Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-23
Encouraging News About
Mining Matters.
Deposits of Ore in Several
Places.
The Emmanuel Church Decides to
Erect Building.
An Accident to Railway Train-Other
Items of an Interesting Character
About Town.

The mining interests of Southern Cali
fornia appear to be looking up. Every
few days reports come to hand from the
various mining districts that are most
encouraging, and the development of
the vast mineral resources of this section
is thought to be but the matter of a short
time. According to these reports, the
hills and mountains in Los Angeles and
San Bernardino counties are full of the
valuable metals.
A day or two ago Maurice Clark
brought to the city gold brick valued
at $4,000, which had been taken from
the Red Rover mine, about
three miles from Acton, which
is situated fifty-ive miles from
Los Angeles by the railroad and
thirty miles in a straight line
due north. The Red Rover proprietor
has a ledge four feet in width, into
which tunnel 220 feet has been run on
the ledge. Two drifts have been made,
one 275 feet to the west and the other
ninety feet to the east, both of which
are in ore which averages $40 per ton.
The ore is crushed in ten-stamp mill
which demolishes 400 tons per month,
and the brick exhibited here is the re-
suit of less than months work.
There are between twenty and thirty
men at work at the mine, and the pay
roll averages 81, 800 to $4,000 per month,
most OF which money is expended in
Los Angeles, whence supplies are
drawn. The mine has been bonded to
Maurice Clark, who has gone to San
francisco to purchase more machinery,
and who intends to eXpend $4,000 in
further improving his property. The
bar will be on exhibition at the County
Bank for few days.
Another encouraging report has been
received from the group of mines on the
Colorado river in San Bernardino county,
about sixty miles below The Needles.
Messrs Frank Liddell, A. N. Field and
John Hoy have just returned from a
three months stay at their mines, the
Attica, Magenta, Belmont and others.
During their sojourn in that country
they occupied themselves in finding out
what they had in the way of minerals.
They tunneled sixty feet at one place
into the Attica, which lies right on the
bank of the Colorado, and fifteen feet
at another point, and found that the
ore increased in value the further
from the surface they got. The
ledge is from four to six feet
wide and the ore assays $50 per ton, free
gold. The Magenta is situated about
three miles from the river, and they
tunneled 35 feet into it, disclosing
solid ore vein 6 feet wide. This mine is
considered one of the most promising,
and assays $107 gold and silver. The
ore runs 25 per cent copper. The most
wonderful mine of them all is the Bel
mont, where they exposed solid ore
body 171a feet thick, which assays $65
to the ton. The ledge was located on
the top of a ridge of basalt mountains
700 feet above the base. 1t was traced
plainly 800 feet along the ridge, and
has been entirely taken up. Starting
at the top they commenced to cut down,
and, to their astonishment, the further
down they went the wider the ore vein
became. 1t was about feet wide at the
top, but when they had made a cut
twenty feet deep the ore body was sew
enteen and half feet wide, and the in
dications are that it will increase in
width all the way down. There is
enough ore in sight to keep several
smelters at work the year round.
hood, belonging to George Seip, called
the Golden Eagle, also gives promise OF
becoming an excellent paying piece OF
property. 1t assays $107 per ton, one
third silver and two-thirds gold. and the
vein is from five to seven feet thick.
The several gentlemen who own these
mines are not intending to part with
their properties; in fact, they think
they have too good thing to let 60.
They are anxious, however, for smelter
to be located in that neighborhood, and
expect to have one there next fall, when
they will again go down there. They
have a quantity of their ore on exhibi-
tion at the chamber of commerce, and
have shipped twenty-five sacks of it to
see what it will produce in working
test. They expect great things from
that section, and say that the hills and
mountains there are full of minerals.