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The herald., 1897-10-04
LOS ANGELES COUNTY

the express business, with headquarters
in the Doty block, South Fair Oaks av-
enue.
Mr.. Webster has not vet secured the
right of way around the corner of Day.
ton street to the rear of his Offices Mr.
Mitchell, proprietor of Hotel Mitchell,
and the fire department people will pro-
test against the laying of the line aroun d
that corner, as Mr.. Webster proposes to
do. A lively fight is looked for over
the matter.
The regular half-hour service began
today over the North Los Robles averue,
Villa street and Lake avenue branch of
the electric road. The North and South
Los Robes system, together with the
Altadena cars which also make trips
out to Lake avenue, give Colorado
street TO Los Robles a seven and one
half minutes service, and from Los
Robles to Lake a fifteen minutes SER
vice.
The death of Mrs Vanderbilt occurred
at about 6 o'clock this evening at La
manda Park from heart disease S.
Risdon Lippencott will have charge of
the funeral services.
The herald., 1897-10-04
Nevada

Last week, while slucing in Gold can
yon, short distance above the Devils
Gate, A. NJ. Cromer discovered a nice
little bar of bullion. The bar is gold
and contains close to twelve ounces, and
as the gold is quite fine, Is probably
worth In the neighborhood Of $500 OF
course nobody krows how the bar got
into the creek, bu; ol6i-timers in Silver
City remember of several holdups mad :.
near the Devils Gate in. early Gays, and
ii is probable tina, the little bar found
by Mr.. Cromer was taken from its
owner and lost, or that he threw It away
when demanded to band ii over, hoping
to fin'd it again; but failing to do it. it lay
in the creek until recently unearthed.
The largest bodies of ore ever found in
Southern Nevada are now being opened.
up in the Techaticup and Wall Street
mines, owned by the Southwestern
Milling company. One of the ledges
shows a 50-foot breast of ore that will
mill $40 to the ton in gold. In another
ledge an eight-foot body of ore runs
over five ounces in gold to the tom
Charles Gracey has opened the two
mines in excellent shape, and has
enough ore in sight to keep the 15-stamp
mill pounding away for five years The
June outpu; Of the mill was $4,000.
The herald., 1897-10-04
KERN COUNTY

Skookum, Spokane and Superior These
claims are situated about six miles east
of Garlock, and. it is expected that the
company will start up its mill at this
point next week.
The first term of public school in Gar
lock will open Monday, with Miss f.
NJ. DosS as teacher.
Webb & Harvey have made arrange
ments to start up work on the Hard
Cash mine next week, with an enlarged
force of men.
Rose & Co., who bonded the May
Queen mne of Kelly & Price, paid $4,000,
the balance of the bond. last Saturday,
although it was not due until January
|, 1898 They have a force of twelve
men at work and are making prepara-
tions to put in a hoisting plant al an
early date.
Spanger Bros of Garden Station are
keeping the Thos. Kelly mill running
day and night with ore from the Garden
district.
A.D. Glace of Golden Gate has bonded
from Clifton & Barman the Galena City,
Dell and Modoc claims for $1,000, OF
which the first payment has been mads
These claims are situated at the edge
of town, and although low grade they
can be worked at a profit.
The herald., 1897-10-04
MINES AND MINERS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
California

