Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-04-19
OUR MINING INDUSTRY.
Notes from Calico and other
Points ThereabOuts.

Notes from Calico and other
Points ThereabOuts.
EDITORS HERALD-Every day, whilst
perusing the HERALD, Los Angeles most
reliable news journal, as well as other
papers from different parts of the State,
see announcements of mining strikes
in different portions Of this, our sunset
land, but nothing catches my eye from
this, the most desolate, but yet the most
prolific in mineral wealth of any portion
of it. And, as have not for some time
imposed upon the attention of your
many readers, I will beg leave to ask
their consideration of a few things which
have come under my own observation
during a late prospecting trip around
an about this, the Great Mojave desert.
First of all will speak of what is tran
spring near at home. Calico, with her
many rich deposits of silver-bearing
rock, with Daggett as her shipping point,
is now reducing and putting in market
more silver bullion than all of the rest
of the silver producing camps in this
State combined, the shipments at
present averaging between $4,000
and $50, 900 worth of fine bullion per
month, and were it not for the present
low price of silver, more low grade ores
could be worked with profit and the in
crease would be at least one-third more.
Kaolin-Some fine deposits of this val
liable article have been discovered some
three miles south of this place and sold
to parties in San Diego, who have thor
oughly tested it and pronounce it to be
the best yet found in the United States
for the manufacture Of fine porcelain and
other useful articles.
Mr.. j. B. Osborn, of this place, has
about brought to completion his steam
wagons, which when finished, he intends
putting to work between the railroad and
the extensive lead and silver mines
owned by himself and others at and near
Resting Springs.
The vast bodies of rich silver and lead
bearing carbonates, lately discovered in
Old Woman's Mountain, had the
pleasure of visiting during my late pros
pecting trip to the eastern portion of this
San Bernardino county last month, and
l found that the reports made concerning
them were not in the least exaggerated
and, mast say that, for the develop
ments made, they far surpass in magni-
tude, any one body Of similar charac-
ter I have ever seen. The ledge in
which these groupings are found can
be easily traced, about eight miles run
ming directly across from far down in the
desert plain on the northeast side Of the
mountain, and about fifteen miles south
westerly from Fenner Station, on
the Atlantic and Pacific Railway,
until lost in the broken range
which surrounds the most extensive
deposits of pure rock salt in this country
upon the southwest side. These carbon
ate ores are pronounced by experts to be
of the best quality, containing but little
of any rebellious or refractory matter.
When l left the mines on the first day
of the present month the Scanton Com
pany were engaged sinking perpendic-
ular shaft through their ledge, and were
down thirty-five feet, all in ore, and no
sign of foot wall. Thompson 20.
had also run about thirty-five feet OF a
tunnel, and thirty feet of it is solid min
eral, and no hanging wall yet. The
district was formed in February last, and
named after the diecoverer, Mr.. Peter
Scanton, a miner of much experience,
from Leadville, Colorado. Other COM
panies are about getting to work, and, as
[ expect to visit the locality again in
few days, should it be agreeable to you
/ will give some further items concern
ing these and other mining localities
upon my return. | shall not at present
further intrude upon your col
umns, but OF one thing l can
I can assure you that everything have
told YOU can be verified. Dandy Station
is the nearest station to the mines, they
being some fifteen miles distant in
southwesterly direction. These and all
other mines being tributary and buying
their supplies from merchants who pur'
chase in your city almost all OF their
produce should be q sufficient induce
ment for some of your moneyed men to
steal awhile away from the orange groves
and vine-clad hills, and take trip out
upon this boundless plain, breathe the
ozone of our pure air, lulled to sleep by
gentle Mojave zephyr, invest few OF
their spare ducats in good paying mine,
look at our vast mineral recourses, and
90 back richer, wiser and healthier
men. TO invelids we would only say
that this is the country. Medical men
have to use the pick and hammer or
starve to death. Yours truly,
JAMES A. PARKER.
Daggett, San Bernardino County, CAL,
April 10th, 1889.
| rv,o E.Etmg,, Tinted Leaa.-Ten gal.