The San Francisco call., 1905-03-12
ANGELS DISTRICT HAS FINE
OUTLOOK FOR MINING
Hundreds of Stamps Crush
Ores That Bear Gold.
Much Work Is in Progress Near the
Old Town of Shasta.

Great mining activity in Calaveras
County in the neighborhood of Angels
is expected during the present year.
The outlook is declared to be bright
er than at any precedipg time in years.
Several large deals are reported by the
Angels Record to be progressing salts
factorily and all the power needed TO
work the mines Of CaIaveras and Tuol-
umne counties has been secured and
will soon be available for use. Prop
critics that have been idle for some
time are about to be worked again.
The opening of the Sultana mine has
been determined on. The mine has
been closed some months. OF opera
tions in the Angels district the Angels
Record says, in part:
At the Benson mine everything is in good
shape, with the ten-stamp mill running day
and night. The Essex Consolidated is finding
good rock Ten stamps working. In a
few weeks forty will be dropping. At the
Melones sixty stamps are dropping steadily.
while the work Of erecting an additional thirty
is progressing. This mine is proposition OF
building stamps. as the entire property can
be run through the mill at a good profit AT
the Etna King the shaft is now at a depth
OF ninety-two feet and sinking will be con
tirued until 200 feet is reached. 1t is reported
that work will be commenced in the Oriole
within A short time. new property hay-
ing been secured, to which drift will be run
from the main shaft. An effort is being made
10 start up the Mailman, adjoining the Sui
tana. As yet nothing definite has been de.
cided upon. At the Black Oak ten men are
cross-cutting. At the Utica everything is run
ming as usual. OF late ii has been rumored
that a shaft is to be put down just adjoining
Sequoia Park the north, to connect with
the old shaft at the Madison, but yet no
confirmation Of the be had The
Duchess mine near vallecito has been incor-
porated under the name of the Stanisaus Min
ing Company of Indianapolis. A ten-stamp
mill is on the mine.
RUMOR is CONTRADICTED.
A rumor concerning the closing of
the Idaho-Maryland mine in Nevada
County is contradicted by the Nevada
City Transcript, which makes the fol-
lowing statement:
The cause of the rumor lay in the discharge
of some men who had been employed on the
repairs 10 the mill. Twenty stamps have
been thoroughly overhauled and the work was
completed recently. These being deemed all
that are necessary for the immediate purposes
Of the company the men engaged in the work
were laid off The remaining twenty stamps
will be overhauled their services are re-
Quired The work of unwatering Will be con-
tinued without abatement and all the miners
will be retained as before While some
trouble has been experienced with the pump
in the old shaft that catches water from the
Eureka this has now been nearly overcome
through the aid of steam pumps and the de-
feet will soon be remedied. Considerable work
tz Hon In he
the work OF pumping out the shaft, for the
purpose Of ascertaining the condition of the
mine at that particular point.
The operations at Kennett at the
Mammoth mine are reported by the
Redding Free Press to be in full head
way The compressors are in and the
machine drills have been started. Ore
bins will be constructed this month.
The survey of the mine has been COM
pleted. The mine will be run with cleo
trio power.
Regarding the Nevada mining camps
the Los Angeles Times says:
While Angelenos are going in large numbers
into Johnnie, Bullfrog other Nevada dis
trfcts. mining arriving here report a
heavy influx OF miners prospectors and busi-
ness men from the north Many are coming
ing into the camps via Las Vegas or Good
springs. Numbers OF Goldheld and Tonopah
men, after having established themselves in
the northern districts, are prospecting in the
new fields.
A representative of Los Angeles grocery
firm has just returned from an extensive trip
through Sandy. Johnnie and Bullfrog and re-
ports having taken orders for enormous sup
plies that will be sent out at once. He was
the first drummer that had ever visited some
Of the camps while others had been worked by
San Franciscans.
An effort is being made by some Of those
interested to have the wagon road from Good
springs the Salt Lake line to the Sandy and
Johnnie districts improved to bring about
the hauling of freight by this route Instead
Of the Ivanpah road. It is said that the Salt
Lake management is encouraging the move
ment, so that it may get the great trade now
going from Los Angeles via the Santa Fe The
distance via Goodsprings is twenty-on miles
TO Sandy and thirty Ave miles from Ivanpah,
but the intervening mountains and the condi-
tion OF the road make the Ivanpah route the
more desirable at present The effect Of the
proposed action may be to hasten the now
likely building OF the Santa Fe into the terri
tory the means OF retaining its business.
Colonel A. T. Browne, the Santa Fe ensi-.
neer who has been examining the Nevada dis
tricts, was In the city for few hours on
Thursday and left that night for Chicago,
where he is expected TO submit full report
to the highest officials Of the railroad COM
pany, which is likely to nave a great effect
upon the future OF this section
The Nevada Keystone's mill at Sandy. that
has been shut down since September, is to be
started up at once.
The De Lamar-Baumberger mine. located
about seventy-hve miles northeast OF Johnnie
in Lincoln County, the Salt Lake line Is
reported to be operating steadily, despite the