The San Francisco call., 1907-03-04
Good Strikes Are Made
in California Mines

and smaller amounts IN silver and cop
per.
A new mill has been erected at
Atolia. on the desert. four miles south
OF johannesburg, on the Randsburg
Railroad, to treat the tungsten deposits
at that place.
DETAILS OF SETTLEMENT
The details concerning the important
settlement of differences between the
Home and Champion mines in Nevada
County are given by the Miner Tran
script as follows:
Both of the Homes against the Cham
pion were dismissed without costs The Home
mine is decided TO the Champion, with all its
promise the cbampion gers tbe Home mine as
its own. the Home Is released from paying the
s26. 900 Judgment recently obtained against II.
and also the Home gets modest additional
There is on hand a large quantity OF ore
taken out by the two companies and stored pre-
ylous 10 the beginning OF tie litigation The
Home mill Of thirty stamps viii shortly be
started on the 234O tons CT ore remaining of that
taken from the disputed ground by the home
Z stored in the drifts. This ore is said to be
a quality that viii MIL from s. TO So ton.
The Home had. sccording to the evidence offered
Al the trial and to its own admissions. already
tnre came II Is beIieved that when the re-
mainder is worked the Home mill will be shut
down permanently. The Champion mill. which
has seventy stamps in all Is TO start up al
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broken down in large quantities by that com
pany. In the meantime Mr. Nonnemann will
crowd underground developments. be has had
d small force OF men at work for some time
past doing retimbering and repairing the tracks
and getting everything in shape 10 put the mine
productive basis once more
The Champion has arranged TO connect with
Grating the compressors of both plants This
means an important saving 10 the management
I in the expenses.
EAST SIDE COPPER BELT
Mineral Wealth describes the east
side copper belt in Shasta County in de-
tail. The belt extends from the After
thought mine at Ingot TO the Bully
Hill mine at De Lamar, and is entirely
distinct from the belt on the west side
OF the Sacramento River. The Mineral
Wealth says:
While the corner is generally associated witt
the rbyolite, the ore occurs In well-dehned ns
sures. and while the ore bodies are lenticular II
form. exploration al depth has proved that thes'
lenticular masses containing large ore ton
naees are going down 10 great depths. At tbs
AfterthOUght well at Bully HUI the bes
developments the mines have been made a.
! the greatest depth 50 far obtained which il
/ each case is well below the level OF surfae'
drainage
comparatively small furnace. second furnace
12xl50 inches in dimensions at the tuyeres. wal
! commission since last JuDs The smelter Il
connected with the mine by short line OF steau
j railroad ana The ore Is loaded directly Int
the cars from chutes IN the mine and Is un
! loaded in the ore yards without any adoitiona
handling.
The lowest level OF the mine and its mail
working tunnel IS driven into the mountain from
point about twenty-five feet above the nortl
fork Of Cow Greek This bore penetrstes tn
size and Is well lighted and ventilated. From
! this level a shaft has been started to open or
the level a crosscut IN the ore disclosed a widtl
Of sixty-eicht feet. and fifty i've OF the ore ex
silver values. and also some gold values. Dur
/ ing the coming year the company VIII open sew
working tunnel. and viii also extend its explora
tion into the mountain In 3 southeasterly direc
1 tion for several thousand feet along the mail
fssure.
A large amount OF work will be per
/ formed in the Yankee Jim district II
/ Placer County this year. A new loca
] tion near the Montague ranch, on th'
Auburn and Yankee Jim stage road, ha:
been sold TO Tonopah miners for $4,000
! Several old quartz lodges will be pros
pected.
/ A revival in the Harqua Harla anS
Mammoth camps in Arizona has takeI
place. Twenty stamps have beer
started in the Harqua Harla mill, IL
the northeastern part OF Yuma County
4 Prospecting in the Mammoth at tn
I lower levels has given such encour
/ aging signs that the shaft will b,
sunk 1000 feet to strike the ore bod,
( far below the old workings
-Four hundred miners are working fl
and around the camp at Quartzite
| Yuma County, and rich finds OF cope
have been struck near the surface
More than 100000 has been expende,
1 TO get the Desert Queen mine, fift,
miles from Vicksburg, into good shape
An ore body was encountered recent,
that is reported to have containe,
25. per cent of copper. Operations hav,
also been resumed in the old Arivac:
district, in the southern part Of PIN;
4 County, A I.