P. M. McGrath of this city, who owns
some valuable mines in the Salton coun-
| try, has been preparing to leave for the
| desert the past few weeks, where he
will put on the miners garb and help de-
velop some of his properties and place
them on the market. There are many
valuable claims in the vicinity of Mr..
McGrath'S mines, but not much devel-
opment work has as yet been done on
them.
The Coahuila Mining and Milling COM
pany of Riverside county has made ar
rangements for the erection of mill
of twenty-five tons capacity per day.
The dry concentrator at Johannes
burg has made a few test runs but has
not gotten down to regular business
yet. 1t has proved success and has
come up to the inventors most sanguine
expectations.
A large force of men are now working
on the site of the ten stamp mill which
is to be erected at johannesburg. The
place selected for it is directly back of
the Pioneer lumber yard, which offers
very favorable grade for the work.
ing of ores at the least expense, as no
rehandling or elevatirg of it will be re-
I
pattern and especially designed for GUS
tom work The LleWellyn Iron Works
of this city are now constructing it and
will have it completed in a short time.
1t will be owned by Messrs. Montgomery,
Hicks and Gritfiths and will be run by
NJ. r. Ritchie. Frank Griffiths, one of
the owners, has recently left for Johan-
hes burg, where he will superintend the
erection of the plant
The Los Angeles Mining and Stock
exchange removed to its new quarters
in the Emporium of the Henne block
on Third street near Spring last Thurs
day. The new headquarters will be ele-
gantly fitted up The pit is one of the
4 finest, most capacious and well venti
lated spaces that could be found in Los
Angeles, we'll adapted for an exchange.
/ The exchange will open up at IL o'clock
this morning.
| Rumors are afloat that the Meteor
mine at RandSburg was bonded for $50,
000 A very promising strike Of high
grade ore was made in the Meteor a few
! days ago, and the reported bond on the
property is probably true.
! ore from the No shaft of the Val
| Verde shows a value of $25 per ton. There
/ is a three foot ledge Of this grade ore in
| the mine.
An engine and boiler was recently ta-
ken out of the Birthday and North
Hemet mines in Riverside county and
will be put up in a few days to operate
five stamp mill which has been ordered
and will be in place within ten days or
two weeks. Ed Knobs OF Riverside has
gone out to superintend the construction
of the plant
Development work on the Green Lead
mine in San Bernardino county has
commenced again. Six or eight men were
taken out to the property and it is to
be hoped work will be continued on the
same for some time at least.
The sale of the Gold Bronze mine at
Vanderbilt has been ordered by Judge
| Wellborn. This mine was formerly own
ed by Joe Taggart and Hall & Stilson,
and became involved in litigation about
two and one-half years ago. The corr.
testants have been fighting ever since
The debts are $27 1000, which is principal
| ~ attorneys fees.
The herald., 1897-10-04
SAN DIEGO

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 3.-(Regular Cor
respondence.) Lieut.. Meyler, who has
charge CT the construction of the forti-
fications at Ballast point, is authority
for the statement that the two big ten
inch guns designed for the Notifications
were shipped from Watervleit arsenal
on the HUDSON some four weeks ago
These guns weigh 100000 pounds and
were shipped on cars specially built un-
der specifications from the war depart
ment, The contract for moving these
guns frcm the railroad to Ballast point
has been awarded to Capt. A. a. Pol
hamus of this city, and it is probable
that the guns will be placed on lighters
and towed across the bay to the point
The present work or the emplacement
at Ballast point provides for three guns,
all provided with disappearing carria ees
under patents owned by Uncle Sam him
self, and from present indications the
three guns will be in position by May,
1898.
Mrs. Beatrice B. Parkhurst, wife Of
T. L. Parkhurst, aged "a years, died.
yesterday in this city Of typhoid fever.
The funeral was held this afternoon at
The herald., 1897-10-04
SAN BERNRRDlNO COUNTY
fumigating purposes, II

fumigating purposes, II overstepped its
authority, as the goods were no, bought
by the board, nor advertised for by the
board, as the law specifies. In fact, the
commission. with autocratic powers
thus vested in it. has put the county IN
debt several thousands Of dollars, and
never advertised as the law requires
Attorney Stuart has investigated the
matter. and made out a case. but it will
doubtless be necessary to import judge
from San Francisco to carry out the law
as it reads.
ION to Kramer" is now the war cry
Ten cars of steel rails have been ship
ped there, and a locomotive is being
put in shape in the shops here for the
construction train on the new road, so II
is probable dirt will fly pretty soon in
that corner of the county and Rands-
burg and johannesburg be in direct raj
communication with this city before
Christmas.
The athletic boys of the high school
have challenged the Athletic club to
meet 'em on the bloody sands of the
football gridiron any Saturday or holi-
day. But the challenged club has no
team with which to fall on the boys,
hence the bravery of the challenging
party.
The report of the county horticultural
commission to the board of supervisors
for September states that the expenses
for ths month We're: Salaries, S303
labor, SS1.75; chemicals ard materials.
$735S4; miscellaneous, s44.10; total of
s1164,69 for the month. Cash received for
fumigating, $3.50. The report states
that all the tents are in active use, and
some very large ores are in making for
the seeding trees on the orchards in OLD
San Bernardino. Colonies of vedalia
are being supplied wherever the white
scale appears. The fumigation busi-
ness in the west end Of the county is in
the hands of c. o. Nichols, whose in
structions are that the foreman of each
of the four outfits must report for duty
over an hour ahead of the time for con-
mencing work, and see that everything
| is in good repair and in shape for good
work.
The attempt to kpock out the Ratio
Irrigation district is causing quitea COM
motion in that little burg and in this
city among those financially intereste ed
in the move. If the whole complaint is
as weak as one or two of its allegations
it will need good dose Of "tannin'" to
hold it up.
Rialto is preparing for shipping an
extra large crop of fruit the coming
season. For this purpose a new pack
ing house and new switch is TO be built
near the Santa Fe depot. Especial pro-
vision is to be made for the fire lemon
crop that Rialto will turn out.
In a game of ball today between the
Woodmen and Commercial teams, Gus
Starke Of the Woodmen, while pitching
curved ball, broke his arm between
the elbow and shoulder.
The herald., 1897-10-04
Pick and Pan

