The herald., 1896-12-29
THE MECCA OF TIE MINERS
A Business Man Talks Of Rands.
burg's Prospects
THE ONE THING NEEDFUL
Is Water, Which Can Rc Brought From
the Lakes
Interesting Information Concerning the
Camp, the Most Promising Mines
and Rardsburg's Future.

esting information concerning the mec
ca of mines which should do mucn
TO correct false Impressions
'The town Of Randsburg," said Mr..
Wiesendanger, has today a population
of 220o. derived from all parts of the
tinted States, principally from Cripple
Creek Nevada, Los Angeles and Cen
trail and Northern California. 1t is To-
Gated in Kern county, 27 miles north of
Kramer, on the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad, and 40 miles from Mojave ON
the Southern Pacific railroad by tha
short stage road. The mail Is delivered
three times a week by stage over the
long road, SO miles from Mojave. On
the stage road to Mojave are located
Kane's springs. with dry lake and five
stamp mills; Mesquite springs, with
stamp mill, and Garlock, or Cow
Wells" with four stamp mills.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
There the water is obtained in wells
at about 25 feet below the surface. The
water contains much alkali and arsenic;
is good enough for milling purposes, but
bad for health. producing bloody
f1ux." Kane's springs is 26 miles ana
THE PRINCIPAL MINES.
1.-THE principal mines of Randsburg
are the following: First, the Rand
consisting of the Olympus. the Yellow
Aster, the Trilby and Desert View and
others, all located on the same noun
tain and belonging to the same COM
pany. They show an immense body of
high grade ore on the surface, and a
considerable amount of development
work has been done there in shafts and
tunnels. The pay ore averages over
500 per ton, and many rich pockets
have been opened. with one running as
high as $1,000 to the ton. These mines
were the first discoveries at Rands-
/ burg, made by Moer and Singleton. who
had come over from Goler to do dry
washing, by which process they took
out as much as 5000 per day on the top
of the mOutain.
QUALITY OF ORE
"The rich gold ore In this group on
the surface is not quartz, but a brand
with decayed porphyry, mixed with
mica schist granite and quartz. Large
quantities of ore from this group have
been taken out. sacked and miiled at
Rams springs, at a cost of $40 per ton
for hauling and milling. The mountain
is little over 1000 feet above the ocean
and the elevation of the lands of Rands-
burg Is $500 feet. The Rand mountain
shows on the surface a great number
of views of rich ore, widening as the
shafts go down and showing a ten
dency to unite in one great body of ore
below. And so great is this body of rich
ore in sight on this mountain alone that
even If there were no other mines in
Randsburg springs into existence
there of good town would would be
certainty.
A COLORADO MILLIONAIRE
''Of late the mining millionaire, Kin
ney Of Colorado, has spent much of his
time studying this group of mines, and
he has bonded a three -fourths interest
in the same for $150,O00. Pat Reddy, the
lawyer. of San Francisco, Mr.. Burch-
am of San Bernardino. Moer and Single
ton were the former owners of this IA
nous group of mines.
BELOW RANDSBURG.
Lower down, on level with the town
Of Randsburg are the Kenyon mine, the
Wedge, belonging to DR.. Pepper, Allan
& Rogers of Los Angeles the Butte mine.
the King Solomon, belonging to Stafford
& Bull. All these are producing mines.
The shaft in the Wedge mine is down 1870
feet, and is being deepened as fast as
men and money can do it. There are
three shifts of men at work, of eight hours
each, and large quantities of ore are be-
ing sacked and shipped to the mill every
day. Seven weeks ago the mine was
bought for $4,000 It's output since has
paid for the mine three times over. and
s50, 900 is asked for it today. 1t covers only
a fraction of mining claim-a triangle
a full claim being 600X1500 feet or about
twenty acres. West of the Wedge is
Kenyon's mine, rich producer from the
grass roots. Over $50, 900 has been taken
from the Kenyon without machinery.
The ledge dips into the mountain at an
angle of 80 degrees, and the shaft is not
vertical, but follows the vein and is TIM
bered AS much as $500 day has been
taken out of this mine with one man only
working inside the mine, and a great
deal of rich ore has gone. besides to the
dump and is there now. Where fuel and
water are plentiful, ore yielding
from So to SO to the ton is
worked with profit At Randsburg
all the ore going $50 or less goes on to the
dump. East of the Wedge are the Butte
mine and the King Solomon. both heavy
producers. A considerable amount of
development work has been done on
these mines. shafts being down 125 feet,
and large quantities of rich ore have
been milled. Within three quarters of a
mile are the mines of Smith & Center of
Pasadena with a tunnel 200 feet into the
mountain and several shafts. Surround
ing these mines are great many claims,
more or less developed, with great
many dumps of ore. ~
Seven miles 1Iom Randsburg. on the
stage road to Kramer, and on the open
desert is the st. Elmo mine. the proper
ty of Sheriff Pile of Kern county and the
brothers Drouillard, who discovered it
and are working it. Next to the Rand
group, this mine is the largest produc-
er Its surface dirt is all broken work.
a geld bearing gravel, yielding by dry
washing ST. so to 81 to the ton The plac-
ering has been leased to a Los Angeles
company for a royalty of 25 per cent,
and gigantic dry washer has been built.
to be worked by 10-horse power gaso-
line engine. in conjunction with a pull
verizer. The dirt is to be handled by
teams and scrapers only. and the pro-
jectors hope to work UP 200 tons day,
and realize $500 daily if 1t works success
fully.
THE KRUGER COUNTRY.
Between the Rand group and the ST.
Elmo is the Kruger country, showing
on and near the surface a number of
small veins very rich and some of them
only three inches wide. These veins
widen as they are traced down deeper
and are supposed to unite below in a
prospector. The chloriders work in this
district. They lease a mine for roy
atty of 25 per cent of the gold at the
mill, and take out the precious ore
from trenches, cuts and incline shafts.
doing no scientific mining and using
only the simplest applisncef.
"a rich SUGAR ouartZ haa been struCk