Show california san diego news an 18 inch vein ot rich free milling ore has been struck at the 80 foot level of the grace shaft of the cleveland pacific mine at Es condido the new strike assays essays better than 50 a ton the five stamp mill on the property is running night and day on ore from the barber shaft of the poling lease twenty four miners and mill men are employed san diego dego news the orange blossom extension mining company has recently received about pound of very fine look ing ore from its mines in san bernardino county and has placed a portion of the ore on exhibition at the chamber of mines where it is attracting much attention and favorable comment it is expected that the companas comp anys new mill will be ready for operation by the of next month yreka areka journal the yellow butte cop per mine new neav edgewood is fast coming to the front as aa one of the future valuable mining properties of siskiyou you county one that will give employment to hundreds of men and one that will richly reward its share holders the main shaft is now down feet and there are two cross cuts of feet each showing a fine body of ore at this point the vein is eight feet six inches wide and widening as it goes down the management has haa just let contracts for another foot shaft and two more foot crosscuts cross cuts when these are finished the management expects to begin shipping ore to the kennett smelters shelters sm elters skidoo news the skidoo mill one battery of which was closed down for three days last week for the purpose of adjusting the water wheel is now running full capac ity again treating better than thirty five tons daily the grade of ore now being crushed is better than the average that has been treated up to the present while the management does not state the actual value of the ore it is generally estimated to be well over 50 to the ton the plant is doing exceptionally fine work the plates recovering slightly oven over 70 per cent of the values when the cyanide tanks are finished which they will be in about ten days the output will be highly satisfactory kennett copper outlook IF H leavitt and thomas loftus have done considerable work in the past several months on ithe copper claims in the divide separating tom neall creek from the tributaries tributa ries of the mccloud river in the same neighborhood are some copper claims owned by W R conant of kennet experimentation continues at th the e heroult iron furnace new types of ele electric etric f furnaces furnace ur are being tested several experiments are being carried on simultaneously all on a small scale instead of the one large furnace alone as has been the plan heretofore three new kilowatt transformers general electric company manufacture have been received miner things are looking rosy around the pinmore binmore mine near johannesburg tuesday while extending a drift the boys cut into a two foot ledge of good ore running about 60 per ton ground is being rapidly blocked out in several places and by july first there will be enough ore available to keep the mill going full time the 10 stamp mill is to be overhauled and repaired and the power changed from steam to gasoline a 50 horsepower gasoline engine having been contracted for A V williams is at work with a force of men on the property recently purchased from thra the whites he has a large body of ore blocked out and feels certain of taking out the whole purchase price inside of a years work he will in a short time put on a large force of men |