The San Francisco call., 1905-01-21
1COIN GOES INTO
MINE PLANTS.
Recent Discoveries Revive Interest
Northern Camps Increase Outfit
and Prepare for Season.

The mining news of the week is note
worthy mainly for the extensions and
improvements reported. Unusual in
terest is shown in Siskiyou County,
which is attracting the investment Of
considerable outside capital. A large
company has been formed to mine in
the mountains of Siskiyou. A strike
made on Cherry Creek is deemed OF
great Importance. In the Humbug dis
trict the Mono mine is running at its
fullest capacity. The Medina Mining
company has put in new machinery. A
large dredger will resume work near
Hawkinsville. Placer mining will be
resumed on Garvey bar in the klamath
River.
At the Zeibrig}1t mine in Nevada
County twenty-stamp mill will soon
be running. Lewis HI. Eddy, field as
sistant of the State Mining Bureau,
who has been travelling through the
north, says that in the North Bloom
field district drift mining Is active.
The Union Blue and the Malakoff
properties are working at North
Bloomfield. The gravel channel is re-
ported to have been struck, says the
Miner Transcript in the Grass Valley
gravel channel is from 100 to 200 feet
wide. To tap this it was necessary to
run tunnel through the hardest rock
at high cost for every foot that was
driven. The find," says the Miner
Transcript. brings the country In
which the Auriferous is situated again
to the front as valuable mining terri
tory"
The Treadwell mine in Amador Coun-
! ". aln M
is again in operation. In Calaveras
County development work Is under way
In the Hendrick mine and on gravel
property on Calaveritas road; also on
properties in the San Andreas channel
1t is announced that the American
Magnesite Company has arranged to
haul raw material to Livermore and
ship it to Oakland, where it will be cal
cined. Snow in the mountains impedes
travel and interferes with operations in
many parts Of the State at this time
Mining men in all sections report that
the outlook is good for the coming sea-
son.
IN THE SOUTHWEST.
According to A. Richardson, editor of
the Los Angeles Mining Review, the
value of minerals produced in Southern
California in 1904 was $12,147, 800. Rich
ardson says of the southern production
of minerals in 1904:
For 1904 the value of Southern California,s
mineral production may be estimated at $12.-
l41 BOO; II to that amount there be added
the value of Arizonas gold silver lead and
copper production for 1904 estimated by the
Governor OF Arizona at $37, 75O 000 and add
to that the gold production OF Southern Ne
Vada. tributary to Los Angeles, you have a
region last year of s53. ss7. 500. Nor does that
and copper output OF the State of Sonora and
OF Lower California. in Mexico. as might be
= ss Of
siderable proportion of the value OF such out
put comes to Los Angeles in settlement Of
machinery and whine supplies.
Kern County continues to hold first place
as gold producer in Southern California,
with San Diego second and San Bernardino
tLird. The two principal camps Of Kern
county are Randsburg and Mojave. In the
former the, yellow Aster mine is the largest
In San Diego County the Golden Cross mines
at Hedges continue to hold first place., not
through; Their production for the year has
been en,asi about sldo, goo, which might be very
gold mine in the Plcacho district, Is another
of San Diego's properties that had its full
share of legal trouble during the last year.
equipped. and with fine mill and cyanide
plant on the Colorado River, the mines and
ni, M j.. being connected by railway beonging
San Bernardino County well maintained its
reputation as next in rank as a mineral pro-
cluded. in which case it would come after
Los Angeles County. San Bernardino has no
produefion being ehiey conned to M sod dinera eop
per-. silver, borax and cement of which 1t
produced last year estimated value of
posits are in the New York Mountains. Victor
district and Ludlow district.
The Mining Review estimates that
the copper output of Arizona this year
will amount to SO3.0O0,000 pounds. Gov
ernor Brodie has reported the total
copper production of the territory In
production, as estimated, is based in
part on the Improvement in reduction |
plants.
ALASKAN QUARTZ BELT.
The claim is made that a great |
quartz belt, extending from seventy
five miles southeast of Juneau T. NOVEL; |
City, seventy miles northwest of
Juneau, has been traced. The Record |
Miner says that quartz in place has |
been followed to Sumdum, where there |
are low grade mines at work. The belt |
is cut at Snettisham Bay and at Takou |
harbor In part the Record Miner re- |
ports as follows:
The country between windham and Takou |
harbor is covered with moss. underbrush AMI |
devil clubs and is very thickly tmbered, pre-
war. Sen.ins the I rapid development Of the section
as far as Sheep Creek the next point where |
active mining operations are being carried |
on. four and half miles southeast Of Ju- |
At the head of Gold Creek, which empties'l
into Gastineeu Channel one-han mile north |
west of juneau, in the Last Chance and Silver
Bow basins. the Alaska Perseverance, Mining |
Company adjoining the Sheep Creek property |
on the northwest and the Groundhog group. |
owned by the NOVEL; Company, are being |
developed.
The AIaska-Juneau Company. one OF the |
associate companies of the TreadWell MANAGE |
ment, has forty-five-stamp mill and has two |
crnsscuts, 500 feet part. which show 1900 to |
the Elmer Gold Mining Company have had a |
fifteen-stamp mill operafiug for nine years 4