Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-06-12
Coovens,ou votes.

Convension Notes.
MODESTO, June 10.-rhe Demo-
cratic Convention met to-day and
nominated 7. ID. Heiskell for this
county and w. G. Collier, of Mer-
ced, for the Senatorial District, as
candidates for the Constitutional
Convention. T. ID. Harp, indepen-
dent Democrat, endorsed by the
Republican County Convention,
has withdraw from the field.
Delegate Nominated = Abauctor
Kiii.d.
HoLLIsTER, CAL, June 11th.-A
Convention met this afternoon at
this place consisting of twenty
three members, to wit: One Dem
ocrat, one Independent, six Repub-
licaps and fifteen Workingmen,
called a Peoples Convention, and
nominated e. Mason, of San
Felipe, as candidate to
represent San Benito county
in the Constitutional Convention.
Mr.. Mason is a Republican and re-
fused to endorse that portion of the
platform which demands the abro-
CATION of the pardoning power in
the Federal and State Govern
ments.
Friday nigh. last an Indian
named Rojeciano abducted Isabel
Foote, an orphan child seven or
eight years of age, from the house
of her sister, Mrs. Soto, near Los
Angeles Rancho, in this county,
and fled to the mountains with
her. Mr.. Soto obtained u warrant
and with a companion went in
pursuit, and when overtaken on
the afternoon Of yesterday, the In
dian attempted to shoot his pursu-
ers, when he was fired upon and
killed. The child was recovered. :
visit 80 the Ophir Miae.
VIRGINIA, New, June 11th.-
This evenings Chronicle publishes
the following: At 10 o'clock this
morning two representatives of the
Virginia press were admitted to
the Ophir mine, Dan De Quille, of
the Enterprise, and D. e. McCar-
thy, of the Evening Chronicle. They
were accompanied by Assistant
Superintendent Patton. Going
down the G. & G. shaft, they passed
through the California level to the
Ophir mine. The chief point of
interest was, of course, the winze
from the 1900-foot level to the 2000-
foot level-the winZe which the
San Francisco Chronicle of Sunday
last said had been sunk vertically
only 45 feet and had then followed
the pitch of the ore body at an an
gle of 81 degrees 10 the eastward.
This winze starts in cross-cut No.
2, few feet east Of the ore vein on
the 19O0.foot level. The winze is
as straight as q string, and this
proves conclusively what We as
serted yesterday in that respect.
The winze is closely timbered so
that, In passing through it, nothing
is to be seen. Mr.. Patton, who
has had immediate supervision of
the work, gave the folio wing infor-
nation: AT a depth of about Is
feet the winze cut through body
of ore about seven or eight feet
wide, which was pitching eastward
at an angle of thirty or forty de-
grees. Before the east side of the
winze had passed out of this vein,
the west side cut into another ore
body, the east wall of which
showed about the same angle of
inclination as the first cut through;
but the west wall did not appear
until o depth of about eighty
feet had been reached. Then about
two feet of porphyry came in Oh
the west side, which, it was feared,
would cut right across the winze,
but as the downward progress was
continued it curved back to the
westward and for the last fifteen or
twenty feet the winze was in ore
on the 1900 foot level. A station
about twenty by forty feet in size
has been excavated and here the
size of the ore body was clearly
shown. It's course is northeast and
southwest and on the north side of
the station the whole face is ex-
posed. Messrs De Qullle and Nc
Carthy measured the vein careful
ly and found it to be at this point
exactly nineteen feet and one inch
in width from the clearly marked
west wall to the east side of the ore
body. There is no east wall in
sight. The formation adjoining
the ore on the east is vein of
porpllyry, interspersed with
streaks of quarts and hence it is
considered quite probable that
there is still another body of ore
close at hand on that side. The
drift southwark from the station
has already penetrated eight feet
and the "porphyry" taken from
the face this morning assays S67 to
the ton.
The press representatives having
expressed wish to take samples
from the face OF the vein, Mr.. Pat
ton said he was willing they should
do so. Accordingly tin bucket was
procured and samples were dug
from the whole face of the vein
and caught in q bucket as they fell.
This was all pounded up there and
a small sack taken by each news.
paper man. An assay was made for
the Chronicle by E. Martin & Co.,
which resulted as follows. Gold VAL
ue per ton $120 SO, silver 1923 so, Total
value per ton $244 0S. The charac-
ter of the ore on the 2,000-foot level
is green chloride while that on
the 1900-foot level is black sulphur.
cts. This change Mr.. Patton con-
sidered very favorable indication
for permanency. The heat in the
lower level is intoleralble. being in
one of the 19O0-foot level drifts from