to
have been taken. out in new gravel
mines at Calaveras County. At Doug
las Flat a main channel has been en-
countered, according to local report, at
a depth Of $50 feet. Other gravel claims
may be opened in the same locality.
The substitution of electrical power
for steam has reduced the number of
men employed at the Keswick smell
ters of the Mountain Copper Company
by seventy-five. Five furnaces are in
operation, each needing the services of
forty men, twenty for each shift.
Between twenty and twenty-five men
are steadily employed on a desert mine
that is twenty-five miles north of Bar
stow, TO which il is necessary to haul
water a distance of four miles. Gold
and copper are found in the ores at
this point A mill has been ordered