The San Francisco call., 1904-08-06

Al 6olkdSla NO0tllyf a
copper property, that is reported by
the Redding papers to have been pur-
chased under a bond OF $4,000 by
r. M. Saelzer, Anton Jaegel and Jo-
seph Kahny by Fred G. King and
John Fillius OF Denver. The pur-
ohasers are reported to have resold
the same property at an advance.
Large figures are mentioned as the
price on the resale, ranging from
s25O.O to 3325,OOO. The Mammoth
mine is two and one-half miles south
west of Kennett, in the Backbone min
ing district, about fifteen miles from
Redding. 1t embraces a group OF
claims including something like 900
acres. A large amount of ore has
been blocked out. A mile of tunnels
has been run and $4,000, according to
reports. has been expended in develop
ment work. 1t IS locally supposed
that a smelter will be erected on the
property soon.
In Nevada County a deal has been
made by which Henry Huckins, Shelby
II. Huckins, Robert F. Huckins and
Alfred Scrivens take the Round Noun
tain and Round Mountain Extension
quartz mines under bond. The prop
critics are situated on the Lower
Bloomfield road, above Rock Creek,
not far from Nevada City. The SELL
ers are James Landers and Henry
Goering.
OF more general interest is the leas-
ing OF the somewhat famous tin mines
at Temescal. in Southern California.
The mines are to be operated again.
The Redlands Review says of the
Temescal proposition:
George I. Leonard OF Corona. a mining and
electrical engineer. is in charge Of reopening
the famous tin mines at pemescal. the big
property that q dozen or so years ago made
and lost much money. Mr. Leonard says
that he and his associates already have a small
plant at work the property. having secured
a twenty-year lease from the English owners
of all the mining interests connected with the
property and option TO purchase the claims
as well. The present force OF men and the
present plant are engaged in working over the
taillngs which the former owners discarded,
and Mr.. Leonard says they getting q nice
pIont out OF me tslines "hlch are rlch IN
tin, the methods OF the former manage
ment not having been such to ex-
uact nesrsy a.! the Na1usois mineral from me
concentrates. None Of the concentrates have
yet been snnelted, the smelter put in by the
former owners will be utilized, and II is so
large as 10 require a big run in order 10 make
viii be done until large amount OF concen-
trates has been accumulated. A force Of seven
IS employed and the cement
hopes to increase this number soon. when
crushing plant shall have been installed, and
ore. not taiings, shall be handled. But the
bO00 tons OF tailings now the dump offers
a great deal OF profitable work for the present
and nets good return.
SUFFER- COUNTY PROSPECT.
T. L. Smith of Sutter County, who
lives ten miles east of Yuba City, has
bonded a ranch of 500 acres to James
O'Brien Jr. Of Suffer County, to be
prospected for gold. The Sacramento
Bee says:
precious yellow metal existed down deep in
his soil was several weeks ago, when he
boring two wells on the place. He was sink
ing the wells about fifty feet apart, and when
his men had gone about twenty-five feet below
the surface they brought up black sand show
Ing traces OF gold. This rather excited Smith,
and. to make sure that his eyes did de-
ceive him. he took the samples of sand TO
local mining man. who agreed with him that
Il was gold-bearing sand such Is usually
found in old river channels. In few days a
proposition 10 bond his land was made by
o'Rrien. He asked for sixty days time in
which TO make the test and expects to put
drills to work on the land within the next
smith is confident that at some time the
Feather River had well-defned channel
through the part Of the country where II is
now believed the gold exists. II is also the
opinion OF many that the Feather at one time
flowed through what is now the Yuba City
Slough. Should o Brien's Investigations prove
that there is gold IN paying quantities under
the land he has bonded. Sutter County may
perience a boom in gold mining-an industry
no one ever imagined would ever develop in
this low, level country.
A discovery Of supposed importance
is the finding of an old river channel
about one mile from Weaverville
Trinity County. The Red Mountain
Mining Company has been operating in
that vicinity. The Redding Search
light gives an account of the discovery
in part as follows:
Numerous shafts and tunnel. penetrate the
mountain side. Some of them came near hit
tinS the mark. but when the more effective
hydraulic process applied a few bedrock
cuts up the mountain side exposed the channel
1t emerges from the mountain side at a slight
angle with the axis of the mountain and
after losing the protection OF its mountain
cover. has been broken down and eroded
away. A number of the old-time attempts to
nnd 1t were made above and along this broken
down portion under the erroneous assumption
that II was still under the mountain
Its bottom has been cleared for q dis
tance Of 100 feet, and under the influence OF
the overflow stream fits contents throughout
the next 400 feet have broken down, exposing
the clean face of its outer rim. This caving
tance of $50 feet. and its inner rim has not
yet appeared, except at the point OF discov-
cry
From the discoveries now made the following
facts are established: The grade is gentle
and the dow in a southerly direction The
width OF the channel from rim TO rim is about
300 feet The highest part of the rim yet dis
covered is more than 100 feet vertically above
the bottom. Its outer rim has been definitely
located for a distance of 1900 feet intact and
the trend Of the stratifcation lines indicates a
total distance Of half a mile OF intact channel
Through portion OF this distance II is capped
by mountain Of gravel 300 feet high The
gravel that has thus far been piped from the
channel has yielded heavy gold The
channel bottom is elevated approximately GOO
feet above the present Trinity River channel.
The new mill of the Central mine
ir Nevada County has been started.
1t is a forty-stamp mill. Twenty
stamps are dropping. The capacity of
the mill is to handle 120 tons of ore
every twenty-four hours.
CONCERNS THE NIAGARA.
The Grass Valley Union furnishes
some information that may be inter-
esting to the stockholders in the
Niagara mine, situated in the Rough
and Ready district in Nevada County.
This mine was formerly exploited by