The San Francisco call., 1906-08-13
Output Of Shasta
Copper Showing
an Increase.


per in Shasta County. will. so it is
reported, by the addition of two new
blast furnaces, increase its output
more than Go per cent and bring the
capacity for reduction up to 900 tons
a day.
The Great Western Gold Company
blew in its second furnace on June
IA, which will enable it to double it's
output. The Great Western is the sec
Shasta County.
The Bully Hill Copper Mining and
Smelling Company is employing 200
men. The force will be increased soon,
when work viii be largely extended
The smelter of the Balaklala mine at
Coram will be in operation by April
Between ESQ and 800 men are engaged
in construction work. The opening Of
the smelter will give employment to
900 more.
At the Bullychoop mine a 10-stamp
mill is running on development ore.
The mine is on Bullychoop Mountain,
about forty miles west of Redding.
CONDITIONS AT GOLDFIELD.
The general conditions in the Gold
field mining district are described by
the Goldfeld News as follows:
Not only are the largest and best
known mines steadily increasing their
lOECoS, Out Ill through the Hills, Gov
ering an area of twenty-five or thirty
square miles, are the camps of men
working on prospects where perhaps
enough to lift them into the public eye
Here and there and everywhere are
lessees. Scarcely property in the dis
are working on a large scale. The Mo-
hawk leases alone are at present en-
ploy1ng in the, neighborhood of 600
men; in other places two partners may
be found working the ground from
which they hope to draw an independ-
ers hB to to sTf he h1 spendd ndofr foa
s3OO,0o0-a wonderful showing for a
camp yet in its swaddling clothes.
that ts tuang Being OF placed aes mafhihebs at ehs
mines is another evidence of pros
perity that should not be over
drills and electric motors are coming
in almost daily In carloads, and not
single piece of machinery has yet seen
the inside of a warehouse In Goldfield
the demand being so great that every
shipment is sold directly from the cars
as they arrive. condition which pre-
and winter in the way of production.
INYo MINES ARE SOLD.
Copper-mine groups in Inyo County,
known as the Sanger and Mairs prop
critics, have been sold to Pasy Of New
York on a basis Of about 100000 for
the two, as reported by the Inyo
Register. The Sanger and Mairs
groups are northeast of Owens Lake
in the Cerro Gordo country in what is
locally styled the Ubehebe copper belt
The Hunter and Spear copper claims
are on the same belt which parallels
the Inyo range.
According to report from Rhyolite
hundreds Of miners are travelling in
all sorts of conveyances, and many on
foot. to Greenwater, in Inyo County
on account of copper discoveries, and
as much as 5000 has been paid to an
automobile company to take pros
pector of wealth into the region.
The Grass Valley Union reports that
a discovery has been made on Spring
Hill ground that may result in an
other Eureka mine. The account
given is as follows:
The find was made by William Eddy
and Fred Gotta, They had sunk four
which runs flush into the Spring Hill
ledge. Judging from its direction.
The Eureka ledge led to. the Idaho.
Maryland: hence it will be seen there
Hi % WRics }oins the Eureka Uh as on sPrhhs ths
however, never appeared to continue
in that direction. Eddy says it is. a
blind ledge which has been sought for
during the life Of the Spring Hiif
The Spring Hill at one time produced
valuable ore. 1t carried large ledge,
but values seemed to give out. It was
worked by means OF a shaft, but later
years saw long tunnel driven into
the hill, work on which has been in
progress right along with a small crew
The claim was owned by the late j. M.
Lakenan, and some time prior to his
Utah and Colorado men for the sum of
S25o,000, so 1t was claimed.
The Nevada City Miner Transcript
reports the sale of the Boyle & Roach
placer mine. the Gold Cup. the 1903"
the West Virginia and Lucky Boy
quartz mines adjoining thes Baltic
placer mine and the Sunf1ower mines
and others, to the Gold Mound Mining
Company of Spokane.
The rivers in Tuolumne County are
higher than they have been at any
previous time at this season of the
year IN two decades. This ought to
help the mining industry of Tuolumne
largely. There will be water enough,
seemingly, to keep running the mines
that use water for power.
TUoLUMNE SEEKS JUSTICE.
The Sonora Union Democrat pub
fishes the following statement: Min
ing in the county is slightly on the
improve, but our quartz mines should
be yielding a. million or SO dollars
per annum. The San Francisco dis
aster had much to do with creating
q shortage of operating money, but
conditions must eventually readjust
themselves, to be followed by unpre-
cedented activity all along the lodes.
The mines of Tuolumne County are as
good as the best in the West, regard
less of what croakers may say on a
subject that they know little about"
The monthly production Of the Coal
inga oil field is reported to be more
than 100000 barrels. Fifteen strings
of tools are running where there were
forty last year at a corresponding time.
Nevertheless Coalinga is lively. The
price for oil is about 20 CENTS. The
present output of Coalinga is second
only to that Of the Kern River district
in this State
The Mother Lode Banner, published
at Sonora, also calls attention to the
tremendous industrial revival which is
now spreading over Tuolume County,"
and says Of the mines of Tuolumne
county:
Mining, which at present is at low
ebb because of the lack of cheap power
and more because of the recent great
disaster in San Francisco, is bound to
boom under the new order of things
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