The San Francisco call., 1906-08-20

sales are tSoLo1SS Vi lH6 present
situation among the owners of
and operators of mineral properties in
California. Lindsay Scranton of San
Francisco has given bond for $4,000
on the Little Dora group of five claims
in Siskiyou County. Three other deals
in Siskiyou County are under way that
involve from $4,000 to s125,oo0 each.
In Plumas County the Hallsted quartz
mines and the Shoofly copper claims
have been in the market. j. G. Will
liams bought the Hailsted property
which is in Rich Gulch. w. B. Thomas
and c. j. Bower have bonded the Shoo-
fly. The Red Banks quartz mine in
Mariposa County, on the MeTced River
has been sold. E. G. Lotus will man
age the property, If local reports are
correct.
S. Swearinger has bonded to the
Walker brothers of Salt Lake a group
of copper claims in the Genesee Valley
Plumas County. for $4,000. Harry
Lawton of New York and Frank Hickox
of Bakersfield have taken bond on
the Free Gold and Last Chance groups
of gold claims near Jacksonville. will
liam Sherwood has sold to Dudley Bald
win of Cleveland a half interest in the
Kelvin, Keltz and Dagmar claims in
Tuelumne County. These indicate other
deals, undoubtedly of which no inform
alton has been given out by the inter-
ested parties.
ANOTHER INVESTIGATION
While an investigation concerning the
use of placer locations in Butte and
Plumas counties to secure the posses
sion Of large and valuable tracts of
timber is impending another fnvesti-
CATION concerning the operations In the
Yuba and Tahoe reserves has been or
dered. Forest Supervisor NJ B. Elliott
of Nevada City has sent to the rangers
under his direction to report all the
facts relating to the character of each
gravel, quartz or placer mining claim
In letter of instruction the following
details are included:
What should be stated In the plainest
terms is. first the discovery of mineral
and thereupon the acts constituting
the development work, when per-
formed. what they We're and what they
cost and whether such development
work has shown the land to be more
valuable for mineral than for agricul-
ture or for timber or has resulted in
a failure to so show.
Lands may be situated in so-ealled
mineral district, as reported in some
of these cases but that fact does not
settle the status of all the lands in that
district Indeed. 1t may be assumed
that very few tracts in some mineral
districts are more valuable for mineral
than for other purposes or. in fact, of
any value at all for mineral.
The mere color of mineral in rock or
ground on tract of land while 1t may
constitute presumptive evidence of the
presence of mineral, does not argue
able and lucrative mining property;
that il is of any value at all for It's
minerals or. to make a pertinent illus
tration. that it is half as valuable for
minerals as 1t is for the timber on il
or for agricultural purposes; and the
fact that an individual or a company
has made excavations or performed
other work on claim entirely barren
of results so far as any development
of mineral or prospect OF mineral In
paying quantities appears, and with
out ans. apparent expectation OF any
purpose only of holding the land for
timber or for valuable springs or for
agricultural purposes where an agri-
is pertinent fact or set ofsfacts. and
your report in each and every case
should cover this ground fully.
MINING IN CALIFORNIA.
Mining in the country adjacent to
Canada Hill and Banner Mountain, in
the Nevada City district, involves
operations of great Importance. The
Charonnat management has lowered
the water to the eleventh level and is
drifting north and south in virgin ter
ritery. The Butte California mine will
be systematically developed, using the
same drain tunnel as the Charonnat,
which adjoins. The stamps at the
Mayflower mine are crushing ore from
the Union Consolidated mine. Bel
shaw, yoorhies and Crawford, who are
back of the Banner mine, are running
the shaft down 1900 feet. Drifts will
be run every 200 feet and the vein will
be prospected. A test crushing will
soon be made at the Mayfiower mill.
The Scott Valley Advance says that
the mining outlook of Siskiyou County
was never brighter than it is now.