The San Francisco call., 1907-01-28
MAKES DEAL IN SIERRA

cally idle. awaiting IQe company, nke lu6
son-Carlock, to drive home and wiring fortunes
from the earth.
MAKES DEAL IN SIERRA
A deal for mines in the northern
part of Sierra County has been made
in which 100000 is involved. The Soda
Springs quartz properties have been
bonded by E. A. Worn and William
Penman. The mines are near La Porte,
on Canyon-Creek. The ledge is report
ed to be rs feet wide. carrying values
that run from $4.13 a ton TO $40 ton.
The group includes lve claims. A great
tunnel will be run to tap the vein at
depth. The work will begin as soon as
spring opens.
On the upper north fork OF the
Feather River much activity is report
ed. San Francisco parties have bonded
copper properties from MCMILLAN and
Boyden, three miles above Salmon
Falls, and are running tunnel to the
ledge that contains copper. The same
parties are also interested in the North
ern Sierra Power and Water Company.
A D. Mcmillan is developing the Glazier
drift mine. An option has been taken
by men from Reno and Susanville on
the Scott mine and in the vicinity of
Butt Valley,
A rich strike in the Delhi mine at
Columbia Hill. Nevada County. is re-
ported by the Nevada City Miner
Transcript, which gives the following
account:
The Delhi mine at Columbia Hill in this
county, which has total yield Of a million and
quarter dollars TO its credit and has paid divi-
dends to the amount Of $500, 600 Is fast coming
back into its former position as one OF the lead
ing gold producers OF California In the 2OO-foot
was encountered few months ago in the level
s above has been opened up for a distance Of
ity with each days work done The vein is three
feet and upward in thickness and the pay ore Is
will mill at least $50 a ton in free gold besides
which It contains liberal quantities Of high-grade
sulphurets, has been extracted IN driving the
drift, the face Of which Is still In this forma-
tion.
work Is also being vigorously prosecuted, has a
six-foot vein of excellent milling ore although It
is not Of as high grade as is found IN the north
Within the past two years the present owners
have expended over $4,000 in surface improve
ments and dead work.
new ore shoot has been uncovered
In the Pennsylvania shaft of the Souls
byville mine in Tuolumne County that
is three and half feet wide, as re-
ported, and is rich in free gold and
sulphurets. In the Same vicinity the
Parallel mine, near Soulsbyville, is
sinking new shaft o. property that
has been idle for some years The
main tunnel of the Los Angeles mine
also will be extended.
Some facts concerning mining In
Placer County are interesting. The
tunneling in the Mayflower mine, for
instance, is estimated to be twenty
miles, the main tunnel alone being two
and a half miles in length. Three
miles of channel in the McGeachan
mine near Iowa Hill are reported to
be unworked to date.
The Clipper mino, near Kennett,
Shasta County. has been. leased to
George Grady by Alfonso di Nola of
San Francisco. The mine has not been
worked for some time. Formerly 1t
produced well. Litigation that was
protracted and costly caused the ces-
sation of mining. High-grade ore. has
been discovered in the workings re-
Gently
A rich strike has been reported as
having been made in the Washington
pnira in French Gulch, Shasta County
deeper than the old workings. A three-
foot vein was struck.
BIG OFFER MADE FOR OIL
Large sums of money are involved
in deals for oil in Southern California
The advancing prices for oil have in
terested all the producers. The Los
Angeles Times says:
Twenty-Five cents for 5000, 900 barrels Is the
offer recently made By the Standard to the inds-
pendent well owners Of Midway an induce
ment for them to open up that great district
that has been Idle many years. At first the
octopus wanted ten million at this figure. but
with the present outlook would consider
such proposition for a minute, and the demand
was accordingly reduced to six. AS Midway Is
without transportation facilities, the Standards
proposition necessarily involved building a pipe
line to connect with the Bakersfield Point Rich
mond line
So far the offer has not been accepted and
there are some of the operators. at least, who
declare that there iS not the most remote pos
sibflity that It ever VIII be- so far as they
are concerned. although to others 1t may look
a year ago 1t is less by 215 cents than what
the Associated has just contracted to pay the
Producers Agency at Kern River for a years
output The offer was fatty refused by one Los
Angeles operator. OF course, 1t will be neces-
sary for the owners to get together and act
in concert, as no one two could attempt to
I'LL so large contract.