Show california redding free press the first ferro silicon ever produced in the united states was turned out monday night at the heroult smelter and ferro silicon has now taken its place as one of the many valuable products of shasta county two tons of ferro silicon a day will be the output at the heroult smelter and the production of that very essential commodity will continue at least until the new iron plant is installed and the manufacture of pig iron is resumed nevada city miner transcript C A sternberg We G V elliott and E B A girvin of berkeley and W H thompson of elyria ohio arrived in nevada city this morning and at once went to the canada hill consolidated soli dated mine formerly known as the charonnat in which they are interested they spent the day in examining the property As stated recently the ledge in this mine has widened near the 1400 foot bleiel to six feet and shows an excellent quality of milling ore san diego news J al rockwood of the mesa alesa grande consolidated gold goia and gem ruining company has recently returned from a visit to the mines which are situated about fifty miles northeast of san diego mr rockwood brought with him a rough beryl crystal about five inches in diameter the central portion of which consists of a beautiful crystal of blue topaz this crystal was taken out of the companas comp anys mine while mr rockwood was there the company has been offered 1000 for the specimen which is now on exhibition in their window at fifth street where it is attracting much attention nevada city miner transcript some more good ore has been found in the cali fornia forma mine and the stockholders of that property believe they have a good piece of mining property the california is owned principally by grass valley people although wiliam deihl of cleveand ohio is one of the largest stockholders the ore rock taken out recently is not specimen ore but superintendent abe hall thinks it will mill well and some miners say it will go 40 a ton if an ore body that will pay half that much is encountered the future of the california may never be considered in doubt the shaft is down a distance of only feet A dispatch from sawyers bar says chares simonds yesterday picked up one of the biggest gold nuggets that has been picked up in this section for many a year simonds find consists of a beautiful nugget of pure gold valued at the nugget is four and a half inches long two and a half inches wide and one and a quarter inches thick the find has caused a whole lot of excitement hereabouts and the people are looking out for more pieces the nugget was evidently washed up by the recent heavy rains in early days nuggets of great size were picked up here but this is the biggest that has been found in recent years crackerjack cracker jack news every man available is now employed on the crackerjack bonanza property and no effort will be spared to push cevelo development ament with the utmost speed the road leading to the shaft is now in 9 good shape for hauling and the hoist ordered can soon be landed at the mouth of the shaft in the course of sinking the latter about two tons of high class clas ore are bein being taken out daily steadily increasing the big pile of pay rock already on the dump in fact all around the property are evidences of the rapid opening up of what every mining man who visits it concedes will be one of the really great gold mines of the southwestern region the boardinghouse and other buildings will soon be ready for occupancy and an increase in the mines working force will be made as rapidly as practicable yreka areka journal senator abner weed of this county and his associates are opening up a prospective copper property near happy camp the management of this development is under the direction of Mr Tebbe of yreka areka and the work is being carried on with energy exploration and development in western ands and northern siskiyou you indicates that a very important field will ultimately ti be opened up in this part of the state it is very probable that the district laying between preston peak and the head of little joe creek near the oregon line is all prospective copper territory and a great deal of prospecting and development work will be attracted into the district in the future tho the greatest drawback at present is the inadequate transportation facilities but extensive development in copper if successful is certain to bring about improvements prove ments in transportation |