The San Francisco call., 1905-08-12
MINES NEAR ALLEGHANY
MAKE LARGE YIELDS
Sierra County People Expect
Return of Days of Gold.
Copper and Lead Ores Found
in Unexplored Inyo Canyon.

Allegheny, according to the local papers.
| Is In fair way to restore the old time
prestige of Sierra County as a producer
of gold on a large scale. Ten compara-
lively small Sierra mines have made a
record of producing, in total, gold to the
value of $3,27O,00 in round figures. These
mines, so reports the Downieville Noun
tain Messenger have hardly become
known beyond the county limits. Sierra
County suffered by the suppression of
hydraulic mining, by the exhaustion of
pocket holes, and the set back to Sierra
| CITY by the closing of the Sierra Butte
quartz mine. Population decreased and
mining camps were deserted. Miners
have been driven more to quartz mining
In the lapse of time and owing to en-
forced conditions. Present hopes are
based upon the new work and on the rec
ords of certain mines that are considered
by the Me Messenger>to be indicative. Some
af the facts quoted by the Messenger fol-
lows:
The Sierra Buttes and other lode mines at
Sierra City have produced fully So, 600 900 in
gold, those of the Allegheny district at least
$1,000, 600. and mostly from shallow workings
and small pockets" At Pike City is the
Alaska, which with a few smaller mines has
output at least a million dollars. There are
others scattered over the country which in
the aggregate will add several more millions to
the record Most OF the mines were reported
worked out. That is why it is so difficult
to resurrect Sierra County.
But since the Pumbago, near Allegheny. was
reported worked OUT ten years ago, it has
produced two and a half millions in gold. and
Is to-day looking better than ever; and the
Sierra Buttes mine, after producing SIS. 60.-
700 of the yellow precious metal, and be-
ing shut down as worked out is now being
put in shape for production that VIII eclipse
its past record; and now the Tightnor
mine in Allegheny, a property that twenty
years ago abandoned in its infancy as
mo good" is proving to be veritable bo-
nanza. Within the past two years the mine
has been reopened and prospected and with a
working force of only three men has paid
the purchase price, $4,000, produced S25, 600
besides and has blocked out half a million
dollars worth of free milling gold quartz.
INYO COPPER AND LEAD.
The Los Angeles Mining Review re-
ports the discovery Of copper and lead in
a hitherto uneXplored mineral district n
Inyo County. Three prOspectors, Will
liamS, Reed and Babcock, are the finders
of ore. The Review says:
Williams. Reed and Babcock. who paid no
attention TO the signboards and came down
Happy Canyon tnotOriously the toughest can
yon in the range. In which there is no trail.
have been well paid for their hard trip. They
discovered ana located foot vein OF mixed
copper and lead ore. They have been nit
ting the hot sands of the desert now for sew
eral months and think this ind is good enough
to stay with This is the first strike OF lmpor-
tance be made in this canyon. A line stream
OF water. about twenty inches, flows in the
lower part OF this canyon, and there is
abundance of timber at its head. Access 10
the mines must be had by trail or road from
Stone Corral, the upper part OF Peasant can
yon which is the next canyon about three
miles south 1t is predicted that the VIII
Ilams- Reed -Babcock ind will attract others
to these unprospected parts, and It is hoped
that many other good locations will in conse-
qUence be made.
A rich strike is reported by the Shasta
Courier 20 have been made on the Nc
IT, -,
progress for the proposed McCloud River
road In part the account is as follows:
The construction of the McCloud River trail,
from Simn.s Hazel Creek across the sac
ranento divide ana over 10 the holdings and
summer homes of the rich city people, who
are making summer resorts on the dcClOud,
may result in something more substantial tnan
mere pleasure.
the foundation OF an automobile road has
been prospecting on an immense scale, and
the projectors have killed several biras with
one stone-they have, not street paved with
gol1, but a trail that is lined with several
good gold and copper lodges.
The gIade, fourteen to sixteen miles, cuts
a great mineral country heretofore little pros
pected. The country is covered with dense
brush in many places, and prospectors might
have hunted the ground for years for lodges.
But the grading has cut out the brush and
excavated the hillsides and revealed the min
eral character of the country.
Seven well defined lodges have been uncov-
cred Three contain copper, the rest gold and
one WeU-QsEned gdIena ledge.
In some places the gravel and wash con-
tain lumps or slugs of pure copper glance,
showing immense and rich deposits must exist
in the neghborhood where nature smelted
the specimens.
Some of the matter cut is calco-pyrite ore.
and goes high in assay value.
1t is understood that the owners of the
land will prospect the ledges and develop
them.
The smelter of the Mammoth Mine at
Kennel will be in operation next MONTH
The iron buildings are about ready for
use. The heaviest machinery is in place
MINING PROPERTIES SOLD.
The Mother Lode Banner repro tsthat
100000 has been offered for the Harvard |
mining claim in Tuoumne County.
Regarding the deal by which Tom Law
son sells mining land of the Trinity Cop
per Company to the Mammoth Company /
the Redding Free Press reports:
The Trinity Copper Company sells and grants |
to the Mammoth Copper Mining Company of |
Maine, the company now installing the smelter |
near Kennel, valuable lands in and near Ken
net, and adjoining the property which the |
Mammoth people are now erecting a smelter. !
The Mammoth company becomes posSessor |
of all of the northwest quarter of section 2 |
township 33 north, range 3 west, and also all |
1f lots 9. and p of the town of Kennel. Lot /
faces the railroad right of way south OF !
The main portion of Kennel and lot 6 adioins 4
t at a corner, extending north to 21 These
OTIS are in the southwest quarter of section 2
future operations of the Trinity Copper Com
1any remains to be seen, but it is apparent
hat the two companies are squaring them
selves around and getting their lands in shape
or systematic move, and some are inclined
% believe that the move will be the ultimate
ise of the Mammoth smelter to treat the ores
If both the Trinity Copper and Mammoth
mines.
Another deal that is just about to be closed
md in which the Mammoth company is inter-
sted in one by which the company will be-
ome owner of what is known as the May
lower group, adjoining the Mammoth. 1t is
considered a valuable piece of property and
comprises twelve and one-half claims lying
'etween Little and Big Backbone cracks
The old Cowboy mine and other prop
rites in the Amalie district in Kern
county have been bonded to Los An
,eles people for s1S0,0o0, according to
he Bakersfield Californian
The conveyance to Mrs. Emma Hib- !
'ert, F. Johnson and others of the title
o mining lands near Browns Valley
" the White family will probably re-
ult in large degree of activity in min
ng development.
DREDGING IS ABANDONED.
Big dredgers may not be used in
shasta County by Oroville parties as
oon as supposed. The Redding Free
Press reports the situation as follows:
The oroville Exploration Companys Key.