Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-12-09
The Mining Revfval-A Reminis-

Ine nAhnlnK HeVlval-A hemlmkss
cence.
It is a thing of pleasant note
that mining discoveries Of great
interest and pro spective value are
taking place in every direction
within a short radius of Los Angeles.
The man is now living who will see the
day when, from the northern limits of
Mono county to the edge of the great
Lower California Desert, man may ride
the whole stretch of that country and
never get out of the sound of quartz
mill. The latest mining discovery is on
the Colorado river, in San Bernsrdino
county, details of which appear else
where. When it was attempted to get
up great excitement in Los Angeles
about the Santa Clara placers Of Lower
California the HERALD advised those
who were adventurously inclined to stay
at home and prospect their own country.
II assured them that there was no need
of going into Mexico to find mines-that
better ones and more of them lay ready
to their hands right at home. From
this time on we may expect to hear of a
constant succession of discoveries along
the route by which the Salt Lake road
will approach Los Angeles. The great
richness of that section has been known
for years, but the difficulties of transpor-
tation and consequent great expense Of
development have caused them to lie
dormant. Another great center of
mining exploitation will be around
Panamint and Darwin, where in
Vulnerable lodes of great value
will be developed when the
Carson and Colorado Railway makes q
connection with this city, and even be-
fore. The air is fairly scintillant with
hints of a coming mining revival in
Southern California, Southwestern Me-
vada and Southwestern Utah, in which
Los Angeles will also participate, and in
all OF which she will be the beneficiary.
In mining as in agriculture, while North
ern California led the way, Southern
California will achieve q record, though
different, quite as brilliant. The ab-
sence or scarcity of running streams, and
the quick evaporation incident to our
climate, made placer mining difficult
and improbable pursuit in Southern
California, but the lodes of silver and
gold are here, and as rich as any on the
Coast, and quite as permanent. We
shall not only witness a boom in the
precious metals in Southern California,
but the cheap coal of Utah will result in
the establishment of smelling works here
in the not distant future. Meanwhile, q
prospecting work is going on which will
provide illimitabls supplies of pay ore
when that happy day shall arrive.
There are thousands of people residing
in Los Angeles today who know nothing
of the immense shipments of bullion that
formerly passed through this city to San
Pedro from the Cerro Gordo mines in
Inyo county. Countless mule teams
were engaged in freighting between the
camps of the Messrs. Belshaw g.
Beaudry and Los Angeles, bringing
down msssy ingots of mixed lead and
silver, to be carried to San Pedro, to be
thence shipped to San Francisco for re-.
duction. For many years this business
was the mainstay of the prosperity OF
this city. There are still other thou
sands of our new people who are not
aware that an extensive trade once
existed between Los Angeles and Salt
Lake City. 1t is most auspicious sign
| OF our future that these streams of
wealth are again about to turn this way,
although this time, under different con.
ditions, we shall not ship these ores to
other points for reduction. Los Angeles,
like Denver, will soon be a great smelt-
ing center. The ores that will pour into
this city from Southern California, South.
western Nevada and Southwestern Utah
will be met by another stream from Ari-
zona that will furnish the fuxes which
will admit of the cheap and easy reduc-
tion of the rebellious ore of the forms r
section. When once they reach Los An.
geles they will be encountered by the
competing cheap coal of Utah and
Alaska. Bnt brief space of time
separates this pen picture from fruition.