Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-27
Placer County Miners Call a
State Convention.
Rich Prospects of the Death
Valley Mines.
Interesting Notes About Ores and
Ore Seekers.
The Gavilan Gold Mines-A New En-.
terpriss Near Yuma-Ncws
Notes About
Mines.

AS the result OF muCn agltatlOn ana
discussion of the subject, the miners OF
Placer county have issued a call for a
state convention. The mining law of
California is susceptible OF many changes
that would benefit not alone those en-
gagged in placer mining but the general
mining interests OF the state. Following
is the
The miners of Placer county in con-
vention assembled hereby issue call for
a Miners state convention, to meet in
San Francisco on Wednesday, the Goth
day of January, 1892, at 2 O'Clock p. M.
The appointment of delegates to said
State Miners convention shall be thirty
(3O) from each county in California, ex-
cept San Francieco, which shall be enti-
tied to sixty delegates.
Said delegates shall be elected by a
convention OF the miners and mining
sympathzers called to meet in each
county on or before the 1st day of jan
uary, 1892, for that purpose. Any three
or more miners NAV issue the call for
said county convention.
If, however, in any county OF the
state, the miners fail to meet and elect
delegates as herein provided, on or be-
fore the 1st day of January, 1892, then
the supervisors may and they are here
by requested to appoint the delegates
which their respective counties are en-
titled to in said state convention.
Provided, that no man who is un-
friendly to the mining interests shall be
eligible to a seat in said convention,
and where supervisors may appoint
they are requested to discriminate in
favor OF mining men.
DEATH VALLEY MINES.
Col. 7. w. Brooks, OF Pomona, recent
ly returned from a prospecting trip on
the Mojave desert and up in the region
around Death valley. He says the min
eral resources of the country are alone
enough to warrant the building of the
proposed railroad from Salt Lake to
Los Angeles. He gives details OF veins
and deposits OF silver opened up by Salt
Lake and other mines, which alone
would almost furnish enough traffic for
a road, but at present the ores cannot
be profitably handled. Being alone
with the care of team in country in
habited only by few wild beasts,
lizards and stray birds, he did not do
much practical prospecting. but he saw
enough to convince him that that ap-
parently worthless and very forbidding
country is of immense value, and that
the wild beasts, birds and reptiles will
not have exclusive possession much
longer. Pomona Times.
A RICH STRIKE.
The members of the company now
commencing in earnest the develop
ment of the old gold mines ON the tin
mine tract, generally known as the
Gavilan mines, are in high spirits to-
day, says the Riverside Enterprise.
The first work done was to clear out
the shaft of the Washington mine.
This they have retimbered to the water
line, and are now putting in an engine
for pumping and hoisting.
1t is, however, the new shafts that
furnish grounds for congratulation.
Although they have got down but forty
five feet on the Gavian Viejo No. /,
they are in three foot ledge, which is
showing about $500 to the ton.
Another shaft started only few days
ago is, however, showing a far higher
grade OF ore than wac anticipated by the
most sanguine of the owners. This
ledge, known as Viejo No. 2, is between
four and five feet wide, and the most
conservative estimate places the value
at over 81 900 ton. while the sanguine
ones insist thatg,he ore they are now in
will run above 81 500 ton.
There has never been a question rs to
the value OF these mines, but the results
OF the work being done would seem to
indicate that the most sanguine hopes
are to be more than realized.
NEW MINING ENTERPRISE.
A st. Louis mining company has taken
hold of the placer claims owned by B.
Gratz and associates at Pot Hole, and
will ground sluice the mines, says the
Yuma Sentinel. The company also pro-
poses to prospect the sand of the river
at that point for gold. The plant consists
of one centrifugal and two large Worth
ington pumps. The machinery was
shipped down the river on a stout scow
from The Needles, which many thought
when being built, was to be used as a
steamboat. The gentlemen representing
the company are sanguine of meeting
with success in their enterprise, and as
there is plenty Of gold in the Pot Hole
country, there seems to be good reason