Since the sulphur deposits near Yuma
have caused so much excitement the old
story of the return of the soldier from
Hades to Yuma in quest of his over
coat can now be revived and look lit
tie more plausible.
The New York Sun says: The Mount
Morgan, Australia, is the greatest gold
mine in the world. 1t was bought about
twelve years ago for $3115 and since
then SIS 900. 900 has been refused for the
mine and works The most recent re-
port Of the company to h md for the
calendar year 1896 states that the sec
ond, third and fourth sections of the new
reduction works which will be capable
of treating 900 tons of low grade
ore per annum, will be completed in jan
uary. 1898. A plant for treating the
mundic ore is being designed, and it
will be able to treat ore yielding seven
cwt to the ton at a profit. The report
says that since the opening of the new
reduction works large bodies of hitherto
unpayable ore have been able to be
treated profitably. The report of the
superintendent of treatment shows that
the quantity of gold rock treated was
1O5255 tons for 159,046 ounces.
Three members of the expedition
which went to Peru last March in charge
of ex-Police Sergeant Johns have re-
turned to San Francisco. They tell
story of privation and hard luck and
give anything but glowing accounts of
the so-called Peruvian gold fields.
j. P. Stafford, an engineer one of the
returned miners, is at ST. Luke's hospi-
tal broken down in health as result of
his venture. The other members of the
expedition who are now in San Francisco
are George Glenny and A. r. Boone. The
party went direct to Mollendo and from
there set out for the gold fields. The
natives, when questioned concerning the
treasures which were said to exist,
either would not or could not tell where
| the locations were.
The Cariboo Mining, Milling and
Smelling company of Seattle, whose
property is at Camp Mckinney, has de-
clared a dividend of per cent, which
will resultin the distribution of $4,000
among the stockholders.
In New South Wales the government
offers $2500 for the discovery of a new
gold field or any new region containing
| pay deposits of silver, copper, diamonds
| or opals 1t also offers a reward of $4,000
for the first discovery of pay ore at
depth of 1000 feet. Last year the govern
ment paid out to aid prospectors $125, 900.
The herald., 1897-10-04
RIVERSIDE

RIVERSIDE, Oct. 3.-Regular Core
spondence.) B. B. Barney, one of the
most prominent orange growers of this
city, and who owns large and profit
Ia bic grove, is exhibiting St. Michael or
anges grown and packed by him six
months ago, which are in remarkable
state Of preservation. The fruit was
packed in tissue paper in the usual way,
and has been standing in the box. The
skin Of the fruit is somewhat shriveled,
but the fruit is firm and full of juice, and
so far as their eating qualities are con-
cerned the oranges are as good as when
picked from the trees. The excellent
condition of the fruit is testimonial Of
the keeping qualities of Riverside or
anges
w. S. Hathaway and W. K. Dunlap,
leading citizens of Banning, came to the
city last evening and shortly after their
arrival signed the bond required for the
release of Frank Miner, the man who
killed S. J. Darrah a couple of weeks
ago. Miner was released last evening
and today returned to Banning.
About 100 residents of the Union Vale
high school district, which is situated
The herald., 1897-10-04
GARLoCK

