Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXXI, Number 314, 8 August 1904 — MINING NEWS OF J3REAT SOUTHWEST Angeleno Money Invested in Properties Many Producers Are Now in the List Loa Angelea Becoming the Recognized Center for the Induetry That la Developing the Latent Mineral Wealth [ARTICLE]

MINING NEWS OF GREAT SOUTHWEST Angeleno Money Invested in Properties Many Producers Are Now in the List Loa Angelea Becoming the Recognized Center for the Industry That is Developing the Latent Mineral Wealth

Tliat Los Angeles capital is becoming heavily interested in mining is a subject of remark. It is known that mors wealthy owners of mines, and those who are enjoying incomes from mining properties, reside In Los Angels than in any other city on the Pacific coast west of Denver. What Denver has proved to the mining Industry of Colorado, Los Angeles has proved to the mining interests of the great Southwest. The corporations owned and controlled by Los Angeles capital locally runs into the hundreds, and while many of these companies are just beginning to develop, yet capital is being freely given for this purpose. Los Angeles is also the point to which the experts and mining men come for exploitation of properties, and for consultation with the brainy mining experts and engineers who make Los Angeles their home. Capital Is here and abundant for investment, but propositions must show value and virtue before being successfully launched. Those who are interested in mining properties are noted In the general news of this review. Angeleno Capital Counts Charles H. Bean of Los Angeles, with J. F. Hamby of Calaveras has bonded the Prince mine In Altavllle, Calveras county. These parties intend to develop, and from indications the venture is full of promise. Angelenoa Gain in Dorleska On the Dorleska cross-cut on the fourth level the corporation has struck a ledge of very rich ore seven feet wide. The ledge matter is reported soft in character and glistens with the yellow metal. On the dumps the ore fairly bristles with tne free gold. Several hundred tons are reported as being taken from this ledge. This property Is owned by Capt. H. Z. Osborne and investors of Los Angeles who have been successful In opening the claims around the snow peaks. Angelenoa Buy Classic Hill G. G. Mullins of this city has purchased from Head and Pierpolnt the well-known Classic Hill mine in Indian Creek, fourteen miles above Happ camp In Siskiyou county. The purchase was made for the Record Mining company, a corporation officered by Los Angeles people. Capt. Mullins left for the mine late last week, and is at present busy organizing his camp and making preparations to start work on an extensive scale. Mining is being prosecuted very successfully in the Classic Hill mine, with John Wood superintendent of mining operations, and of the work of enlarging the ditch, also John Whitaker In charge of three miles of road building. The company Is also putting up a saw mill for the lumber and timber needed. Angelenoa Bond Rich Mine The Grass Valley Tidings says that wealthy Los Angeles men will work the Excelsior and Campbell mines hear Smartsville by the hydraulic process. In speaking of the matter the paper says: Smartsville is going to boom again with all the vigor of its palmiest days, according to the statements of Edward L. Hutchinson of Los Angeles, who arrived in Grass Valley today from Smartsville accompanied by his friend E. Tisnerot, also from Los Angeles. Mr, Hutchinson Is authority for the statement that the Dear Creek, Blue Gravel, Mooney Flat Hydraulic Mining company, which Is incorporated under the laws of the territory of Arizona, has negotiated a bond on the Excelsior and Campbell mines, and that within a short time they will be working them by the hydraulic process—and on a large scale. The amount of property involved Is between three hundred thousand and a half million dollars, and it is undoubtedly one of the biggest deals that has been consummated in this section in many years. C. H. Hill, who has had a bond, on several properties In the Smartsville district, Is associated with the gentlemen who are going to take up the scheme above mentioned, and he has every confidence in the success of the venture. The other influential members of the new corporation are: M. P. Carter, Edward Tisnerot, E. L. Hutchinson, James Vlole, J. Castera, N. D. Oswald, H. C. Mlllsap, Frank Parlllat, J. Laramer and E. Dolland. These are