The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 25, 1899, Page 5

FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 AJYY CALIFORNIA ENJOYS A GREAT PROSPECTING BOOM. A Canvass of the State Demonstrates That Unusual Activity in the Mining Industry Prevails. comes the report: ‘“There is dene in this count = mining notices fil S There Scammon, very there in this offic are no min, that I know of." mineral being T years \prospected little minin, Lassen County includ. 1 region in the Sierras and is one out-of-the-way counties suffering t through lack of ready com- miner of those from neg munication The report from Lassen County includes the following: “The con- dition of mining industry i mines. s be County is far better and mc sent mined to an ex- | than for ten years More pros- it exists in | pecting is being done and with better re- Placer min- sults. +4-e bbb et ed S e e DD e e e e is carried on to a limited extent on le Creek and at Big Flat.” PLUMAS. mining propert ¥ s than ever his g Th unt; he mining properties w bonded. almost exclusiv mas County BUTTE. a mining county, ribbed with mine ] s and holds vast beds of ancient and | recent auriferous g Butte County displays forty-one quartz rom lack of transpor and sixty-six placer locations, a total of eajoving new uiRe 107, and fifty-seven transfers of mining | following record shows | properties. The placer locatiol ha locations—January, 11 | mainly been with a view.to dredging and April, 19; May, 12; June, seve gold dredgers will soon be added ugust, 14. Total, 117. to the five now operating on the Feather | ations—January River. ; February, | | YUBA. | ~Yuba County is small and has much fruit, but its early settled eastern end reaches into the mineralized Sierra Ne- ia foothills and the jdes one of the coming dredging fields. Yuba's report is: The outlook for the mining industry in this county has not been better for twen- though the records show that e have been only nineteen location s filed, one-third the number that filed during the same period last | Year. This is accounted for by the fact ihat most of the claims are located and wners are working them. There R ) | now t lis gr tivity in placer mining on the Yu er by means of dredgers. The introduction of electricity into several has made it possible to work profitably many mines that have lain idle Yor years. Twenty sales and three bonds have been recorded. ALPIN Little Alpine County, perched up In the Sierra Nevadas, has its share of new min- ing activity, but only forty-five location notices were filed with County Clerk Frank Smith. San BEANARDING COLUSA. Colusa County has been one of the smallest mineral producers in the State, but the recent ofl and copper booms have stimulated great activity in prospecting Map Showing the Points to | Be Visited. N AIVERSILE | this_county’s latent resources of these 510k | products. ~The number of location no- PP S SR SO e S SR ST | i\{<‘ tices, which is surprisingly large, is re- : N ported as follows: _ | W, | _January, 4 copper; February, 11 copper; to be prospected, as the record will.-sug-|& H AN DIEGO | March, 4 copper: ‘April, 8 copper; May, 1 | b \" copper and 123 placer oil locations; June, | 28 oil; July, 58 oil; August, 45 oil. Total, copper 29 and oil 264. Grand total, 203. LAKE. gest. - There are vo organized districts| e in which claims are recorded, but (hnse' ),&/d ; ) filed Recorder to Sep- ith the County Jan- mbered 1449, as follows: March, 190; April, B R O AR OIS L R S S e e SR S ;. May June. ];.4_ July, 9; August, | 3 Lake County 1s reported on in the fol- 285; September (to 6th inst.),’32: total, 1449. | 47. MIPCh.Afl: Apfl!’, ’§‘2 May, 7; June, 15; 2,:’5:5 ;z::;e&:ng::c;@y by County Re- DEL NORTE. L R el e i e S ““Mining claims filed in Lake County are le Del Ni C. % & o= generally cinnabar claims. There have Little Del orte County, away up in MODOC. been twenty-five claims recorded so.far in the year 1599. the northwest corner of the State, by the . % “There has been no appreciable increase sea and far from railroads, has much un- From Modoc’s County Recorder, E. G. |in the mining industry in Lake County a great northern | More capital is being invested in'h; R S o s g oo | which it Yuba River pro- | this year, although some of the old mines have been enlarged and furnaces rebuilt, with one new furnace at the Abbott. “The survival or non-survival of the State mining law will have but little ef- fect upon the industry as a whole in the county. One group of filings in the Mor- \ Valley section of the county, the ore phenomenally rich, through a appret the exac{ status of mining law, are in a muddle and will probably go into the courts to have the matter adjusted. One other, the Bullion, ion, but the validity of annot affect it. All the larger <A1 producing mines in Lake County, such as the Great Western, Standard, Sulphur Bank, Abbott, et al., . acquired title in a large measure COMMITTEE WAITING FOR THE SPECIAL TRAIN SHASTA SPRINGS. S e O O e SRCR SSCR S eCa s o through_agricultural patent and hence | cannot be touched by any phase of this law.” =i | NAPA. | Napa Countv is fourteenth in rank among the counties of the State in min-I eral production, which amounted to $ 966 in 1898, because of its quicksilver, mineral waters and magnesite, in each of | leads all the counties of the It has no other mineral products worthy of mention. Increased activity is reported this N locations in this well county were: January 6; June, 1; July, 1; State. . 