GARLOCK, Oct. 2.-(Specal Core
spondence,) A number of lodges in the
Goler placer district are being uncov-
cred and some show good prospects of
free gold.
Q. d. Worley, one of the first residents
of Garlock, died on Wednesday after
noon of typhoid fever He was for a
time employed at the Visala Mine and
Milling company's mill.
Superintendent CopIn of the Visalia
company is sinking a new fourteen ch
well at the Rard mill.
The Garlock mining bureau has ap-
piled to the secretary of state for letters
Of incorporati
]. w. Kelley and B. H. Price, who re-
Gently disposed Of the Meteor mine, have
established mining brokerage office.
The Rand company has two mills run
ring day and night on ore from their
mines.
Considerable assessment and develop
ment work is being done on claims east
of Garlock and many good prospects are
being shown up.
Articles of incorporation under the
laws of Arizona were filed at Phoenix
last week by Mcconnell, Parker Har-
per and others on the Yorkshire Lass,
The herald., 1897-10-04
SAN BERNARDINO

SAN BERNARDINO, Oct. 3.-(Reg-
ular Correspondence. 1t is evident
The Herald is being eagerly read in
San Berpardino, at least by 141 people
who reside here, for the remarks upon
the Athletic club which recently ap-
peared in this column have been read by
all the members and possibly by their
friends. At first they exclaimed: TT
Is lie,'' but upon sober second thought
they admit the truthfulness of the re-
port, especially when informed that
every statement came direct from either
an officer of the club or member Of the
board Of directors. The matter was not
published to do an Injury to the club,
but to awaken the members from their
lethargy, for the club is dying simply of
inanition, and the leading workers conf
plain bitterly of the fact. The member
ship fees gave it, too, a good start en-
abling the club to pay its rent two years
in advance, by improvement on the
building. Then the dues became over
due, and were not paid, to such an eX-
tent that an officer said "they dare not
enforce the bylaw on this point, for
1t would about annihilate the club" The
treasury was empty, so the Admis-
sion day dance was abandoned" was
a fact-that is, the officer who ought to
know so stated. Attempts to organize
classes and football team lately have
been received with Indifference, and al
though the rent is paid in advance the
members will find that something more
is necessary to make an athletic club
than paying rent for room. The mem
bership of the Athletic club comprises
the very cream Of social and, business
circles, and there are many energetic
workers among the officers who, while
they admit the truthfulness of the
structures on the club, and regret the
necessity for them, will yet be thankful
the surgeons knife cut to the bone and
laid bare the trouble, for there is al
ready disposition to remedy the evil
and build up the club financially and
athleticaily to what it should and can be.
That judge in San Francisco who with
a word swept whole board Of supervis-
ors out of existence may have much 10
answer for. He has set an example
that may be followed all over the state.
Even in good, old conservative San Ber-
nardino, with good Democratic board,
working harmoniously and ecouom-
1cally Tor the good of the county, there is
liabl to occur at any moment an earth
quake, and the board hoist by petard
in the house of it's friends, will go sail
ing skyward and never be heard OF again,
while five good Democrats by appoint
ment of Governor Budd, long life and
more power to his pen, Will sit around
the table dispensing the supervisorial
favors where they will 90 the most good.
1t appears that when the board ordered
the horticultural commission to use its
pleasure and buy what was needful in
the way Of chemicals, tents, ETC., for
The herald., 1897-10-04

The Whippoorwill mine near the Good
Hope at Perris has a shaft down about
seventy-five feet and shows on that as
says between $500 and $780,
The Golden Cross mine at Hedges is in
splendid condition. They are now rum
ming seventy stamps of the 140- stamp
mill, where formerly they were only us
irEs fifty stamps.
In southern Inyo county is located
very prosperous camp. The Mountain
Spring canyon camp about eighteen
miles east from Indian Wells on the
road to Darwin. Juan Ardrada, a Mex
lean and old Comstock miner made the
first location, which is known as Bonan-
"a No. l. The ledge of this mine sabout
five feet wide on an average and assays
over 500 per ton gold. There is a shaft
or incline 100 feet deep, also a shaft on
another part of the ledge thrty-eight
feet deep. About 600 feet from this on the
same ledge is an incline fifty feet deep.
with water in the bottom and in good
milling ore. Messrs. Bailey & Shannon
have a claim adjoining the Bonanza
No. 1, with tunnel 110 feet in twenty
foot ledge of $50 ore. The Daisy Bell, IL
the same group, has four-foot ledge D
good milling ore. A tunnel is run in or
the ledge fifty feet with a winze at ths
end fifteen feet deep.
The Old Jackass claim was located
shortly after the Bonanza No. and re-
located January l, 1897, by Kemp & Co
1t has three-foot ledge of ore which
will average $50 per ton. The owners
have started an incline ard are down
I5,, E ,,;. r
the best mines in this district is owned
by ]. NJ. Wallbrck of Los Angeles. h
has an incline sunk upon his property 130
feet in good milling ore. Messrs. Dye &
King have a good proposition. with
thirty -eight-foot shaft in eighteen inch
es of good pay ore, and on another ledge
three eet wide in same claim they have
a twenty-foot shaft.
The herald., 1897-10-04
PASADENA

