The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-29
Captain Reddy Tells About the
New Mining Dis.
trict.
THE RICH OLYMPUS VEINS.
Fine Gold Dust so Fine That It Blows
Away in the Wind-A Region
of Promise.

The Hon. Patrick Reddy and his brother,
CAPTAIN Ned Reddy, have just returned
from ten days trip to marlborough,
the new mining district situated some
| fifty miles northeast of Mojave and ten
miles due east of the Goler mines, discov-
cred twenty-five or thirty years ago by the
man whose name they BEAR
The marlborough mines also bear the
name of their discoverer, a Mr.. Rand, who
was famous discoverer of gold mines in
| South Africa.
"The new district was first discovered in
April IF this year." said Captain Ned
Reddy, "and it already gives promise of
being one of the richest quartz and placer
mines in the State. The great drawback,
as usual with all mines in the Death VAL
ley and Mojave region. is the scarcity of
wood and water. There is crossword for
all domestic purposes, and when mills are
built crude oil will be shipped or hauled
by freight teams from Los Angeles to fur
nish fuel for the furnaces.
ITO get water in sufficient quantity is
quite another thing. ALI water used in
the camp is brought in by teams from Cow
wells, some twelve miles distant. These
wells are forty feet deep, and were sunk
years ago by the Goler people. 1t is be-
lieved that water can be had within three
miles of the mines by sinking to the depth
of $50 feet in the bed of an old dry lake.
"There are twenty-five locations in the
district The principal ones are the Rand
and the Olympus. The Olympus shows
vein of twelve-foot ore that will assay from
$40 to $500 ton. The Rand has a shaft
down twelve feet, showing ledge six feet
wide that assays from 81 so to 5000 ton.
There is free gold all over the hills. and
vr-if 4, 1rtvr 10 L-a
to 81 day, and then not save more than
so per cent of the gold, as it is so fine that
it is blown away with the worthless dust.
tine discovery of the Olympus was quite
an accident. Men were on top of the hill
with horse and scraper removing the
run through the dry washer, when the
twelye-foot ledge of gold quartz was un-
covered.
1.-The principal locators are John Single
ton, BRIGHAM ana the Moores. They with
some others have located about all the
valuable quartz lodges, but in the absence
of the proper facilities for working quartz
they are running the dry washer.
myself and brother" continued Cap
tain Reddy, went from here to Mojave by
train. There we secured private con-
veyance and drove back fifty miles over
the road made by j. W. Searles in hauling
borax from his marsh near Death Valley.
hO lO<'N Woo III ~ iiiiC SoiioitioH anu VIC
made the trip without difficulty. We
were six nights in camp, and bitter cold
nights they were, too. The elevation is
about 1890 feet above sea level. There is
one eating house, one saloon, three dwell
lighthouses and fifteen or twenty tents.
There is no. rooming-house in the camp,
and l would advise men going there to
carry their blankets. But in the present
state of affairs it would be we'll for poor
men to stay away until capital takes hold
of the place and builds mills and sinks
wells This, in my opinion, will be but
short time, as the mines are among the
very best in the State
Patrick Reddy visited the mines in the
interest of client, whose troubles were
amicably settled, and the little camp is
now prosperous and happy in the dawn of
prosperous day.