KAOLI INITE—The kaolin ee d 
the ak ot he n num- 
r cent; e 
lime, 2.20 cent; magnesia, .25 
cent; water, 11.60 per cent; moisture, 
3.10 per cent. tional analysis: Clay 
substance, 67.2. per cent; feldspar, 15.6 
per cent; quartz, 17.2 per c 
deposit near old m 
ins at Pala—probably he Targest and 
richest uae mine in the world—upon 
t $4,000 shins pa ok hg in 
g 1899. Lithia 
Saag upon the market, and thus 
w American industry superar a 
: he close of the century. 
“Mr. Chas. Russell Sihus announced 
urrence 0 
Peninsula range, rising several thousand 
feet between the coast and the Colorado 
desert. In these granite mountains are 
dioritic intrusions and some metamor- 
containing rubellite has been traced for 
over half a mile. It consists of a coarse 
sri, penetrating a norite rock, and 
uding masses of pegmatite. Small 
f The West American Scientist. » j 
" Diego county, Cal., and of 
f them, and who is now in ss Ss 
4 
garnets occur in the granite, and black 
acre’ with alittle green tourma- 
“The lepidolite appears in the south- 
t 18 tons were mined in 
1892. No work has been done since.” — 
Kunz, 1893. 
LEPIDOLITE DEPOSITS.—Mention was 
recently made in this column of - de- 
posits of lepidolite (lithia mica) i an 
their pees 
and value. The following further par- 
ticulars ef them have been obtained from — 
N. S. Brown, who lately came up from — 
Angeles. 
The properties are own 
a 
erside county line. 
August 5 ne 
The New York firm 
eaed deal of work on the mines, with 
view, it is believed, of determining the 
50 feet from the surfac 
mining it is oracdealtg: nothing, for, as 
Mr. Brown says, you can pull down 500 
tons of it with a single shot Several - 
shipments of it have been made to New 
York. The cost of hauling it from the 
mine to the railroad station at Temecu- — 
la, Riverside county, is $4a ton, at which 2 
place Mr. Douglass was paid $40 a ton 
for it, the New York pane paying the 
