The herald., 1895-07-15
THE bonanza GOLD REGION
Millions Of Tons of High.Grade
Ore in Sight
MINING CAMP OF HEDGES
Something About the Queen, Golden
Cross and lngersoll Mines
4 Perbidding Looking Country That 10 Rich
% Treasure-Whst Has Been Dsne-No
Place for Men Without Capital

OGILBY. July 13.-On the Southern
Pacific railway sixteen miles from Yuma,
Ariz., and the Colorado river. is u mod
est station named Ogilby, with freight
and passenger depots, section house and
tented store. On vast plain OF gravel
and fine dust, the cactus and its compan-
ions add no friendly invitation on the
great desert, which stretches along for
l15 miles. About half dozen miles to
the east are ranges of :craggy, forbidding g
peaks, and to the west great sandy dunes
are horizoned in.
A well-squipped stage. with four good
horses, takes the passengers from the
train out to the mouutai in ranges, where
nearly circled IN, is the mining village
the mines and mills of the now celebrated
Golden Cross Mining and Milling com
pany.
In April, 1893. tho mpany was organ
lied and then bought thirteen claims and
thereafter took up fourteen more. They
built forty-stamp mill with an engine
OF 10 horsepower, and began developing
the greatest low-grade gold ore mines on
the continent. A world of work has peen
accomplished since then, as can be
cleaned from the folIowing:
Tho Queen mine has an inclined shaft
of 40 feet with four working leves. The
Golden Cross has vertical shaft of 1875
. feet and an inclined shaft of $50 feet. Two
vertical double compartment shafts be-
tween will connect the two mines by tun-
nels. The Golden Crown has O shaft of
$50 feet. The Talmage has a 50-foot YER
tical shaft with q tunnel running into it
Of 260 feet. The Beecher has two tunnels,
being 80 and GO feet respectively, and the
Ingersoll bas tunnel SIS feet in length
extending through the mountains. The
company IS building new 100-stamp
mill which will be in operation in Aug
ust, WI tn a across-compartment CorIss en-
gine OF 300 horse power. a surface condsns-
er and air compressers for running power
drills and all modern auxiiaries. includ-
ing electric light plant, all under one
roof.
! A six-inch pipe line is being extended
to the Colorado river, twelve miles away,
and $50, 900 gallons of water will be
pumped eveIyttwenty four hours.
The assays show all the way from 81
and IS up to several thousand dollars per
streaks. Bullion is shipped to San Fran.
cisco. The indications are that here is
the largest gold mine deposit in the
world. There is ledge ninety feet in
thickness. and it is known by measure.
ment that there are over four million tons
OF ore in sight. and the general average
will be $S ton.
This is absolutely free milling ore with
out trace of base IN it, and one part
which Is particularly promising is the
Chris Cola ore.
There is every evidence that the Horse
Shoe canyon, wherein the mines are, was
ages past in the California gulf. and
after eruptions the group of mountains
became islands on seething sea. The
top or first lodges of rock eventually dis
appeared and exposed the mineral wealth.
The mines all dip in ths same direction.
and that is. to the point OF degree, ex-
actly as all the largest mlnes, and they
have all the character istics Of the largest
mines in tie world.
The new mill with 100 sta mps is near
ing completion and measures lo4xlo7
feet and is forty-seven feet high, and
contains about halt a million feet OF lum-
Der, and is monarch of the valley village
Thomas johnson. one OF the original
discoverers, made the happy hit in 1887.
worked and shipped ore bringing $1,000
ton, shipping by carloads. He lacked the
capital TO create sufficient water facilities
or the camp would have been greater than
now-years elapsing before the present
company became interested. He Is now
superintendent of mines. Johnson was
born in Sweden. where he worked in the
copper mines, and came to the United
States and Los Angeles about fifteen years
ago. He says no mining region is OF
greater and more assured promise than
this. 1t is not only the Colleen Cross and
ali that group, but all properties eur
rounding.
He individually owns the American
Girl tmine, (which has ledge 30 feet
wide and 1900 feet long, and is two miles
east of the Golden Cross group 1t has Il
shaft of 100 feet and $50 foot tunnel and
Johnson and Oleson have group of
mines which promise to rival the hest in
and near the Horse Shoe canyon. The
village and postotfice are named lIooges
In honor Of the vice president, and in
cludes the mines and mills, the company
store, boarding house and numerous cot
tages, with population OF 800 souls.
The Golden Cross Mining and Milling
company has in It's directory men who
are capitalists and financiers of length
ened experience and sterling character
and enterprise, and make one of the
happiest CONVERSATIONS Known To any cor
poration. The prestNent. Captain George
]. Mullin, is born Kos>tuckian, and nos.
sesses all the admirable Mairs OF the sons
of that great commonwealth. He was
captain in the regular army, was staff
officer and fort and garrison inspector.
and is happily remembered down south |
as the distributor of supplies during the
Mississippi floods. Captain Mullins was
one OF the originators of the Tluorspar
company of Southern Illinois. and has |
been interested in numerous extensive |
enterprises.
M. v. Hedges. the vice president. was
OOrn IN Iowa ana OaS MS nome in Los |
Angeles. 0nd Is capitalist who is |
known over the length and breadth Of the |
land.
The general manager. Thomas S. Pul-
Ter, ia by experience and innate ability |
eminently fitted TO control any enterprise |
OF magnitude. He was born in Cincin.
natl, and was at one time one of the most
popular men Oh the Ohio and Mississippi |
rivers as pilot, then clerk, Of floating
palaces. He thereafter went into bank
ing, mortgage and loan business, and he
came manager Of u national bank ut How
ard. the capital of Elk county. Kan. In
1888 he came to California. locating at
Los Angeles, where his home is now. and
there he has been prominent in bond
business tor eastern capitalists anu in
mining operations.
AS manager he has entire control of
mines and mills and mercantile opera
tions. and in fnct, all pertaining TO the
company's interests passes his vigilant
eye. He accomnJshes manifold work
without seeming effort. and is ever the
same upright and genial friend and gem
tleman with old and young, poor and
rich. From. Ogilby. the station, are
shipped ore bullion. groceries and hides.
and the receipts for incoming merchan-
disc and mining supplies were $4500.
and this month will easily reach $40, 600.
Yet Ogiiby IS not on the Southern Pacific
map, and its station is little larger than
the bathing box by the seashore, leaving
lots OF passengers in the hot sun before
and after trains. Clarence, Knox. the
alert. careful and competent agent, has
lots to do with railway and Western IN