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The San Francisco call., 1909-12-12
Round Mountain District

summary of the weeks news from
the Round mountain district shows that
mining activities in that selfmade
camp are on plane of steady increase
both as to leasing operations and COM
pany operations A number of mining
company officials from distant states
are now in the camp looking over the
ground, checking up on development
work, etc. and arranging to start ex-
tensive and intensive development OF
the properties owned by their several
companies.
The Round mountain company con-
tinues its steady output, with the de-
velopment work and ore reserves grad
ually forging further and further ahead
of reduction. On the Blue Jacket, Solid
critics leasers are busily engaged.
In the camp itself there is some talk
of a pending consolidation of various
properties in the center of the proven
zone of the camp, but as yet the Off
cials of all the mining companies con-
cerned profess ignorance of any such
move.
1t is pointed out that the splendid
mill of the Round mountain company
can handle S. ore at a profit. and that
by effecting consolidation of some of
the properties and enlarging the
Sunny yside mill Round mountain would
produce dividends of a nature to strike
those who have not been keeping track
OF developments in that camp-Gold-
field News.
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THE OIL FIELDS
American Petroleum

The flowing well of The American
petroleum company on section 10 at
which was one of the show places when
the excursionists from Los Angeles Wis
ited Coalinga, has increased its flow to
5000 barrels and is now one of the
best wells Of that field. The infor-
nation was received by Field Manager
T. A. ODonnen lately by telephone.
Mr. O'Donnell was also notified at the
same time that No. 8, on section 10,
was gassing heavily and he expects
another good one there.
The daily output of the American
now ranges from $500 to 5000 barrels,
but the amount will be greatly in
creased production from No. l on 10
Los Angeles Times.
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Kavanaugh, Gormley and Dieben-
brock of Sacramento, heavy stock hold
ers in the Mangante property, were on
last week. The gentlemen are much
pleased with the showing at the pres
ent depth and express the determine
tion to go on down.
About the first of the year sinking
will be resumed and another 100 feet
will be added to the depth of the shaft.
The funds for this work are on hand
and it is certain that the values al 200
feet Will show that the money has
been wisely expended.
Assays from the vein at the 100 foot
level give returns that seem almost too
good, and that the Mangante will de-
velop into a producer is among the
mining certainties of this district.
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SHIPPING NEWS OF COAST
Items of Interest to Mariners
of the Pacific
TSoecial D;spotch 10 The Call

IOPecidt Dlspdfch 10 ne Call
ASTORIA, Dec. 1.-THE oil tanker Argyll
arrived today with oil and proceeded
The steamer Caseo. with part cargo of
lumber for San Francisco. went down the river
today to Knappton to finish loading
The oil tanker Asuncion in ballast for San
Francisco, arrived down the river today and
will leave out at the first opportunity.
The oil tank steamer Catania left for San
Francisco this morning after having discharged
its cargo
steamer Kansas City in some way at present
unknown lost its bearings and ran on the mud
fats ST. Helens and up to this afternoon
is still fast there AS the steamer HassaIo came
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MINES AND THEIR PRODUCTS

other while the produho
fully a reports indicate There plenty OF water IN
been public the last
mil % turn g 0
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Strike in Masonic Mountain

A four foot ledge carrying gold and
copper was opened up in the Masonic
mountain property on the 29th inst.
The average assay taken across the
whole four feet gives a return of $40.
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average extraction of 80 per cent was
recorded.
The Tonopah company sent 5000 tons
the Montana -Tonopah 96S tons. the
MacNamara 800 TONS West End 100
tons and Midway 100 tons, making the
total shipments for the week 5.02S
tons. the estimated value being $125, 700
owing to being closed down for re-
pairs the Belmont shipped no ore
Tnnonah Miner.
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SOUTHERN MINES
BimetaIIiC Mine