all wealthy residents of Los Angeles, and are willing to put up the capital necessary to install machinery and make a modern hydraulic mine out of the claims they have bonded. The mine Is now being worked by the dirt process, but in the opinion ot those who are to take the property over, these methods are too crude to be continued. It is their intention to build dams at the river at the mouth of the old canyon and back the debris up behind it. This will give them a dumping place for years to come and they will have no trouble with the authorities if they pursue their present plans. Mr. Hutchinson, who is a prominent lawyer and politician of Los Angeles, and who was a candidate for lieutenant governor on the Democratic ticket six years ago, says that when the machinery is in large quantities will be taken out for an unlimited time. There is no question that the mines are rich, as they have been worked for many years and have always yielded rich returns. Mr. Campbell's representative was interviewed, but could not confirm the story that his mine was included in the deal. He maintained, too, that the matter was not entirely settled, but that it was likely they would come to terms. Angelenoa at Caliente Justaff Hoebleln, a mining expert Om Los Angeles recently passed through Caliente, Nev., en route .to Denver, where he will consult with his ispoclates regarding taking up a bond vjilch they have held for six months on a group of gold-copper claims located about eighteen miles south from Moapa. The group, known as the Lone Star, has been worked for years by the übiquitous prospector, free gold having been found at grass roots, but at it depth of fifty to sixty feet the ore went base and while retaining high values, was not available for working in an arastra. Mr. Hoebleln relocated this group about a year ago with his partner, John Fink/ how deceased, and they bonded it to Denver men, who sent Mr. Hoebleln and Herman Goldsmith of Cripple Creek to the mines to expert them.and take out samples of the ore. Mr. Goldsmith Is still at, the mines.

having sent Hoebleln ahead with some sacks of samples, going from $16.20 gold and 46 per cent coper to $78 gold and 62 per cent copper. Mr. Hoebleln says that there is an Immense deposit of the ore of the minimum value running through the entire group, while the maximum values are found In a five-foot ledge cropping out for more than 600 feet on the Sunrise claim, one of the group. The bond on the eight claims comprising the group Is for $60,000, payable 10 per cent on August 1 and one half of the remainder j six months later, and the remaining i one-half payable in one year. Mr. Goldsmith has recommended closing the option and taking over the group. The Empire Mining company of Los Angeles, in which Judge W. H. Fuller. N. Wheaton Dexter and associates of this city are interested are developing a most promising group of claims near Searchlight, Nev. It Is reported that the Empire tunnel Is In $80 feet and has reached a point 360 feet below the Empire shaft, and that a large body of ore identical with that which appears on the surface has been opened. Three shifts are at work In the tunnel. North and south cross-cuts have been run for a total length of over fifty feet, with no walls. In driving the north cross-cut slips have been encountered on several occasions which have been mistaken for walls, but invariably when broken through ore bodies have been exposed. Assays that have been made by the score all point to the fact that a remarkable proposition soon is to be numbered among the great northwest producers. It is reported that E. S. Rigdon of Cambria has negotiated a sale of his valuable cinnabar mine near Cambria, in San Luis Obispo county, to Los Angeles capitalists, and thdi $1000 In cash was paid with the privilege of working the mine for six months given the ijurchaser, at the end of which time the balance of the purchase price is to be paid. The price has not been named, but it is understood the agreed amount Is in the neighborhood of $35,000 for the mine. Angelenoa In Ventura J. S. Wallace, a Los Angeles mining man, has returned from a visit to the Kenton mine in the Alleghany district, near Grass Valley. He says operations will commence soon on the property. There has been no work done on It since last summer. The claim has an excellent history. Near Nogales, Ariz., a Los Angeles company, under the management of Juan St. Mendoza, is working the old "Valle Verdi" mine which has been Idle for twenty years. The mine was formerly mined for silver and copper, the former having entirely disappeared. There are good gold values In the ore. The plan of the company Is to erect a large reduction plant. P. Wiseman of Los Angeles, a well known mining man. 1b now superintendent of the Fletcher mines In Mo-' have county, Arizona. The Fletcher mines are owned by Los Angeles people and are producing ore. The Johnnie Consolidated Mining company of Los Angeles sent a carload of machinery and supplies to the Johnnie mine In the Montgomery district last week by the way of Manvel, and another eight-horse wagon load Is now there aWaitlng shipment. L. F. Mosher, the new superintendent, will start development work at once. Joseph L. Gtroux of Los Angeles, owner of the Sutlana mine at Copete, Sonora, It Is said, will erect soon an extensive reduction plant on his property. Good ore has been foUnd dll the way down In the 1050-foot shaft, which is the main shaft of the property. The shaft has also been developed by levels, cross cuts, etc., and a large amount of good ore has been blocked out. It is said by reliable people that at the 1050 level the ore body is thirty-six feet wide and runs $86 per ton in Copper, gold and silver. 1 The estimated value of tke mine, based on calculations of the ore now blocked out, Is $500,000. Mr. GtrouX, who formerly was the general superintendent for Senator Clark at Jerome, Is building a $10,000 residence oh the northwest corner of Hobart avenue and Washington street. Mining Machinery Bought That Los Angeles Is shipping mining machinery to old Mexico Is shown by the fact that George B. Jacobs and Schuyler Lawrence of Chihuahua, who have a long term lease and option on the Dolores mine of Lorenzo Arellano, late state treasurer, situated in the Santa Eulalia district, will soon have a hand jigging concentrating plant of forty tons dally capacity on the mine. Work has already commenced on the site, materials have been sent to the mine, and machinery has been shipped from this city. A. W. Geddes and L. W. Moultrie of Los Angeles have been In Portervllle, Cal., examining the Minnie Ellen mine southeast of Portervllle on behalf of Los Angeles parties, who are thinking of purchasing the property from the Yellow 1 King Mining company of Fresno, Its present owners. The gentlemen have returned to Los Angeles with a quantity of rock for assay. While at the mine some timbers on which Mr. Geddeß was standing gave way, precipitating him down a slope with such force that he sprained his ankle. Gravel Deposits Secured Within sixty days the men who have organized a compahy to work the gravel deposits on the Yuba river in the Smartsville section expect to be mining. They plan to carry on operations on a large scale, and express confidence In the gold-bearing value of their property. The organization is known as the Blue Gravel, Deer Creek and Mooney Flat Hydraulic Mining company, and the moving figure In the preliminary work has been C. H. Hill of Los Angeles. Mr. Hill has securd control of a stretch of territory extending from Mooney Flat to the Yubu river, a distance of two and a half miles, arid Including the mineral rights of the Excelsior Water company. He plans to hydraulic off the upper gravel, which is light, and probably will handle that i.nderneath by some other process. Mexican Mine Purchase It Is very probable that there will soon be consummated a deal on the Puerto Rico mines and the 10-stamp mill of Enrique C. Creel, near Sahuayacan. In the western part of Chihuahua. Capt. G. F. Ellis of Santa Barbara, Cal., and P. B. Weare, a mining man of Chicago and Los Angeles, have made an examination of the properties. Mr. Weare has expressed himself aB well pleased with the mines and Is reported enthusiastic over the entire section as to its mining has been expressed by Ellis & Weare, It is known that they are figuring on a deal to take over the mill. The Puerto Rico mines belong to several Mexican mining men, ahd they have them now on a paying basis. The ores are silver and gold, characteristic of a large section of that country. From Old Calaveras Regarding mines m - Calaveras county the San Andreas Citizen says: Six men are Working at sinking and a force Is engaged in grading for a mill at the Phillips mli>e lh Washington ranch district, Arrangements are bp I rig made to start uo the Boston mine at Moke-

