Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-31
'DO|NGS IN MINES AND MINING.
Graphic Account of the White
Hills Mines.
Interesting Points About the Rose
Mine in Bear Valley.
The New Bonanza in Northern Arizona.
Work at the silver Star-The
Gold Burr-Tombstone
Notes.

The San Francisco Examiner, in an
article on the White Hills mines, says
Judge Henry Schaefer, the discoverel
of the new White Hills silver mines
Arizona, and John P. Bernitt, one of the
joint owners with him, arrived here
yesterday and are at the Grand.
They were accompanied from Arizona
by George M. Bowers. the California
mining expert, and they are here to
make formal transfer of thirteen OF
the most important mining properties
there to Senator B. F. Langford, Judge
Frank Baldwin and others of Stockton.
The price paid for the mines is given
approximately at 5000, 600, though this
is probably more than it actually is.
However, it is believed to be good
round figure. Six Of the properties, in
Guiding the Horn Silver, Grand Army,
Garfield, Treasurer Norma and Occi-
dent, are said to have in the neighbor-
hood of 1000 tons of ore in sight, and
all give the very best indications of rich
ness.
About thirty tons of ore have been
shipped thus far. 1t has been milled at
Kingman, fifty two miles south, and is
said to have averaged from $3.50 to $500
a ton.
Senator Langford and Judge Baldwin
will come down from Stockton today to
pay the money for the property. w. p.
Miller, the San Francisco expert who
has been to Arizona, will also arrive to-
day.
fThe new camp is located in Sacra-
mento valley, fifty miles north of King
man, and about the same distance from
blackberry, through the Hualapai val
ley. There are railroad stations at both
places, but the most travelled route is
from Kingman, at which point stage
is taken, which makes the trip over to
the camp in ten hours. The mines are
located in q low range of hills.
About nine years ago found some
peculiarly rich float rock while making
trip from Ell Dorado canon to Gold
basin, where | had some gold mines.
which disposed of to capitalists in Cal
ifornia last spring. Ever eiuce then I
have been tracing the ledge from which
this float rock came, and have not got
it yet, to my mind, although the results
of the search have developed something
equally as good:
TIC nrst locaIrUu reserved I0s my
self, and my partner, John P. Bernitt,
and some members of my family are CO.
owners in the principal mines. There
have been many other locations made
since, and some OF them are turning out
well. The Schaefer Treasure is the first
location made by me, and on the top of
the ridge four distinct veins, the Otello,
Grand Army, Desdemona and another,
are included in one location. South of
these lie the Garfield, African, Occident,
Horn Silver, Orient and the Norma.
On the north are the Mayfower, Hull
dab and the Chief of the Hills. The
latter, the easterly half of the location,
750x600 feet, have just sold to parties
from Virginia City, New, for $4,000.
I'm speaking of the ores which are
free-milling chloride, the assays run
high. | sent piece of the first rock
taken from the Norma, about twenty
feet from the surface, to the Examiner.
Some of the dirt which fell off of it was
assayed at the Kingman Sampling
works, and it ran $744.20 in silver. The
piece itself is here to be tested, and it
will 90 in the neighborhood of 81 ,324 in
silver to the ton.
"The only assays which / will refer to
just now have been made in this city at
the instance of local experts. They will
be safer to quote than any coming di
rectly from myself. They run as follows,
according to the certificates sent to me
since my arrival: Grand Army Gold,
$41.34; silver, $116.94; total, $160 %.
Garfeld-Gold. $24.70; silver, 1920. 81;
average of vein, s345.07. Norma-Gold,
$62O; silver, $25O0. 10; average of vein,
$2506.20. Horn Silver-Lowest assay,
$59.07; silver, $500 in gold average,
$65.27. The lowest average so far OBJ
tanned at the Kingman Sampling works
was 333 ounces in silver and Ia ounces
in gold.
"We have sunk on several of the
claims to depth of from ten to thirty
feet, and find the veins holding out we'll
with depth. Of course this is the main
point, and development alone will prove
the continuity of the deposit. There is
no timber at the mines, but plentiful
supply OF soft wood, cedar and pine, can
be obtained within eighteen miles.
Water is scarce at the camp, of
course, but we have got some at depth
of two feet, and expect to get good
supply from we'll now down distance
of nine feet. On the dividing range
between Hualapai and Sacramento val
leys there are some good springs, and
the elevation of 800 feet above the mines
will give good fall at the camp. On
the east side of this range there are six
or seven wells already sunk. A Los
Angeles company is now figuring on
boring well right below my house at
the camp.
Mining men are coming into the
camp all the time from California, Colo
RADIO and New Mexico, and from present
appearances times will be lively for
some time to come"