The herald., 1894-11-08
ABOUT HOLES IN THE GROUND,
Tropical IndiO Furnishes Some
Interesting Facts.
Death Of Superintendent Hemenes at
the Lost Horse Mine.
I.ot of Very valuable Mines and
Property About Indo-The Min
ing interests of Rivsrsids
County.

Riverside Enterprise correspondence
INDIo, Nov. 6.-Ignacio Hemenes, gu
perintendent OF the mine for the Los
Horse Mining company, went below c
day or two ago. and when he reached
the 50-foot level eignaled to stop. lie
was landed on the 50foot level and
said he felt dizzy. He sat down and in
a moment fell forward dead. The gen.
eral opinion is that he died from heart
trouble. He leaves family in B enson.
The body was inferred at Langville.
The new mill built by the Lost Horse
Mining company at Langvills is in full
operation. 1t is a 2-stsmp double dis
charge battery. The maching work was
done by the Baker iron works OF Los An
geles. The power is 6-horse Occiden-
tai gasoline engine purchased from the
Los Angeles Windmill company.
The mill was constructed by j. j. Fife
and John Lang, and from the first turn
of The wheel ran like clock work.
The Lost Horso mine is looking better
than ever. Quantities of $40 free mill
ing gold ore are in sight. The company
built o new road from the mill to the
mine which is the pride of Mr.. q. W..
Lacy, president and general manager OF
the company. From all appearances
the Lost Horse mine will become one Of
the largest bullion producers in South.
ern California il not in tie state.
The Old Pioneer mill OF TiBgman &
Holland at Pinon City is running stead
M md Tho tvOlI
was sticking out in chunks all over the
rock. d. M. Francis, Burns Bros.
Charles Marshall. ]. B. McHenry and
George Myers all own claims in the
Pinon Mountain district and all are
looking well. Water is the greatest
drawba being very scarce. Anyone
developing water and putting up cus.
tom mill would have more than he
could do.
Over at Cottonwood Spring John Nc
Grath and Mike Conway are putting up
Q gasoline arastra to do custom work.
A good many chloriders are going in to
work on the mines in the Pinto range
and haul their ore to Cottonwood.
Jerry Gardner. out in the Pacific dis
trict, refused $1,000 cash for his Amsri-
can mine.
Wm. Hinsch, the "Old Dad" OF the
Pacific district. ia now in Los Angeles,
and it is very we'll known he is about to
close bond for large amount for bis
interest in the district.
Tallut q Bailey are about to start q
shaft down on their find, called the Jay
Gould. 1t is supposed they have To-
Gated the Old Jackson or Powell lead
that produced 80 much rich samples in
the '6Oe.
Billy Mack, who used to keep the
Chuckawalla stage station Gid every
thing to find the lead, but was never
successful. Old Jim Baily, noted old
desert prospector, ran on to the old
ehaft and found ore that goes way up
in the "G"
Indio is steadily improving. One
needs to CROSS the barren desert to np-
preciate this oasis. Ano,hing grows
that ie given water. l measured a cot
tonwood tree that was set out as a pole
cut on the Colorado river in the fall oil
1888. By actual measurement, three
feet from the ground it had attained the
remarkable growth of seven feet one
inch IN circu In ierence. Alfalfa reached
the remarkable growth Of seven feet in
six weeks. saw the wild palm three
miles north of India in fruit. and tasted
the fruit. 1t gave me the taste of the
dried date OF commerce.
1t seldom If ever rains here, but under
lying the whole valley is an artesian
water supply. Water can be had at l6
feet. The railroad has an artesian we'll
here that flows $500 gallons an hour.
The railroad company has just fn-
ished 10 cottages, to be run in connec-
tion with their hotel at this point. The
cottages are very pretty and nicely fur
nished and will be run in tirst-class
manner. The company is also putting
up new tank and making great many
other improvements.