Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-25
MINES AND MINING.
News About Holes in the
Ground.
Exaggerated Statements About
the Latest Arizona Find.
Transportation and Labor Against
the Use of Arizona Onyx.
The Gold Find at Rich Hill-Big Bug
Onyx-san Diego County Mines.
Northern Arizona Dig
gings-NOtes.

the gold find on Rich Hill at Stanton
had been exaggerated. Referring to the
statement, Scott Greening, perfectly
reliable gentleman, who lives at Weaver,
sends the following reply, under date of
October 13:
81 was looking over your daily issue
of yesterday, and 1 saw an article stat
ing that former reports regarding the
Rich Hill gold strike had been exagger-
ated. l don't think the intention was
to exaggerate things, yet l can't say
that all the reports were facts. All
have said l can substantiate, and
further, what information 1 got was
from as reliable source as it was possi
BILE to be obtained from. The country
is not very thickly settled with whites,
and we are not blessed with any too
You see, Weaver is the head-quar-
ters of the Mexicans, and there
is Mr.. Feldman, who has
store and a Mexican wife, and he gets
nearly all their gold. He shows me the
amount of gold taken in. Mr.. Feldman
and the storekeeper at Stanton are not
very affectionate friends, think. After
the first day or two after the Mexi-
cans made the strike, the storekeeper at
Stanton didn't get any gold scarcely. |
don't know just why. However, think
both stores are doing quite well, con-
sidering the number Of MeXicans that
are working there. There are two fac
tions of them, and those that are in on
the new strike don't let the rest work
there at all, and Mr.. Feldman, the store
keeper at Weaver, is really the owner of
the new strike, am told, and has been
quite a while Now, these facts may
probably explain the source from which
your article was based. will substan-
tiate what l have said. Mr.. Feldman
sends his gold off by Phoenix, whose re-
ceipts L will try to get for you. II any
one contradicts my statements, he would
very much oblige me by signing his
name.
BIG BUG ONYX.
Notwithstanding the fact that the Big
Bug onyx is superior in quality to any
other yet discovered, the owners seem
discouraged with the immediate pros
poets of being able to work it, says the
Prescott CA. I'd Courier. The deposit
covers over 200 acres, and the size of the
only by the capacity for handling them,
which gives it an increased value over
the Mexican onyx, which is found only
in boulders. Wages and cost of trans
portation, however, are so largely in
favor of the latter article that it virtually
shuts out the Big Bug onyx from the
market, and until the transportation
problem is solved it looks as if this i'm
mense property would be compelled to
lie idle. In Mexico laborers can be pro-
cured to take out onyx at Is cents per
day in American money, while with the
entire cost of labor and transportation it
can be. laid down in New York for $40
per ton. The Big Bug onyx mines are
only about twenty miles from a railroad,
but the cost of transportation alone, to
say nothing of the labor of taking itout.
is $35 per ton. With the building of
railroad to the property it is hoped that
transportation can be reduced to such
figure as to make it possible to work the
property.
SAN DIEGO NOTES.
The San Diego Union publishes the
following notes:
The Big Blue is again working force
of men.
In the Eagle mine a rich shoot of
quartz is being developed.
The Sentinel says that the Ruby, Gin
cinnati Belle, Warlock and Gold King
are all working in bonanza ore, and the
owners are growing rich day by day.
The Julian Sentinel says the stamps
in the Helvetia mill are dropping on the
quartz rock taken from the heaviest
shoot recently opened in the Helvetia
mine. Work is still being prosecuted in
the mines, the new shoot being followed
with encouraging results.
J. M. Martin not long since denounced
the old Bonet silver mine on the Crosth-
waite ranch, thirty miles north of
Ensenada, says the Lower Californian.
A shaft has been sunk on the property
to the depth of los feet. Specimens of
the ore show horn silver in considerable
quantity. 1t is the intention of Mr..
Martin to ship the ore to Denver, or to
some other point for reduction.
A serious accident occurred near the
Washington mine, where G. E. Smith
and George Plant have been driving
tunnel. While engaged at the work
the back OF the tunnel caved in, bury
ing Mr.. Smith in the debris. He quick
ly extricated himself, but was quite
severely bruised. He is recovering rap
idly and will soon be at work. 1t has
been determined to start new tunnel,
considering it cheaper than clearing
away the caved stuff from the other
hole.
NORTHERN ARIZONA MINES.
The Prescott Courier publishes the
following notes: w. G. Moore, better
known among the boys as Billy Moore,
is in town from Big Bug, where he has
been at work all summer as chief en-
gineer of the blackberry smelter. Billy
says that the furnace is running regu-
larly, and that plenty of custom ore is
coming in. C. Miller and William
Richardson, who have been working on
the Old Dominion during the summer,
came in from Globe and are en- route to
their Copper King mine, en- Bill Will
ilams's Fork, to do assessment work.
They have, forty-foot shaft on an i'm
mense deposit OF copper which runs as
high as 33 per cent, the average OF their
rock being 27 per cent.
The Congress mine has been worked
to a depth of 1000 feet and rich ore in
abundance is found in the lowest levels
OF the mine. Another fine body Of ore
has been encountered on the west side
OF the property.
w, /. johnson came in from the min