PASADENA, Oct. 3.-(Regular Cor
respondence.) The home of Mr.. Charles
L. Foster in La Canada was destroyed
by fire about II o'clock today The fam
lily had attended church and were away.
A girl was cooking the dinner when the
gasoline stove exploded. AS La Canada
has no fire department nothing could be
done to save the house. A subscription
was promptly taken up for the owner,
who is an old soldier, so that his loss
will be little or nothing.
BREVITIES
The new express car OF the electric
road has been built and painted and s
now standing in the power house barn.
1t is numbered 81" and in general ap-
pearance resembles the regular passen-
ger cars. Besides the end doors, there is
a wide sliding door in the middle of each
side. The windows are barred. Over
each front the word express is printed
In large letters The express system will
be in operation in about two weeks prob
ably, or as soon as the Macy street
branch of the road is completed in Los
Angeles. e. c. Webster has charge of
The herald., 1897-10-04

has declared a semi-annual dividern of
5 per cent.
Chief Cairnes of the local fire depart
ment is seriously ILL.,
The trustees of the First Lutheran
church have been given authority TO
mortgage the church property for $4,000.
The herald., 1897-10-04
Arizona

Jerry Sheedy and Patrick Mccarthy
are the fortunate ones who discovered
the gold mines found at the head of
Post canyon near Fort Huachuca, which
are now bonded for $40, 000
Negotiations for the bonding Of a
group of copper claims which have been
pending for some time were closed last
week. The claims are located in the
heart of the Globe copper belt, adjoining
The herald., 1897-10-04

The chamber of commerce has seut out
a circular letter to the various ranchers
throughout this county engaged in to-
bacco raising, for samples of their prod
uct, with a view to encouraging this
industry.
The First National bank of this city
The herald., 1897-10-04
Who is going to get that bottle oil

Who is going to get that bottle of
Klondike nuggets worth $eOp It may
be you if you register your guess. If
you are subscriber it will cost you
nothing. Only pay a month in ad-
vance. One guess for each month paid
for in advance. One guess will get the
gold-if the guess is good one.
The herald., 1897-10-04

The Dallas News says: Some men
are born fools, some go crazy, and others
spread yellow fever rumors." And
there are others who congregate and
talk themselves into duck fit-Mem-
pfis Commercial Appeal.
The herald., 1897-10-04

All prices of wall paper greatly reduced.
A. A. Eckstrom, 324 South Spring street.
The herald., 1897-10-04
Press Clipping Bureau
os East First Street, Los Angeles, Cal.

Furnish advance reports on all contract
work. such as sewers, reservoirs, irrigation and
pumping plants and public buildings. pes
sonal clippings from Ill papers in the United
EtAtex
The age-herald., 1897-10-26

establish financial standard than Eng land was ssventy-five years ago. U
 Tn these few lines are condensed the suggestive and substantial points of the whole business. America is strong enough to establish and maintain b. m .tallism. if her voters will place and keep in power majority beyond the reach Of the golden temptations which will be freely offered by the plutoerats of Europe. Independence and honesty are the only things that can give this country a financial policy suited to it's needs.
 But suppose we decide to yield to Eng land? Then prepare for further shrink age of values; pauper labor; poverty and crime; socialistic agitation trouble in the big cites, and finally strong govern ment with bayonet rule in every state
The age-herald., 1897-10-26

toric importance in the late civil war than Cambridge was in the revolution. and yet nothing has been dore to rescue their landmarks from oblivion. Mobile and half dozen other towns in Ala bama, to say nothing of the many fa- nous cities of sieges and battles in other southern states. should have their war history commem9rated in the shape of parks monuments and table 8.
 There should be city and state hatori- cal societies to look after this important matter. The future tourists who ask southerners about these places will have a contemptuous opinion of them if they find that they have altogether neglected and forgotten their glorious pest.
 The new south must not forget that she is the daughter of the old south. She need not hesitate to mark iler battle fields because her course was unsuccess- ful. Bunker Hill monument commence rates a defeat and some of our defeats were more glorious than the enemy's yic- tories