The San Francisco call., 1906-07-02
SEEKERS
IN NEW FIELDS
Thousand Claims Located in Northern Mountains
in Siskiyou and Across Border Line.
United States Geological Survey Will View. and
Report on Districts Near to Redding.

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While the search for and production
of gold Is going on steadily in Califor-
MIA and the adjoining States with the
use of all the modern appliances, the
| quest for copper Is growing stronger
from year to year. There is abundance
of copper all over the Pacific Coast
mining areas. 2 Enough has been dis
covered to stir the prospectors and
large copper producing corporations to
greater exertions. Considerable space
is. accordingly, given this morning to
recent developments in the Pacific
Coast copper districts
People from Spokane have taken up
about 1000 copper mining claims In the
Blue Ledge district in the Siskiyou
Mountains. Robert S. Towne is OPP
Grating a copper mine with 125 men.
and has purchased a smelter. The Sis
4 kiyou News publishes the following
concerning the developments in the dis
! trict:
In the Blue Ledge district are many
other good mines being developed by
Spokane people-the Bloomfield, owned
by Peter Larson of Spokane, J. H Ad
ans and Andrew Jeldness of Medford;
! the Siskiyou. Copper Company. owned
| by w Z. Monteith OF Lewiston, Idaho
A. C. Oxley of Pennsylvania and Dr.
st. Albans mine. owned by H Callahan
of Spokane, J. E. Riley of Portland and
J. F. Reddy of Medford; the Morris
group of mines, owned by Morris.
Wakefield and Ellis. all of Spokane; the
Joe Creek copper mine, owned by Hen
ry Angel and Edgar Hafer of Medford,
j. w. Chapman of Red Lodge, Mont,
George Putnam of the oregon Journal.
! liam Hart Hamilton, Crescent City, and
Simon P. Shaw OF Medford. All these
properties are being developed rapidly
York owners OF the Opp mine have
| completed plans to add forty stamps to
their mill. making 1t sixty-stamp mill,
the largest in Oregon.
The Yreka Journal reports that there
is quite a boom at Horse Creek and on
Collins Creek in the Oak Bar. klamath
River district. where copper claims have
been located. Copper ores have been
found that look well. The extent of the
ledges has not been detefrnind.
TO PROsPECf DISTRICTS.
The United States Geological Survey
will make a detailed study of the cop
per districts in Shasta County near
Redding. ]. s. Diller has prepared a
folio that will soon be published re-
garding the Bully Hill. Little Backbone
and Iron Mountain districts. l.. c.
Grafton, who has been appointed to re-
port on the copper districts of the
country.' will spend large part of his
time this summer at and in the vicinity
of Redding. He will also inspect the.
copper camps at Lake Superior, at
Bingham. at Butte, Mont. and the four
great camps of Arizona at Clifton. Bis.
bee. Globe and Jerome.
"Coram." so reports the Redding
Courier-Free Press, 'is the most siren
uous mining camp in Northern Califor-
MIA" The preliminary work for the
erection of a 1000-ton smelter is going
on for the Balaklala Company. The
plant will cost s1,000.OO0.
The Mountain Copper Company.
which has been working the Lone Star
claim, one mile west OF the Iron Noun
tain mine. is reported to have found
new and large deposit of copper at the
Lone Star.
Southwestern Nevada has been re-
ceiving large degree of attention dur
ing the past three years. According to
the Silver State, there is considerable
interest In properties in the northeast
ern part of the State. in the Montallo.
Tacoma, Loray and Cobre districts. The
Amalgamated Copper Companys mine
near Tacoma is reported to have $1,000
900 worth of ore on the dump Loca-
tions have recently been made in the
Loray district The Schiveley mine has
been relocated
The old Canada Hill mine, east of
Nevada City, will be reopened and will
be known as the Charonnet mine. 1t
is one of the oldest quartz mines in the
district. In the Canada Hill group are
included the Grant and st. Louis mines
The Murchie, Banner and Union mines
are in the same district
The coal mining district in Nevada
is extraordinarily active. so reports the
Virginia Chronicle. which gives partic-
ulars as follows:
In the Federal Company's mine. for
merly known as the Como Eureka.
twenty men are employed. The mill on
the property is running steadily on ore
and has been in almost continuous op-
GRAFTON the past three years
At the Hulley-Logan, owned by the
Ohio-Tonopah Company, the ten-stamp
mill has been remodeled and is steadily
that property. in which there are large
reserves. That company employs thir-
ty men. AS it and the Federal Com
pany are both close corporations the
value of the ore per ton and bullion is
not made public.
The total number of men employed
by the three companies mentioned is
sixty eight and with those employed
on other locations the total exceeds
eighty. Electric power transmitted from
the f1oriston plant on the Truckee
clusively for operating the hoist and
milling plants.
BULLTROG rs LIVELY.
Although. the heated season is on.
there is no stop or pause in the work
In the Bullfrog district. The Bullfrog
Miner reports that the June payroll
amounts to $4,000. Eight hundred men
are employed In the mines of the Bull
frog district. At meeting of the
Gold Bar Mining, Company the manager
reported, that this Bullfrog property
had expended In a year $4,000, of
which $4,000 was for Development;
that there was. on hand available for
use the sum of s143.000, and that a
great amount of ore had been blocked
out
A new mining company has been
formed to develop mining claims in
Trinity County near Buliychoop. Gus
Hurst Is the president and treasurer.
During the construction of the irri-
eating tunnels at klamath some ex-
cellent specimens of quartz have been
discovered. The irrigation scheme. in
which the Government is taking a lead
ing part, may also result in the finding
of gold deposits of Importance.
Hydraulic mining is going on quite
on the klamath River at
Oak Bar Rhea & Co. who recently
purchased the Oak Bar hydraulic mine.
are running twenty-four hours day.
The principal stockholders in the en-
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