Show california miners at the clio mine near jacksonville have been granted an increase of 10 per cent in wages and the management has decided that there shall be no sunday work L G higgins operating a quartz property near oak ranch at downieville Downie ville has encountered some excellent gold values in a tunnel that he is running in his property several pockets of the precious metal were found near the surface and it has now been demonstrated that the values were better with depth the engels copper company the largest copper producer in the state has brought suit against the great western power company for damages the copper company claims that the contract that it had with the power company was broken rates were raised and current interrupted thus hindering the operations of the mining company and wasting its ores in the flotation process |