The San Francisco call., 1909-01-03

=
one principal matter of immediate in
Jenest in the California mining field.
? but as previously indicated. there is
more than the customary bsoyancy in
a.l the other mineralized counties in
this state.
The smeiter at Keeler is reported 10
Zoe turning out something like 10000
pounds Of lead. silver and gold a day.
: The bulk Of the product is lead. The
sneiter is owned and operated by the
J -Four Metals company. which corpora
lion was evolved from the old Great
q estern ore purchasing company The
! ores surrounding keeier are largely
sl!Fer-lead.
Operations are about TO begin at the
9@e. Nerro GordO mine which is con-
kIo4leq by the -Four Metals company.
the Inxo county papers say that the
lnQnthly production of the Casa Diablo
about $4,000; that the Monster prop
~ IS shipping ore 10 Keeler; that
Iaere IS general Improvement in the
. 5reenwater district; that the shaft of
the GreenWater and Death valley com
2any Is down l. 600 feet: and that the
tesLuc group Of mines at Death valley
Is making good showing in ore.
) a run Of 80 days of the iron smelter
at HerOUlt, Shasta county, as reported
Led 10 some interesting results. Thir-
: y5nVe tons OF pig iron were electri-
.ealsX produced IN this period at an
average cost for electric power of $5iS
= ton During the last IA days of the
qua the cost OF power went down 20
$50 ton A new furnace is in con-
5tructon that viii. l. is estimated.
33fn out 10 tons Of pig iron day at
5sle@ e. total cost OF sI6. A. gravity tram
.t.tal ;~as built 10 carry the ore 10 the
= s95elLer Is nearly completed. Sixty
m eTl alaye been employed at the smelt-
; e. mich is between Pitt and Della
: 3llar on the lire of the Sacramento val
-!.sg ana Eastern railroad.
ia 5..l High grade ore. so says the Nevada
AsatR. MiRer Transcript has been taken
1rQln: the Red Star mine in Sierra
So3a1ty, that resembles the ore of the
RhLner mine. The Red Star is in
: tL}et eAlleghany district An annual
-llseetlng OF the Red Star mining com
.pan:E VII be held in Denver in Jan
::uaF4s. a decision regarding operations
s55!. l2e mine may be reached at that
i11rss, as She result Of the returns from
.clte sample ore that has been sent on.
Gold ore that. according to local
REPORTS, assayed $500 TO the ton, has
.DgeJl* uncovered in the new mining
gaTnle- Of Gold Valley. san Bernardino
t93l!. 524is. near near. Gina, The property was
l9gs Angeles and others.
q. he: development work in progress
III Esaeer county is on quite a large
scale The Fl Dorado and Home Ticket
= :. :. -a; last chance gravel mines have
been worked steadily during the past
year. The gold dredge at Cash Rock
sTas. been completed. The old Crater
been re9pened. The MaFysville mining
company is running night and day. The
4aAe Deen reopened and the Darda-
aae4les- and Baltimore at Forest Hill and
.lse paragon mine at Hath are working
.agalH Many claims in the Ophir dis
lrlcL are developing. An old channel
on .DuQcan ridge has been opened by
~. savage and D. NJ Raw The Rueb-
I'm eimine at Last Chance has been de-
Aefoped m the past year and a five
81 amp. mill is operating thereon. At
. The: old Harlow mine L. 7. Laird and
.Ihe A9uinn Brothers have placed a mill
rhat WIKI soon be crushing cement
gravel The Placer Herald says:
= Work az the mines except the Three Stars
and Cash Rock, is going usual. The
lseusion at the former caused by the lack
Of power 70 sink below the 100 foot level and
AT the latter by the winter rains. No mines
have been abandoned. No phenomenslly rich ore
has been struck like that at the Three Queens
IN 1897, but a large quantity OF high value ore
has been taken out. The drift mines have
ms lnfs1ned their record paving properties.
aud work st each one has been prosecuted
Trough the whole year. Many locations
on Eeins and sl0Dg gravel channels have been
nane anor taxing everything into consideration,
n .iiers- generally regard the outlook for the
coming year as much more encouraging than IL
was a year age. Probably more deals have been
m6de 81 mines during the present year than
have been IN an equal period for many years.
3. = ne coming OF W :. Fletcher 70 the Forest
Hsu divide, his money investments and his
pay as you 60 method did much to bring the
mines of the divide into their old time proni-
ine1Qe and 10 put heart into the mining men Of
that section.
AT the startoEn mine at Last Chance the
company has been running 8 tunnel 70 open up
snothet part Of the channel Of the old river on
which Fl Dorado is situated. Prospecting at
tie May6oWer has been going on the whole year.
2 he company VIII probably make an upraise and
strike The lead running through the Black
Hawk. WsSs0n. Live Oak and Buckeye mines.
dsy and a night shift are working at the
Cater Tho Rswhide vein has been steadily
: worked during the year and has paid regular
dividends. A great deal Of development work be-
. Fighting Bob and the Davenport veins, Au-
. burn, are being opened up and are two very
Superintendent p Iuzsno OF the Bellevue
shipped a sI.z25 bar Of gold 10 Uncle Sans
mint that represented a 10 days run Consid-
cradle assessment work IS being performed on
the many claims il Ophir district and in some
cases good ore has been struck The orpheum
mining company, in Ophir district, viii install
their electric power plant and continue sinking
the shaft 10 q depth OF 400 feet. The COM
pletion Of the dredge at the Cash Rock marks the
i. IS an experiment, and much depends upon
It's success
The Amador county papers say that
there IS a fair prospect that the Argo-
nsut mine win soon produce very
largely. A station viii soon be cut at
the 5000 level.
The Placerville Nugget says that the
California Manhattan mine, In the Man
haitian district, is showing up well,
with IN eight foot ore body in the
shaft that viii average about s14; also
that rich ore has recently been taken
from the Sherman mine. just north Of
Placerville.
A recent rich strike in a lower level
of the Charrouat mine, at Canada Hill,
Nevada county. has stimulated the
opening up OF new ground east Of Ne
vada City. The Nevada City Miner
Transcript says:
Among the properties which are coming TO
the front in the Canada Hill area are the Dublin
and Old Aac mines. The Old Mac is owned by
the McCutcheon family and is a northern ex-
. tension of the Canada HILL In the doing OF the
current assessment work. just finished. a cut
was made through the OutcrOppings where the
naturalization is y feet wide. It is scanned
with stringers Of brown quartz, which taken
for rich indics fions. The quartz carries white
iron pyrifes and black cubic iron and some free
gold The Dublin joins the Old Mac the
north.
Soon after the frst Of The year crushing viii
~ made of 16o tons Of ore taken out Of the
Weeks mine in the Rough Ssd Ready district.
Tho owners Of this property have been quietly
working away OneninQ ground in \