Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-04-19

Mckee. The zone or mineral belt
In which these mines are is about
i've miles wide and. very regular.
Al the ledges carry galenaIn the
oeoppfnee, but ~ depth 10 attained
the eorbenates disappear and chlor-
1do and horn silver are found. The
0AleuA 10 impregnated with car
bouate Of copper which gives .
blueish tint to the ore. In TACT, we
like to see. the rock cOpper.stained,
- it 10 indicative Of the rich char.
aetor Of tie lode. As I have al.
ready s0id, oil the claims that ex-
posed themselves on the surface
have already been located, so that
now prospecting is confined to
Whist miners term "blind ledges,"
anasas ths owners Of those claims
aFs,inactive. our camp lie in q rath.
OF qutst mood.
The 0unsight Consolidated Min
Ing Company owns the cream Of
this camp and are working but
few men; just enough to do the a..
eeosmept on their claims. They
own the Guusight, the Morning
Star, the Atlanta, the Silver Girt
Nnd few outside locations. The
Mineral Bed Company are sinking
their shast.I And this is about the
extent Of the work being done in
In this camp by our Eastern opera.
tors.
The system by which these East.
e4n men work IL rather novel. 1t
IL like blockwork. They first bond
. mine for sixty or ninety days.
then they 60 East and get some
party TO put up ten or fifteen dol.
lars to the assessment work; In the
meantime the man in charge
writes glowing report Of the mag.
nltudo Of the lode, the richness of
the ore and the gigantic operations
carried on at the mines, and 30 the
dupes are gullsd into purchasing
properties that are undeveloped,
which, NO doubt, by proper treat.
mont would be valuable ground.
This, - we'll "a other portions of
the Territory, has been injured by
IL friends. Exaggerated reports Of
auy thing 10 apt to iDjure, while,
NO doubt, the district possesses
great mineral wealth. Yet 1t has Its
own draw backs. Seventy miles OF
= desert, denuded of timber and
destitute Of water, divides US from
outer Communication, and no mat
ter how rich the ore is 1t always
takes time to surmount such diff
ealtiss.
While we have some high grade
o. here, ranging ~ high as fifteen
.sOitHenty thousand dollars per ton,
YET it 10 useless to disguise the fact
that our camp 10 but, AZ yet, o
base metal range. Work is mainly
coh1ned to coyoteing on the surface
hunting for bonanzas In the
'snoop,' instead of being pushed
down vigorously. The greatest
depth attained as yet is 180 feet in
the Gunsight. The shaft is in ore,
and cut either way shows nine
fest OF Mineral without cutting
either wall. The Allen mine has
three feet Of good ore In it. The
westward, the Mineral Bed, Min
Ing Star, Atlanta, General Han.
Geek. Bulletin, Pacific, and q host
of others have from three to twelve
fest Of good milling ore.
There 10 ore enough In sight now
u. this camp to supply forty mills
for forty years and support a town
larger than Los An ngeles If the ore
only holds out to . depth of q hun.
drod feet Ia each claim. Contrary |
20 what i EXPECTED and learned |
about Arizona, the lodos are wide,
1&nnAh Uv1A
California,
The Morning Star Mine here Is
tW4lte feet wide, all solid mineral
end about two feet Of 1t assays as
Aieh - fouf thousand dollars q ton.
!. ThA "9eneral Hancock" is thir.
~ toet wide, and will assay from
eAitty 70 tive hundred dollars ton. |
xAe 0uneight, proper he's lately
changed hands. Some Philadel.
phia mon have bought 1t. The AL.
l14 and Westward mines have
BEEN purchased by Mr.. .Slossop,
fr6n Rhiladslphia. It is also ru.
1eoyo4 around that Williams has
elepeced Of his property to some
0fientals.
There 10 NO doubt but this is 20.
Ing 70 10 camp, and q large one
too, but 1t will take some time.
These Eastern fellows are as slow
and small ~ snsils, the very oppo-
ltte ,of Cslifornia enterprise, but
Dno cannot induce any Ban Fran.
10 espitalists to come to Ari-
Osr camp is beautifully located |
leath the base Of the Sierra de la |
epoeAnsa mountains, and COM
1An4b . view OF the surrounding |
leu1tEy - fAr - the eye can reach. |
y1eE4 II an abundance of water
Within four miles Of the mines, 4
l3eoty Of wood for all ordinary pur.
Do1oe. and The climate Ia delightful
3 ~ 6xtreme-like IN October
!0Ht1 Lpe Angeles. At times the
flashes and the thunder
'o9gBve6e0ently, and BeTeas blows
zfeA.all to- force Of his vindictive
y4o9 sCeounts for every
NM ant 9roWD in Arizona hav.
- 8 th0ru, sin order 10 break the
nI6oof ~ .Wind." Another fea. |
- q Arisone life IL that it is the
!n1 1s vse!d thst 8Sod
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