11; Ma: Total, 3. In Placer County 121 locations in eight | months were about equally divided, ac-| cording to State and Federal laws, as fol- | lows: | Lode locations, State law—January, §; February, 6; March, 11. Total, 2 i Lode locations, Federal law—January, 2; February, 1; April, 10; May, 13; June,| 10; July, 7; Ausust, 7. Total, &. i Placer, § law—January, Febru- ary, 4; March, April, 4; May, 1; July, 2; August, 2. | Placer, irederal law—January, 3; Febru- | ary, 1; March, 1; May, 2; June, 1; July, 10; August, b. Total, 23. | Grand total, 121 | AMADOR. | There were elghty filings on mining| claims in Amador County to August 21, as follows: January, 28; February, 11| March, 7; April, 8; May, 16; June, 1; July, B "August. 5. 'There are ho existing oi- Ganized districts, but the district records | B e Volcano and Clinton districts have | been returned to those districts. There Were eighty-one mining properties sold | and nineteen bonded. EL DO;AfiO. The number of claims recorded in EI| Dorado County during the present year| was as follows: January, 92; February,| 65; March, 66; April, 37; May, 41; June, 22; | J&ly, 41; August, 24; September, 8; total, 468, “Only two mining districts have been or- | ganized in the county since the repeal of | the mining act of 1897,” writes the corre- | spondent, ‘“one at Georgetown and one, at Volcanoville. In both cases demands | were made upon the County Recorder for | the return of the mining records of the districts, which upon legal advice were | refused. | “There has been much development | work during the year and all in all the| outlook for the steady and profitable ex- | ploiting of the quartz mines of the old| empire county was never brighter than to-day. With the other mining counties along the great lode El Dorado has suf- ’ < B e O R e S S S g | the bay shore, with coal, chrome and oil fered from a scant water supply during| the present season, but this will vanish with the first fall rains.” | MARIPOSA. | The heart of the mineral region of Mari- posa County is the great Mariposa grant ds of acr in which no locate and tly sold to e of the gr filed, as follow: 23. Twenty-eight mining properties been sold and seven bonded. TUOL INE. | Tuolumne County. third in rank in gold | prodiction and fourth in total mineral | production, is about the liveliest of the mining counties of the great mother lode | region. Though it has been mined and | prospected steadily since 1849, its hills | have been full of pro the fol- | shows: 7k ek kT k kY ok ok ke ke ke ke ke ok ok ok ok sk ok ok ok ok ke ok ok ok sk ok ek ke ok ke ke ke ke ok ok ke ke ok kok ok ko it*t******fl**i******t*******fl****i‘(**fi*‘**‘k*****v*k*************** & Kk K kK ok kK ok ok ok ok E % i Lode location: preliminary notices—January, 94; Febru- | ary, 34; March, 43; Apri Total, 188. Final certificates anuary, 26; February, | 20; March, 41; April, 28. Total, 125. Lode locations under Federal law—Jan- uary, 43; February. 21; March, 17; April, | 42; May June July, 46. Total, 308. 46 + © * 94 ® + P * e e O s SCi g AT 3 i R ) _ Placer 7; February T locations, State law—January, 2; March, 6; April May, 6. Federal G A law—January il, 1; May, 6; June, 6; . Grand total, In Merced County there were 126 lode and placer locations filed, of which 88 were filed in July and 38 in August. Al of these were oil claims In populous Alameda County, down on to mainly tempt mining enterprise, there were three mining locations filed. MONTEREY. They are busily hunting oil in Monterey County, where during eight months of the vear eighty-five placer and eight lode lo- cations were filed. The placer locations were distributed as follows: January, 1; February, 1; March, 22; April, 16; May, 36; June, 3; August, 6. KERN. Kern County has made a big record in mineral locations, largely on account of the oil boom. though much prospecting is going on through its Sierra Nevada and desert mineral regions, where great un- developed gold and other mineral re- sources abound. The lode and placer lo- cations were as follows: January, 2i§; February, 193; March, 162; April, 167; May. 268; June , 347; July, 153; August, 76. Total, 1554, The number of transfers of mining prop- erties recorded is reported by the County Recorder at 488. ORANG! The oil production of. Southern Califor- nia is being rapidly increased by Orange County, in the northern part of which a fine fleld has been lately developed. The location notices filed, aimost entirely for oil claims, were as follows: % Januar:; February, 1; March, 4; April, 5; Ma une, 4; July, 18; August, 3. Total, SAN DIEGO. In San Diego County the record of min- ing. locations is as follows: January, 70: February, 103; March, 53; April, 32; May, June, 51; July, 89; August, 95. Total, 530. —_— e———— The zinc miners are looking forward to a new market for zinc. One of the new usages of spelter which promises to come in favor is the zinc shln%le for roofing. Zingc, being a non-conductor of heat and cold, makes it more agreeable for one do- ing business near the roof. HE mining men of California and the coast cordially welcome the visiting | B members of the American Institute of | Mining Engineers. representatives of the institute are not strangers, for in ranging round the earth in quest of treasure some have frequently visited California and her sister States and Territories. that the greatest technical soclety in the world has held one of its meetings west of ' the Sierras. I leaders in mining influence of the institute has been great on mining and scientific progress, and in every part of the world are found mem- 2***************************t******** % %k %k ki ITINERARY OF SIGHT-SEEING TRIPS TO BE TAKEN BY OUR VISITORS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. Leave San Francisco for University of California and Selby Smelting Works....... ..12:30 Arrive San Francisco.... .. 