new strike in the Bimetallic mine
near Kingman, Ariz., indicates that the
London Venture corporation. which
holds a bond on the mine for $3.50. .000,
will exercise the option to purchase.
Engineers Spur and Cox are in charge
Of the property under direction of
John Hays Hammond and are operating
the mill and developing the mine The
strike was made in an open cut, where
four feet of $1,000 ore is reported to
have been found by a mining man who
recently returned from Kingman.
According to the original agreement,
Hammond was due in Kingman Novem-
Der 81, when it was presumed some ac-
tion would be taken.
A telegram from the Herald to L. nj.
Lamont, president of the Arizona gold
mining company. which owns the mine,
elected the reply that negotiations
were still pending and that the option
would not be exercised inside of so
days.-Los Angeles Herald
Orange Blossom Mine
The Orange Blossom mine, located
near Bagdad, this state. was put up
recently at receivers sale and was
bought in by President John Denair for
$4,000. the amount of the debts. Spir
tied bidding was done, running the
price from $4,000 to $1,000. Denair
offered $4,000, and Referee Lynn Helm
announced he would not consider any
edness. as the assets of the property
amounted to S122,000. Denair then
raised his bids to the figure named.
After the sale President Denair an
nounced that he would protect all the
stock holders in the old company who
would join him in an effort to place the
company on its feet and in operative
shape. Whether this will be done by
stock assessment, to reimburse him
for the amount bid. and which must be
paid in cash within 10 days, or by re-
Organization and the issuing of addi-
tional shares each stock holder receiv-
ing one share in the new company for
each share he holds in the old, has not
been decided, but will pc at stock
holders meeting to be called at once.
The Orange Blossom has had many
vicissitudes. Values did not turn out
as expected above the water level. and
trouble followed. Creditors clamored
for money and the mine was thrown
into receivers hands and closed Presi-
dent Denair wired the superintendent
yesterday to arrange to place two
shifts developing below the water level,
700 feet, before the first of the year,
and he says active development below
that level will be followed.--Los An
geles Times.
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Big CIeanups at the Champion

Matters are held in allegiance at the
Champion mines pending the arrival
of President Jacocks and Manager Fitz-
gerald of the new Champion mines
company. superintendent Hosking has
everything in readiness for the formal
transfer OF the properties. He has had
the Home and Champion mills that
have been used for the reduction of
ores taken out by the leasers, thor
oughly cleaned and put into shape.
The new company viii have a clean
bill to start on.
The last Of the ore has been reduced
and amalgamated. Some of the leas-.
ers did exceptionally well during the
last few weeks on their work. The
cleanup of the Massie leasers netted
over 81 TO the man. while there was
another party of leasers that did much
better than this This particular party
crushed $50 tons of ore that gave re-
turns of over $4,000 and causing the
ore to go over SIC ton. This crew of
leasers made over SIS a day during the
|. time they worked and it is unnecessary
to say that they were loath to give UP
their leaSe.-NeVada City Transcript.
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Building Contracts

Mary F. Harris with J. Russell Selfridge com
paHv and RalsfOn iron works -Excavafing con
crete. structural steel and cast iron for q Eve
story and basement apartment building in line
q McAllister street. Ie5 E Of Hyde. s2:6xI37 o..
SISzsQ.
Hsrtlsnd Law. NJ. D.. with Smith Rice COM
psnr-E Erection and completion Of new structural 4
steel and restoration Of old steel for Rfalfo
building. Sc corner II Mission and New
Mont goInery streets. Sl3. $50.
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A Fortune in Sight

John Console was in town recently
from his Black Cow gem claims in
Reche canyon, bringing with him some
fine specimens. He has now sunk shaft
TO depth of 10 feet on a six foot
ledge and opened up an amazing as
sortment of gems. The rock fairly
blazing some of it showing amethyst,
others bloodstone and emerald; there
is also ruby. sardonyX, sapphire, opal,
topaz. turquoise and even a trace of
diamond composition.
The specimens show evidence of hay-
ing been subjected to an intense heat
for a long period. This indicates the
volcanic origin of the beautiful gems
and corroborates Consoles claim that
he is actually digging into the treasure
house of an extinct volcano.
That the volcano was no small af-
fair has been discovered by the lava
deposits which have been found for
miles about the cone, whose blazing
gems attracted Consoles son, while
looking for a black COW.
Gem men have taken an interest in
the discovery, and only the fact that
Console is determined to profit as much
a possible by the discovery, should 1t
prove of the high value experts believe.
prevents him from making sale of the
entire property at once and cleaning
up neat stake.-San Bernardlno sun.
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New Ore Body on MayfIower

c. Eisen president of the Mayfiower
Bullfrog consolidated mining company,
has corroborated the news of the re-
cent strike in the main workings of
the Mayfiower mime.
He says that a new ledge has been
uncovered which yields values from $25
to s35 ton in gold, and that apparently
the ledge is a large one. Continuing,
he said:
tent of the vein referred to, but /
know that we have the stuff and that
the values are and have been getting
better all the time, and that for many
days they have now been aging
above what our past values have been
and that from this we expect to get
some of our best returns.''-Gofdfield
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Tonopah Shipment,

The mill report of the Tonopah min
ing company for the last week shows
that an average of 81 out of the 100
stamps We're dropping constantly.
erage value Of s79 per ton.
The bullion shipment consisted OF
SO bars OF bullion. valued at s4S. 900,
and $4,000 pounds of concentrates
worth $1,000: making the total ooa bull
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Marine News
Weather Report

