The San Francisco call., 1905-01-07

When the Yuba River is damned
twenty-five new gold dredgers, already
arranged for, will be operated in the
rived from w. w. Waggoner, State De-
bris Commissioner. A great electric
power has been projected, which can
be utilized in the operation OF
this feet of mechanical gold extract
ors. The Harmon Company is con-
structing five dredgers on the Yuba
now. and is working two others. AT
least $1,000 horsepower will be gener-
ated by damming the narrows Of the
Yuba to the height of $50 feet. Wag-
goner says 1t will be possible to dredge
the. present bed of the river from the
Narrows to Daguerre Point. The dam
will cost between 100000 and sS00,000.
The Redding Free Press says that at
French Gulch. Shasta County. 125 men
are employed in the Gladstone mine.
The mill and mine are running with
electric power. The present total depth
of the mine is 1000 feet
The third smelter for Shasta County
is about to be constructed. In antici-
has run a spur track to the smelter site
of the Mammoth Copper Company at
Kennett. The machinery for the smelt-
er is being made in the East. Kennett
is growing rapidly
The Scott Valley Advance reports
that rain and snow have raised the wa
ter IN many mountain streams in Sis
kiyou County sufficiently to permit hy-
rations. The Cherry Hill mine, which
has been closed on account of litiga-
ton, has been reopened and an 1900
foot tunnel is in construction to tap
the vein at depth of about 1900 feet.
Mines in the county that have been
closed are preparing to resume. The
mining conditions are consequently i'm
proved.
MAKING DEVELOPMENTS.
The Santa F'e and Dewey placer
claims at Canada Hill, Placer County.
will be worked, a company having re-
Gently been formed for that purpose.
Phosphate is reported to have been
discovered in the Grapevine district.
east of Banner, San Diego County. in
paying quantities, occurring in apatite
ledges. Two thousand acres have been
located by the discoverer.
According to Kern County advices,
H. H. Blood of San Francisco has thir-
ty-five men working in the Zada mine
in the AmaIe district. Twenty men
are working in the same district In the
Barbarossa mine. ]. B. Ferris Of Cali
ente has organized company to oper-
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district, adjoining the Amalie.
"A new smelter will be built by the
Mount Whipple and Copper Basin
mining companies on the Colorado
River, in San Bernardino County, thir-
ty miles south of Needles.
A small mining boom is reported in
Vallecito, Calaveras County. A pocket
of gold was recently found in a gulch
through which the people of Calaveras
County had been passing for many
years without entertaining a suspicion
that there was any gold in the imme-
diate neighborhood. The pocket yield
ed $500. In the vicinity a large guam
tity of milling quartz has been found
since the pocket came to light and
small quartz mill has been erected to
crush the rock that has been taken
out. Gravel mining has been done near
the place, but on a small scale The
Prospect says:
very small part of the rich ancient river
channel Is being worked by the drifting pro-
cess In the Douglas Flat and vallecito min
Ing district. which aids considerable in keep
ing alive the mining industry and insuring
small snug fortune for the few who are
engaged in this class of placer mining The
owners of the Douglas Flat 40 ancient river
bed placer mine hosting pay gravel now
ri
gravel from their ancient river bed placer
mine In Balaklava Mountain The old river
which. strange to say, drains all the channel
water from the pay gravel and leaves II as
Sry ana nice as plowed land. although the
Ped OF the old river at this place is nearly
three hundred feet below the apex OF the
mountain.
A large project is reported in the
Guanaceyie district in Mexico, involving
an outlay of S5,0O0,0O0. A company has
secured a grant of 5000 acres and viii
tunnel 10000 feet through a mountain
at a distance Of 1900 feet below the sur-
face to tap veins Of gold silver and
copper. The Guanacevie district is re-
ported to be the most thoroughly mined
section In Mexico. 1t takes In a terri.
tory Of six miles long and four miles
wide.
Los ANGELES MINERS.
The Los Angeles Times reports that
mining company has been organized
to operate mining properties In Lower
California, forty miles east of Ensen-
ada, in the bed Of river. Two other
Los Angeles companies have been or
ganized to work on properties lust
across the line from Imperial.
Some interesting facts and figures
relating to the Yukon district are COM