The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-06-30
NEW GOLD DISCOVERIES.
A Rich Mineral Belt i'm Baja Cali
fOrnia. Mexico.
Mining and Scientific Press.l

existed near San Borgia, Baja Califor-
MIA. The ore from these mines not
only carried from twenty-five to nine
ty-iive per cent. of copper, but also
from IS to S25 in gold and SIS to $3.50
per ton in silver. There is but very
little doubt that the sixty tons of ore
bought by the Revere copper works
in Boston, twenty-five years ago, and
from which white copper was made,
equal if not superior TO the celebrated
aPang tang' of the Chinese, came
from the Morales or San Borgia cop
per mines. 1t has also been we'll
known that the richest silver ore eve
found in Mexico was accidentally DIS
covered between San Borgia and
Cedros Island shore, by some ship
wrecked sailors, and, although thirty
miles from water, wood or grass, the
sailors returned and proved the truth
OF their reports, showing the lodges OF
veins, from which they took the ore.
Within a year "a Californian discovered
a very rich gold quartz mine. adjoin-
ing the san Borgia or Morales copper
mines, from which he took IS, 900 in
a few days, by pounding the ore or
rock in a hand mortar; and his COM
panions or associate miners took their
-, SO ana $50 per day from the same
vein. Just how gold, silver and cop
per, each distinct and separate by
itself, could exist within a stones
throw OF each other, unmixed, is a
mystery unsolyed by the practical
miner, and a question which may
puzzle the geologisi and mineralogist
to solve. These rich discoveries led
To the organizing and sendingou last
fail, OF we'll equipped prospecting
parties, To explore an entirely nn-
known country. The wet, cold win
ter WAS "A godsend to them, as water
| and grass were found everywhere.
We are now informed that these par
ties were at last rewarded by discover
ing in the last Of April, the evidences
Of gold and finally the gold itself.
At first a gulch was found, emptying
into the Pacific ocean,, twenty miles
west OF san Borgia, latitude 299, lon
gitude 1l4o, about fifteen miles in
length, which va rich in placer gold.
Nuggets from 5 70 $3.50 were found.
Men took
Sl00 PER DAY TO THE NAN.
The guleh was found to have
branches OF fifteen miles or more in
length. The first gold WAS found on
the naked bed rock, made bare by the
winters Hoods or heavy rains. Upon
careful examination it was found that
tire ancient gravel stream lay about
two feet below the surface and that
the pay streak, or bed OF gravel, was
about four feet thick. Subsequent
explorations show that the ground or
placer belt Is - to 10 miles in length
by 80 Il 10 miles in width, with gold
in almost every guleh, canon and
raNine.
DIFFICULTIES.
No water is found, only for drink
ing and cooking, and this, in many
cases, has TO be carried on mules or
barros' backs from . to Il miles and
in one case 30 miles. Twenty miles
from the first discoveries there is a
large stream OF water which can be
carried in iron pipes, and used in 20
or % miles of the different gulches.
As found, this water soon sinks, and
is lost in the loose gravel Of these des-
ert wastes. Not a stick OF fuel is any
where To be found, only a limited sup
ply of brush and shrubs, hardly suffi-
cient for cooking. No grass IS found,
only Il few weeds or plants, upon
which the small native mule or burro
can live. Ii is impossible for a horse
OF any kind TO live IN the entire region.
DISTANCES.
II is Oh miles by land to San Borgia,
SOL to the new mines, or where the
discoveries were made, from San
Diego, Cal, and not less than 400
miles by water from San Diego to
Lagoon Heads, or 375 to Rosalia bay.
From here TO the mines it is about 40
miles over u desert. Small vessels.
drawing not over four or five feet of
water, can go up the lagoons, Manu-
ella or Black Warrior, for ID or 20
miles, and within II of 20 miles ofthe
new gold fields, over a desert void OF
water, fuel or grass. On the east
shore of Mannella lagoon, nearest the
plaeers, there used TO be fresh water,
but nothing is now known whether
the well is still there or not. Parties
going 10 the mines should take sup
plies 10 last them at least for six
months, As not one thing can be had
To eat or drink. The heat is intense,
90 to I10o daily in the shade, when