The San Francisco call., 1908-09-14

J Is credited TO Kern ana san berndrulho
counties.
A report is current in Quincy, Plu-
mas county, that the engineers in
charge of the big Spring Garden tunnel
believe that rich ore body has been
struck The tunnel is for railroad use.
The story is questioned, but there is
enough belief in the accuracy of the
rumOr to excite local interest The
/ Oroville Register discusses the matter
! and says that the borings are in re-
gion heavily impregnated with minerals
of various kinds.
The Big Blue lead mining company
has secured an order from the superior
court under which the executor of the
estate of p. r. Persons is directed to
convey to the company certain lands
which were bonded prior to the death
of Persons for $4,000. The Gridley Her.
aid says that operations at the mine
viii be started on large scale as an
immediate result of this move. Pre-
vious attempts to work the channel
have not been successful. The failure
is attributed to the cost of handling the
water. A channel has been opened up
from the lower end which is supposed
to be adequate to provide the necessary
drainage.
The Los Angeles Herald is response
bic for a story that machine is oper-
mining company. 25 miles north Of Bar
stow. handling 100 tons of placer mate
rial daily and saving 80 per cent of the
values. The land was worked by primi-
tive methods in early days.
The Nevada City MinerTranscript
says that rock that is going through
the mill of the Ethel mine, in the
Washington district, is averaging $50
to the ton. The information is derived
from A Mailman, the manager of the
mine. On the same authority it is said
that there is unprecedented activity in
the Washington and Graniteville min
ing districts. Mines that have been idle
for long time have been reopened by
men who have come from the outside.
The Sacramento Bee says that q strike
has been made near the old camp of
Baltic, in Gods country. In the Boston
mine, where so 1t is reported, a pay
shoot of two feet of quartz milling s25
TO the ton is in view. a syndicate has
undertaken to reopen the Dover mine
in the same vicinity and also have
bonded the Maggie and Liberty proper
ties.
Pay gravel is reported to have been
struck in the Prevolcanic mine in FL
Dorado county, near Pacific, on the
Lake Tahoe road A tunnel has been
run 700 feet to connect with the bot
tom of the shaft. The rich gravel
was discovered during the running of
the tunnel A correspondent of the Bee
writes: 1T is evident that this is an
ancient river bed. The miners have
found the north rim, but the south edge
has not been discovered. The owners
believe that the pay gravel is 1900 feet
wide. They have no way to tell how
long il is
According to the Shasta county news
papers the electrical smelling process
at the Heroult iron plant has been run
ming some weeks smoothly and is,
seemingly a success. A large furnace
1 is in construction that will use 1000
horsepower of electrical energy. To
supply the power the Northern Califor-
MIA power company will provide three
large transformers. Twenty five men
are employed steadily at Heroult. Sur
veys have been made for a gravity tram
TO connect the iron mine with the
smelter.
The famous Gwin mine, so says the
Tuolumne Independent, has been closed
down, seemingly for good. All the un-
deground machinery has been taken
out. The Gwin was one of the early
quartz mines to be operated in this
state. In its time it has yielded mil
lions of dollars. There is some good
rock in the mine, but the company has
concluded not to work it any fur
ther. The rock must be- hauled a mile
underground and then hoisted about a
third Of a mile, vertically. The cost
of these operations consumed the prof
its that might have been derived un-
der better circumstances. If the mine
is ever opened again a new shaft will
be sunk directly to the ore. For the
present, at least, the plant will be kept
intact.
Mines in San Bernardino county that
are developing will soon encounter ore
shoots, if the opinion of the Hart En-
terprise is verified by the results of
that the main adit of the Big Chief
mine is in 420 feet and the face shows
a heavy, oxidiZed stain. Quartz is ap-
pearing in larger quantities. A streak
of ore was struck in the upper tun-
mel. The shaft on the Hart Florence
property has been sunk 95 feet. A
crosscut has been started from the ZOO
foot level of the Jumbo shaft, and fair
values have been encountered. A north
crosscut is being run from the $50 foot
tunnel in the old Mahana and Nc
Guire lease.
A new mining camp, known as Gold
Valley, has been located 2S miles
southwest of Hart and IA miles south
east of Gina, on the east slope of the
PROVIDENCE range Oh near
where the old Providence mine is A
syndicate has put in a large mill.
Mining activity in the vicinity of
Death Valley" says the Hart Enter
prise, has sunk back into the dead
4 level of the lonesome days following
the farewell of the twenty mule borax
teams. The region is practically
abandoned TO the shuck-a-walla, side
winders and a few burro men who are
camping about the canyon springs and
/ desert wells. The panic of October
I bore down on the Death Valley and
cast a gloom that has not lifted
Agents for the Oroville dredging
company, so says the Oakdale Graphic
have commenced work on the Orange
/ Blossom colony lands. Holes have been
drilled in different places in the tracts
to find out whether the dirt will pay
to work.
Two companies are operating In. the
Baldy district, in San Bernardfflo coun-
! ty Two smelters have been con-
structed.
Filings have been made on zinc
claims in San Bernardino county, situ-
ated near Gina, by e. V. Caldwell and
others.
Compressors have been secured for
the Lecompton and Norambagua mines
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