The San Francisco call., 1906-08-06


mines is feature of the pres
ent situation in this State. Sew
eral properties will resume
work in localities that promise we'll
The details are interesting.
In the Smartsvil1e district, which
has a record of producing by arastra
and hydrsulicling not less than
$4,000, 600, Campbell and G. w. Root
are engaged in repairing twenty
eight miles OF waterway to take water
from ditch at Wolf Creek, near the
New York Grass Valley mine, and
to provide for running arastras. There
are reservoirs at the Smartsville end
of the line which can be used.
Opposite Scott Bar, on Mill Creek,
Siskiyou County, the Quartz Hill
mine, which has been idle Tor some
time, will resume. The surface was
hydraulicked several years ago. The
mine is above Scott River. Litigation
caused the suspension of the mine and
has kept it idle.
An Eastern company will reopen
the old Shasta mine. which was once
among the leading gold mines Of
Shasta County The mine has been
closed something more than year.
Work will begin next month. accord
ing to the present plan Of the new
parties in control.
The Glencoe mine, in Nevada Coun-
ty, that WAS opened in 1871 and was
formerly known as the Nivens &
Sherpe, will be reopened by Montana
people that have taken a bond on it.
The Jenny Lind mine, in Nevada
County, has resumed. The compile
tion Of the Nevada Northern Railroad
TO Cherry Creek has caused new activ-
fly IN that section. One immediate
effect is the starting again of the
Imperial mine, which has produced a
great deal of high-g silver ore.
TRINITY QUARTZ MINE.
The Trinity Journal reports that
quartz mining is assuming large pro-
portions in Trinity County. Several
mines have been reopened that were
closed for years. Some OF these were
supposed to be worked out, but re-
cent developments have shown that
only the surface was touched in for
mer operations. The discovery Of
several new lodges is reported. Be-
fore the winter sets in six new
mills will be operating, with at least
100 stamps. Two of the new mills
will have 80 stamps each. The Jour
nal also reports that before the close
of the present year the output from
Trintty's gravel mines will be greater
than in the palmy days of the "f1f-
ties"
The Longfellow and Mack mines,
near Groveland. so the New Era re-
ports. will be opened as soon as they
can be equipped with electric power
The Sunnyside mine will also be re-
opened. These mines are in Tuolumne
County.
Two hundred men are on the
payroll OF the Great Western Gold
Mining Company at the mine and
smelter in Shasta County. The Bully
Choop mine will add a twenty-stamp
mill to it's equipment.
The Virginia City Chronicle gives
an account Of some preparations for
facilitating mining in Nevada. In part
the story is as follows:
The big 1oO-stamp mill at Miller's
near Tonopah is almost completed. The
Tonopah Mining Company has given
same place: and a cyanide plant of $50
tons capacity is also building at Mil
ler's. Right across the railroad track
samplinE works of the Western ore Ore
Reduction Company, where all ores are
sampled and purchased at the same
price as distant smelter cities, and pay
ment made within "a hours.
Three mills are in course of erection
at Manhattan and the Original Round
Mountain Company ie putting up q mill
month ago. Goldheld already has a
half dozen mills and a syndicate is fig
uring on a large plant for custom ores.
not much more than half the produc-
tion is being handled. The Schwab in
terests are about to put up a 100-
stamp mill at Bullfrog and a smelter
Is to go up at Las Vegas with all the
mill facilities promised. Southern Ne
vada will come along with tremendous
strides this fall.
SCORPION TO REOPEN
The old Scorpion mine, formerly
owned by Chief of Police Crowley of
San Francisco. located in the French
Gulch district, is reported TO have found
a new lease of life by reason Of a strike
OF ore that looks well. When Crowley
had worked the mine for time he sold
1t to William T. Coleman. The latter
took a large amount OF gold out of the
property and then sold the mine to the
Niagara Mining Company. That cor
poraticn worked ii for some years, but
IT has been closed for a long time be-
cause there was no ore in sight Sew
eral leasers have since operated II.
Eleven placer claims recently located
on Elliott Creek, near the Oregon line
in Siskiyou County, are reported as
making a large showing. and placer
mining excitement in that neighbor-
hood is not unlikely. On one of the
claims as described by the Siskiyou