Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-07-30

| feOpfo duu chtJle arc ehlu 10 nave
fbeen killed. Houses are built o.
wood, though o wealth of stone
abounds and the people would
gladly build of It on account of the
cold Winters, but fear deters them.
Seated in Independence one can
see the location OF
THE KEARsEAGE NINE.
It is some thousands OF feet above
the snow line. 1t carries gold and
silver and has been worked con-
siderably. 1t is said that large
masses of ice have been met with
in drifting and tunnelipg at points
three or four feet below the surface,
which fact am no more disposed to
dispute that am the assertion ofthe
Lone Piners that Mount Whitney ls
the highest point in the Sierra
Nevsdas, withstsndingt there are
many others right around it that
look as high.
In the White Mountains, about
Independence, some mines have
been opened from which l saw
large SACKS or
NATIVE COPPER.
Our townsman, Mr.. Taber, has been
engaged taking machinery to some
almost inaccessible poiut where he
has a location carrying gold and
silver. If 1t does not peter out,
the probabilities are that ere an.
other year rolls around he'll have
enough to give up mining, and
we'll be able once more to count
him among the citizens of Los
Angeles.
Above Bishops Greek as one
travels north one crosses
Owen's River. 1t carries
some four or five times the flowing
water that Is to be found in Los
Angeles county, and the question
forces itself upon an irrigator as he
contemplates this volume of water
running to waste as to why can't
this all be d. fected above Owens
Lake and led along the mountain
sides to some point where by tun-
mel or otherwise, it could be turned
into the TejuDgs CO non and utilized
In Los Angeles county. The en-
cheering difficulties ought not to
be very great, and some day when
the necessities of the people require
It, the coin will be forthcoming.
| Some fifteen miles above Bishops
Creek one enters into wide valley
following the White mountains.
In this one finds the town of Ben.
ton. Had one followed up Owens
River, or rather the road that runs
on the west side of it, one could
have passed through Round valley,
aud thence by a toll road to Mann
moth, some thirty-two miles be-
yOnd.
MAMMOTH
Is a most picturesque position for a
mining camp. 1t is situated in the
mouth of a gorge of the Sierras.
which widens cut above the camp,
giving q cite for another camp,
named Pine City. Here are a large
number of small lakes, fed by the
eternal SHOWS, which are united,
and which afford all the power
needed for milling ore. Then
again, the country is timbered witt
heavy pine. The veins Of ore are
situated high above Nam moth
, The ore is brought down by tram
way, which passes over the CAM
to u point Whence it is sent to tn,
mill in a slide or shute. Every ad
vantage for milling the ore is u
i. hand, and if the development
made this Summer will justify it
!, arrangements will be made for car
! rying on work during the Winter
: aud, in the end, Nam moth will b,
not only a camp I'm name but IL
fact, and its size will justify tn,
+ name.
A PLEASANT LOCALITY.
No one can visit this locality
without being pleased. From it
great elevation, which must prac
, tically seclude it from the world II
Winter, it has always a pleasan
: climate in Summer. Then, as on
rides along through its pine forest
> and listens to the music of tn
winds through the tree tops, it in
/. voluntarily brings back Ieminls
. cences OF ether days passed in ,
: country similarly tlmbered. TheI
. again, are these rem ni.cences sug
| gested by its beautiful waters ant
the snow. which appears to BE- jus
t ut hand and which is yet far above
a At Mammoth, in August ant
. September, one can take the trai
2 across the mountains afoot or OF
horseback, and in two days, afte
, travelling sixty five miles, one will
| reach the Fresno flats, passin u!
some big trees. Thence Que cal
, take stage to Madeira Station, oil
. the Southern Pacific Railroad. Til
e distance il not great-some twelty
five miles. believe. To ayoun
n man foud of adventure and full O
enthusiasm, this trip would 0peI
up many, AS yet comparatively uu
known, beauties of the Sierra Ne
q vadas; but All Old man, il at all BE-
:. You'd his prime, had better forego i,
n ANOTHER TACK.
: II, in lieu of going to Mammot
one goes to Benton, one leaves sg
riculture behind; vegetation disap
, pears, except grease wood. Benton
! is mining camp run down at tn
+, heel. There are two mills situate,
F. here. Que does custom work; tn,
other is idle aud belongs to tn,
I Cherokee Company. Most of thu
houses are vacant. The most no
, ticeable thing about the town !
the warm spring which bubbles VI
< ut the mouth of a Gu non and afford
u strong stream which runs dow
the main street and which 10 util
lied tor domestic and mill pur
g poses. Benton is in rich minera
! region, but the mines are Difficult