Show california the snyder mine at canada hill in placer county recently made a clean up of which is the second cecan ill P in in the past few weeks congressman harry L englebright has introduced a bill ill to exempt gold minin mining b from income tax H R bill referred feic to com committee m attee on ways and means in in the house owners of placer ground in siskiyou you county along the sa almon river are preparing for steady operations during the rainy ny season there is quite a boom in placer mining in this district A survey of general conditions pertaining to the grind 1119 and marketing of natural paint pigments is being made by y the e sacramento chamber of commerce mining depart ent with a view to utilizing the immense deposits in the west st of both metallic paint pigments and ocher the state mining bureau which has office room in the chamber p amber of commerce building expects to be moved to the capitol extension with the other state offices wi within thin a very office at short time C A logan is in charge of the sacramento othe yellow jacket mine in the allegheny alleghany Alleg hany district in sierra elra county has been taken over by the allegheny alleghany E eldo ido rado mining company frank C jordan secretary of state is interested interest ed in operations on the alle allegheny alleghany b hany eldorado property work on the yellow jacket will commence at once the hess mine one of the steady producers in modoc county has been sold by the owner A k K wylie to noble N getchrll of battle mountain nevada operations will be under the supervision of william bowden and feet of drifts are being timbered re and several new cuts being made dan mcgonigal mcgoni 1 al and dr james sanderson owners of the mugginsville Muggins ville hydraulic property at downieville Downie ville have sold their bond and lease to charles herron C H montgomery and charles L nichols all of los angeles b the new owners now have a crew of ten men on the property W R maloney is in charge activity looms in the shasta copper mines new locations being made and george win wingfield winfield field is mentioned as be coming interested in the mines of this district walter E trent of new york formerly associated with wingfield recently went over the property he is interested in the mc cloud river district with E A julian chief engineer of the goldfield consolidated mines company the humboldt placer company is having the old ditch line surveyed to bring water from stewarts stewards fork of the trinity river to its property at buckeye mountain J T montgomery b civil engineer of hayfork has been carrai carrying ng on the work the property of the humboldt placer company contains s some ome of the ri richest chest gravel in trinity county the diamond springs lime company is preparing to open up the large high grade lime deposits in eldorado county several car loads of machinery have already been shipped in and construction of the plant is going on rapidly H P brown is president of the company odell wilson NY vice ice president and E E bomp is secretary and treasurer brown and hollingsworth are in charge of operations and pro promise mise good production by early spring the ben be n hur divide mining company has ceased operations on the bedar claim in the grass valley district dietric t and expects to concentrate efforts and finances on the alaska gold claim at grass valley the alaska lies between the empire 11 and an d north star mines two of the biggest payers in the district over has been taken out of the alaska in development work to the water level R J kelly secretary of the company has been in reno completing arrangements the reorganized rand mines company has acquired a long term option on a acre tract west of grass val ley nevada county on which operations wl will commence at once the new company was incorporated incorporate ed rec recently e antly under nevada laws and is to pay the former owners 25 over a period of five years it will have offices in reno and grass valley the work outlined will involve an expenditure I 1 ot of and it is claimed that the company has about tons of 13 ore in the black bear vein |