lumne Hill. The mine was formerly ! known as the Esperanza. The Panama mine at Washington i ranch wm recently sold by Mrs. Nellie Swank to Woodard & Fuller. Work ! will be commenced on the property Immediately. . At the Sentinel mine at Washington I ranch a force of men is busily engaged In sinking with prospects holding out as good as In the start. The Gaston Hill mine at El Dorado Is being worked with a good force of men. At present sinking is being done and the prospects of permanency aie very flattering. A mill will be erected as soon as the results justify. A good strike Is reported at the Black Oak mine, near Altvllle. The drift was run and a three-foot ledge of very rich rock was struck, It shows up rich In a fine grade of sulphureU and seams of gold ure plainly seen In the roik. The Black Oak is now In the front rank and promises to be one of the best producers. The Alpine mine at Washington ranch has bean bonded by the owners to parties from the southern part of the state and a force of men Is now engaged In and about the mine. A 300-foot tunnel Is to be run and a contract will be let. In Kern County In the vicinity of Havilan In Kern county the owners of the King Solomon mine have struck a two-foot ledge very rich, which It Is believed will assay into the hundreds. The Big Four Is still working with encouraging prospects. The Kern River Milling, Development company has tunneled 1150 feet and will go 200 feet more to tap the ledge. At the present time It Is waiting for machinery. This company Is equipped with a blacksmith shop, tramway and other up-to-date Improvements. Latham's Extension, on the east side of the road to Kernvllle, shows very rich In copper. The Walls on the west side are granite with serpentine on the east and general characteristics of Iron and porphyry with traces of gold and tin. Famous Mint Reopened Grass Valley citizens are rejoicing that the Idaho-Maryland mine near that city is to be reopened. In fact they say the resumption of work on tne property Is one of the best evidences of prosperity In Northern California. The mine once employed the greatest force In Northern California and produced more millions during its career than any other mine in that vicinity. If made millionaires of Edward and John Coleman, now of San Francisco, and produced over seven millions in dividends. The mine has been closed several years, but it Is to be reopened by a Boston company within a few weeks. The head of the company will arrive In Grass Valley In a few days to take up active work. The mine Is now full of water and It will take nine months to pump It out. Quicksilver Production Development work at the San Juan quicksilver mine in Santa Clara county, beyond Oak Hill, Is to be pushed. The force of men Is being Increased and heavier machinery is being Installed. The old shaft, worked by the Mexicans years ago, has been cleaned to the bottom and some exceedingly rich ore has been uncovered. So encouraging are the prospects that a heavy hoist Is being constructed In the tunnel. Recently the ledge was tapped at the south tunnel and the ore was of a very high grade. The extent of the ore body Is not known. There Is a furnace running day and night of twenty-four pipes, but this is insufficient to reduce the ore which is being taken from the mine, and large amounts of cinnabar are placed on the dump to await the erection of a new furnace. 'United Verde Reaumes - After having been closed for alterations for about a week, the United Verde smelter at Jerome has resumed operations. A dust chamber has been built at an expense of $50,000 for the purpose of catching the\ mineral dust, which Is carried off In the smokestacks, and the close down was for the purpose of conectlng thlß dust chamber with the large flue. Estimates have been made showing that the loss from this source alone Is about $5000 per day, and with the new arrangements a very large portion of this can be saved. The United Verde mine and smelter are running full blast with nearly 1000 men employed. One 250-ton and two 500-ton jackets are In constant operation and another 600-ton furnace will soon be put In commission. From Arizona Campa It Is reported that the Verde Chief Mining company is making preparations to resume work about August 15 on properties in the Black Hills district, Yavapai county. The company now has a tunnel In about 1000 feet and will cross-cut the vein at a distance of 600 feet from the mouth of the tunnel. The White Mining company, near