Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-13
MINES AND MINING.
Rich Silver Ore Found Near
Aqua Caliente.
Rich Returns From the Cincinnati
Belle.
Particulars Of the On1iente Find-For-
gotten Mines Of San Diego
County-Notes OF Mem
ifee Mines.

Andrew Saue6l, OF Aqua Caliente wae
in town on Saturday, and left some
silver ore from the new find at the office
of the Bakersfield Californian, says that
paper, to be sent with the Kern county
mineral exhibit to the worlds fair. The
ore is very rich indeed, and will assay
probably $4,000 per ton in silver, and
also carries from two to three ounces IN
gold to the ton.
1t very much resembles some of the
highest grades OF silver ore from Calico
district. and shows horn silver and
''black metal' in abundance. He has
sunk shaft 20 feet deep upon his claim,
finding vein averaging IL inches in
width Of this rich silver ore, and 60 far
as he has prospected upon the surface
he has uncovered an ore chute 46 feet
long.
Several locations have been made
upon this vein, which can be traced for
q long dirtance, and in one other place
at least, ore of the same quality and
richness has been discovered. This
strike is creating good deal of excite
ment, as we'll it may, and already sixteen
claims have been located. If these
mines were away off in the desert. al
most in the land of nowhere, difficult
of access and hard to develop, without
timber or water, they would cause in
tense excitement, and come of the min
ing crazes of early days would be parel-
leled. But az it Is, the mines are easy
Of access, with ample water and timber
for working purposes, and therefore too
near home to cause much of stam-
pede.
They are located in what is called the
Aqua Caliente district, easiest of access
by way Of Walkers basin, and can be
reached over good roads in less than q
days travel from the railroad station of
Caliente.
The geological formation is akin to
that found generally as one approaches
the Mojave oesert from the Sierras. The
Sierra Nevadas are granite mountains,
then there come great dykes of porphyry,
next--in places slate formation like
that OF the Piute chain of mountains,
then lava followed by more porphyry,
with occasional outcroppings of slate
and then granite again.
This vein is said to be in the first
dykes OF porphyry, after leaving the
granite of the Sierras, and are not far
from Indian creek, a tributary of Cali
ente creek.
Mr.. Sauser discovered the outcrop-
pings last fall, but only recently has
commenced active work upon the vein.
he has already had several tons hauled
to the railroad at Caliente, and expects
soon to ship carload to San Francisco.
1t must be confessed that the DIS
covery of silver ore in that locality is
new thing. That whole region has been
prospected over and over again for gold,
and many tons Of fair and even rich
milling rock have been extracted in
times past.
The Stuter & Mckay group of mines
in that locality are still being profita bly,
worked for gold, and near by Mr.. Sauser
himself has about 120 tons mined out to
arastra which will yield from 500 to $25
per ton in gold.
The fact that silver ore has been found
there is very interesting from a metal
lurgical point of view and it's extraordi-
nary richness gives promise that silver
mining will soon be fourishing indus
try in Kern.
Any of the ere when burned in the
fi.e of blacksmith's forge shows large
globules of silver all over it. This |
strike will doubtless be followed by
others and will also result in other gold |
mines of value being found in that To- |
cality.