6:15 .. 8:00 Banquet at Palace Hotel. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. Leave San Francisco (breakfast on train). Leave Palo Alto. Arrive San Jose.... Leave for Lick Observatory or carriage drive: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. Leave San Jose for New Almaden quicksilver mines in carringes ....... .. 8100 Leave New Almaden. . .. 4:00 Arrive San Jose..... e ceees 5:30 Leave San Jose for Del Monte ... 8100 Arrive San Jose......... o ..10:30 Leave San Jose for Colfax . «+10:45 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30. Arrive Colfax..... .. . - .. 7130 Leave Colfax for Nevada City and Grass Valley. .. 745 Visit mines Saturday and Sunday. Alternate trip to Forest Hill divide, leaving Colfax by carriages Saturday morning. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 1. Leave Nevada City... & .- . . .. 9:00 Arrive Colfax..... . coes . . +.11:00 MONDAY, OCTOBER 2. Breakfast on train. Leave Colfax. . Ti45 Arrive Duteh Flat.. oee « eeseess 8130 Visit hydraulic mines. Leave Dutch Flat Arrive Auburn. Lunch. Local reception ciation. Leave Auburn........ . 2:00 Arrive Sacramento. .. .. . .. 3100 Visit State Capitol, ete. Guests of Chamber of Commerce. Leave Sacramento.... . +11:00 Arrive Oroville, Butte County, during night. eeess 210100 o -12:30 ounty Miners’ Asso- TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3. Visit Oroville, drift and quarts Luncheon and dinner at Oroville. Breakfast on train. mines and dredgers. Leave Oroville...ccecceesssscecscsccsssscces socsccscsse 5100 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4. Breakfast on train. ATPFIVEe TOMe..oneeueaneurenecnoneasnns © eceecess 7100 Take carriages. Visit mother lode deep mines i ity of Sutter Creek and Jackson. Stop over night in min- ing regions. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5. Leave Jackson by carriages about. Visit mother lode region and luncheon a Calaveras County. Arrive Valley Springs.. .o . ceeeee o teeese 4:00 Leave Valley Springs ceees . BT . eee 4110 Arrive Lodi, take special train again ........ 7:00 R o T s R e D et 7:10 Dinner on train. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6. Breakfast on train. Arrive Jamestown. ... 7:00 Visit mining regions. Leave Jamestown.... PR e on 6:00 Arrive Sonora... .- . . . . ceeeen cseees 6130 Stop over might at Sonora at hotels or on trains, as preferred. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7. Visit mines in Sonora region. e R S N R e e R e SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8. Breakfast on train. Arrive RAYMONA...cocossssosssstes mesessssoessasvosass Start for Yosemite. SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 9, 10 and 11. Trip to Yosemite. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11. Dinner on train. Arrive Raymond.. Leave Raymond. +s 6:00 7100 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12. Breakfast on train. Arrive Los Angeles.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11. Leave Los Angeles. Arrive Santa Monica. o . Luncheon and dinner at Hotel Arcadia. Leave Santa Monica. Arrive Los Angeles.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12. Breakfast on train. Leave Los Angeles Arrive Pasadena... Take electric railway ride up Mount Lowe. Arrive Mount Lowe Springs..... Arrive LOS ADZeles......ooencusonecnes Join balance of party, visit oil wells City and other local entertainments. Leave Los Angeles, homeward bound ... +.10:00 eseees10:40 and cable ..10:30 . .. 2:30 Angeles in Los erevscess D30 * B R S INSTITUTE'S GREAT INFLUENCE ON MINING PROGRESS. bers of that great organization at the ead of development work. Many prominent | receptive facult.es But it is the first lime‘ | early year had dwindled to the di d Established in 1871 and l P and metallurgy, the results of their visit. LT BEd CLEYY EREH RupTY e BEBERE %3 T EENENNXNNN R R R e R R R E R EEnt bk bbb S 4 we aw BE HE ¥ "y B BE vy » oy 6:00 afm B LR BE In accordance with the gigantic scale on which everything is done in California. | whether welcoming veterans of war or | captains of peace, a big programme is mapped out, which with the business ses- sions of the next three days will tax the of the visitors. were better. perhaps, had they been able to come before the foothill streams of the usty channels of to-day, but if their resence o their counsel can In any way | al n the movement toware O Daeliin Ao 118 Thamberslip: MOBEOL the'| Sf waior b CaIarnts, B T o o such aid will be one of the most valuable J. F. HALLORAN, | Publisher Mining ‘and Scientific Press