United States Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau. San Francisco. Dec. II. 1909.
RAINFALL DATA
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Phoebe Camp

Resumption of activities in the old
camp of Phoebe bids fair to make that
district rival It's former glories, and
intelligent mining on some of the old
estates that We're supposed to have
been worked out as well as de-
velopment of new properties, is open
ing up great bodies of milling ore as
well as some shoots of high grade
silver.
Weekly reports from the camp show
that the Phoebe King, the Prince Con-
solidated, the Phoebe Consolidated, the
Golden Prince, the Gold Chief and the
X-Ray are all blocking out ore that
runs from the milling to the shipping
grade.
New York capital is taking hold of
the camp, and as soon IS certain rail
road and smelter propositions in the
asst side of the state are settled, the
camp will be a large producer Much
of the rich manganese ore of the
Phoebe district is being shipped to the
smelters in Utah, where it is in de-
mand -C,oldfeId News
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Tonopah Extension

After being closed down. for sew
eral months, pending the erection of
the mill. the Tonopah Extension mine
has resumed operations in the under
ground workings. The mill is rapidly
nearing completion and the stamps
should begin dropping by the middle
of January. A delay of two months
occurred in the shipping of the cleo
trical machinery. which only left
Pittsburg last Wednesday
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CALIFORNIA
Genuine Gold Brick

l. A. Mcintosh, manaeeF of the Midas
mining company. came in from Har-
rison gulch Friday evening and brought
with him a gold brick worth more than
S2S,0O0. 1t was the November cleanup
al the 20 stamp mill running on ore
from the Midas mine.
The Midas is next to the Gladstone,
the best gold mine in Shasta countA
II has turned out more than $S,00O,O 900
in gold and is keeping up steady lick
at the rate of nearly $4,000 a month.
The mine is worked through YER
tieal shaft 1.4oO feet deep. the deepest
shaft in the county. One hundred and
ten men are employed in the mine and
the mill.-Red Bluff News.
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Prosperous Leasers

The several leasers in the Hoag min
ing district are vigorously prosecut-
ing the work of taking out a good
grade Of milling ore. AS we'll as leas-
ers others holding private claims are
filing the separate dumps with a quail
ity OF ore that will net the owners a
neat profit as soon as spring opens and
the custom mill starts.
Leasers on the Big Four are still
hammering away shooting down good
milling ore averaging $50 per ton.
Taken g whole there is more ac-
tivity and more progressive mining be-
ing done in the Hoag district this win
ter than at any time prior to this date,
there being seven different workings
that have crews at work that Will con-
tinue TO shoot ore the major part of
the winter which will. when the mill
is started in the spring" keep the mill
busy day and night without possi-
bility of a shutdown.-Bidwen Gold
Nugger.
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Ten Months Dividend

There can be no doubt of the enor-
nous profits in mining when. it is
learned through a careful compilation
that 109 American companies Nduring g
the first 10 months of 1909 paid their
share holders $52,S50,110. 1t is further
learned that these American mines and
metallurgical works have paid since
incorporation the enormous total Of
1888, 400. .250. a return on a combined
issued capitalization of $549. S25,
equivalent to 107 per cent.
OF the l09 companies paying diyi-
dends during the first 10 months of the
present year 76 operate in the United
States, ) in Mexico. Is in Canada and
three in Central and South America.
OF the United States companies 81 are
classed as gold -silver-lead producers.
and they have so far this year paid
dividends to the amount of S14.57S.716
on an issued EQUALIZATION of s154,-
1l7,25l.
Since Incorporation these rs COM
panies have distributed a grand total
of S113,644,451 return of IS per cent.
Mining World
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Fine Copper Ore

Tom Burril unloaded small sample
OF copper ore at the Fashion stable
Saturday which he hauled in from Tom
Head. II comes from one of the prop
critics of the California and Massachu-
setts copper mining company. and the
piece of mineral weighs over ton. The
ledge is fully 10 feet wide from which
this specimen of Tehama county cop
per was taken and the ore is an ideal
chaleopyrite.
An analysis would show that it car
ries about per cent copper, 81 to 50
per ton in gold, 40 per cent iron and
40 per cent sulphur with a little lime
and silica The manager of the mine
asserts that this chunk of is a
handsomer specimen of copper than
anything on exhibition in San Fran
cisco and is a more striking sample
than anything in the Field museum in
Chicago, which secured the best of the
exhibits made at the worlds fair.
He also states that no technical
school in the east has so fine or so
large a specimen of ore from any cop
per mine in the country producing the
sulphide ore of the same character
which makes northern California IA
nous as a copper country.-Red Bluff
pa0n1efC
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Blue Moon

