The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-23
Giant Smelter to Be Built
by the Balaklala Company
Capacity 100 Tons and TO Cost ST 500, 900
New Strikes and Increased Develop
ment Reported on Pacific Coast.

boast the largest number and most val
liable hydraulic mines In the State. The
output from the gravel mines will be
greater than in the palmy days of the
SOS. Quartz mining is also assuming
huge proportions. "A large part of the
county has not been prospected."
MINERS ARE PROTECTED.
ALI the records of the United States
Surveyor Generals office in this city,
the maps. plats, field notes and other
data relating to mines and mineral To-
cations in California were destroyed by
the fire. Papers relating to mines in
California that described new locations
of minerals also went up in flames. The
loss to the Government was very large,
representing the expenditure of thou
sands of dollars year for a long pc
Rod that dates back to the early days.
Surveyor General Graham comes for
ward to say that the miners of Califor-
MIA should fear no anxiety, for they
are better off as regards the preserva-
ton of titles TO their millions of dol
lars worth of property than are the
owners of real property in this city
whose deeds were destroyed, together
with the municipal books in which the
deeds were recorded.
THE system of keeping duplicate
records in Washington secures the min
ers and they need not worry" so Cen
eral Graham says. Il have received
notice that a large force of Government
clerks has been put to work making
duplicate records for this office. In
the meantime every paper is known to
be represented by an official copy in the
department at the national capital. The
service in this State has ninety deputy
mineral surveyors, who are stationed
in fourteen mineral counties where
their services are most needed.
he lnr n
mineral claims in California that called
for action on the part of this ONCE
numbered between 400 and 500, more
than one a day. These were mainly
lode locations, the act of Congress of
1870 having provided that placer loca-
tions after that act went into effect
should conform to legal subdivisions,
and so but few surveys for placer 10
cations are necessary, as the legal sub
divisions referred to in the law have
been generally perfected in the placer
mining regions of the State. This
Office has jurisdiction all over Califor-
MIA. The mining districts have been
abolished and the mining lands are re-
corded by counties, townships ana
ranges.
ALI mineral claims are safe, If they
reached the United States Land Once
before the fire, under surveys or for
which patents had issued. | am TURN
ishing new plats where the records
were burned, and where the application.
pending in the San Francisco Land Of
Ace of the United States, had not been
transmitted to Washington. w lille
there is interruption to the business
of this office everything will proceed
again as before"
GREAT MINING DIVIDENDS.
Less than 100 American mining COM
r1aid In dividends in the first
six months of the present year $4,000
900 in round figures. To twenty-four
copper companies s25,o00,000 in divi-
dends must be credited. The greatest
showing is made by the copper mines.
The Calumet and Hecla of the Lake
Superior region declared dividends
amounting to S3,000,0 900 in six months.
Since incorporation this property has
paid the great sum of s95,000,0oO, in
a period since 1871 and 1906.
The Amalgamated Copper Company
Maid in dividends in the first six months
of this year s4,975,00o. The largest
amount of dividend payments from
gold mine is credited to the Home
stake property in the Black Hills,
which was $655,000 The Alaska Tread
we'll, the greatest low grade gold prop
erty In the United States, paid 100000.
The greatest dividend payer among
the silver mines Of the country in the
six months was the Silver King of
Utah, with 100000 to It's credit. Gold.
silver and lead companies to the num-
Der of ffty-eight made six months
dividend record of $12,000,000.
These are the round figures in every
instance. OF the Colorado gold mines
the record goes to the Portland of
Cripple Creek, the gross amount of
dividends being 100000 for the first
half of the year