Wlckenburg, has purchased a new 15horse power Fairbanks-Morse gasoline hoisting engine for its property. Vice President Walker has gone east on business for the company. The mill at the Crown King mine, especially constructed to handle the 50,000 tons or more of tailings accumulated during Its long period of activity, was started last Friday. It is not now known, nor will It be for a few days, If the new precesß Is a success or not; but If It Is, a fortune Is expected to be extracted from the tailings, which have been a landmark In that section for years. Output of Cananea Some facts regarding the enormous output and future development of the Cananea copper mines, which will so completely refute the rumors that are heard from time to time about .the ore playing out and of it being a stock jobbing scheme, are given by C. E. Bell of Bell & Fields of Douglas, Ariz., that It will relieve all doubt which might have existed In the minds of any who have heard of the stories. An Immense amount of development work is being done. The deepest shaft is down 400 feet on the hanging wall, and It Is expected to strike the main ore shoot at the 800-foot level, which, Mr. Bell says, "when It is caught must prove one of the wonders of the work." It will require fifty years of continuous development for the company to reach its greatest ore bodies. Enough ore is now blocked out to run the reduction works of 1800 tons dally capacity for twenty years. Shoveled Out Gold James B. Wood, the Oriental steamship man who Is well known to Los Angeles people who have came hither from Seattle, has cleaned up $130,000 from a single claim on Dry Creek, on the confines of Nome City. For five years Wood wandered over the seashore gold section seeking his fortune. Soon after arriving at Nome Wood purchased claim No. 3 on Dry Creek and placed a gang of men at work on three different shafts. At a depth of ninety-seven feet he found the.,bedrock pay streak, which went as high as $20 to the pan. This was not quite as rich as some cleanups he had seeh on the famous Eldorado of the Klondike, but it was fairly good, so he Installed hoisting works, constructed several miles of ditches to bring the water, and started in to prove his original contention, that the big pay of the country was at great depths. All last winter Wood had a force of twenty-six men at work taking out dumps, 80,000 feet of timber being used in supporting the shafts and drifts alone. With the opening of the sluicing

season this year a force of sixteen mei: was able to shovel In dirt worth $1000 a day. Mr. Wood says that it is not a question so much of finding gold In the Seward Peninsula, but that of finding water to work the property after the gold Is located. Millions In Sight Those who have Investigated the mines of Chihuahua, Mexico, say that there is ore in sight to the value of $7,000,000 gold in the Santo Domingo mine In the Etzatlan district of Jalisco. The company Is shipping about BMO tons of ore per month. There is much difficulty In getting animals sufficient for transporting the ore to the railroad and then In getting ore cars. The mine Is equipped with hoisting machinery, with compressed air, com- : pressors for pump 3 and dtills, boilers of j large capacity, electric light plant for \ lighting the mine and the premises in- ; s:"de and out, has well fitted offices, 1 stores .dwellings, etc. The equipment is now sufficient for the raising of 150 : tons or more of ore per diy. The com- ; tiany owns 6000 aoren of fine timber ! land immediately surrounding the mine- ! Crisp Mining News The pioneers In the Yukon country will celebrate In August Ihe annivei - j sary of Discovery Bay in th > Klondike. All who were north of the sixty-sixth parallel or on the Edmonton trail Lie- j fore January, 1898, are Included in the "sour doughs," wno are entitled to take ! part In the celebration. The celebrn- ; tion Is In charge of the Yukon Order of j Pioneers. The Nome Gold Digger reports that the Champion Mining and Trading company has Installed threp hydraulic : elevators on Dorothy and Divide creeks and Is preparing to perform extensive work. The Graes Valley Tidings says that i the North Star mine has produced ( $305,000 In six months. A report by i James D. Hague, the president of the company, Ib published, in which the statements are officially confirmed. Near Medford there will soon be j something doing at the Blue Ledge copper mine on Elliott creek, which is located