The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-20
GOLD ORE IN ABUNDANCE
Specimens From One Ledge
Yield $4,000 to the
Ton.
MANY NEW CLAIMS OPENED.
Revival of Work at "DiggIngs"
Long Ago Given Up as Of
No Value.

SAN BERNARDINO, CAL. Aug. 49,
From all points of the compass in San
Bernardino County comes the news of rich
strikes IN the mines, and renewal of work
on claims long ago thought to be of no
value. The mines recently opened at
Eagle Camp, at the head of Morongo Pass,
are developing rich finds. In some places
work has been pushed to the depth of
twenty feet, with the result of producing
ore that assays over 500 in pure gold to
the ton. The lodges are wide and can be
traced for nearly mile.
Excitement continues to grow over the
big find at Orc Grande, as rock has been
taken from the Carbonate that goes into
the neighborhood of SIS, 900 per ton. Min
ing men are not slow to say that the Orc
Grande country will yet be the "biggest
diggings" in the State.
Jack" Simmons, Joseph Brown and
Jap Corbett returned to this city last even
ing, after having made an extensive min
ing trip throughout the eastern portion of
the county. On the trip they visited the
Hathaway Mountains and Chucawalla
mesa. They brought back with them
about hundred specimens from as many
different mines, all of which are now pros
poets.
The most famous claim in the Hath
away Mountains is the Hench mine, which
contains an immense body of ore, ranging
from $40 up in gold.
In the Virginia Dale district the two
principal mines are the White Star and
Ivanhoe, both containing large bodies of
ore yielding from SIS to $50 to the ton. The
French company in the Virginia Dale dis
trict has forty or fifty very rich claims, all
showing rich classes of ore. In the
immediate vicinity is the mine Gypsy,
bearing very high grade of ore. The
formation in which the gold is found is
mostly granite. These mines are located
about 120 miles from San Bernardino to the
east. Mr.. Brown, one of the party, said:
at is surprising to see the number of
mining men that are traversing that coun-
try from San Francisco, Denver and other
points. They all vote it the richest min
ing section in the State, and as yet but
very little work has been done on any of
the claims. In short while you will hear
of big sales"
A small interest in the Eagle Cliff mine,
situated near McHaney's claims, was sold
last week for $600to give the owners money
with which to push the work on the claim,
which is said to be good one.
Supplies are being rushed in to Ell Do
RADIO Canyon by means of steamers run
ming up the Colorado River, as the Spring
Canyon Mining Company is to put in con-
siderable work on some new claims.
The Big Horn mine, located to the south
east of Badly, shows up well for its own
ers. The surface groupings have width
of between thirty and thirty-five feet, from
which very rich specimens have been
taken. Below the groupings tunnel was
run on level of about $50 feet, at which
point the ledge is thirty mine feet wide.
Tunnel No. l showed up so well that
tunnel No. 2 was run in lower down, about
400 feet below the groupings. Here the
ledge was fully fortytwo feet in width and
displayed a much richer ore. The ore
will be tested by San Francisco firm in a
week or so. The surroundings are the
best in the world to run mill as wood
and water are plentiful.
The owners of the Gold Bronze mine at
Vanderbilt are in trouble, as liens have
been filed for labor to the amount of
$3545 so.
Quite a number of miners are working in
the placer diggings up Lyde Creek, near
Glenn Ranch.
Austin Burcham, who made the big
strike six miles from Goler, will send car
load of ore to San Francisco to have it
tested