The San Francisco call., 1897-02-08
MONEY FLOWING
INTO RANDSBURC
Capitalists Eager to Own
Mines in the Desert
District.
Its Future Pictured in Glowing
Colors by a Returned
Visitor.
Says Every Claim Yields Profit tC
It's Owners From the Grass.
Roots Down.

SAN JOSE, CAL, Feb. 10. n. Savage,
Western manager for the Feron & Bal
lou Company, has returned from Rands-
burg and johannesburg, in the great
MoiaVe mining district, which has aston
ished the entire country by its marvellous
richness. Mr.. Savage gives glowing ac-
counts of the mines, and says they much
more than Justify all that has been said of
them. Teaming from the railroad station
keeps many outfits busy, and so great has
the traffic become that the Southern Pa
cific Company is arranging to build a rail-
road from MojaYe, and the surveyors are
now at work running a line back from
Randsburg and Johannesburg. When
asked as to the stability of the mines Mr..
Savage said:
The half has not been told. No such
extensive or such rich mining section has
ever been discovered anywhere before,
and the beauty of it is the mines have all
paid their way from the grass roots down.
The mine-owners are not inviting any
body to come; they are too busy working
their mines ana taking out the gold to
worry their heads about nything else
"The boom we all hear about is worked
up by the railroads and town-lot owners,
and, strange to say, nearly every body who
has bought lots has made a good turn oh
them, and Improvements are going IN rap
idly. Hundreds of wagons laden with
lumber and merchandise travel from Mo-
jave to Randsburg and from Kramer to
Randsburg. The procession never ends,
day or night.
There are fully 5000 people in and
around the Rand district, and a great
worked. The milling Is done within
radius OF ten or twelve miles of Kands-
burg, where plenty of water is obtainable.
Prominent capitalists and mine-owneTs OF
Los Angeles and Randsburg are now de-
veloping big water supply within few
miles of Randsburg, and extensive
mills will soon be erected, together with
cyanide plant. The water question will
not be a drawback much longer.
There is enough ore on the dumps
to keep 100 stamps going day and
night, ali within radius of one to FIVE
miles OF the towns of Randsburg and
johannesburg.
Wealthy mining men OF this State and
from Colorado have at last ceased crying
down the Rand district in the hope of get
ting mining properties at their own fig
ures, and are now quietly buying every
good mine which is offered at anything
like a reasonable figure, and in many IN.
been done, which shows their faith in the
section"
Mr.. Savage was asked concerning the re-
port that he had purchased the Winnie
and Yucca Tree, both valuable mines,
located within a mile and a half of Rands-
burg, in the rich Yucca section OF the
Rand district, for a round sum in SPOT
cash, and that be had been offered hand
some profit on his investment by promi-
nent California and Colorado mining
men.
1.-The statement is correct" said Mr..
Savage. Several persons have been fig
uring with me to get the property for an
English syndicate but 1 will soon push
work with big force, as the mines are
both opened up and not mere prospects,
there being fully $l5, 900 worth OF rich gold
ore in sight already uncovered"
A remarkable feature of the many towns
is that the cost OF living is not much
greater than ii is here and everything de-
sired can be had almost as easily. There
is thorough organization OF the citizens
and life and property are as safe as any
where.