The San Francisco call., 1904-08-20
GREAT STRIKE
IN THE QUARTET
Values of $1700 a Ton Are
Reported From New Ne
vada Mine of Much Promise
CINNABAR IN SONOMA
Rich Deposits Found in Val
liable Ledge Near Springs
and Work VIII Progress

Reports of an exceedingly rich
strike have come UP from the 7OO-foot
level Of the Quartet mine, at Search
light, New, and according to this in
formation a four-foot body of ore has
been opened up which returns values
Of $500 in gold per ton. Speaking of
the new find the Los Angeles Times
says:
This ore body was tapped at the lowest
level several weeks ago. but until yes
terday was the full extent Of the find known.
ms - prooaply the richest ma ever mace
IN southern Nevada and ii viii doubtless slim
ulate mining throughout the Searchlight dis
trict The Quartet mine IS owned principal
ly in Boston. though a large amount of the
stock is held in this city.
Reports from Furnace Creek, near Death
Valley. where a stampede Of prospectors re-
Gently occurred. continue TO be encouraging
Captain Delamar Of Salt Lake has just taken
a bond Of Sl5O0C0 on a property in this dis
trict and VIII expend a large sum of money
on development work.
An ideal hydraulic proposition" is
the old placer country contiguous to
the Grand Ronde River, in Oregon. The
headWaters of this stream spring from
an ancient river bed called Carson
channel. and il has been reported that
this particular place is rich in mineral
wealth. 1t is situated up in the Blue
Mountains. near La Grande. The Car
son channel is about 2000 feet wide and
the bank Of the pit carries values Of 10
cents per yard. In the early SOS mill
lions were washed out of the Rogue and
Klamath rivers. and now, with hordes
Of prOspectOrs going into that region,
history viii repeat itself. Chunks of
heavy quartz weighing nine pounds
each have been found above Briggs
discovery. on Upper Thompson Creek,
and every day news Of marvelOusly
rich finds comes into Grants Pass.
SONOMA'S RICH CINNABAR.
That rich undeveloped cinnabar de-
posits lie under the surface in the
northern and western portions of So
noma County has long been believed by
mineral experts. The Press-Democrat
of Santa Rosa, speaking of the new
quicksilver discovery near Mark West
Springs, says:
The indications Of cinnabar have been found
about three miles from the springs where
, there is a well defined ledge There are also
signs OF quicksilver in Franz Valley where
the Sherwood ranch has been sold for 500
an acre The Taylor and Vance properties
in the same neighborhood have been sold and
the Clark place in Franz Valley will also be
bonded
II is said that tunnelng will be begun next
week near the Sherwood property by Mr..
Cook OF the Oak Hi mine
A dispatch from Auburn, Placer
County. says that the Channel Bend
mine on the American River, below
( Michigan Bluff, was recently sold for
$4,000. The new owners are San
Francisco men. who will Immediately
resume operations there.
The reduction of bismuth from the
native ores by the new electro-chem-
ical process viii soon commence in
the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, San
Bernardino County. This is in the ma
tUre of an experimental plant and is
to demonstrate the commercial feast
bility of bismuth production by the
use of salts. The bismuth market is at
present controlled for the whole world
bv the manufacturers in Saxony, Ger
many. There are bismuth ores in
America, but no method has yet been
found TO extract the chemical.
BUTTE'S ASSESSMENTS.
The Supervisors of Butte County
have proposed to raise the tax assess
ments on lands held for their values in
/ gold by the dredging process, through
! the Sierra Lumber and the Eureka
/ Power companies, near Oroville, and
! this has called out violent protest.
/ One proposed raise was the assess
ment on fourteen acres of dredger soil
] from $500 to s2S.00O and another on
( forty-three acres from S10,485 to S94,-
! 500. a dredger miner, who formerly
objected to a public street being put
. l.
worth $4,000 an acre, hurriedly ap-
peared before the Supervisors, stating
/ that he was too high in his own fig
ures. The board, However, acting as
! equalizers, pinned him down to his
! first statement and the figures stand
/ as his assessment. The Eureka Power
/ Company protested against a raise in
its assessment of the Big Bend prop
! erty, but the board calmly lifted it
from $4,000 to $4,000. 1t was pro-
! posed to raise the Sierra Lumber
Company's figures from $50, 900 to
/ $150,0O0. but it was concluded that
a raise TO $95,S0 would be sufficient.
After four years of idleness the
! Idaho-Maryland mine in Grass Valley
/ has resumed work and the old era
/ Of good times and prosperity to that
/ locality has come again.
From Plumas County come reports
| from the Five Bears mine in Genesee
/ Valley. There is added a ten-stamp
mill, in which the ore will be crushed
in twenty-mesh, then reduced to
shines in a Kinkead mill, after which
it will be elevated by a sand pump
into the agitating tanks of the cyan
ide plant. This solution and pulp will
be agitated and the values precipitated
by electricity upon cathodes instead Of
in zinc boxes. The mine has a good
reserve of milling ore and crushing
will begin September 1.
Four companies are to handle the
product of the magnesite mine at Red
Mountain, south of Livermore. The
American Magnesite Company of
which G. W. French of Chicago is
president and H. c. Stillwell of Fruit
vale is vice president, will handle the
raw product, while the three sub
sidiary companies, which are to build
reduction works on tide water in Oak
| land, will handle the manufacturing
enterprises. The magnesite will be
used for the making of frebrick for
furnaces of locomotives and other