The San Francisco call., 1907-06-03
Mining Syndicate VIII Dredge Bed
of the Klamath River for Gold
Los Angeles Board Adopts Plan for
Investigation of Properties

velopment company is opening up the
Giant King mine near Washington,
Nevada county. A 30 stamp mill will
be erected this summer.
Gold has been struck in the Gold
Mound mine at Deadmans Flat, Nevada
county The Grass Valley Union says
that mill tests have given an average
assay Of $22.50 a ton. The property
has been taken in by Spokane mining
men.
The state board of equalization made
trip recently through the northern
counties Of California. They have in
terested the mining county dwellers
by saying, since their return to Sacra-
mento, that while all the mining coun-
ties of the north show that no increase
in valuation will be reported there will
be no decrease, as the timber valuations
viii offset the effects of strikes and
the shutting down of mines. This ap-
plies to Tuolumne. MADEIRA, Siskiyou,
Mariposa, Calaveras, Plumas and Modoc
counties.
A wonderful strike is reported to
have been made in the Willow creek
mines about five miles southwest of
Greenwater. Since the strike the peo-
pie of Willow creek have laid out a
townsite and a petition is in circula-
Lon to have a postofice established.
Work at the New Idria mines. so says
the IlOllISltT AQNdHCHs mas Dt6Il utidy GQ
by the scarcity of labor. The new 100
ton furnace has been made ready to op-
crate.
RICH MINING SECTION
The Amador Record says that there
are six dividend paying mines in a
territory in Amador county extending G
six miles. and also reports a recent
strike in the Fremont mine of rich ore.
The value of $4,000 is reported to have
been taken out from the pay chute.
In Amador county, so says the Rec
ord, "ore chutes are found at intervals
Of a quarter of q mile from the Mok-
elumne river to the Consumes river,
a distance of about % miles, and in this
territory there has been taken out in
the past % years in round numbers
$4,000. .O00."
A big lawsuit is promised over the
ownership of the Baltic quartz mine,
near Randsburg, says the Bakers
field Californian. The mine, which has
been valued at $4,000, is owned by
Charles II. Wynn.
The Hartery mining company. doing
business in Nevada county, has voted
TO reduce its capital stock from $780,
0O0 to $4,000. The Grass Valley Tid-
ings explains the action taken as fol-
lows.
The new state law fixing the license tax of
corporations falls hard on the small mines of
the state, many of which are hardly able 10
raise sufficient funds to pay the annual assess
ment work. Hereafter the capital stock OF the
Hsrtery company will be $4,000, and the shares
to each stockholder. The tax for a corporation
of $4,000 under is $40 TO the state each
SIS per year and over 500. 600 and under $50,
600 the IS $50 per year. The license tax
gradually increases until in some cases the sum
Of 500 is reached. This amount viii pay the
assessment work, and IL is the opinion that
within short time. many Of the small cor
porations viii take the same action that was
inaugurate ted by the Hartery directors.
REPORTS FROM THE MINES
The California lime company has
been incorporated to develop lime
claims in San Bernardino county, near
Deyore- Three large kilns have been
erected. Eastern men are interested.
The capital stock is S230000
The Golden Eagle mine at Hayden
hill has been shut down by the Lassen
mining company The Lassen Mail says
that the principal reason was the con-
dition of the labor. market. Enough
men are employed to keep the mine in
condition so that work may be resumed
at any time.
Lee Beers of Goldfield has bonded IL
claims at Willow creek for $4,000. The
claims adToin what is known as the
Baltic group. The terms of the bond
provide that the property must be de-
veloped at once.
More men are working in the Green
water district than at any previous
time. Twenty hoists are developing
and many other hoists have been Or
dered Half dozen shafts are down
to the 300 foot level. Nine months ago
there was but one hoist in the entire
district.
The Richland mining company, oper-
ating near Nevada City, has run a
tunnel 100 feet to tap the channel
operated formerly by the Manzanita
mining company The ground will be
worked by the drift method.
Complaint is made in San Bernardino
county that there are not enough guide
posts on the Mojave desert to guide
prospeetors. Without guide posts the
Aiangers to prospectors for desert mines
are large, notwithstanding the increas-
ing population and the development of
water