The San Francisco call., 1906-09-24

The Balaklala Company, which has
built new town known as Coram. has
arranged to bring in water supply
from Cottonwood Creek The new
town has become a station on the
Southern Pacific line
SOUTH BANK TO RESUME
The old South Bank mine In Gala
veras County. on Indian Creek. will be
reopened- The plant includes mill
operated by electric power supplied
from the Utica plant at Murphys The
mine was operated for a time. but,
not paying at the first. the stockhold-
ers suspended work. The owners will
probably open the mine more fully be-
fore they start the mill again.
The Geological Survey reports that
the Alaska tin mines produced no tir
last year and that, IN fact. no tin was
produced in the United States A small
amount of ore was taken from the
placers Of Buck Creek. Alaska. but
this quantity is described as having
been insignificantS However. the
first really good prospects on Cape
Prince OF Wales were found during the
year and prospecting went on In the
Lost River Valley Of the York region
Small veins of quartz bearing cas-
siterite weEe found in the states around
the head of Buck Creek. but these are
reported to hold out no great prospects
was carried along the streams flowing
into Loops Lagoon and several dis
coverieS were made
It has been ascertained that some
of the samples of what was supposed
to be cassiterite ore from the Ears
Mountain country was either tourma-
line or augito. Small quantities OF
stream tin were found in a number OF
creeks on the Seward Peninsula. Good
prospects were discovered in Grouse
Creek. below Buck Creek.
GREAT MINERAL EXPORTS.
Mexican mines and mining is the
theme of a special number OF the Min
ing World. From an elaborate review
1t appears that there are 19.447 mines
in the Southern Republic. which are
enumerated as follows: Gold and sill
yer. 520S; silver, 5153; silver and lead.
1924; gold, silver and lead. 913; gold.
silver and copper. Ss1; copper. 1876: sill
yer and copper. 671; iron, $751; silver.
copper and lead, 254: gold and cop
per, 234; copper and iron. 176; quick
silver. 160; sulphur, 105: lead. ST. an
timony. As: tin, 80; copper and lead, 21.
The most rapid advance that Mexico
has made in the past few years is in
the direction Of its mining industries.
The bureau of statistics of Mexico
shows that the gold expectation in
eight months, from July, 1905, to Feb
ruary 1905, amounted to $22,208.440
and that the expectation of silver
amounted to $S5.037, 500. The increase
in the Mexican gold expectation in the
period mentioned amounted to s3.290,-
325 as compared with the correspond
ing period OF the previous year, while
the increase in the silver expectation
amounted to $33,251,s2S-
The expectation Of the precious met
ais was more than $107, 100000 in eight
months.
Within a radius Of sixty miles in
Kern County are three mining regions.
the Randsburg, ROsamond and Mojave-
Each of these districts contains num-
Der of paying mines The Rosamond
and Moiave districts are practically
one. the producing mines about Soledad
Peak and those in the Rosamond dis
trict being but a few miles apart.
The management of the Blue Ledge
Mining Company in Oregon has bought
coal mine near by
The discovery of a large deposit or
dyke of low grade gold ore near Teller,
Alaska, is reported
Two placer claims have been
staked out near Huntington. Ore, for
the purpose of working the black sands
for gold. The two claims are adjoining
and touch two counties, Baker and Nal
heur.
The annual report Of the smelter trust
shows earnings for the year. gross. to
have been S11.665.S85 and the net earn
ings to have been SO, ,35S, an In
crease of $1,155,142 as compared with
the year preceding The balance avail
able for common dividends was $5s274,-
600, an increase of s1.155.O0O.