The herald., 1896-02-16

$50 rock on an average. Places in the
mine have been burrowed out by the
former Mexican owners, who milled
ore going as high as $50 per
ton. Three hundred yards distant is
the Eleboda, similar to the Ranch
ita. A mill run Of $50 tons
just made resulted in a $4,000 gold
brick, and plenty Of similar ore in
sight. The Big Four and North Star
of this group ara promising equally
big results, and many Others from the
surface prospects give support to the
belief that this grand field will produce
much bullion for years to come. South
and east of these finds come reports of
some wonderful discoveries along the
contact Of the slate and granite belt.
One assayor of good repute pronounces
the find to be telluride ore. One loca-
tor claims his ore will run $4,000 to the
ton. Among these new strikes is a
twenty-four foot vein of $l5 ore. Ger
tainly not bad find when we consider
that fuel is to be had in abundance at
$3.50 per cord, and water is in abun-
dance. With the excitement occas-
ioned by the new discoveries the old
mines on the slate belt that have lain
idle for years have been given new
impetus, and in every instance there
has been remarkable success. The Shen-
andoah for ten years filled with water,
has been pumped out, retimbered and
fine body of high grade ore uncovered.
The Owens, one of the best known mines
of the olden days has been rehabili-
tated by San Francisco company. and
the work of pumping out and retim-
bering is going on. This company has
spent $4,000 upon this property in
new hoisting and mill house and in
putting the mine III shape. The Hell
vetia, an old and noted mine, with its
fine hoisting works and ten-stamp mill,
is likewise being FURNISHED up and
pumped out. In all these old proper
ties there are good bodies of ore of
free-milling rock, carrying consider
able sulphurets, which increase in
quantity and value as the ore descends.
Heretofore no effort has been made to
save these sulphurets, and they have
gone off in the tailings. A test of two
tons of sulphurets at Selby's, however,
gave $3.50 to the ton, and as the ore
in the lower drift is said to run one
ton of sulphurets to every ten tons of
ore, the owners have awakened to the
small fortune they have allowed to run
away through the sluice box. The
quicksilver process has been the
only one used in this camp, hut
there is now talk of introduc-
ing cyanide plant, as there
is SO much flour gold in the rock that
the finest screens fail to detain it in
the battery and when once out of the
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Banner, four miles from Julian to the
great Bailey Bros Ready Relief mine
and mill with their wonderful water
power plant, twenty inch stream with
go foot fall, twelve foot wheel
fitted with pelton buckets, drives a
ten stamp mill, hoisting machinery,
auxiliary wheels drive the pumps,
while portion Of the water power is
used in an injector at the Redman
mine some distance across the creek
bed, where the work of draining very
wet mine is in progress. The Cincin-
natl Bell and Gold King groups are on
the line of progress and are preparing
to move their stamp mills from the
creek bed up to the collar of the shaft
and utilize the water from the mine
for milling purposes. Twelve miles
SOULu VI Ill Uuo DeCI L Ole COuA-
try some rich finds have been re-
ported, and company of San
Diego capitalists, owning group
of four mines are erecting a mill
to be run with water power, forty.
inch stream flowing naturally over q
cliff 100 feet in height, beautiful cas-
cade, has been harnessed through 100
feet of perpendicular pipe to twelve
foot wheel at the bottom of the cliff,
which furnishes power for the mill,
with enough to spare to drive all the
machinery this company will ever re-
quire in their mining enterprises.
Surely. with all the natural advant-
nges of cheap fuel, plentiful supply
of pure water, beautiful location, near.
ness to source Of supplies. surrounded
by wonderfully fertile farming and
fruit-growing district, provided with
food supplies in abundance and cheap,
good roads, schools, churches and all
the niceties and endearments of civili-
zation, combined with the great wealth
Of gold already found to exist, this
SPOT is marked above all others by the
hand of mother nature as an ideal min
ing country.