The herald., 1897-09-05
MO|AE DESERT TOWNS
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we'll & Co.; S. T. Barlow, variet ties anc
stationery. T. ]. Kennedy; hotels ane
restaurants, Dotys hotel; St. Elmo
Fred Boden, proprietor; restaurant ant
6elicacies, 2. T. Lillard; boarding
houses Mrs. Mary James. Mrs. Alic'
Moore; drug stores, w. H. Wright ant
DR.. ]. s. Mitchell; bakery, Mrs. r. H
Simpson; meat market, Charles Yager
barber, ]. Lyser; harness shop, L. E
Hoffman, saloons, cheney & McGinn
which is the popular headquarters fol
mining men; Mill street saloon, George
Mead; blacksmith shops, George Brady
G.. r. Barker F. Boden and S. P. Lidy
feed yards Heydloff & Newell, ]. A
Clark; lumber Tehachepi Lumber com
pany, Paul Ostrom manager; justice o.
the peace, L. F. McFarlane; notary pub
lie, c. H. Belcher; physician and surgeon
DR.. I. S. Mitchell.
AssAYING AND ANALYzING WORKS
F. w. Carlyle, formerly Of Los An
geles, has a very complete establish
ment, where ores, bullion and minerals
are assayed and analyzed. He gives
special attention to cyanide and mil
tests and is well informed on the ores OF
this district. He will soon adda crush
ing machine to his plant.
GARLOCK MILLS
The pride of Garlock is its mills Of
which there are six, also two cyanide
works and two sample mills. The ag-
gregate capacity of the mills is IS tons
daily, the total tonnage 2250 tons per
month and the average Of ore milled is
SIG per ton.
At least three -fourths of the ore from
Randsburg district Is milled at Garlock,
owing to the splendid water facilities
afforded, and it is likely to be the milling
point for the above district for many
years to come, if not permanently so,
owing to the lack of water in Rands-
burg district. Two 40 ton mills will prob
ably be erected in the near future.
The Garlock eightstamp mill, e. F
Garlock owner, j. r. Hughes superin-
tendent, is the pioneer and holds its own
we'll with the others. The capacity is
Is tons every "a hours. The engine is p
horsepower and the mill is well appoint
ed in every respect. 1t is now working
the Rand Mining company's Rands~
burg ores principally.
The Maxon five-stamp mill is owned
by DR.. Maxon of Oakland, Cal C. Fl
Belcher is the superintendent. The ca
pacity is II tons daily; the motive power
25 horsepower gasoline engine. 1t is a
completely equipped and conveniently
arranged plant, has a concentrator in
connection, and is now working the
Rand company's ore.
The visalia Mining and Milling com
pany has important mining interests in
the Rademacher district, which ore is
now being worked at the MILL D. N.
Coffin is the superintendent. 1t has ten
stamps, capacity 20 tons daily; has con-
centrator in connection and is complete
in all its appoin tments. 1t is now work
ing Rand, Harney-Webb (Hard CASH
and Rademacher ores.
E. E. Henry, a we'll known busienss
man Of Los Angeles, has ten-stamp
mill, capacity 20 tons per day.
John Kelly has two-stamp mill, ca
pacity five tons per day.
Parker & Mcconnell, successors to
McKernan & Sons, have five-foot Hunt
ington mill, capacity twenty tons per day
and are working ores from Garlock dis
trict.
The Garlock Cyanide works is COM
pletely equipped plant of II tons capacity
daily. F. E. Carpenter is the manager
who, in conversation with the writer
stated that although running on tall
fngs from the Garlock mills since May
1st the company is preparing to handle
base ores from all parts of the Mojave
desert, including the promising Mojave
mining district, near Mojave, at good
profit to mine owners.
Smith & Collins also have a cyanide
works, with capacity Of from six to
eight tons day.
MINING RESOURCES
Garlock is surrounded by a continuous
chain of mining camps extending from
Red Rock and Goler distrists on the west
to Slate Range and Panamint east and
northeast. The limits of this article pre-
vent giving the array of facts and figures
gathered by the writer on trip just
made through some OF those districts, so
the following outline must suffice:
In the celebrated REQ Rock district
placer mining was conducted very ex-
tensively and profitably for many years,
the nuggets ranging from $50 to $500 in
value. Although quartz mining has
largely superseded placer mining, there
are still from 40 70 so men engaged in
the latter pursuit, by dry washer proc
ess. Parties are also sinking a shaft in
the mail Red Rock wash with the object
of getting to bedrock so as to reach the
main body of placer and thereby open
UP a big field for placer mining. There
are many good quartz mines too numerous
to mention in detail, and among them
the Seven Sisters, in which DR.. c. T. Pep
per, president of the Los Angeles mining
exchange, is interested. Five hundred
feet of tunneling is TO be done to catch
the seven parallel lodges at depth of
250 feet. Fifty feet has already been done.
Charles A. Koehn of Kane Springs and
the Kern Valley bank, Bakersfield, own
the Two Brothers, which has tunnel
In so feet, 2-foot ledge of pay ore, aver
age assay $64, and twenty tons OF partly
free milling ore on the dump. Forty tons
of ore has already been milled.
Six miles east and north of Red Rock is
Last Chance canyon, where there is a
hydraulic plant in operation on aurifer-
Gus gravel with good prospects of a
bonanza. Forty men are dry washing
in this camp.
Ten miles northwest of Red Rock is
the Dove Springs district, better known
as Gold Hill, where twenty years age
some marvelously rich float was dis
covered and in large quantities, milling
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