Show 1 C I 1 california MINING AND OIL NEWS by G chester brown M E san francisco cal april 10 active development work is going on throughout the mining districts and the smelt eries of shasta county are being rehabilitated with a view of an early start so that the outlay 0 of money will be of great help to this county the old mines of tuolumne are being worked profitably in many instances and the harvard might be cited as an example this property is just below jamestown and in ill past days has produced some 3 in gold chunks of picture rock have been exposed the deepest workings extend to the 1400 foot level pocket mining on oil jackass hill is being pursued by several experienced prospectors and several strikes have been made recently wilson and means have taken out recently over from a lease on this hill and charley gillis who has holdings on this property claims that there is more of the precious metal in sight this section has been made famous in literature by bret harte and mark alark twain A 1 rich ich strike has been made in the old ironsides mine which is located in the section the values are in the arsenical sulphur ets similar to the fightner Tight ner and are a splendid indication of a good body of high grade hugh mccormick of Down downieville Downie leville ville is managing director and C A redding is one of the owners the rich strike was made in ill a which is being sunk stink on the vein A number of properties rin ill this section aro are going Jo to be worked on account of the splendid showing in the ironsides gravel mines in calaveras talaveras Cala veras county about three miles from the town of san andreas are being actively worked and rich dirt has been worked at the rising star owned by david cassinelli of san andreas kalaveras calaveras uala cala veras county who has bonded his holdings to J E richard of boston this body of gravel averages 4 feet in thickness the central hill mining section in which this property is located has been the scene of much activity even since the shallow placer diggings have been worked out the present discovery made in the cassinelli holdings bids fair to exceed anything heretofore uncovered in this section the georgetown section in placer county is being actively prospected the nonpareil mine owned by james P burke of georgetown has been leased to I 1 P allen alien of the canton bank san francisco and samples from this gravel deposit are rich A number of shafts have been sunk to determine the extent of this channel and as it is on the same channel as the famous gold channel which has been a producer for 40 years the prospect for a steady producer are excellent the production of high gravity oil in ventura county especially in the simi see sec tion has led a french company to acquire acres near the famous tapo property controlled by the petrol oil com company p any the montebello which is also a high 9 gravity producer is adding daily to the states output of splendid oil the pacific crude in the midway oil field brought in a new well recently as a gusher its present production is about barrels the visalia midway oil company is going to build a 92 foot rig near fellows it is rumored that the union oil company will install in the santa maria alaria oil field the first four regular units of its gasoline plant to treat natural gas which will give 0 an output of some gallons daily A pipe line will be laid from this plant to port hartford the plant will be enlarged as necessity requires it is rumored that considerable drilling is to be done in the sespe cespe field ventura county within a few weeks this field has been favorably passed upon by many reliable td geologists and large holdings have been acquired by expert oil men |