lit Siskiyou county near the | Oregon boundary. C. D. Gettls cf! Colorado will take charge of the work as superintendent. A big strike has been made by n Southern Oregon party, in Siskiyou county, about fifteen miles from the town of Nolton on the Klamath river, and bonded to Mr. Staple of Ashland for $125,000. This Is a claim where a great amount of gold was reported to have been taken out some fifty years ago, remnants of old shovels and other implements having been found on the ground, together with other relics, Indicating that a cabin existed. Possibly this claim may be the Lost Cabin mine. At the Yellow Rose of Texas mine the pay chute was struck last week In the lower tunnel which was run by contract and a body of very rich ore opened up. Further development work will be actively prosecuted and the mill started up. A large force of men will be put at work. At Etna the new machinery Is arriving for the Morrison & Carlock mine at Quartz Valley, and In a short time It will be considered one of the best equipped properties In northern California. It has Installed a new electric plant and lighting both mine and mill with electricity. Two new five-stamp batteries will be added to the milling plant. The old Punch Creek or Mono group of quartz mines on north fork of Humbug creek, Just over the hill from , west side of Yreka, has been sold to i a New York company for $250,000 with ■ $100,000 cash down. > The recent strike made in the Gold Blossom mine In Grass Valley mining district has since proved, on examination by Its owner, Richard Jeffrey, to be more extensive and of greater im- [ portsnce than at first supposed. Instead of being a "bunch" of rich specimen rock uncovered, the ledge shows every indication of permanency and promises to develop Into one of the best paying mining properties In Nevada county. The Gibson ranch of 158 acres on Clear creek, Shasta county, will be worked by W. L. Leland with gold dredging apparatus. Twenty years ago, 1884, the average price of copper was 13 cents for the year, or about the same as It has been during the past year. The world's output of copper Is more than two and a half times as great as it was in 1884. As the average price of copper during the twenty years has been very close to 13 cents per pound, it is plain that consumption has grown as rapidly as production. One of the largest sales of hydraulic mines and mining ground In Siskiyou , county was the recent deal by T. J. Noiton the Railroad and Mining Membership of Colorado. Their purchase included Williams Point, Sunnyslde, ' The Old Channel, Anona, Indian Girl , and Native Daughter mines and mining ground, located at the Big Bend of the . Klamath river, and the Mlnetta B. and adjacent mines and mining ground six , miles up stream. With the Minetta B. ! purchase they acquire the ditches and flumes and splendid water right to Thompson creek. The gravel property owned by R. , Wise of Oakland and situated on Poverty Flat,' a short distance from Whisky Slide, Is developing. The mill of the : Melones mine at Melones Is running day and night on ore. A new mill will be Installed In August by the San An- , dreas Gold Channel Mining company. Receiver Barker's Report H. A. Barker, newly apppolnted receiver for the Free Gold Mining company at Hedges, filed his first monthly report In the superior court of San Diego county July 30. He shows receipts to have been $4922.64; disbursements, $4124.70; cash balance, chiefly on deposit, $797.94. The estimated monthly yield on bullion sent to the assayers is: Seven boxes gold precipitates. $1104.71; 593 ounces crude bullion, $8722.03. More Goldfield Newa Goldfleld Is reported wild over a rich strike made on thetfumbo mine. Ore yielding $30,000 a ton was taken out and the greatest excitement followed. Town property is soaring and a big boom Is on. A rush of prospectors is expected. The mines are rushing their work. Six mines are shipping over 600 sacks of ore daily. The January mine has sounded the first steam whistle in the new camp. Kenneth Donnellan of the firm of Donnellan & Elliott, brokers of Tonopah and Goldfield. says that the Jumbo mine is. according to reports, the great- . est mine In the world In point of de- , velopment. Since the discovery of the . mine the richest kind of ore has been I taken out and not a pound of waste ! has been extracted. The Jumbo and other mines In Goldfield promise to . make Nevada the leading mining coun- , try of the world.