The San Francisco call., 1908-10-26

bN the miners of the Pacific coast TO
secure the passage of the bill intro
ouced by Congressman Englebright for
the establishment OF national depart
ment OF mines. This bill has been
passed by the house of representatives
and has also been read twice in the
senate at Washington. The action of
The trans mississippi congress, which
adopted q resolution introduced by
state Mineralogist Aubury of Cali
lofnla. has accentuated the attitude OF
the mining congress at Denver, which
urged that q bureau OF mines was
needed. The Aubury resolution at the
Trans Mississippi congress asked that a
law shall be passed at the earliest pos
sible day, and that ample appropria-
uons shall be, provided for its main
, tenance.
There have been many land troubles
IN California in the last few years
which Vitally concerned the interests
OF the miners. Lands have been taken
into private ownership in large bodies
that We're acquired by the fraudulent
use OF dummy locators, who have acted
~ the interest of land grabbers. In
Nevada there have been land troubles
aiso IN which miners have been largely
concerned There is no existing national
bureau that represents the miners
or the United States in matters of this
nature or in other ways in which a
tiaL All mining associations through
out the country are supposed to be
making an active campaign for the es-
Enlistment OF a national bureau Of
mines and mining.
OLD MINES DEVELOPED
, Within a week several attempts have
been made in California TO develop old
mining properties. The management of
The Union Hill mine in Nevada county
has decided TO sink three compart-
ment shaft TO the depth of 1000 feet
At Deadman's Flat the sinking OF
shaft has been begun on the Alma mine.
The Alma mine has as near neighbors
the West Point. the IrOnclad and the
Osceola mines. The Alta Sonora mines
company is reported to have opened
1p a prospect on the western extension
Of the OHara vein.
The Sonora Times says that the Nc
C0rmick and Mcpherson mine near
Jacksonville has found values that run
from s.. coo TO $4,000 q ton, by running
a tunnel i'm $50 feet
New quartz worth $1,000 a ton, so
writes a correspondent. has been found
on the A. A. Schofeld place near Couto-
lenc. in the Magalia ridge country. On
The Magalia ridge the Blue Channel
company. q new corporation, has begun
operations on the Durgin ground, near
Tie Cape Horn mine. The Cape Horn,
tie Gurin mine and other properties
viii be at work soon A nugget worth
SS00 was found accidentally while pipe
near the De Saba power house, near
the orc FinO mine, was being taken out,
SO ii is reported.
The Redding Courier Free Press says
that the great smelling plant of The
Balsklala company at Coram viii be
blown I'm soon. This with the Keswick
smelter, The smelter Of the Bully Hill
no lf 10
Mammoth copper company al Kenneth
and the plant OF the Great Western
gold company at Ingot, viii give Shasta
county A chance TO make great record
, the year 1910.
Properties near Grass Valley owned
hy the Gauthier estate, consisting of
two claims. says the Nevada City Miner
Transcript, VIII be worked by John
Burgess and others A shaft on the
property is 200 feet deep. A corpora
tion has been formed to work the land.
TO be known as the Grass Valley Dana
mining company
According TO the Oroville Register. a
rich gold strike has been made g few
miles from Hurleton. in the Phoenix
group.
According to the Hanford Sentinel.
deposit Of cement rock has been dis
covered by W. T. Allen near Han
ford in a four foot formation. If this
proves 10 be what is hoped for it, the
value to the county will be large. The
cement output Of California, from Napa
San Bernardino and Solano counties, in
the last few years has amounted in
value To more than s10.O00.0 000, Of which
S2.5S5,51s, judging from the annual re-
ports OF the California state mining
bureau. mast be credited to 1907 The
outcome Of the investigation to follow
the strike by Allen viii be of interest
YELLOW JACKET DISCOVERIES
The Trinity Journal says that the
Yellow Jacket discove1es Of gold on
East Fork have served to bring in ex-
nerts from many places to view the
Cripple Creek Of Trinity county:
Specialists have already come from distant
parts 20 Trinity county and 10 everv case
agree upon fbe facts that, aside from the large
sipounr of free gold contained in the lodges
nc tellurldes appear IN such quantities that
1he question 10 be settled Is to what class do
these tellurides belong. Sylvanite has been
pronounced TOO low grade and calaFarnite
seeIns 10 he the quality about which general
opinion cenIcrS
The dumps at tie mine now contain several
tons of the precious ore ranging from $1,000
10 $4,000 per ton; and this IS not aIl The
feet that tellurium seems 10 be growing into
The ledge IN a more general and permanent
form than when it first appeared: that the ledge
itself IS in place and follows the same direc-
fion and dip as other permanent IedgeS in tho
same district: that the ledge has been traced
up the hillside for q distance Of some a 500
feet and prospects heavy in gold along this dis
10 greater depth the favorable appearance
n tie rouges IN both walls and that il appear,
TO be q ''true fssure''-aIi these are Doinfs
which justify the mining expert in prono1nc-
ing the Yellow Jacket enc Of the future assets
of northern California.
NEVADA MINES
The two topics Of leading interest
in the last week, relating to Nevada
mines. were the settlement Of Htiga-
tion between the Goldfield Florence
and the Little Florence companies.
which enabled the parent company to
pay its fourth dividend Of a year, or
$4,000 ia year in al, and the state
rnents made in the Goidfield papers that
the Diamondfeld Daisy has struck an
Important body OF ore. Several other
matters concerning the Goldield dis
trict are worth mentioning and the
other southern Nevada mining districts
have been interested IN stories that
have found ther way into print in the
newspapers of Nevada.