The San Francisco call., 1904-12-24
WHERE COAL is FOUND.

QSpOSllS III INlNCISlQcp hcIu, ICSLO,
Alameda, Sonoma, Contra Costa, Men
docino, Humboldt, Amador and Siski-
you counties. No oil fields are cred
tied to the counties north Of Fresno,
but gas wells appear on the map in
several counties.
In addition to the mineral and relief
maps, which are published together,
there is an accompanying map on
which the States of Maine, New York,
Vermont, New Hampshire and Ohib
are tucked away in the area of Cali
fornia and about the edges there is
depicted a large amount of room on the
map of California that these States,
combined, are unable to MI.
Considering the wide distribution of
mineral substances in California, which
extend from the most northern to the
mcst southern counties, this comparison
of areas of States other than California
with the size of this State supplies a
great object lesson which intelligent
miners in all parts of the world will
be quick to see and to appreciate.
The manner in which a modern camp
is created in California is illustrated
by an article in the Redding Search
light. which says regarding the build
ing plans for Kennett. the new smelter
town:
Thirty-fve brick buildings in Kennett That
is the size of the contract the Holt & Gregg
Company of this city has entered into with
Charles Buffers of Kennett.
OF course the projected buildings will not be
put up at once, but they are to be constructed
as fast as masons can throw brick and mortar
together Work on the first has already
been commenced That is to say, graders are
tion and brick are beginning to arrive from
the Anderson yards.
The thirty-fvs buildings called for under
the contract include twenty-five cottages four
story brick business buildings and the rest
ene-story business buildings.
The Buffers group OF bricks will be a good
starter for the new town. They will set
good pattern for others to follow and will in
dicate that when the town is built it will be
built right. There will not be the array of
hastily constructed ramshackle frame build
ings that make such easy prey for the big
fires that are common in the early history of
towns that have rapid growth. The cyanide
works OF the Buffers Company, large build
inc near the depot that has stood vacant fo=
rooms suitable for hotel purposes
The construction of a large tunnel
is in progress in Siskiyou County, the
purpose of which is to use in tapping
frcm the Siskiyou side the ore vein
running parallel with the Dorleska
mine, JQdI - NOW OpeIdleO from the
Trinity County side. The Etna Ad-
vance says that the Yellow Rose and
the Dorleska mines are to be operated
through the tunnel, whicn will be 1900
feet long, and that one hundred men
will be put to work in the spring on
the Dorleska.
According TO the Redding Free Press
a new copper mine will be opened at
once in Shasta County.
The Copper Crest group of copper claims,
adjoining the Mammoth mine near Kennett.
where a big 75O-ton smelter is now being in
stalled, is to be brought into state of active
development 1. o. Jillson of the Gladstone
mine at French Gulch has secured option
on large interest in the Copper Crest, and
he. with NJ z. Dittmar, who owns the
naming interest will at once begin the work
of opening the mine and developing Il. The
Copper Crest is but short distance from this
main working ground OF the Mammoth ana
lies directly between that big property aud the
Friday-Lowdon group
BELCHER rs APPROVED.