Show california the big butte mine at randsburg brandsburg Rands burg has been leased to the santa barbara milling mining company a syndicate backed by 0 santa barbara california capital john M taylor will act as manager of operations at the property L E stevens one of the owners of the deep canyon tungsten tung ten property near bishop states that recent tests of the companas comp anys ore gave results which justify the installation of a mill on the ground he left for san francisco last week where he will purchase a plant of from to tons capacity A J dark clark of los angeles who recently purchased the enloe yaney group of claims near bishop has started a crew of men to work on the ground under the of L E porter it is a tungsten proposition of undoubted merit the company has purchased a mill and expects to have construction work under way before the end of the month superintendent E N brashler of tile the walker copper company operating near portola reports that a good grade of ore is showing in the tunnel face the adit is being driven as a drain and with the object of getting under the workings in the shaft the finding of ore at a distance cf 0 f about feet from the objective of the tunnel is an agreeable surprise to the management J R walker of salt lake is president of tile the company tile the report of operations at the annual meeting of stockholders of the cerro gordo mining company operating at keeler shows that the property produced a net profit of in the five months ending february prior to october the mine had been in the hands of leasers leaders lea sers officers and directors were elected as follows frank J hambly san jose president L D gordon san francisco vice president and general manager A L dornberger frank J hagenbarth and judge john E richards all of san jose the north fork mining companas Comp anys incline shaft at forest has been cleared of water and the work of sinking again resumed the present depth is about feet and it is tile the companas comp anys intention to continue to at least feet values in the ore have been steadily increasing with depth but the formation has been badly broken it is thought that by the time the level is reached the ledge will be found in place george W stone of san francisco is general manager for the company and about fifteen men are employed |