The Blue Moon well on section 6,
and tested showing a delivery of s74
barrels day This statement is Of
fetal and was made by Zed Phelps,
manager of the company.
The Blue Moon has been in the pub
lie eye TO a great extent of late be-
cause of an assessment levied after
the oil sand was reached. The latest
development along these lines was an
attempt to have delinquency day post
poned by men said to be interested in
a manipulation of the stock.
The well is a close neighbor of the
famous Silver Tip the most spectacular
gusher ever brought in in the state
Los Angeles Herald.
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Santa >Fe Gusher

The Santa Fe gusher brought in at
Midway Sunday continues to spout oil
at the rate of $500 barrels a day. Res
ervoirs have been constructed and the
oil is being piped into the stora ge
tanks and saved. There is no apparent
diminution of the flow since the, well
was first brought in and the indiea-
tions are for a crackerjack Well. Santa
Fe offcials are delighted at the show
ding.
kersfeld people to take care of the
water in the old wells that were drilled
into the water sand at Mckittrick
years ago. Water will be taken from
these holes and used for steam pur-
poses; its removal will prevent it back
ing into the producing wells. These
holes are the two the McKittrick COM
pany drilled two years ago. one of
which developed into aI1 artesian we'll
that washed away the derrick in "a
hours.
The second drilled into the sand
started to flow at the rate of several
thousand barrels day. This flow sud-
denly ceased. 1t is believed that water
from these old wells is flooding the oil
sands displacing them For this reason
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Production of Platinum

The production of platinum from
placer mines of California in 1908 was
706 ounces Of refined metal, valued at
Sl3.4I4. Three-fourths of this was
from Butte county and smaller amounts
came from Humboldt, Siskiyou, Trim
ity. Calaveras, Sacramento and Del
Norte counties.
For the year 1908 Mariposa pro-
duced minerals the value of which was
S4S4,112. These figures are according
to a recent report from the state min
ing bureau.
This is considered a fair showing
when the fact is taken into consider
alton that none of the large mines
were in operation during 19OS.-Mari-
posa Gazette
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Mountain King

Inc Mountain KING mining company.
operating a property on the Merced
river eight miles above Bagby. in
Mariposa county, has just completed
three new cottages at the mine, and
is preparing to build two more.
At the present time there are about
and Information is to the effect that
about 40 Will be employed before the
first of the year. Plans for the enlarge
ment of the Mountain King mill are
under consideration
At the present time the mill has a
capacity of 10 stamps, which is en-
tirely too small to accommodate the
amount of ore which can be taken
from the property.-Merced Sun
DownieViIIe Mines
There are between 40 and so men
working at the Omega gravel mine be-
tween Forest and the Mountain house
The min is kept running steadily on
three shift basis. The gravel is re-
ported as. paying first rate.
There is a rumor that the Alaska
mine at Pike City may close down in
definitely in a short time. The vein
where # was found in the shaft is
not as rich as was anticipated. Super
intendent 5. John has gone to San
Francisco to consult with the company
decide whether work will be continued
or not, Meanwhile the pumps are
going and the mine is kept dry.
H. /. Johnson. crushed the rich speci-
mems which were taken from the Tight
ner mine several months ago one day
this week. Since Johnson took out this
rock many hundreds of persons have
called on him to see it. The rock
weighed approximately 300 pounds and
Johnson obtained more than $4,000
away several thousand dollars worth
Mountain Messenger.
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Mother Lode Notes

work all winter.-Bridgeport Chronicle
Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-25
HOSE coMPANYs BALL.
Japanese Novelties and Bunting the
Pretty Decorations for 18th Annual.

Montgomery hose company, No. 2,
gave its thirty-fifth annual concert
ard ball in Town hall Wednesday eve
ming, surprising all previous events
of like kind ever undertaken by the
popular fire company. The balcony
was well filed for the excellent con-
cert programme that was rendered
previous to the commencement of the
ball and during the dancing that fol-
lowed at many times the floor was
crowded to its capacity.
The large hall was beautifully dec
GRATED with festoons of bunting and
Japanese novelties, and hundreds OF
electric lights served to add an unac-
customed brilliancy to a truly pretty
and enjoyable scene. Helmold's or
chestra played for the concert and
for dancing.
Mayor Daniel p Dunn, who enjoys
the distinction of having attended ev-
cry one of the company's annual
functions. led the grand march with
Mrs. Dunn. There were more than
so couples in the grand march.
The committee in charge of the ar
rangements comprised Maurice NJ.
welch. George A. Grady. Michael J.
English. George F. Donnelly and Mi
chael Driscoll.