The San Francisco call., 1907-01-07
Advance Mine Of Siskiyou
Sold to Denver Capitalists
Ledge Averaging Eight Feet in Width
Uncovered on the Property

The papers have been signed by
which the sale of the Advance mine.
one of the most important properties
Of Siskiyou County. was consummated.
The purchasers are wealthy men of
Denver, who were represented in the
deal by Henry d. Woods, one of the
new owners of the Advance. A. G.
Brokaw was the seller. Arrangements
have been discussed which will prob
ably lead to the requirement by the
same Denver parties of other mining
properties in China Gulch, where the
Advance is situated.
The Advance mine has been devel-
oped to a depth of only 100. feet 1t
has, according to the Scott Valley Ad-
vance, a ledge that averages eight feet
in width. The pay ore has been traced
some distance. A large amount OF de-
velopment work is promised to take
place in the spring. An aerial bucket
tramway a mile long will be construct
ed for the purpose of handling ores
between the mines and the mill. Mill
ing ore has been handled that ran $40
a ton. One hundred men will be en-
ployed. The price paid for the Advance
property was $4,000.
A mining company organized by
Wiltse and others will spend s250,o0Q,
If necessary, in prospecting the country
about the Iron Mountain mine In Me-
yada County. About 100000 has been
spent already. Torpie, superintendent
of the Iron Mountain mine. says that
there are great bodies of copper ore TO
be opened up. A good sized mining
camp with a smelter will be created at
Indian Springs. A force of men is
crosscutting on the ledge. 1T is be-
lieved," so says the Nevada City Miner
Transcript, that within few years
this will be one of the largest copper
properties IN the country.'f
WILL OPERATE BONANZA
The forty stamp mill of the Bonanza
mine in Trinity County will be In
operation soon. The plant Will cost
about $150,000. Construction was much
retarded by lack of materials and also
by the difficulties of team freightlng
across the mountains in winter. The
owners of the property are awaiting
the first clean up with great amount
of ore on the dumps to be worked.
The excitement caused by the dis
coyery by Warren and Wilkes of
copper deposit near Magalia, in the
neighborhood of Chico, continues.
correspondent writes that the outcrop-
pings project ten feet and that samples
of the ore have given good assets.
Recent mineral discoveries in Butte
County include diamonds, platinum and
copper.
The Redding Searchlight reports that
an agreement exists by which the
Trinity Copper Company is prevented
from constructing an independent
smelter. The agreement gives to the
Balaklala Mining Company the ores of
the Shasta King Mining Company, and
this would be sufficient to prevent the
building of the proposed Independent
smelter.
Gold ore will be sent from the Golf
King mine on Mule Mountain, Shasta
County, to the Mammoth Smelter. The
Gold King Company is reported to have
run a 500-foot tunnel that cuts the vein
of ore at depth of 450 feet.
Severe weather IN Plumas County
compelled the management of the
Plumas- Eureka mine, near townsville,
to stop work for time. Neither the
ditch nor the tramway in construction
had been completed when the order to
stop was issued. The Jamison mine
may be shut down also because of. the
weather, the water supply having froz-
en-. Some of the miners who were en-
ployed by the Plumas- Eureka mire
have gone to Nevada Others have
found work with the Western Pacific
Company making tunnels in Plumas
County.
FILING 5000 CLAIMS
Five thousand mining claims nave
been filed in San Bernardino County
since last October The figures are
large, but they have been verified.
Twenty-Five hundred prospects have
been fully staked out and located in
less than three months. Some of the
claims are near Silver Lake and In the
Ord district. The demand for location
blanks has been unprecedented The
rush still continues. In the past few
weeks the entire townsite of Olive
Lake has been sold by Richard Dia-
mond and others.
The Genevieve quartz mine, in Placer
County, will probably be reopened. 1t
is situated in the Columbia district
Copper Is found in the property to some
extent The Placer Herald says that
ore that has been taken out averaged
189 ton. A shaft has been sunk, but
not to much depth.
New finds OF gold ore at Harrison
Gulch, in Shasta County, are reported.
E. P Connor has exhibited rich sam
pies at Redding that were literally
sprinkled with gold. These were taken
from the face of a twenty-foot tunnel
on the Blue Bell claim on Salt Creek.
The claim adjoins the Bonanza claims.
Construction has commenced on an
Experimental fifty-ton electric smelling
plant, six miles from Kennel, in Shasta
County. The work is being done by
the Northern California Power Com
pany The purpose of this is to provide
for testing the depocits Of iron found
in the country near the confluence of the
McCloud and Pit rivers. H. H. Noble,
president of the Northern California
Power Company says that the iron de-
posits are large and promising and that