The San Francisco call., 1910-05-29
CALIFORNIA
Fort BidweII Consolidated

Tuesday, at which time conSidera Die
Owing to press Of outside business
James Williams handed in his resigna-
ton as general manager, which was
accepted, and A J. Cummings Of De-
troit was appointed to I'LL the vacancy
- and also elected as director. The COM
J p6ny IA general and those interested
have a great deal of confidence IN Cum
znings and his recent appointment VIII
act as an added stimulant TO the camp.
= This week S realty transfers records
the largest mining deal ever consum-
mated IN this district A. J. Cummings
personally inspected Fort Bidwell Con-
g sOlfoated and was so well satisfied with
the showing that he Immediately closed
e deal taking over the entire holdings
z Of George L. Turner, 100000 shares.
!. We have always claimed that the
% Aoag district would make good, and
when businessmen with capital see for
themselves and invest in such large
:. blocks Of mining stock it only proves
the correctness Of our former predic-
-tfoas We are Informed that needed
.. improvements will be installed and the
= Consolidated be placed in condition to
nine zoo tons Of ore per day.-Bidwell
: Gold Nugget.
Mule Picks Up Nugget
q SAN BERNARDINO. May 22-While
returning. from prospecting trip of
nxe months through the desert regions
of the country, during which they
failed 10 ind any rich properties, Jack
Desmond and Clyde Durham noticed
That their pack mule had gone lame
: They. investigated and found a gold
nugget imbedded in the bottom Of the
anlmals hOOI. They state that the
value OF the chunk Of gold is several
hundred dollars.
5Iow long their mule had carried the
8uEget IN his hoOf the men do not
3 know, and they have slight chances Of
ever locating the spot where the ami
mails hOof picked II up. That It had
been ~eoged In the hoof for many
eleu many miles. is evidenced by the
1act that the nugget was covered with.
layer after layer of foreign substances,
gathered ~ by the mules hoof in their
syfnderingS
d =: The men are at once to start out on
3 search Tor the spot where their pack
animal picked up the nugget It is
their plan TO submit the layers of for
efgn substances TO professors at Berke-
3 ley. II an effort TO learn from the soil
and mineral experts what section of
the country they were picked up in.
The search for this spot where mug
gets evidently lie about upon the sur
1sce Of the ground promises to vie with
those of the famous lost mines Of the
desert, the Peg-leg, the Lost Gunsight
and others.-Los Angeles Herald.
PaCific's Rich Strike
The excitement in Placerville and vi
cipity still continues over the rich
strike made in the Pacific mine a few
days ago. as reported in the Union.
Mana ger Baring-Gould has good reason
to be satisfied with the strike of ore
there appears TO be great quantities
Of IT,
Manager Baring-Gould has worked
quietly for eight months, and few real
fed what he had accomplished in that
short time in the development Of the
mine A hoist has been completed.
90K45 feet, both roof and walls covered
with corrugated iron. A double COM
partzn ent shaft has been unWatered
and retim bered for $50 feet, new wire
cables with a bucket of $50 gallons
capacity, and cage capable OF carry
Ing six men al trip, nave been IN
stalled. This hoist is run by water
power, and has an auxiliary steam
plant for emergency use. a pipe line
Of over ! 900 feet, with 2 175 foot fall,
provides power and water for all pur
poses A small saWmiu has been put
up near the hoist, by which timbers
are cut and trimmed for use in the
Nothing could be more encouraging
20 the mining industry of Ell Dorado
than this rich strike in the Pacific. and
the old timers expect that the mine
viii resume the standing It had many
years ago as producer OF gold
= Baring-Gould Is also manager OF the
Excelsior mine near the Pacific At
3he Excelsior 100 cars of gravel day
are taken out to feed a 10 stamp mill.
Thirty men are employed at the Excel
sior and l6 at the Pacihc; put the N.
dications are that the force at the
Pacific viii soon be increased.-Sacra-
snento Union.
Strikes Rich Gravel
Advjces come to hand from Magalia,
T3utte county, that one of the most
important mining strikes in the his
tory OF the county has been recently
made. After two years of drilling the
Mammoth Channel gold mining COM
psny has cut through the $50 feet OF
lava cap and encountered the gravel
in the main channel, known TO miners
as the Mammoth channel" The tribu-
fsrses 10 this channel have been found
and millions taken out Since early
HaWS the existence of the
Mammoth channel has been talked of
by miners. and they have dreamed of
the untold wealth which it possesses.
It is thought that the channel has been
struck at about its center. The gravel
is 10 feet in depth, and every pan
which has been taken out shows good
values.
The company owns l.64o acres of the
ground and 5000 feet UP and down the
main channel. Five thousand feet on
tributary upon which the Perschbacker
mine Is located also belongs to the
company. The Perschbacker was one
OF the most famous gravel mines in the
Machinery is on hand and the cut
Will be sunk to bedrock and q cross
cut made TO ascertain the width Of the
The oflcIals OF the company returned
10 OrOville from the mine yesterday.
They are highly elated at their success.
owned in Oroville and Butte county
Sacramento Bee.
A $4,000 Pocket
Charles Heath, who has been pros
pecting near Minersville and has been
working on e lead TO a pocket during
the last seven days, has already taken
out $4,000, some pans going as high as
500.
The location Of the pocket he is after
IS Jewel creek, and IL appears to be
well named.-Redding Courier Free
Press.
TuoIumne-North Butte
The annual report of the North Butte
company dealing with the controversy
with the Tuolumne mining company is
Interesting because il confirms all that
has been said about the matter and de-
MED by the Tuolumne, and also ex-
plains why the Tuolumne is allowed to
mine extensively on a vein which the
North Butte claims TO own The North
Butte report says that the Tuolumne
company IN connection with its pros
pecting of the ground south of the
Jessie claim, discovered a hanging wall
band or split OF the Jessie vei4l under
fhe surface of what is called the Jessie
Fraction, being the small piece OF
ground owned Jointly by the North
Butte and Tuolumne- The Jessie Frac-
ton, the report says, carries the oyr,,