The herald., 1896-03-09
MINES AND MINERS

! From nearly all parts of the territory
come reports of mining activity. The out
look is rather brighter in Pima county than
in any other large section of Arizona
| Tucson Star.
new mining camp has been discovered
and is being opened up in Fremont's Peak
district, thirty miles northwest of Barstow.
| San Bernardino county, Cal. The lodges
carry free milling gold ore, and there is
water four miles distant.
| The Desert Queen mine, near Banning,
has been sold to a company represented
by II. G. Steele, the well known Perris
miner, and the latter gentleman owns a
quarter interest himself, and has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the mine.
The men at the Santa Rosa quit work
ten days ago, and part of them went to
Riverside to put liens on the property.
The reason for this action is that they have
not received any wages for two months,
and this is due to the non-arrlval OF money
or any of the officers of the company from
the east.
&. A. Bailey, one of the members oe
the Leon Gold Mining company, has APP
piled for a mineral patent for the Leon
mine, situated near Winchester, i'll this
county. The Leon is one of the promising
mines of the county, and its owners are
developing the property steadily.-River-
side Enterprise.
Pomona has a woman miner who has
grown rich at it. She is thought to be the
only active miner and prospector of the fe-
male sex in the southwest. If not in the
United States and is shining instance of
the fact that there are few, if any. things
that a woman cannot accomplish when she
sets herself about it.-Perrls New Era.
The San Francisco Chronicle few days
ago published an estimate of the output of
gold mines in the state for 1895, in which
no mention is made of Riverside county.
This must have been an oversight, as the
output of the mines of this county last
year amounted to $1a6.OO0 in gold i'll the
Perris district alone. while the mines
south of Indio, on the desert, near Win
chester and in the San Jacinto mountains,
at Esnore and Temescal, added not less
than 5000, 700 more Riverside Reflex.
The Perris Valley Record says: Some
time ago the Record stated that the gold
product of Perris district for the year / $50
approXimated 100000. This computa-
ton was made by the late Colonel Egan.
A few days ago we received letter re-
ques Jig us to furnish 10 the government
as nearly as possible the amount of pro-
duction for that year. and as far as our
investigations have gone we find that the
amount was $l96,O00. Tb those who
have not taken an active interest in mining
matters this sum may appear large, but 1t
is authentic, all the same, and does not
include gold taken from placer ground or
tnat extracted by arastra process. most OF
which has gone to San Bernardino, and
which if added to the above amount would
swell it considerably over the 100000
mark.
Prospector. in the Redlands Citrograph.
discourses thus of some of the mines in
the Perris district: The Golden Chariot
mine, south of the Santa Rosa, and on the
same vein. will complete in few days a
steam hoistng plant, equal TO anything in
ln nhn
pany have the good fortune to develop as
good a mine as their neighbor, they will
quickly duplicate their mil, and Pinacate
district will be heard from. The Ophir
mine lies TO the south of the Good Hope
and has been developed by a shaft about
eighty feet deep. The ore is of good quail
ity. Some of it has been milled at the
Good Hope mill with satisfactory results,
and sohie OF it at the cornpany's own mill.
The Briyg, mine at Leon, to the south of
Perris about twelve miles. is said to be
bonanza and will soon be equipped with
ten-stamp mill.